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links, etc Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture - Anil Dash solid. very solid explainer of what’s going on and/or at risk here with “DOGE”. media needs to stop it with the cursory examination of “potentially curbing government waste” and really examine the risks this poses. How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias — ProPublica once again, ProPublica is punching way above their weight. worth hunkering down for. kudos/thanks/props to the leaker and the journalist....

links, etc Exclusive | Trump Advisers Seek to Shrink or Eliminate Bank Regulators - WSJ from that great bastion of left-wing freakouts, the WSJ. this does not bode well. how long will it take for the next version of credit default swaps to bog us down and we get to do that most american of things, providing corporate bailouts? (archive.is) 2024 was the warmest year ever in Duluth - Duluth News Tribune...

recommended: not at all this was not good. it could have been about 80% shorter and still made all of its non-points. not recommended. Annotations: 0,821 SHA-256 b55c5d733a45a1567b4087fea8ed2c9e @steve ulrich [email protected]: 679,28 …

notes bookshop link recommended: highly this kept cropping up in the stuff i’ve been reading over the past couple of months. i figured it was time to dig into this again. i read this last in the 1990s. the book holds up extremely well and the mass suspension of critical thought and utopian dystopia it describes seems like something we’ve done a great job of slipping into ever more firmly over the past 10 years....

links, etc American Kakistocracy the atlantic’s considered take on how trump’s grafting wrong. Berlusconi’s shortcomings helped fuel his success, but he wasn’t proud of them. Trump wears his flaws like medals, and is appointing people to his coming administration who have the same attitude. Berlusconi would never have allowed the equivalent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. near Italy’s department of health. An Italian Matt Gaetz would have been considered for a reality show on one of Berlusconi’s TV channels, at most....