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Elon Musk’s promises on government spending cuts have followed a predictable trajectory: slash $2 trillion, then $1 trillion, then a mere $150 billion. Now we have the final accounting from the Congressional Budget Office: DOGE didn’t just fail to cut spending—it presided over spending increases that exceeded even pre-DOGE projections.
Elon Musk said he was going to cut spending by $2 trillion...
Six former Surgeons General have gotten together to publicly pen an opinion piece in the Washington Post about the dangers of RFK Jr. The post is fairly long and, frankly, reads as though all six of them are part of a Techdirt fan club for posts about Kennedy. As the post cycles through what Kennedy is doing that represent this danger, it’s the greatest hits from our own posts on Kennedy. The...
This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Stephen T. Stone with a reply to someone pushing back on calling the Trump administration fascist:
No, it isn’t. Regardless of how you feel about Democrat-led government administrations, Joe Biden didn’t…
give a speech to the Navy in which he heavily implied that the United States Armed Forces would soon have to “take care of” (i.e.,...
Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, Reps. Gabbard and Gosar brought out the ridiculous House companion to one of the Senate’s anti-Section 230 bills, while Donald Trump got on board the “repeal 230” bandwagon even though it was copyright that kept getting his content removed. A federal judge made a ridiculous free speech ruling regarding warning people about the presence of cops, while another...
My cancer is back. This is disappointing but not unexpected; of the 2/3 of people who survive their first bout with ovarian cancer, 80% usually have it recur at some point. For me it was sooner than expected, and disheartening because, even if I beat it back this time, it will likely come back again and again at shorter and shorter intervals. On the other hand, it took long enough that I’m still...
Hello from the free state of Illinois! We just talked about Donald Trump’s incurrsion into Chicago and the surrounding area, in which he first sent in a bunch of masked ICE agents to terrorize citizens and immigrants alike, at one point raiding an apartment building with agents repelling from blackhawk helicopters like the reincarnated form of Osama Bin Laden was hiding inside of it. When a...
In July, a California federal court handed down what should have been considered an obvious decision: of course it violates constitutional rights to consider skin color, spoken language, “accent,” or place of employment sufficient to support a stop, much less arrest and detainment. In August, the appeals court affirmed that ruling following the government’s absolutely expected rejection of that...
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to internal correspondence obtained by Migrant Insider, Apple has removed the DeICER app—which allowed users to log sightings of ICE enforcement activity—by invoking guidelines normally reserved for protecting marginalized...
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America isn’t the land of the free. We abandoned that title when we returned Donald Trump to office — the same person who refused to engage in the peaceful transfer of power in 2020 and, immediately upon his return to power, pardoned almost everyone who engaged in an attempted insurrection on his behalf.
The so-called “party of free speech” has repeatedly made it clear that the First Amendment...