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Francisco 2.0

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  1. Define "accountability". Because quite frankly, I've yet to see any. And don't use a civil judgment in a state case, because we've seen just how much significance that "accountability" has.
  2. Once upon a time, the US would respond to a natural disaster in a foreign country. Those days are over. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/world/asia/myanmar-earthquake-usaid-cuts.html
  3. Probably should have put this in the DT earthquake thread, but we all know how that would turn out.
  4. He sold Twitter today. No, really. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-xai-buys-social-media-212856234.html
  5. Probably no one on here is a fan of the TSA, but I'm pretty sure opening it up to the lowest bidder won't provide a better experience. I especially like the part where the federal government would give away all of their hardware to the private companies to use. https://www.al.com/politics/2025/03/tuberville-bill-would-eliminate-tsa-airport-security-agency-an-inefficient-bureaucratic-mess.html
  6. Because why not. https://apnews.com/article/utah-fluoride-ban-43f67153beb3e06ada9d782655fb15de#:~:text=SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —,disproportionately affect low-income communities.
  7. What could possibly go wrong. https://www.wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-social-security-administration-cobol-benefits/ DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.
  8. Thing is, she wasn't always physically ugly. She chose to adopt the Mar-A-Lago look. As a person, she's more than likely always been ugly.
  9. Navy vet fired because DOGE didn't like the 5 bullet point email that was submitted: Fortune link (paywalled) so here is the Archived version https://archive.ph/jiuzK
  10. https://archive.is/GwxsT
  11. Not even the Smithsonian is safe.
  12. Interesting analysis of Signalgate, and this passage is illuminating: https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-scandals-and-one-fascinating-political-insight-of-signalgate
  13. I miss Ricky Jay.
  14. It will get blamed on Biden.
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