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V.A. Begins Drive to Put Homeless Veterans Into Guardianship

The admin has cut tens of thousands of healthcare jobs from the VA while they seek to permanently and involuntarily institutionalize homeless vets.

Shit has become too expensive to eat

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BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Says Dem Lawmaker Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) dropped a bomb, telling reporters that a President Donald Trump accuser "was given a settlement" by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. The post BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Says Dem Lawmaker first appeared on Mediaite.

BOMBSHELL: Trump Accuser Got Payoff from Jeffrey Epstein Estate, Says Dem Lawmaker

The problem is, everyone I’ve spoken to in MAGAworld content creation — comms staff, influencers, whomever — knows their identity. In off-the-record conversations, people will simply tell me their name as soon as I ask the question, as they’re familiar with the memelord’s style from interactions in the disappearing MAGA group chats. (I do have to pause for a second and acknowledge that the meme zoomers have better opsec than the senior officials who did Signalgate a year ago.) But the moment I ask if they’d be willing to go on background about it — surely they aren’t Nazis, and shouldn’t they call out behavior in their own ranks? — sources immediately clam up. If I prod, they’ll shrug it off as everyone’s just having fun.

So @tinanguyen.bsky.social has spent weeks trying to identify the person at DHS who posts all the racist memes, and instead uncovered a fascinating code of silence: everyone in Trump's Washington knows who it is, but refuses to say. Gift link! -> www.theverge.com/column/89298...

He couldn’t care less. He’s there to talk about himself and leave. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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

That’s one possibility I’m suggesting though: in the middle of this huge multicultural/political nexus, all the really successful visionary cults got smacked down for threatening the powerful in that society, while ideas that were a big hit amongst nobodies had time to spread and develop

Insanely too many words to describe a pretty simple, fairly uninteresting idea, tbh (two different systems, one operating the other)

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

I don’t think there is ever a great time for humanity to turn our future over to a set of intelligent machines, but I know that doing so while the globe is dominated by an Epstein Class of anti-human fascists is definitely the worst time.

The amount of blackmail various people have on Trump must be staggering

This passage could also be a pretty good example of how some stories are retroactively prophetically allegorical rather than literal though. Did the tree story start getting told before or after the Temple was destroyed? We don’t _really_ know.

I have too many obligations to be able to quit my job, so who am I to say somebody else should, out of principle?

Here's somebody who did, fully aware of the cost, and who is paying it now. Give it a listen.

(The DOJ lawyer in the second segment, Julie T Le, has since been fired)

“‘I think dads are mostly a waste of time or space’ for the first few months of a child’s life”: skill issue, dude. Absolute, lit-in-marquee-lights skill issue.

When Americans were asked to temporarily sacrifice going to their barbers so we could keep the morgues from overflowing, people with guns stormed the Michigan capitol.

There were multiple big cults around people w/ big ideas. It was like Silicon Valley for wild ideas! & arguably, the most influential & biggest cults got destroyed, early Christians may have won out in part because they were more under the radar/didn’t link their ideas up to any political project

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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Ed Martin Clowns Himself Into Bonus Ethics Charges It’s Not the Crime, It’s the Clowning Then-acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed...

Ed Martin already had plenty of trouble on his hands, all of his own making, when the DC bar disciplinary counsel last year began looking into his extortionist threat against Georgetown. But good ol’ Ed managed to make things a whole lot worse for himself.
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“AI is not the enemy” says the weird video trying to appeal to your human emotions using an AI avatar that you are supposed to believe is a real person who is upset that you are in any way skeptical of the very real life things that the industry she is a mascot for is doing

A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

Of course, you are not even strictly necessary either: you could just have an AI agent play your part as well. Then it’d be a full loop: lots and lots of money and technology devoted to creating and consuming and promoting content. The economic value of this is 0, plus costs

The thing is, even the conception of this piece from the NYTimes is just content. You interact with content, the content tries to get you engaged enough to do that, & in response, you get content back, then you post about it, generating more promotional content. You are the only human being here

They can’t grow up, because they are owned and run by a bunch of nepo babies who force their birth-given “genius” on the reporters and culture of the paper, from top to bottom. Nothing is going to change until they divest themselves from that system of unearned privilege

You mean he didn’t cover terrorism in a jokey, fun way? Instead he did serious, sober condemnations and official channel things? Do you guys ever, like, listen to yourselves and think about the things you are saying aside from your general editorial stance against him?

If a dominatrix orders you to wear painfully uncomfortable latex shoes in public, where kids can see, I think at that point you should consider whether the relationship is abusive

These two reasons, plus the fact that mines make it even more dangerous: bsky.app/profile/prch...

It’s pathetic that he can’t tell you the answer to that. As I’ve explained, the answer is pretty obvious.

The guy Trump pardoned, in exchange for backing his crypto scheme.