But nationwide injunctions are totally fine when issued in Texas to block student loan forgiveness or reproductive rights.

Very small quantities of fentanyl are used to cut/enhance other drugs, often without the knowledge of the consumer, thus making them more potent/addictive.

Who needs diplomats when all you want to do is burn bridges?

Sounds like a great idea.

Matches the tone of the publications.

"ProPublica has identified three lawyers with elite establishment credentials who have also joined the DOGE effort.

Two are former Supreme Court clerks — one clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, another for Justice Neil Gorsuch — and the third has been selected to be a Gorsuch clerk for the 2025-2026 term."

Clerks of the same Supreme Court Judges that issued the immunity ruling.

Usd$2.70 South of Mexico, farmers market

I shudder to imagine all of the companies that license their consumer data databases, as well as the “insights” that consultant-types extract from them (and who their clients are),

It puts the lotion on it’s skin.

It’s a good thing then that wealth isn’t associated with sociopathy and lack compassion.

/s

Not only governance suffers.

Entertain me for a moment. Imagine a utopia in which you don’t need to distrust technology or guard yourself against the companies that control it. No data harvesting or sharing; your privacy, likes and preferences safe and your own. No schemes to come up with algorithms that enrage you and dominate your attention. Imagine that you could trust LLMs to be trained with only the best, curated sources and where their operation is completely open and transparent. Imagine how we would express ourselves through our tech and through social media. Technology would become deeply, deeply personal, benign, helpful and at the service of humankind… as it should be.

The idea is so crazy that it is borderline unthinkable, right?

Today, I was not allowed to log into Google via a school website due to using a non-Google approved browser (DuckDuckGo).