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01:35
@User1865345 i'm just hearing the context to this now from Phillip DeFranco
this whole mess stemming from the guy who thought it was a good idea to print code that lawyers told him the government said not to
02:15
> A new CBS poll captured the historical surge in Trump’s approval ratings, which shows that he has reached a 53 percent level, showing a majority of Americans are happy with the man in the Oval Office.
> The shift also indicates that Americans are aligned with his leadership in the second term and probably think he is making good on his promises. This is in stark contrast with the April 2017 poll that indicated only 46 percent of Americans believed he was staying true to his word. By Feb. 2025, that number rose to 70 percent.
04:16
> "It was a Jimmy Carter concept, and it sounds so good, but it's so bad. It hurts the country and many, many deals are unable to be made because nobody wants to do business."
- Stable Genius
05:36
> This time, however, the installation’s namesake is not Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, a slaveowner, but Private First Class Roland L. Bragg, an Army paratrooper and mechanic who fought in the Battle of the Bulge during World War II, earning the Silver Star and the Purple Heart.
> The cost of changing the name to Fort Liberty was estimated at $8 million. It’s unclear how much this most recent change will cost.
 
8 hours later…
13:23
Official White House.gov cites Daily Mail repeatedly to defend their lies on USAID.
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Q: Is the Whitehouse list of "wasteful" USAID expenditures accurate?

pinegulfWhitehouse.gov writes For decades, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has been unaccountable to taxpayers as it funnels massive sums of money to the ridiculous — and, in many cases, malicious — pet projects of entrenched bureaucrats, with next-to-no oversight. Here a...

Note that the first 5 links all point to the same Daily Mail article. The Daily Mail is not something anyone should consider an authoritative source, it's a tabloid. — terdon 19 hours ago
 
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16:36
> The world’s richest man has accused the federal judiciary of staging a “coup” after it blocked his outside task force from accessing sensitive personal and financial data for millions of Americans.

“Democracy in America is being destroyed by judicial coup,” Elon Musk wrote on his social media platform X. “An activist judge is not a real judge.”
> “We are witnessing an attempted coup of American democracy by radical left activists posing as judges!” he wrote in another post.
> Without referring to Vance directly, Francis rejected that interpretation and suggested the ethos of “ordo amoris” can be found in the story of the Good Samaritan, a teaching about helping strangers in need.

“The true ‘ordo amoris’ that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the Good Samaritan, that is, by meditating on the love that builds a fraternity open to all, without exception,” wrote the pope.

In the letter, Francis said Trump’s deportation efforts would lead to a “major crisis” for the U.S.
17:34
> A leaked recording on Tuesday revealed the Trump administration’s plans to use AI to help rewrite a large chunk of the federal government’s computer systems.
@HannahVernon and reports are that this would make these data vulnerable for possible hack by rogue states.
At this point the rogue state is the Federal Govt.
@HannahVernon 🙂
> Its broad mandate across government, seemingly nonexistent oversight, and the apparent lack of operational competence of its employees have demonstrated that DOGE could create conditions that are ideal for cybersecurity or data privacy incidents that affect the entire nation.
> DOGE operatives are quickly developing and deploying major software changes to very complex old systems and databases, according to reports. But given the speed of change, it’s likely that there is little formal planning or quality control involved to ensure such changes don’t break the system. Such actions run contrary to cybersecurity principles and best practices for technology management.

As a result, there’s probably no way of knowing if these changes make it easier for malware to be introduced into government systems, if sensitive data can be accessed without authorization, or if D
> “I watched this and thought, ‘Why couldn’t we have gone to stuff?’ Every time Obama wanted to do something cool, we were told it was a security risk or it was going to inconvenience people,” host Tommy Vietor said.
> He also pointed out that when the former president and first lady Michelle Obama left Washington to see a Broadway play early in Obama’s first term, conservative pundits “went insane for weeks” accusing them of being out of touch and complaining that they’d spent taxpayer money.
> TIME magazine listed the trip as one of Obama’s top 10 “all-time backfires,” with some estimates putting the price tag at about $72,000.
> According to Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC), it costs $177,842 per flight hour to operate Air Force One. That would put Trump’s round trip at about $800,000. At least two other aircraft also fly along with Air Force One at all times, and then there’s the cost of securing a huge event like the Super Bowl, which about 65,700 fans attended this year.

“But that’s not part of the conversation because of this massive conservative bias,” Vietor said.
> Fox News—which led the “frivolous spending” charge against Obama—aired the game and interviewed Trump before it, he said.
Fox News and hypocrisy go with each other very well.

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