just look to the experience of my alma mater, New College of Florida, to see the effect of new board appointments by this movement on academic quality and faculty retention. it’s fast medicine! (poison often is.)
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helpfully, Mastodon mentions are distinct in format from Bluesky mentions, and vice versa. BlueSky clients should turn Mastodon mentions into profile links, and Mastodon clients should do the same for BlueSky links. (can’t, and shouldn’t, for X/Twitter, which shares mention format with eg Insta.)
nor executive privilege!
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This is effectively random deletion, pure injection of chaos into NSA processes. I’d oppose a purge of DEI-related work on political grounds, but fine. We lose some political fights. There’d be an orderly review and revision over time. But this is turning hostility to DEI into outright sabotage.
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This point is so obvious is should fit in one post. Elon Musk’s role is plainly illegal. The “advice and consent” clause of the Constitution is obviously intended to prevent a President from such powerful delegations of authority without explicit Congressional consent.
i just wrote them. take a minute out of your day.
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“what we’re seeing is what you’d expect if China and Russia had somehow managed to install people who wanted to sabotage America’s international position at the highest levels of the U.S. government.”
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the Fed chair gets the tone slightly wrong while musing about inflation, markets tumble. the President apparently muses about US Treasuries "It could be that a lot of those things don't count." futures green!
buy treasuries because a recession is coming or sell bonds before a great revulsion destroys US assets? really interesting times!
they are actively engaged in sabotage of the US government and anything that might render it influential or effective or admired. so it’s hard to tell just how far they will go.
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Would Apple backdoor Advanced Data Protection, or just cease to offer it as a kind of canary? mastodon.world/@Hawaii/1139...
we are fortunate Musk has the character flaw of a B-movie serial killer. he can't refrain from openly taking credit for his misdeeds.
their worldview is basically government is a radical left-wing idea.
why high marginal tax rates work even though "nobody ends up paying them".
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do the never-Trump former neocons now agree that every billionaire is a policy failure?
if the founders wanted a unitary executive, why did they assign to Congress that task of structuring the executive branch? “all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law”
turns out i’m a bot!
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instead of risking that bright, hardworking Chinese grad students might be CCP spies here to steal our science, what if we just didn’t have any science? that’ll show ‘em.
here in the US, among my lib/leftie crowd, we spend a fair amount of time dwelling on the US’ hypocrisies, its sins against the liberal values it ostensibly promotes. 1/
yet when an illiberal movement assumes power in the US, it does not merely seek to turn American power to illiberal ends. it seeks to sabotage the roots of American power, to render the country impotent. 2/
that suggests to me, for all the United States’ sometimes miserable flaws, the enemies of liberal values, even when they dominate the apparatus of state, still perceive in the US an implacable threat. 3/
i take some hope in that. /fin
all in one place it’s even more indefensible and terrifying than you remember.
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