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YouTube video by GenericArtDad Why is the government shut down right now? How much will my health ins go up without ACA credits?

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One great way to see how the far right is built out of the modern choose-your-own-reality media environment is how MAGA types will argue with Grok for hours about basic facts trying to produce some thin excuse to keep believing what they’re already predisposed to believe

YouTube video by More Perfect Union Peter Thiel Doesn’t Want You to See This Clip

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What may be most telling is the idea that extreme libertarians think that we don't need liberty because? It's this kind of dissonance that makes them and the TRESCREAL movement so scary. How do you even have a rational conversation with such a mindset?

YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic Why the Right Hates Atheists but Loves Elon Musk

Worth watching youtu.be/LvmwGwnJf7c?... to better understand the appeal of the Trump/Musk fascism.

Musk doesn't understand the concept of "human" so fires and rehires as if he's just changing parts in a machine.

How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article) The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/u...

My longer comments on FB www.facebook.com/bob.franksto...

I’m posting two essays. They are a bit longer than most of my writings because I need to provide sufficient context.

From Access to Connectivity (rmf.vc/fromaccessto...)

The Opportunity of Ambient Connectivity™ (rmf.vc/theopportuni...)

Bluesky's message limit precludes serious discussions. I posted www.facebook.com/bob.franksto... (and on LI) but I can only post the summary of DOGEan economics being based on pretending displacing costs and reducing synergy is saving when it really just ups the cost to society.

You don't compute savings without taking into account costs.

In chaotic Washington blitz, Elon Musk’s ultimate goal becomes clear Shrink government, control data and — according to one official closely watching the billionaire’s DOGE — replace “the human workforce with machines.”

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Laws and confidentiality are for little people not Quislings.

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

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Brave. This is the way.

Department of Transportation Releases Memo with "Handmaid's Tale" Mandates Tying State Funding to Birth Rates - Explaining the Law ⚖️ On January 31, 2025, the Trump administration's Department of Transportation (DOT) released a signed memo tying funding for states to birth rates.

Department of Transportation Releases Memo with "Handmaid's Tale" Mandates Tying State Funding to Birth Rates explainingthelaw.com/department-o...

Trump Seeks, Without Evidence, to Blame D.E.I. and Democrats for the Crash President Trump’s remarks, suggesting that diversity in hiring and other Biden administration policies somehow caused the disaster, reflected his instinct to immediately frame major events through his...

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What happens when you unleash crazy on the world

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good.

Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

Trump Administration Orders a Temporary Freeze on Food and Health Agency Communications Here's what that means for you.

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Ignorance is public policy

It's not as if he didn't say he would do just that? What's wrong with these people?

Apparently, there was an executive order emailed to a million federal employees about returning to the office. It was full of typos and no security and looked like spam.

Do people know more about this? Is it being reported in the news? Incompetence stops being funny very quickly.

Just so that we're clear, every action Trump has taken thus far has been against LEGAL immigrants.

It would be nice if I could hover over icons to learn what they do. This seems like an easily fixed oversight. @bsky.app

When someone like @davidmaraniss.bsky.social says it, it’s pretty dire.