NDD less VA medical, 1986-present. roughly flat-ish until 2020 around 3%, and then down down down down to 2% last year. And then Trump is proposing taking it down to 1.7%.

Here is my thread on Trump's budget request, which I'll update throughout the day.

He calls to cut domestic discretionary funding to the lowest level in the modern era.

Trump's budget reimagines Americans' relationship with our govt, and proposes a country that does less to help people get by.

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BREAKING — Effort launches to remove Trump’s name from ALL federal property, monuments, and currency.

UndoTrump.org

It would be one of the final nails in the coffin for democracy in the US (an immune executive ignoring the legislature who is now no longer bound in any way to the constitution). The fact that Trump intends to show up to send a message to the SC that "Don't forget I own you" only reinforces that.

Trump expected to attend supreme court arguments on landmark birthright citizenship case - US politics live Court case will weigh the constitutionality of his contentious bid to end birthright citizenship

This case is so straightfoward it should have never made it this far. I hate to be alarmist, but it's scary enough on its own but starting down a path of "Who cares what the actual constitution says?" is extremely dangerous. www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Ah, yes, one cannot forget the grand military victory that was the celebrated in movies like Platoon, Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket.

Lovely and thoughtful post Jen.

Surviving as a Human in the Age of AI This is a submission for the 2026 WeCoded Challenge: Echoes of Experience There's a palpable feeling...

dev.to/jenlooper/su... - I have some things to say on the topic. This is a call to interdisciplinarity and to bringing our whole selves to our work.

The lengths they'll go to just to cover up that he completely made up the negotiations...it's like when everyone had to pretend the map he'd clearly altered with a sharpie was legitimate.

This is spot on. It's not just a problem in tech media, but it is pervasive in tech media coverage.

"The way some of these other immigrants are getting treated in our country right now is a travesty and a disgrace... I think what’s going on in our country — what we’re doing to some of these amazing immigrants, is really unfortunate and it’s really sad." - Charles Barkley on CBS

I dunno but maybe it could be that it "feels" erratic and like they are making it up as they go along because they are actually making it up as they go along. 🤷

The good news for Kash is: no one has lost any respect for him (there was none to lose).

Liberals ruin everything. They can't even let a man have a little fun and enjoy the global war he started. (sarcasm in case it's not obvious)

A part of enshittification that we don't seem to discuss enough is how software I pay for feels the need to constantly shove ads in my face to pay them more or benefit some revenue-generating partnership.

No, not really. I was being generous.

"PhoneGap", you say?

Chances that the President will be repeating these baseless claims within a week: 100%

OH MY GOD STOP TRYING TO SAY X IS AN IMPORTANT PLATFORM ITS NOT ITS THE SIZE OF PINTEREST BUT IF I WAS LIKE 'DEMOCRATS GOTTA WIN THE COMMENTS WAR ON PINTEREST' THEYD LOCK ME FUCKING AWAY

I feel this. Some days it feels like working in the tobacco industry in the 70s/80s. Not perfectly analogous in many ways of course but much of the industry does seem focused on producing products that have shown to cause widespread harm.

America First = America forgone

You'll know we've met them once we decide what they are.

I love that he's decided to fully own the shitshow at our airports. Rs trying to deflect blame and he's here like, nope, we made this mess and it's great.

Following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, Democrats have demanded reforms in exchange for funding the department, and neither they nor Trump have been willing to budge.

This is so easily provably false that printing this sentence last night (after Trump nixed a bipartisan deal to pay TSA) that printing it, nevermind sending it to all your subscribers feels intentional. @theatlantic.com I'd love one day to pass where I'm not forced to question why I still subscribe.

When the global financial paper of record says the market is fake and being manipulated by the President you just know we are entering the Cool Zone

Traders placed $580mn in oil bets ahead of Donald Trump’s social media post on Iran talks Thousands of Brent and WTI contracts changed hands 15 minutes before president’s message on Truth Social

Someone or someones made $580,000,000 in exquisitely well-timed oil trades that took place 15 minutes before Trump's dubiously optimistic post about the negotiations with Iran.

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Oof. Painful memories. I went through two major shifts like this in 4 years there. The first was when they walked away from Flash (in retrospect understandable) and then these tools. When I was asked if instead I'd lead educational content for Acrobat, I knew it was time to go.

Let's be clear, now that the SAVE act appears to be doomed, our anti-democratic SC is very likely to seize the opportunity to rig the election.

less than three months out from the World Cup, Trump touts the presence of ICE agents at airports and says they're "very fertile territory" for arresting foreigners