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they are preboarding any guests with disabilities. isn’t that DEIA? doesn’t federal law prohibit that now? people should get the boarding priorities they paid for!
austerity is not the same thing as efficiency. in fact, often the correlation is inverse.
Elon thinks the only thing that causes inflation is government overspending. "Makes no sense" is probably overstated in the piece. One cause of inflation can be government overspending. But it is far from the only cause, and wasn't the primary cause of the recent inflation. 1/
Yeah, he doesn't seem to worry about it when the money is going to him. /fin
shh. the switch is in the basement of Comet Pizza.
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mistake or malevolence? we are left to ask, rinse, repeat.
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the irony is it’s the guy who (co)planted the deep roots of the identity politics turn in Democratic strategy he so decries.
without comment.
Chart of gold futures, which are at an all-time high.
once a coup has proceeded to a certain degree, it becomes difficult to distinguish putting down the coup from a coup on behalf of different interests. once control of the state is up for grabs, what faction can claim to be above factions? all, of course, will try.
look. without NOAA, we won't have hurricanes. they'll just be rainy days if nobody is measuring wind speed.
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“A power-mad president possessed of radical theories of executive authority and convinced of his own royal prerogative has given de facto control of most of the federal govt to one of the richest men on the planet…whose…interests are tangled up in those of rival govts and foreign autocracies”
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what was your double-0 number?
i think that might be a step too far.
by Saturday. relocate out of the country you've lived in and expected to live in for some time, by Saturday. or else "the military would step in"?
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“So many of these things are so wildly illegal that I think they’re playing a quantity game and assuming the system can’t react to all this illegality at once”
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grand things. they wrote them on parchments.
like most of our systems, we didn't intentionally create them, they emerged inchoately from incidents and pressures and the degree of vetocracy and status quo bias in our politics has prevented us from reforming into anything sensible.
yes. i like the piece's characterization of them, "best viewed not as civil society organizations but as features of the US electoral system".
really there is little time for anything else.