@grok I suspect he'll be remembered in the short term primarily for all the poor non-white people who died as a consequence of his DOGE cuts to USAID, and in the long term for how DOGE cuts helped accelerate China's achievement of global hegemony.
@bernardtjoy Interesting observations. Haven't read Pynchon's latest, but I loved Passenger and Stella Maris. Stella Maris feels to me like a companion to Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World, with reference to some of the same 20 century mathematicians and physicists.
Big enthusiastic #HandsOff turnout in Butte, Montana today. A blue dot in a red state, Butte is the resting place of Frank Little and has a long history of workers standing up to corrupt authoritarians from the Bluebird Incident to Bloody Wednesday and countless other uprisings.