it's remarkable the term gaslighting was invented prior to this administration. cf @ddayen.bsky.social on Schroedinger's CFPB. prospect.org/economy/2025...
CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!
Link Preview: CFPB to Employees: When We Said Stop Work, We Didn’t Mean Stop Work!: The illegal plan to dismantle the consumer agency is failing. So Russ Vought and his charges are engaging in some CYA.
in policy, you can never get it just right. you should try to get close, but perhaps more importantly, you have to choose in which direction it will be less costly to err, then condition your choices so they will err — hopefully not too much but inevitably — in that direction. 1/
going for symmetrical optimality is foolish hubris. /fin
yeah, man. Europe is so scary. from ourworldindata.org/grapher/homi...
Map of homicide rates by country 2023, showing nearly all of Europe with lower rates than the US.
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wasn’t this the traditional definition of chutzpah, when you massacre half your legal team then ask for lenience from the court because you’re short-staffed? ht @histoftech.bsky.social
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maybe we could have a strategic sportsbets reserve too.
stop complaining it is the absolute pravda.
it’s undoing an achievement in transparency for the benefit of money launderers and tax evaders.
drain the swamp. screenshot from thread beginning xcancel.com/ustreasury/s...
they are comfortable opposing Biden. it’s the basic Schmitt / fascist intuition, opposing the enemy is the political good. but now the same deed is just theirs, theirs alone. without that cover, voters they care about, “America First” voters who just want out of everything, may demur.
this Republican Congress wants simply to disappear, to be absolved of all responsibility for anything. the founders thought Congress would be jealous of its privileges. this Congress is desperate to escape the blame that might come from even the slightest exercise of them.
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i hope one can.
[new draft post] Meeting Starter https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/03/02/meeting-starter/index.html
i don’t think she’s accused of a crime, though? just denied entry and detained pending deportation.
i'm guessing they chatted, oh so what do you do, oh you're a tattoo artist! how great! are you going to do any of that while you're here? awesome! maybe you'll make a bit of money on the side. yes? you are hereby detained for violating the terms of the visa waiver program.
this is fucking nuts, and fucking shameful. www.kpbs.org/news/border-... ht @rossgrady.dood.net.ap.brid.gy
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
Link Preview: German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility: The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
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but then the courts might force a rugpull!
We are so glad to have you here. We'll try to be good.
so any progress in, you know, the US Congress, the branch that controls the money, on funding a US Crypto Reserve? (genuinely asking! it certainly wouldn't surprise me if this craven caucus included it in a budget in deference to dear leader.)
so far they are only aspirational Nazis, then.