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                                                                Nick Anstead
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                            Not sure the “rule taker” critique is the winning card the Tories think it is. 



The UK was at the heart of the EU and a very successful rule maker until the country got subsumed by the Tories psychodrama of an EU civil war. If we are now a rule taker, only one party is to blame and it isn’t Labour.
                            

                                                            
                                    
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                                                                Nick Anstead
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                            Meanwhile in Armenia…



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                                                                Nick Anstead
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                            Yep, that earns the gif.
                            

                            
                                                        
                                
                                
                                                                                                        
                                
                                    a group of cartoon characters with the words stop stop he 's already dead written on the bottom
                                    Alt: a group of Simpsons characters with the words stop stop he 's already dead written on the bottom
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                                        Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
                                        Senator Alsobrooks: You’ve been unable to address specific questions about your agency. Can you name which office the Safe to Sleep program operates out of? 



RFK Jr.: Guesses wrong 5 times 



Alsobrooks: It is the Eunice Kennedy Shriver NICHD.
                                    
                                
                                                    

                        
                    

                    
                    

                        
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                                                                Nick Anstead
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                            One big problem with this approach (which I suspect hurts the egos of the DOGErs) is that not much in Silicon Valley really matters that much... even a major SNS crashing (👋 Elon & everyone at X!) is much less important than the kind of damange you can do by messing with gov.
                            

                                                            
                                    
                                        Stephen Curry
                                        Sharp analysis by @himself.bsky.social  of DOGE’s attempts to apply Silicon Valley ‘blitzscaling’ (with all its disregard for people as human beings) to government. 



Essential reading for the @royalsociety.org which continues to bless the actions of Elon Musk FRS. open.substack.com/pub/programm...
                                    
                                
                                                    

                        
                    

                    
                    

                        
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                                                                Nick Anstead
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                            I never thought I would see a graph showing significant levels of Ceauşescu nostalgia.
                            

                                                            
                                    
                                        Grigore Pop-Eleches
                                        I've been running online surveys in #Romania about the presidential elections. Lots of crazy stuff but the graph below took me by surprise (and I'm someone who studies communist legacies). This is the share of the second-round vote for Simion as a function of what respondents think of Ceaușescu.