Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: "If we have a big screwworm infestation—which we will not, we're on top of it..."
The screwworm has returned to the US after 60 years after Trump and DOGE eliminated a program to contain the flesh-eating parasite.
Watching Sound Transit costs spiral out of control while State spending explodes, sadly yep.
Unfortunately, the only two factions we have are, “the state should not provide any public services,” and “the state should spend unlimited amounts of other people’s money”
Abundance is great and we should build more housing and vibrant metros but a wealthier America with 400 million people will have much higher prices for courtside seats, Super Bowl/Taylor Swift tickets, etc.
cmon man, this is not sophisticated stuff from bezos
Elon sent all the 22yo genius into the govt for several months and they only cut federal spending by 0.01%
this idea that it's trivially easy to cut govt spending is one of the oldest tropes in the genre of 'business guy talks about washington without having any knowledge of the budget'
NEW: Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security & Government Affairs Committee blocked an amendment to prevent Trump's new $1.8b fund—created after dropping his IRS suit—from making payouts to five Jan. 6 rioters convicted of sexually abusing children after Trump's pardon.
Twitter is more interesting than bluesky, but if you spend any time you eventually get led/fed to straight up fascist and rascist content. its built and intended to do that. It is all so depressing.