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The Founders are appalled.

Loves checks and balances, functional markets, boring banks, anticorruption and Lina Khan.
The ballroom is become a revolting idol of corruption.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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'The degree of increased division – known as “affective polarisation” – achieved in one week by the changes the academics made to X users’ feeds was as great as would have on average taken three years between 1978 and 2020.' 2/3 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Platform-independent experiments on social media
Changing algorithms with artificial intelligence tools can influence partisan animosity
www.science.org
November 28, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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This image was widely circulated yesterday.
November 25, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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In the end DOGE saved negligible money and made government less efficient.

The only thing Elon accomplished was training his AI with government data.
November 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
It’s not actually gone.
November 24, 2025 at 6:58 PM
The MAHA outcry is on the shelf next to the little whimper comprised of second amendment poseurs who pretended to be against tyranny and the libertarians who turned out to love authoritarianism, market interventions, and government control of free speech
November 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Meanwhile, @propublica.org is doing the work to investigate the outbreak that our Department of Agriculture is now ignoring.

www.propublica.org/article/meth...

bsky.app/profile/apne...
November 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM