Gawain
Writing some stuff here: https://niawag.substack.com
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- JFC man. We knew this was coming, the projections, projects cut etc, but to see it laid out like this...
- Here's the new Lancet paper on international deaths from aid cuts. This includes aid cuts from other donors - not just the USA. Range is 9.4 million deaths to 22.6 million deaths by 2030, depending on depth of cuts. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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- I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.
- i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Really, Elon is sad because he is fundamentally incapable of human connection. Humor is a form of human connection. Love, empathy, trust, repair, and genuine affection are, too.
- There could actually be a good reason for SCOTUS delaying its ruling on Trump tariffs. It may want to give clear guidance for ruling on the future tariff cases that will come right after it issues this decision deanbaker22.substack.com/p/thoughts-o...
- This is awful. Families of autistic kids are often desperate for help & are vulnerable to scammers peddling things that will actually hurt their precious children.
- This was reported earlier but still important: The FDA removed a webpage that warned consumers about potentially dangerous products and therapies marketed as autism treatments. www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...
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- Don't worry Peter Thiel's technoauthoritarian FREEDOM CITY plan will save it (from having a minimum wage and due process of law)
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- Nitasha is among the best of us. What a fuckin’ scam to let all this talent go untapped! But ofc, just like Thiel and Epstein tanking Gawker, Bezos and his ilk don’t want anyone snooping around Silicon Valley too closely
- My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power
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- Been working on a piece for a while (and he just...tweeted it out) about this as the far-right version of the Cultural Revolution. They have no constructive goal, just a drive to make every "intellectual" suffer. If they could send everyone with a BA to Qinghai (Montana) to dig ditches, they would.
- whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero
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View full thread"that's just a newspaper" "that's just a magazine" "just form a co-op, it's easy" no, it's not, and you're driving me nuts. the idea is to pay one fee to have access to separate publications. if it were easy, we would've done it already.
- "this exists" no it doesn't "it won't work" bye "here's why that's a bad idea" also bye i've run my own thing for almost four years and there's a lot i don't know but i've learned some shit. i think a bundle subscription would be a net positive for independent journalism.
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- What @timhirschelburns.bsky.social has done here is holy work.
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- It's such a completely senseless, preventable destruction of so many lives, so many holes ripped through families and communities. Yes, aid and development are complex, but a locked warehouse of life-saving medication a mile up the road from a child dying from an untreated infection is not.
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- Facts. —> 51st.news
- I like that @51st.news is being built from the ground up, and with support from individual readers. But that we are building something this way makes what Jeff Bezos did to the Post even more shameful. He has endless resources to sustain a great newspaper. He chose not to.
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- Anyone know how we can reach her?
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- It’s always been a catch-and-kill.
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- 1. Build huge subscriber base by telling them their $ supports democracy. 2. Don’t establish other revenue sources. 3. Rug-pull subscribers by pushing opinion side to the right. 4. Subscribers leave, revenue falls. 5. Enact crippling newsroom cuts.
- Democracy dies in the darkness, because that's when the billionaire vampires come out to feast.
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- It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.
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View full threadA Dysart High School student who says she can see the warehouse from her neighborhood: “I get a pit in my stomach when I think about how in a few months I have to go to school knowing humans are screaming for help and not getting the rights they deserve.” It’s 11:15 PM.
- The meeting is adjourned. Mayor Kevin Sartor ended the long meeting by saying “We hear you, we have a lot to consider and your voices are impactful and powerful.” Surprise showed tf up. The overflow room filled + hundreds outside. It ended with only 2 speakers in favor of the ICE camp.
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- Nobody wants to work anymore.
- "I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep," (DOJ attorney) Le said. "The system sucks, this job sucks, I am trying with every breath I have to get you what I need." Via Paul Blume Fox 9 www.fox9.com/news/federal...
