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Constitutional amendment to launch billionaires into the sun.

Another news article that doesn't understand the difference between a presidential library which, by statute, is a physical, federal archival depository, and a presidential foundation, which is a private organization under no obligation to build anything, including a presidential library.

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DHS terminates Camp East Montana operations contract, hires new provider The Department of Homeland Security terminated the contract for Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, hiring a new provider to improve conditions.

ICE confirms that the infamous Camp East Montana will NOT be shut down. Instead, they're giving the contract wholly to Amentum, previously the subcontractor for Acquisition Logistics, the tiny VA military contractor which inexplicably got a $1.2 billion contract.
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Connect the dots

A foreign hacker likely has the Epstein Files.

The best way to prevent blackmail of government officials, such as trump and Howard Lutnick, would be for AG Pam Bondi to stop the cover up and release all the Epstein Files as required by law.

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In 1990, when Congress created a protection for migrant children subject to abuse, it didn't anticipate backlogs would get bad enough that beneficiaries would wait years for a visa, and so never thought to explicitly bar deportation for winners.

Today the BIA greenlit deportation in that situation.

The Straight of Hormuz right now:

Iran live updates: 3 ships struck near Strait of Hormuz as war enters 12th day The attacks in the Persian Gulf came a day after President Trump warned that the United States would intensify its bombardment if Tehran continues to block shipments through the vital waterway.

Posting this, for no particular reason…,

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How comfortable would you feel walking through a field if someone told you "We took out most of the mines"

Lebanese residents are left in shock and fear as Israeli strikes reach the center of Beirut.

While all eyes are on Iran, Israel is pounding Lebanon.

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Privacy's Defender: Book Launch Party On Thursday, March 12th, celebrate the launch of Privacy's Defender by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn. The highly anticipated book asks the fundamental question: Can we still have private

WHAT? We’re hosting a launch party for Privacy’s Defender, a new book by EFF’s Cindy Cohn!
WHEN? Thursday, March 12 at 6:30 PM.
WHERE? Ciel Creative Space in Berkeley, CA. RSVP Today! www.eff.org/event/priva...

yeah the goal is class extraction, not efficiency. Efficiency is honestly an afterthought, yet it's not portrayed that way in the business press.

I've always been kind of obsessed with U.S. fake efficiency. U.S. corporate power especially models itself as a textbook efficient but it's mostly people wiggling their mouses and hosting purposeless meetings for hours on end to meet arbitrary metrics to no useful end. A country of artifice.

The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country t...

not to say that there aren't efficiency improvements had through automation, but terrible people layering half-cooked automation onto already broken workflows full of people obsessed with appearing productive in a country obsessed with artifice is going to have some curious outcomes

there was also a Stanford study that found that a surge in AI slop by lazy people actually created significantly more work for others who had to decipher and correct it

this "I'm being efficient" (but not really) vibes well with the American obsession with artifice and appearing productive

Carl withdrew from the nomination process today.

How the Iran war is disrupting air travel -- and advice if you're planning a trip The war in Iran is roiling jet fuel prices and airlines are beginning to hike prices, unsettling travelers far from the Middle East. If you're booking a flight soon, here are things to know.

The war in Iran is roiling jet fuel prices and airlines are beginning to hike prices, unsettling travelers far from the Middle East. If you're booking a flight soon, here are things to know. n.pr/3P4K7un

The New York Times Is Mad at Mamdani for Governing Well What a petty hit piece reveals about the media's fucked-up incentives.

"it’s an unusually transparent example of what happens when a politician declines to help the elite press satisfy the Moloch of algorithmic social media." www.thenecessaryfictions.com/p/the-media-...

Would this be more to the regime's liking?:

Would this be more to the regime's liking?:

Would this be more to the regime's liking?:

It is unclear whether one particular photo — or the sum total of the shots on March 2 — led to consternation among Hegseth’s staff. When photographers showed up to the Pentagon for the next briefing on March 4 they were not allowed in the building.

Reminder that the Pentagon press corps is a bunch of online ideological cronies like Laura Loomer and Matt Gaetz. Now, they won't even allow neutral photographers.
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Reports that Iran’s regional proxies are holding back from full escalation show how close the region is to a wider war. Restraint from groups like Hezbollah and others may be the only thin line preventing a multi-front conflict that could engulf the entire Middle East.

“Per the analysis by Open the Books, in September, the Pentagon spent $2 million on Alaskan king crab, $6.9 million on lobster tail, $15.1 million on ribeye steak, and $1 million on salmon.”

how do you not do this before launching a war on iran