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I made a long Covid comment, before realizing the article is old
 
Scanning the SSA data, disability payments peaked in the years following the Great Recession and have trended down since.

A key detail from the older NPR report is that while states have to pay a chunk toward folks on welfare, they do not cover any costs of folks on disability. So the states have a strong motivation to nudge people into disability claims (including a business to help do that).
 
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Musk’s DOGE Goons Covertly Transmitted Reams of WH Data

Musk’s team installed a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal on top of the White House, allowing them to bypass data-tracking security measures.
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Elon Musk’s goons at the Department of Government Efficiency transmitted a large amount of data—all of it undetected—using a Starlink Wi-Fi terminal they installed on top of the White House, according to a new report.

Starlink is a satellite Wi-Fi service owned and operated by Musk’s SpaceX. The DOGE goons installed it in mid-March with the sign-off of Donald Trump’s administration, but against concerns raised by security officials, according to The Washington Post.

The officials in charge of protecting the White House’s communications were not informed of the installation ahead of time, insiders told the Post.

However, the insiders suggested that the move was intended to bypass White House systems that track the transmission of data—with names and time stamps—and secure it from spies.

“Starlink doesn’t require anything. It allows you to transmit data without any kind of record or tracking,” one insider told the Post. “White House IT systems had very strong controls on network access. You had to be on a full-tunnel VPN at all times. If you are not on the VPN, White House-issued devices can’t connect to the outside.”

In April, a whistleblower at the National Labor Relations Board accused the Musk-led department of a “significant cybersecurity breach.” Daniel Berulis, an IT staffer, said he saw anomalously large data transfers and sign-in attempts from Russia after DOGE took over his agency’s systems.

In that case, the DOGE staffers insisted that their actions in the system not be tracked.
 
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“THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOU ARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR”

I genuinely cannot imagine saying this (except under extreme duress) and cannot imagine thinking anyone would say it.
 
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“THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, YOUARE SO WONDERFUL. WE WOULD BE NOTHING WITHOUT YOU, SIR”

I genuinely cannot imagine saying this (except under extreme duress) and cannot imagine thinking anyone would not should say it.
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Honestly, it's the kind of thing that dictators like North Korea's Kim Jong Un would force public officials to say. Praise Dear Leader relentlessly in public, or else your career is destroyed and you will perhaps face imprisonment or worse. There is simply no doubt that he wants every elected official in the country to publicly kiss his ass and tell him how wonderful and great and brilliant he is 24/7, or else. Which in no way is the sign of a democracy or even a republic.
 


Hitler did a quick victory drive through Paris, which was plenty shocking to most Europeans, but not a speech at the Eiffel Tower.
 


Pretty sure what “paid for by me” means to Trump is donations from others to pay for the parade that otherwise could have been paid to him, his businesses and/or his family, not Trump cutting a meaningful check to cover his birthday parade.
 
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