squirrel
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@jwbates.bsky.social
in complex interdependent systems mutual optimization outperforms individual maximization malefactors of great wealth have arrogantly ignored the public welfare
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so wait does this mean that it is less popular at the start than vietnam was at the end? https://news.gallup.com/poll/18097/iraq-versus-vietnam-comparison-public-opinion.aspx
A Reuters/Ipsos poll finds only 27% of Americans approve of the military attacks. 43% disapprove.
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"We've got so many things that the Congress has yet to do ... and I'd hate to see us get distracted with side issues," Bishop told Axios. yes, they are so busy … they are *fighting for you* by voting to give marco rubio more money
NEW: Kristi Noem is facing by far the most credible impeachment effort of Trump's 2nd term. Some House Dems are fuming. "Noem is just soup du jour," one told @axios.com. "It's all performative bullsh*t." Centrists say they want to focus on affordability. www.axios.com/2026/01/14/k...
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So given a choice between fascism and no fascism, these brave visionaries leap to their feet to proclaim, “Wait! There is a Third Way!”
Third Way telling Democrats they need to drop the “abolish ICE” slogan if they have hope of winning back the majority in Congress www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru... by @natashakorecki.bsky.social
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gave my wife a print subscription to the onion @bencollins.bsky.social thought myself clever to wrap an onion in a box and give it to her then i opened her present to me and found a wrapped onion now we’ll have reading and archive copies
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I’ll never be on team ezra. his judgement has been highly suspect on many occasions. the major disqualifier is the fact that he continued to stan Paul Ryan even after Krugman took the economics apart. https://www.splinter.com/ezra-klein-admits-his-endless-flattery-of-paul-ryan-may-1830987574
omg who am i supposed to root for in this very Axionian article!?!?!?! www.axios.com/2025/11/16/e...
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Replying to @sanjukta.bsky.social
We need a "disempowerment" program for people like Musk and Ackman, rather than an "empowerment" program for anyone else bsky.app/profile/davi...
What a nightmare! Chinese astronauts can’t come home because space debris hit their return craft. The rapidly increasing amount of stuff we launch into space is something everyone should be aware of.
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All politics is identity politics on some level. But the kind of identity politics we really want is identity politics advancing freedom and thriving across races, genders, religions, and sexual orientations. Not invoking your identities to defend bad policies. newrepublic.com/article/2023...
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i’m sorry … what? agents left BULLETS in front of the public school? icing on a really fucked up cake
Los Angeles school district police, staff and volunteers will form protective perimeters around at least 100 schools to help ensure safe passage of children — an announcement that came on a day that immigration agents drew their guns on a student with disabilities. www.latimes.com/california/s...
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chuck sucks at both his real job and his made-up job www.informationliberation.com?id=64885