the point of fentanyl as a pretext is it has nothing at all to do with the tariffs so there's complete liberty in slapping them on or off, making them stronger or weaker, as a response to actions that may be invented or merely symbolic.
touch the stove for the pleasure of withdrawing your finger. it’s a kink!
if you set wealth and income taxes too low, a kind of very powerful but misaligned AGI emerges.
what bank would have the balls to make a collateral call to Musk as the value of the Tesla shares he pledged falls?
the bribes collected to fund the Presidential library should be used to fund the Presidential jail.
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thank you John Roberts and the US Supreme Court for having narrowed the definition of bribery to a nullity.
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from #BethMole arstechnica.com/health/2025/... ht Doug Bostrom
Text: On Monday, Kennedy published the new policy in the Federal Register, which specifically revoked a transparency rule adopted by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1971. The rule—called the Richardson Waiver, after then-Health Secretary Elliot Richardson—required HHS to have public notice-and-comment periods for proposed rules and policies regarding certain matters, namely public property, loans, grants, benefits, or contracts. These five categories would otherwise have been exempt from public notice-and-comment requirements under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA). The APA also says that public notice-and-comment periods can be waived for "good cause."
Suppose that Congress resolved, by a simple majority, that Trump engaged in insurrection and is therefore ineligible for any office of the United States? Such a resolution shouldn’t be necessary, under the Constitution’s plain language, but after Trump v Anderson, that would do it, right?
the choice has always been social democracy or catastrophe. we've been dilatory.
at some level i think this whole thing is just a well-executed plan to make members of the United States’ leadership class have to work as taxi drivers like Vladimir Putin did.
a bit of good news ht @ProjectFearlessness.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy breakingthenews.net/Article/Tesl...
Tesla's China sales plunge nearly 50% in February
Link Preview: Tesla's China sales plunge nearly 50% in February: Tesla's sales of China-made electric vehicles dropped 49.2% in February compared to the same month last year, according to data from the China Passenger Car Association (CPCA).The company sold 30,688 ...
“One million children will not be treated for severe acute malnutrition. Up to 166,000 people will die from malaria. New cases of tuberculosis will go up by 30%. Two hundred thousand more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...
they finally took away our avocado toast. it is for our own good.
all crypto is now $TRUMP.
remember when we were going to help out red states, bring forward the “left behind”, overcome divisions between rural Americans and “Washington”, by dispersing Federal offices throughout the nation? i thought it was a pretty good idea.
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i never strangled you. i simply effectuated a pause on your breathing. if you choose not to restart after the pause, that’s on you.
didn't they campaign on bringing back the romance, that sense of surprise, when, um, the tornado demolished your home?
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"The murderous insanity of all this is scarcely possible to describe." @ryanlcooper.com speaks plainly about what one is doing when one purposefully shatters the global public health system with no transition or replacement. prospect.org/world/2025-0...
Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust
Link Preview: Elon Musk’s Looming Disease Holocaust: The shadow president is gutting America’s vast humanitarian aid system. Millions may die.
"A week ago, Atlanta Fed’s nowcast of consumption was 2.2% q/q annualized; now it’s zero… In the 11 or so years of nowcasted consumption growth, there have been no instances of negative values (or zero values) outside of 2020…this is a somewhat remarkable occurrence." econbrowser.com/archives/202...
nuclear nonproliferation is dead. the scaffolding upon which it was built was enforcement by great powers of norms against predatory militarism. with that gone, unless it is improbably resurrected, every state that means to survive must find its own nukes or a close ally's nuclear umbrella.
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