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How Congress Can Delete DOGE. âDOGEâs parent agency, the US Digital Service...
How Congress Can Delete DOGE. âDOGEâs parent agency, the US Digital Service (USDS), was never statutorily authorized. In the grand scheme of the appropriations process, DOGEâs budget can be deleted...
Buttondown makes it super-easy to migrate your newsletter from Substack. Plus: âNeed...
Buttondown makes it super-easy to migrate your newsletter from Substack. Plus: âNeed help migrating to Buttondown? Just contact our support team and weâll take care of it for you!â No...
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
I love the international cover for Omar El Akkadâs new book, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Bookshop, Amazon). It uses the original text of El Akkadâs...
Josh Marshall on corruption and legitimacy regarding the US govtâs judicial &...
Josh Marshall on corruption and legitimacy regarding the US govtâs judicial & executive branches. âWe shouldnât be thinking weâre going to wait on what any court decides. Thatâs only a...
From poet Joseph Fasano: For a Student Who Used AI to Write...
From poet Joseph Fasano: For a Student Who Used AI to Write a Paper. âI know your days are precious on this earth. But what are you trying to be...
âEvery time Social Security makes its way into the news is an...
âEvery time Social Security makes its way into the news is an opportunity to push for a better & more inclusive form of Social Security: one that rewards caregivers, expands...
Paris Marx writes that the US is âa rogue state that cannot...
Paris Marx writes that the US is âa rogue state that cannot be trustedâ and that our former allies âmust form new alliances and end their dependence on US tech...
Trumpâs Tour of Revenge Against the American People
Building on his walk-and-talk video from a couple of days ago, Jamelle Bouie writes about two of the easiest things to understand about Donald Trump. 1. The way in which...
Doechii Officially Releases Anxiety (the Song, Lol)
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a YouTube video of Doechii singing and rapping about anxiety over Gotyeâs Somebody That I Used To Know from 2019 that was going...
Remember Digg? Itâs back, in Pog foâ er, AI form. âHow can...
Remember Digg? Itâs back, in Pog foâ er, AI form. âHow can we remove the janitorial work of moderators and community managers, and convert what they do every day into...
Blogging for Democracy
This is a great post from Mike Masnick about why Techdirt is writing more or less full-time about the Trump regimeâs attack on democracy: Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy...
âDe-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating...
âDe-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company calls the Colossal Woolly Mouse.â (They eventually want to do the same w/ Asian elephants.)...
From Just Security: âA timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level...
From Just Security: âA timeline of actions that highlight the alarming level of politicization and weaponization of the Department of Justice under the second Trump administration.â
Josh Marshall looks closely at Trumpâs Feb 11th âworkforce optimizationâ EO for...
Josh Marshall looks closely at Trumpâs Feb 11th âworkforce optimizationâ EO for its inevitable conclusion: âIt will be like a permanent shutdown. Thatâs not hyperbole or a metaphor. Itâs literally...
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds. A former anti-vax...
Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds. A former anti-vax parent whose kids got sick: âIt was awful, and it didnât have to happen, because I could have...
Bellingcatâs Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). âWhen...
Bellingcatâs Eliot Higgins on disordered discourse (which is not mere misinformation). âWhen truth is no longer a shared foundation, power shifts to those who control the most compelling narrative â...
On Public Service
Lisa Re Dale recently retired after 20 years of federal service. She worked for the Health Care Fraud and Abuse Control Program (which she says returns 10x on its investment)...
âThe âwar on wokeâ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea...
âThe âwar on wokeâ did not suddenly appear. It is an idea deeply rooted in a form of scientific racism that has been laundered into the mainstream over decades by...
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene...
He Never Made the Same Choice Twice: 10 of Our Favorite Gene Hackman Performances. âThat ability to conjure suspense from popcorn material is what made Hackman at once the best...
Criminal defense attorney Ken White: âWhat happens if federal, state, or local...
Criminal defense attorney Ken White: âWhat happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you...