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One Word Describes Trump A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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I’m replacing these on campus as fast as the budget allows. If you have a favorite spot that need a new rack LMK

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Scientists, as well as bureaucrats.

This is the head of OMB, folks. He coauthored Project 2025. This is the playbook we are seeing with the attacks on DEI efforts, on healthcare, on NSF and NIH funding.

They want us out of the way so they can destroy many institutions and resegregate the rest.

08.02.2025 23:50 — 👍 385    🔁 157    💬 16    📌 4

Trump and Apple better tell the UK to go to hell with its demand to access Americans’ private, encrypted texts and files. Trump and American tech companies letting foreign governments secretly spy on Americans would be an unmitigated privacy and national security disaster.

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Next theme is Black inventors

Day 8 - Garrett A Morgan

www.biography.com/inventors/ga...
#BlackHistoryMonth

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One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget.

It's actually ~1%.

Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending.

From the Brookings Institution:

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An Elon Musk staffer misused the U.S. Marshals Service by falsely invoking their authority to intimidate. USAID security personnel were threatened with action by the federal Marshals Service.

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Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

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Elon Musk now has access to your Social Security number. The world’s richest man has gained access to the confidential personal information of every taxpayer in the United States.

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A few things Trump just made more expensive for you:

Gas
Cars
TVs
iPhones
Xboxes
Avocados
Strawberries
Furniture
Power tools
Modelo
Refrigerators
Microwaves
Clothes
Bananas
Tequila
Maple syrup

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How women choose them over men

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Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”

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This is a great question for all of congress to think about.

Hypothetically,If FEMA goes away, what happens to home owners and other insurance rates ?

Climate change looks like it will make rates so high, home insurers will want equity in your house as a way of holding down rates

29.01.2025 05:24 — 👍 19520    🔁 3837    💬 1392    📌 174

59-34, Senate votes to confirm Kristi Noem to be DHS secretary.

The Democrats who voted YES:

Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
Kim
Peters
Shaheen
Slotkin

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