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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

Swalwell: "I want to knock out this argument we even need ICE doing what they're doing in the first place. If they are so easily moved from our streets, where they are terrorizing people, to passing out bottles of water in the airport, did we really need them terrorizing people in the first place?"

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2y ago

33 million people saw Musk's post suggesting that a federal scientist held a "fake job." His out of hand dismissal of her occurred most likely because "diversification" in her job title sounds like "diversity." But fine, lets put this guy in charge of fixing the government. What could go wrong?

Ashley Thomas, the government employee in question, does technical work on how to make agriculture more robust under conditions of extreme weather. This seems like pretty important, with a classic public goods justification — the government is trying to figure out and share solutions to a problem that affects lots of people, and for which the market is unlikely to generate a solution by itself. But of course none of this matters if you are fundamentally incurious about what government does, and absolutely sure that you know better. That combination of ignorance and certainty is generally a bad condition for democracies, but a disaster when it characterizes whose who govern us.
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2y ago

The lesson from Gaetz's collapse: Not just that resistance can work, but how to do it in a smart and effective way. Building on prior analysis of authoritarians' weaknesses, I look at why Gaetz imploded and how that can be used going forward. www.salon.com/2024/11/22/r...

Resistance is not futile: Gaetz's implosion shows how to use MAGA's own chaos against them

Trump's first nominations reveal the serious fractures in his coalition — which can be used to weaken him

salon.com