The guy who zeroed out LIHEAP in his budget, releasing emergency reserves of heating oil before the election, is exactly how public services work in a country where the administrative state is captured by an authoritarian camp.

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i know this is a running discourse theme of late, but it really is a profoundly serious problem that some of the world’s wealthiest and most powerful people sincerely believe — and convince other people to believe — wholesale, malicious fictions they’ve spun up entirely from nothing at all

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Related: bsky.app/profile/sevi...

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Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

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Just been such a revolution in my worldview to realise that people like Musk actually believe this, this isn't just the nonsense they feed the rubes so they can do coldly rational mercantile calculations in smokey rooms among themselves. No. It's rubes all the way down, they're that stupid.

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