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• The federal government spends about twice as much on procurement (about $750 billion according to some estimates) than it spends on federal employees (about $360 billion). • State and local governments spend about twice as much on procurement as the federal government.

Maybe you are wondering “how big of a deal is procurement and contracts to current modes of governing?” The answer: a very big deal.
Political attention is focused on government employees, but we spend more on contracting, often funding the ideological opponents of the government.

Congrats again on our National Conversation™️ about SOCIALISM when Kamala Harris mused about price controls for 35 seconds in 2024

Trump: MAKE LINE GO UP AGAIN
Cursed Monkey's Paw: Look man, I gotta be honest with you
Trump: MAKE. LINE. GO. UP
CMP: As you wish

Joseph Stalin 2. Genghis Khan 3. Ming Dynasty 4. Napoleon Bonaparte 5. Umayyad Caliphate 6. Abbasid Caliphate 7. Julius Caesar 8. Queen Victoria 9. Catherine the Great 10. Barack Obama Trump not even close What Delivered

Can someone explain to me what my dad just sent to me thanks

Iran's government is more hardline, its people are poorer and more isolated, the region's on fire, and the global economy feels like its about to go into shock

If you want to know why people wanted to avoid war with Iran for so long, you're finding out in real time

Me before bed tonight:

“Please don’t let tomorrow be one of those days that gets a proper noun in textbooks. Please please please.”

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Stop being a pick-me about thinking the world is ending. Guess what, me too! Cloaking insufficiency to rise to the occasion of your life through cataclysm is only excusable when the streets are filling with volcanic ash and there's no more grass to touch.

Russia is currently providing intelligence to Iran so that they can kill our soldiers

Traitors

The sky is not falling; high-quality platforms (Prolific, Verasight, CR Connect) have low rates of apparent bots. osf.io/preprints/ps... But also not zero; vigilance is very much needed!

Don’t threaten me with a good time

for those unaware, this would be perfidy, explicitly prohibited by the 1907 Hague convention and 1977 protocol to the Geneva conventions as war crimes; these (particularly The Hague convention) are customary international law and thus binding on Israel

It is absolutely insane that the US appears to have targeted desalination plants first – putting them onto the board. Iran seems to have already retaliated against one in Bahrain. This is one of the most obvious ways this could spiral.

evergreen for me

How do you know? Have you read his last ten 15000 word blog posts

I get that nothing matters until the NY Times reports it, but some of us more independent outlets had this story a month ago...

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

Reminiscent of Putin blaming Ukraine for bombing Ukrainian civilians.

I think the latter

The Most Chilling Detail in the U.S. Attack on an Iranian Naval Ship The Iranian warship was taking part in an international exercise with many other countries—including the United States.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

i love to be a soft-handed scribe

but also a few weeks ago when i was putting together a large ikea pantry cabinet i basically shredded my hands lol

I’ve spent years, decades, obsessing over the Bush Administration’s Iraq WMD lies, writing about them, debunking them.

I can think of no lie about Iraq WMDs told by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld et al that comes even close to the enormity and absurdity of this lie from Donald Trump.

city that never sleeps airport lounge closes at 8:30 ass

My favorite Michigan content creator is @aceanbender.com full stop. Moral clarity and deep knowledge.

Love you ace

I’m definitely dead

Whyyyyyy

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Seems like the time for a preliminary injunction would have been before the bulldozers but I’m not a fancy lawyer