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[Drey @thedreydossier]

Trump Accounts are no longer going to be optional- so if you ever plan on having a child in the USA, you should read what I found:

According to the @SocialSecurity Administration's announcement last week, they are modifying the hospital birth registration form so that a Trump Account is AUTOMATICALLY created for your child through that same process.

It will be bundled into the Enumeration at Birth program (EAB), which is the already automated gov pipeline that gives your newborn a Social Security number. It’s one box that you check, you don’t have the option of unbundling it. So if you want your kid to have a Social Security number, they have to have a Trump account.

Which is strange, because according to the IRS and @USTreasury’s public announcements, these accounts only open when a parent actively elects to open one. So which is it? Why is nobody in the government interested in explaining this flagrant contradiction?

Who is going to answer the basic question of what a parent does if they don’t want a government-linked investment account (one that collects biometric data, by the way) created for their child at the exact moment their child’s Social Security number issued?

They can call it a savings account all they want, but a $1,000 deposit is a hell of a cheap price for building a lifelong financial file on every American child before they can consent to anything.

And once the government normalizes linking a person’s identity, financial activity, and predictive systems from birth, who gets to decide what that data will be used to predict later?

We deserve answers immediately. @ndstudio @WhiteHouse

[K. @IbaraEleven]

Now that Platner has ended his campaign democrats will subvert democracy in Maine and install a pro-Israel corporate candidate who represents the complete opposite of the platform Platner won on. And then they’ll shame voters when they don’t show up in November.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

I could not agree more with Dr. Proal here. The lack of discussion in the longevity / healthspan space regarding the impacts of infections with pathogens has always baffled me.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

2. First, these posts are infantile, bullying, and rude (seemingly now de rigueur for this platform). Second, should my mask trigger you, that's your issue, not mine. Third, if you wish to cast me in the role of enemy because I'm masked, I assure you I'm happy to oblige.

/end

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@sm_osment @jewstein3000 Also, the writing of this announcement is bad. smh

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I will tell you about a woman named Kanokporn Tangsuan.

She was a physician. Forty-two years old.

She understood allergies well enough to treat them in others. She told the waiter she could not eat dairy. She told him she could not eat nuts. She asked him to confirm the food was safe. He confirmed. She ate the food. She died.

Her husband wished to ask, in a court of law, before a jury of citizens, why the restaurant served his wife the thing that killed her.

Disney said no.

Not because the facts were in dispute. Not because the husband lacked standing. Not because the restaurant bore no responsibility. Disney said no because in 2019 — four years before his wife's throat closed and she reached for an epinephrine injector that could not save her — Jeffrey Piccolo had signed up for a free trial of Disney+.

A free trial. To watch films. On a screen.

And within the agreement for that free trial — which exists to watch animated stories about princesses and talking fish — there was a clause. The clause said: all disputes with Disney, of any kind, shall be resolved in private arbitration. Not before a jury. Not in public. Not in a court where the proceedings become record, where the outcome informs future cases, where citizens can observe what is done in their name.

I would like to ask some questions.

Did Jeffrey Piccolo read this clause?

He did not.

Did he understand that by accepting a free trial to watch motion pictures, he was waiving his right to a public trial if his wife was killed at a restaurant four years later?

He did not.

Was the waiver presented to him as a waiver of his right to a jury trial in a potential future wrongful death claim?

It was not.

Then in what sense did he agree?

He pressed a button. The button said "I agree."

I want to examine this button. I have spent my life examining words — not to be difficult, but because words are the architecture of how people live together, and when the architecture is unsound, people are crushed by it. Usually the poorest. Usually last.

What does "I agree" mean when the thing agreed to is unread?

What does "consent" mean when the alternative is non-participation?

What does "free trial" mean when the price is your access to the courts?

A physician is dead. Her husband cannot ask why in public because he once watched a film about a snowman. I am not overstating this. I am only describing what occurred. The connection between the film and the death is: a single clause, in a single document, that no human being has ever read for the purpose of understanding what it contains. The document exists to be agreed to. Not to be read. The agreement is the product. The reading is not expected, not designed for, not intended.

And this is called consent.

I was tried in Athens. You know this. Five hundred and one jurors. In public. The charges read aloud. My accusers faced me. I faced them. I spoke. They spoke. The city watched. When they sentenced me to death, they did so in daylight. When I drank the hemlock, my friends were present. Every moment was witnessed.

This is what a trial looks like. I did not agree to it. I was subjected to it. But I could see my accusers. They could see me. The public could see us both. That is the minimum. Not justice — I received no justice. But procedure. Visibility. The collective witnessing of how power is exercised upon a citizen.

Jeffrey Piccolo cannot have this. Cannot see his accusers in public. Cannot have a jury of citizens hear what happened to his wife. Because he watched a film about a snowman. Four years before she died.

And you call this — you use this word — you call it "agreement."

I drank hemlock rather than stop asking what words mean. I want to be clear about why. Not because I was brave. Because I understood that when a city stops examining what its words mean, those words become instruments. "Piety" was the word that killed me. My accusers did not define it. They did not need to. The word was the weapon. The undefined word is always the weapon.

"Consent" is your hemlock. You administer it three hundred million times per day. In application flows. In employment contracts. In the mandatory arbitration clauses attached to food, shelter, medicine, and employment. You have made the hemlock so small it fits inside a button. You have made it so routine that pressing it does not feel like swallowing anything.

But Kanokporn Tangsuan is still dead. Her husband cannot ask why in a room where other citizens can hear the answer. And the reason is a button he pressed to watch a film about a snowman.

Is this consent?

I am only asking.

I have always only asked.

It is, I am told, a very annoying quality. They killed me for it. The questions remain.

What did you agree to this morning? On your telephone. Before your coffee. The update that required acceptance. The new terms that appeared when you opened the application you need for work.

Did you read them?

You did not.

Did you agree?

You pressed the button.

You pressed the button because the alternative was not pressing the button, and not pressing the button means not working, not communicating, not purchasing food, not existing in the society that has made these buttons the condition of participation.

This is not consent. I have examined consent. I have spent a lifetime asking people to define the words they use, and I have been killed for the asking, and I am asking still.

Consent requires knowledge. You have no knowledge of what you agreed to.
Consent requires volition. You had no alternative to agreeing.
Consent requires understanding. You were given thirty-seven pages designed to prevent it.

What remains, when knowledge, volition, and understanding are removed from consent, is a word. Just the word. Performing the function that "piety" performed in my trial — undefined, unexamined, unquestioned, and lethal.

I am not accusing anyone. I am only asking what the word means.

No one has answered in twenty-four hundred years.

The hemlock got smaller. The question did not.

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@cenkuygur @atrupar Spanbergers so bad we are going to end up with a Republican g9vernor in 2029

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@bettersafetynet Plus, there is a hard limit to AI capacity. They are going to run out of places willing to destroy the environment for their slop.

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@yggiz54 @_carlbeijer Dude, you underestimate just how.infuriated the teachers of VA are. It ain'tabout purity; by vetoing the law, vea has already had an emergency meeting. She is dooming va to a republican governor in 2029..

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@RepJackKimble The average teacher salary, despite working 200 to 210 days is around 50-55K. The average pediatrician salary in D.C. under 200K, despite working over 200+ days. Your whinging is astoundingly tone deaf, illogical, and just generally devoid of sense.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

After Zionists got me fired from The Hill, hundreds of emails were sent to Pateron (and bounced to my Gmail) demanding that I be removed from the platform.

Foreign interests regularly attempt to dictate the speech terms for American citizens, & they're frequently successful.

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[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

YES. YES. I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS. I started a spreadsheet in 2019 tracking every category where America is number one globally and people keep asking me to stop bringing it to Thanksgiving.

We lead the PLANET in medical debt. Not the developed world. The PLANET. There are countries where "medical bankruptcy" doesn't translate because the CONCEPT doesn't exist in their language. We invented it. We EXPORTED it as a field of academic study. German researchers fly here to observe it happening in real time. They take NOTES. We are a living laboratory and the experiment is "what if you made people choose between insulin and rent." We chose. Exposed. This is the thing we're best at.

We lead in incarceration. More humans in cages than China. China has 1.4 billion people and an authoritarian government and we STILL have more prisoners. We beat AUTHORITARIANS at their own game using FREEDOM. We did it with both parties cooperating across NINE administrations. Name ONE other bipartisan project that lasted fifty years. You can't. This is our moon landing. We just don't film it.

We lead in insulin pricing. $300 for a vial that costs $30 in Canada. Canada is VISIBLE FROM DETROIT. You can see Canada from a Walgreens parking lot where someone is deciding between half-doses. The same molecule. The same manufacturer. The border adds $270 of LEADERSHIP. That's what leading looks like. It looks like a 900% markup on not dying.

We lead in mass shootings. Not per capita. Not adjusted. RAW TOTAL. We have so many that researchers had to invent subcategories. School. Workplace. Concert. Grocery store. We have a TAXONOMY. Other countries have incidents. We have a CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM with peer-reviewed SORTING CRITERIA. That's infrastructure. That's RIGOR.

We lead in healthcare spending AND in maternal mortality among rich nations. Simultaneously. We spend $4.3 trillion a year and mothers die at rates that would concern a developing nation. We spent MORE money to get WORSE outcomes so consistently that it can't be incompetence. Incompetence wouldn't be this RELIABLE. This takes PLANNING. This is an ACHIEVEMENT of systems working exactly as designed across multiple industries cooperating to extract value from the specific biological event of someone trying not to die.

We lead in per-capita spending on our military while our veterans sleep in tents. We allocated $886 billion to defense and our soldiers come home to a VA waitlist so long that some of them die on it. We spent the money. We just didn't spend it on THEM. The money went somewhere. It led the way. Just not toward the people who fought.

I printed this tweet on a 24x36 poster. It's in my living room. My wife moved out last month but she didn't take the poster so I think she agrees.

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@VPhillipMunoz Your system in no way accounts for this, nor the fact that toughness also relative. 3/

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@VPhillipMunoz The people who major in it likely are highly motivated. People who struggle with a class like upper level Latin would probably not take the class nor major in it. As such, an upper level Latin class would likely have all A's without grade inflation, but also be "tough." 2/

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@solidarityhours @SeanMcCarthyCom We haven't seen massive antiwar protests. No Kings was a feel good event for brunch libs; actual protests that do anything have not yet truly begun anywhere except college campuses.

[Conor Browne @brownecfm]

Although the reason I mask in all public indoor spaces is to mitigate my risk of being infected with SARS-CoV-2, regardless of the healthcare available to me, the appalling state of emergency departments in my country really does sharpen my desire to avoid getting seriously ill.

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

Many mistakes were made with messaging, but the “Let er rip” (and keep on letting her rip) mindset is going to cost us dearly (and literally 💰)

And the idea that we should deliberately infect children as quickly as possible is proving to be devastatingly ill conceived.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

@atrupar Is this a joke? These are almost all corporate Democrats who love corporate PACs and the Israeli lobby. Where is Ro Khanna? You know, the guy who’s the only one fighting for us?

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@Kenneth33071904 Is there a typo in that? They want to raise the minimum wage by only 3 cents??