We could have had Fiona Hill as USAGE

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Time to meditate and relax.

Om mani padme hum.

Or my favorite mantra
Oh money to me come.

Do you know box breathing?

This is Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Republicans have turned the United States in a military police state. I could not even imagine what Fox and Republicans would be saying if Biden or Obama sent the US military to terrorize communities in Texas.

The king will grant favors to his courtiers...

Trump threatens to use “heavy force” against anyone who protests his military parade this weekend, and note that he makes no exception for peaceful protesters

How do they fund this with Congress and Trump controlling budgets?

2 headlines from the BBC. One about Israeli embassy staff being shot and killed, the next about Israeli firing warning shots near British diplomats.

The cycle of violence.

Boyle: "This is really the breaking news ... because of the size of the deficits, because of the paygo act, that would trigger sequestration of Medicare, and it would total over $500 billion. The official figure that CBO confirms is $535 billion in cuts to Medicare."

the DOJ is literally **arresting Democratic members of Congress** and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

A screenshot of DHSgov x account saying "it is absolutely sickening to compare ICE law enforcement agents to the Gestapo"

It is absolutely sickening to compare ICE agents to the Gestapo.

It would be much more appropriate to compare them to the SS (Schutzstaffel), esp. Allgemeine (General) SS (race policy enforcement), and/or SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's Head Units, who ran the concentration camps).

I used to get really irritated at night birds. I enjoy it now.

You had my cats looking all around my house though

Reagan was close and certainly led to the downfall

A screenshot of a ChatGPT conversation reading: "can you write something about robert e. lee in the voice of washington post staff writer gillian brockell?" "Certainly! Here's an excerpt written in the voice of Gillian Brockell, a staff writer at The Washington Post, reflecting on Robert E. Lee's legacy: The Complicated Legacy of Robert E. Lee: A Figure Divided by History By Gillian Brockell When Robert E. Lee's name is invoked, it is often as a symbol of Southern pride military brilliance, or a tragic, doomed cause. But history has a way of shifting its lens, and in recent years, the image of Lee -- the Confederate general, the hero of lost causes -- has become increasingly more fraught. The man who stood as the face of a rebellion that tore the nation apart now stands at the center of an ongoing reckoning over the Confederacy's legacy, and our struggle to reconcile memory with reality."

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles.

Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

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Odd, how the United States doesn't have enough money to give sick veterans healthcare, impoverished seniors Social Security, or hungry schoolkids lunches, but it does have enough money to pay a Central American dictator millions to torture American residents in his brutal concentration camp.

Reminds me of the institute of peace takeover

We still have time for a couple of pandemics since the CDC is being shut down.
Ebola, hantavirus, Marburg disease, human transmission of avian flu.
The sewage early detection stations have been shut down

4 day work weeks.
Studies in Iceland showed that productivity stayed the same or went up and people were a lot happier.

This idea that we have to work ourselves to death to be successful is just soul crushing

I know some outstanding software engineers on the spectrum.
Not the smartest health secretary.

How it started // How it’s going

Not going to help farmers buy potash.

I think they’re too bought in to ever admit they were wrong

Vulture Capital

Yup

Where is our humanity?