In the midst of an Ebola outbreak: we have no confirmed CDC Director, Surgeon General, or FDA Commissioner. Half of NIH's Institutes & Centers lack permanent leadership.
Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is leaving work at 4pm & spouting conspiracy theories. This is public health under Trump.
https://t.co/deDui6LGiv
The most dystopian part of AI isn’t the technology itself.
It’s the sheer amount of electricity and water being burned so corporations can automate things nobody asked to automate.
Entire rivers diverted so an app can generate “funny medieval Breaking Bad images.”
So LinkedIn users can produce motivational posts written in the tone of a traumatized flight attendant.
We are constructing cathedrals of computation to eliminate the burden of having an original thought.
And they keep selling this as progress.
Meanwhile the actual physical world decays.
Bridges collapse.
Cities rot.
Public transit looks post-apocalyptic.
Young people can’t afford houses.
But thank God the machine can generate 9,000 fake podcast clips per second.
Civilizations used to build aqueducts and railways.
Now we build data centers.
Texas teachers worked 187 days last year for an average salary of about $55,000. Members of the House of Representatives worked about 87 days last year for $174,000, and Mike Johnson has the audacity to complain about it??
NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show.
The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract.
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On June 16th, 2025 Trump announced a new "Trump Phone" available for preorder.
$100 preorder towards a $500 phone.
To date, he's received 590,000+ preorders, taking in an estimated $59 million in sales.
Last month in April, Trump updated the Preorder terms stating there is "No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold".
This is beyond grifting.
And the Trump phone (which will never happen), is the perfect representation of the Trump Presidency:
A bait & switch scam.
He stole their money and told them to cry more.