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Point out in a loud way that the ANNUAL cost of the bill is 350bn or half what we spend on defense currently. Otherwise we should be equally facetious about the 7+tn defense spending over the next decade (with projected increases). It’s a priorities problem. #BuildBackBetter
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Ted. Look at our deficit. Look at how much we pay in interest every minute of every day. Look what that is doing to interest rates.
It’s Econ 101, you either have to raise revenue significantly, cut spending, significantly. Or both.
Talarico committed to support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill. That was a pre requisite for my doing the event with him this week.
If this Hawley/ Warren bill passes, we would reduce the deficit. We would cut costs for patients. Drug pricing would drop like a rock.
Yet not a word from you in support Ted. Why ?
A true capitalist would understand how these economics work. They wouldn’t ignore the fact that our debt levels pull money away from business. And consumers.
If you truly want to do what is best for business, and the economy, we are going to have to raise taxes and cut spending.
The best place to cut spending is by removing the HealthCare middlemen that are Too Big To Care, which is exactly what the Break Up Big Medicine Bill does
You ready to whip up support among republicans ? Or do you prefer people dying because they can’t afford care , and the economy continuing to slow down because we are having to print money to financial engineer our debt obligations.
What say you Ted ?
Mark, your second paragraph refutes your first, and your support for James Talarico makes the contradiction even stranger.
You’re right: taxes change behavior. That’s why President Trump cut them. After years of Obama-era stagnation, we rewarded work and investment. Before COVID, unemployment hit a 50-year low and poverty fell to the lowest rate ever recorded.
Last July, every Senate Democrat voted to let a $4 trillion tax increase hit Americans, the largest in history. Now Talarico wants higher taxes, calls capitalism an “oppressive system” to be dismantled, says “God is nonbinary,” says there are “six really common biological sexes,” and wants a “giant welcome mat” at our southern border.
If incentives matter, and they do, why on earth would Texas go backwards?
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I wrote a new Task Manager that runs natively on Windows, macOS, and Linux. You can get it now at tmog.org ... but why?
Well, it started as an argument over whether you could vibe code Microsoft Word today. I didn't think so. But I figured... maybe something simpler like Task Manager. But you can't just tell Claude, "Hey, write a task manager!" Well, you can, but it'll be hot garbage.
Then my kid blew out his appendix and needed surgery, so I had a couple of days in waiting rooms to tinker with the idea. I broke out my new M5 MacBook Air, and I put together a 107-page spec, like I was some caffeine-addled PM from the 90s. Everything you could ever want to know about a task manager, how it works, what it should do, and what it should look like.
By the time he was out of the hospital, I had a rough app working. But then he started bleeding internally, needed emergency surgery and a blood transfusion. Happy to say he's all better now - but suffice to say I had the rest of the week to tinker as he healed.
But why write a Task Manager? Because when I wrote the original in '95, it was on a P90 or something equally weak. Updating, scrolling, and painting without using more than a percent or two of the CPU was the modest goal.
Now that we have 5 GHz CPUs and GPUs to help, why not push the limits? Animate everything at 60Hz, instead of once a second. History mouse tracking, a summary page, and all the features I would have added then if the hardware had allowed it.
My autism leads me to embrace neon and high contrast in a way that's not to everyone's taste, so there's a saturation slider to control the color. But this one goes to 11.
You can also select from a bunch of DEC VT220-inspired themes like Green Phosphor, Amber, or White. And I added Blue to match my VSCode theme!
The code is fully native: Direct2D/DirectComposition on Windows, UIKit on Mac, and Qt on Linux. The UI communicates with a shared CPP core, which branches out to platform-specific helpers. There's NO electron, HTML, JSON, etc.
Thanks to David and Rutger for their help along the way, I couldn't have done it this quickly on three platforms without them!
If you've got some cycles to spare, give it a try and let me know if you run into any issues!
tmog.org
I mean, @POTUS usually hires people he knows personally that have done work for or with him in the past. Given everything we heard from Stormy Daniels, this shouldn’t surprise anyone too much. #kakistocracy
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This is the best news you will see today.
A Mayo Clinic-developed artificial intelligence (AI) model can help specialists detect pancreatic cancer on routine abdominal CT scans up to three years before clinical diagnosis. It identifies subtle signs of disease before tumors are visible, when curative treatment may still be possible. The findings, published in Gut, mark a milestone in Mayo Clinic's multiyear research effort to enable earlier detection of one of the deadliest cancers.
Learn more: mayocl.in/4eippBP
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So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable”
I remember reading this from Heinlein as a young man and it took experience for me to fully understand it. People and institutions will persist in demonstrably wrong or incorrect thinking/activity long after it has been proven to be so by clever insiders. Moreover they will work to professionally and/or socially pillory any who challenge their institutional or intellectual inertia before the conclusion becomes so overwhelmingly and inescapably self-evident that the institutionalists themselves are forced to change under (usually) external pressure. The institutionalists will then usually demand that no accountability attach to their own intransigence, regardless of the costs it may have imposed in the interim.
General Billy Mitchel would be a classic case of this phenomenon.
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JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court.:
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To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.
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NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos
“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...
They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.
Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.
So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.
Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.
Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”
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Can you give us a list of the Democratic elected officials or other prominent Democrats who have expressed their disappointment in his rescue? The only one trying to turn the rescue into a partisan political issue on Easter morning is you.
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Have you ever seen a more unbalanced, unhinged, emotionally UNSTABLE person leading the Pentagon, especially during war times? I haven't.
Yelling at the press for using trump's OWN words.
Hegseth is in over his head. Impeach him, before he costs more American lives.
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Donald Trump votes by mail. But this week, he signed an Executive Order so you can’t.
Why? Because he is scared of your power, and he is scared of losing the midterms.
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TRUMP STARTED A DAMN WAR WITH IRAN SO HIS KIDS, ERIC AND DON JR, COULD GET RICH SELLING DRONES IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!
On top of that, he wants $1.5 trillion MORE taxpayer funds for his war, but nothing for American families.
Y'all were mad about Hunter Biden selling a painting.
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Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.
"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.
The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.
Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.
The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.
Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.
When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."
He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidas…
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The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.
Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.
Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.
Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.
He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.
nbcnews.com/politics/nationa…
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Stephen Miller praised Trump for several minutes. Then Trump turned to Kash Patel and said, “Kash, see if you can top that.”
Patel: “Mr. President, thank you for delivering the safest country on God’s green Earth.”
Straight up North Korea vibes
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🚨 BREAKING: Trump claims Obama “gave Iran the right to a nuclear weapon.”
That’s not what happened.
Under Obama’s deal:
Iran’s enrichment capped at 3.67%.
After Trump tore it up:
Iran escalated to 60%+ — just short of weapons-grade.
Deal in place → program contained.
Deal gone → program accelerates.
Facts matter.
This summary is spot on. Whoever wins next has one of the heaviest uphill battles just to get back to neutrally functioning federal government domestically.
International relations? I’m fairly certain that many of those bridges have been solidly destroyed.
Here’s the thing. We are going to HATE the next democratic president. Because they’re going to have to spend 4 years fixing our incredibly broken govt while figuring out how to restore our economy while mending nearly all our international relationships. All while addressing a country that’s basically insolvent. We got pilfered by the current administration so there’s entire systems that got wiped out while contractors and corporations got bloated off our tax dollars via special favors for and from Trump. This is going to mean higher taxes across the board and massive sacrifices just to get us back to neutral. Trump stole and gave away billions while wrecking every institution he could get his hands on. It’s going to hurt to fix them all and regain what we lost. This will all be while a restored justice dept prosecutes dozens of people in the Trump administration for massive corruption. It’s going to get very messy. I honestly don’t know how they’ll be able to do it and be able to win a second term. The majority of the country won’t understand why it’s necessary for their/our future.