https://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.social/post/3lj2l3i4syk2mWelcome to 🤡town, where: -An $8b cut is really just an $8m cut -3x $655m cuts are actually a single $18m cut -A $232m cut was only worth $560k in the end -the largest cut of all—$1.6b—was made by Joe Biden last fall, before DOGE even existed https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.b82f.Kh1AnGbHOfOG26 Feb 2025 04:46 +0000at://did:plc:2kh4f2xgl324lu7t7afvxtx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lj2l3i4syk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.social/post/3li5yjhrhms2qGovt spending under Trump has so far averaged $30bn/day. Compare that to $26bn/day in the same period last year under Biden. “No matter how aggressive doge is, its actions are focused on barely more than a tenth of the overall federal budget.” https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/02/12/elon-musk-is-failing-to-cut-american-spending?utm_campaign=a.the-economist-today&utm_medium=email.internal-newsletter.np&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud&utm_term=2/13/2025&utm_id=206179314 Feb 2025 20:00 +0000at://did:plc:2kh4f2xgl324lu7t7afvxtx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3li5yjhrhms2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.social/post/3lhuhcdcuic23In a 2013 interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference, @elonmusk brother, Kimbal, confessed that in 1995 he and Elon were working as illegal immigrants in the US while seeking funding for their startup company, Zip2. Start @ 9m10s https://youtu.be/1u6kQIzzaPI?si=2lIG_DgCtjO5nOS6&t=9m10s11 Feb 2025 00:57 +0000at://did:plc:2kh4f2xgl324lu7t7afvxtx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhuhcdcuic23https://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.social/post/3lh5irwug7s2tA must-read @propublica.org piece, outlining the disastrous effects of the Trump administration’s international aid freeze, exposes the administration’s lie that the ban has been relaxed/lifted and gives a voice to the brave doctors and staffers who intend to defy the ban for as long as possible. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-usaid-humanitarian-aid-freeze-ukraine-gaza-sudan01 Feb 2025 21:53 +0000at://did:plc:2kh4f2xgl324lu7t7afvxtx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lh5irwug7s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/saddisonray.bsky.social/post/3lb3unsh2z225What are the odds that during the exodus from the info cesspool that is X, I randomly snagged #Afireuponthedeep at my local bookstore? Little did I know I'd found a #scifi classic that warned readers about the "Net of a Million Lies" over a decade before the major social media networks were founded.16 Nov 2024 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:2kh4f2xgl324lu7t7afvxtx2/app.bsky.feed.post/3lb3unsh2z225