Judd Legum

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1. A few days ago, Congress and Biden approved $858 BILLION in military spending with almost no public discussion or debate.

That's $858,000,000,000

Follow along for FACTS about HOW this money is spent and WHY

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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1610295933903814659

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“1. A few days ago, Congress and Biden approved $858 BILLION in military spending with almost no public discussion or debate. That's $858,000,000,000 Follow along for FACTS about HOW this money is spent and WHY 🧵”

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Jan 3, 2023 at 11:00pmWeb
Show threadDavid CollantesJan 3, 2023
@juddlegum please post the thread here as well. I can only speak for myself; I am not going back to Twitter. I am not following any links to content in there, no matter how important they might seem.
Show threadPeteJan 3, 2023

@david @juddlegum
What David said. Or at least post a link to where you have provided your excellent coverage on Popular Information. You could show off the clever URL on that one too, which gave me a chuckle.

https://popular.info/p/858000000000

$858,000,000,000

In 2015, the United States spent $585 billion on its military, more than the next 11 countries combined. Since then, the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, ending its longest-running war. And yet, eight years later, President Biden approved $858 billion in military spending

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Show threadAngle🖇Jan 4, 2023
@david @juddlegum Yeah I was never really on Twitter. Not going to click over to view the chain, please post it here too.
Show threadAngle🖇Jan 4, 2023
@david @juddlegum Okay, seems he did: https://journa.host/@juddlegum/109625977147077983
Judd Legum (@[email protected])

1. A few days ago, Congress and Biden approved $858 BILLION in military spending with almost no public discussion or debate. That's $858,000,000,000 Follow along for FACTS about HOW this money is spent and WHY 🧵

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Show threadRobertJan 4, 2023
@juddlegum same post that here
Show threadlauratckJan 4, 2023
@juddlegum 1% of that, just 1% would do amazing things for under-served communities. Pick an issue, any issue. Homelessness? Domestic violence? Learning disabled? Profoundly gifted? An obscure disease?
Maybe that's a caveat Congress needs to write into all budgets. 1% of whatever the Pentagon's budget is, has to automatically go to programs focusing on societal problem(s).
Show threadMad MexicanoJan 4, 2023
@juddlegum Hey, look, actual important content without the racism and infantile dick jokes like on the other hellscape. Ah, it’s good to be normal.
Show threadScenarioJan 5, 2023
@juddlegum That’s infuriating. We’re not even at war.