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I don't even know how we ever built potable drinking water or CISA or anything complex and useful, considering that many beneficiaries of those systems don't value them and even celebrate their destruction

Amazing that Iran is successfully attacking the drinking water in the American Midwest, and this is pretty directly the Trump administration's fault, yet this is not a huge scandal among his voters who live there

I can never un-see the people who willfully died of infection because of Facebook memes. Who sprinted harder toward death because they saw their own family members die in denial. It has changed my idea of human nature from the root.

This appears to have been the psychological motivation for DOGE: firing the most talented and dedicated public servants so that billionaires could prove to themselves that talent and dedication do not exist

DOGE has effectively hidden itself by breaking FOIA "If the department is stonewalling the inspector general’s office, it’s an extremely safe bet that they’re absolutely ignoring FOIA officers who are asking for information" per @laurenleharper.bsky.social

Trump’s Education Department Leaves Mountain of Public Records Requests UnaddressedA review by The 74 of FOIA logs shows the department has fulfilled 3% of them — some only in part.www.the74million.org

A lot of people crave self annihilation when they get bored

I missed this when it happened 2 months ago, but ask.com ("Ask Jeeves") finally shut down. My career started when I typed "how can I become a computer hacker" into it around 2000-2001.

I'm trying to find the video of Graham's red-faced temper tantrum on the subject of "who paid for her lie detector test," a question that had already been answered. Anyone have it?

The only thing I'll remember about Lindsey Graham is his mistreatment of Dr Christine Blasey Ford. Acting apoplectic at nonsensical details because he knew the most powerful misogynist in the world was watching him. I've never seen a man debase and humiliate himself so much.

I am looking for writing about the replacement of US federal gov capacity, destroyed by the Trump admin, by other entities: state governments, nonprofits, ex-feds, and volunteers working to preserve gov data, provide scientific advice, etc. Like a roundup or list of such projects. Help?

"MAGA Republicans are *not* more willing than anyone else to personally commit violence. They don’t want to throw the brick. They want someone else to throw the brick for them." Excellent essay on the tipping point into a low-trust society and how to walk back from the brink

Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.thegrimhistorian.substack.com

In this book there's a brief mention of American Legion members massacring trade union guys in 1919. Wait...the same Legion where my parents took me for chili feeds as a kid? One Wikipedia article later I'm reeling at how pervasive a capital F Fascist organization was in my small town childhood.