At any rate, given what I spent a year writing about, you can see why misinformation drives me absolutely bonkers.

The solution to the Firehose is not to try to debunk each falsehood but to put raincoats on the population.

This is why, instead of answering the latest DOJ / Garland outrage, I'm trying to get people to see that the outrage is the result of a media misinformation ecosystem / echochamber and encourage people to get out of it.

If you find yourself in a constant state of rage, it is not because of Trump.

It is because of how you are getting your news.

Trump does not have the power to reach into your brain and rile you up.

Donald Trump Built a National Debt So Big (Even Before the Pandemic) That It’ll Weigh Down the Economy for Years

He promised to reduce the national debt but instead increased it. It is now at its highest level relative to the U.S. economy since the end of World War II

This is one of his lesser known but profoundly damaging legacies, the explosive rise in the national debt that occurred on his watch.

#usa #politics #debtceiling #gop

https://www.propublica.org/article/national-debt-trump

I work for the government, and every year I have to take an ethics course to remind me not to do the things Clarence Thomas has done.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/04/clarence-thomas-lavish-gifts-propublica-supreme-court.html

Ways Brits finish a tea break:

1. “Anyway, better get back to it”
2. “No rest for the wicked”
3. “Right, I shall crack on”
4. “Back to the grind”
5. “Suppose I better do some work”
6. “Here we go again”
7. “This work won’t do itself”
8. “Onwards and upwards”