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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings Show
Documents show DOGE is attempting to transfer headquarters of an independent #thinktank, #UnitedStates Institute of Peace, to gov at no cost.
Tensions at #USIP have been escalating for weeks, starting when Trump administration fired agency’s 10 voting board members and USIP staffers denied DOGE representatives access. As of Friday, most USIP staffers have been terminated.
wired.com/story/doge-takes-con
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WIRED · DOGE Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500 Million Building, Court Filings ShowBy Brian Barrett
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

#USA #healthcare

Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious #US healthcare profiteering announced

Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples

The 2024 “winners” of the annual #Shkreli awards, given each year to perpetrators of the most egregious examples of #profiteering and #dysfunction within the healthcare industry, have been released from the #LownInstitute, an independent healthcare #thinktank

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j

US healthcare Annual ‘winners’ for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced Selling body parts without consent and billing desperate parents $97,599 for air transport among worst examples UnitedHealth Group headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, on 9 March 2016. Photograph: Mike Bradley/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

@fbievan

btw, do you know the largest #GOP donor in #America is?

#JeffYass

the guy who helped fund #tiktok's creation and is a major stakeholder. a guy who helped fund a #rightwing #thinktank to warp the judiciary in #israel to keep #netanyahu in power

nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/jef

do you understand what you're defending?

will you please get your head out of your ass?

"sure, let #democracy die, because everything in life has to be done in perfect grace"

jesus fucking christ

NBC News · Who is Jeff Yass? The billionaire donor with investments in TikTok’s parent companyBy Brian Schwartz, CNBC
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AnarchoNinaAnalyzes

And for those of you looking to do a little extra reading on the objectively fascist think tank mentioned in these posts, The Claremont Institute, here's a 2023 article from The New Republic that should be quite enlightening and alarming:

web.archive.org/web/2024081516

"Extremism of the right-wing variety has always figured on the sidelines of American culture, and it has enjoyed a renaissance with the rise of social media. But Claremont represents something new in modern American politics: a group of people, not internet conspiracy freaks but credentialed and influential leaders, who are openly contemptuous of democracy. And they stand a reasonable chance of being seated at the highest levels of government—at the right hand of a President Trump or a President DeSantis, for example."

The New Republic · The Claremont Institute: The Anti-Democracy Think Tank It was once (mostly) traditionally conservative and (sort of) intellectually rigorous. Now it platforms white nationalists and promotes authoritarianism.
#Fascism#USPol#ClaremontInstitute
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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

“#Gay #furry #hackers” leak revealing #data from #HeritageFoundation, a major #antiLGBTQ+ #Republican #ThinkTank

The #Farright Religiously-motivated #hategroup wants to #rollback #transgender people's #civilrights. But these #hackers are #fightingback...

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Homophobia #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

lgbtqnation.com/2024/07/gay-fu

LGBTQ Nation · "Gay furry hackers" leak revealing data from major anti-LGBTQ+ Republican think tank - LGBTQ NationThe Heritage Foundation wants to roll back transgender civil rights. But these hackers are fighting back...
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I've seen a ton of these everywhere. This stuff, and a lot of "kids should do trade school" messages. Maybe it's the algorithm because I have kids, but I'm seeing it even when I'm not on a personal account.

It makes me wonder if there's some psyop going to get parents on board with opting out of college and into education that includes less in the way of "liberal" arts?

Not to be conspiracy minded, but this feels think-tankish. Like all those creepy "I have five side hustles that made me a millionaire while earning additional passive income from my property investments at 25" type"money management" articles.

What do you think? Am I losing it? 🤣

businessinsider.com/college-pr

Insider · College professor wants parents to stop forcing kids into collegeBy Rachel Garlinghouse
#PsyOps#ThinkTank#EchoChamber
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May

Yesterday Tim Harford included this idea in a column of you 'crazy' #economics questions, answered.

But the more I think of it, the more I think there is something here; I understand his economic analysis of the shortcomings, but I think regulatory #capitalism could shape markets to make this work better than he believes.

My #NewYear wish is that I'd really like to see IPPR or another #thinktank have a go at modelling the regulatory environment that could make this work....

Olly asks: What if your tax bill was discounted by the distance you lived from the centre of London (eg if you lived in Kingsway, you paid the full amount; if you lived in Shetland, you would pay no tax)? I suppose the aim here might be to encourage people to move away from London and into less populated areas. If this policy was a success, the likely outcome would be a damaged environment (with more driving and less travel by efficient methods such as trains, bicycles and elevators) and a much less dynamic economy (since cities are where most innovation takes place). I am reminded of the great urbanist Jane Jacobs’s sarcastic description of “a nice, even smear of mixed economic activity”, which seems so plausible from behind a bureaucrat’s desk, and which would be such a disaster in practice. Fortunately, this tax would make less difference than you think. In response to these tax incentives, some people would be minded to move further away from Kingsway and closer to Shetland. The mere temptation for this mass exodus to occur would prompt both rents and property prices to adjust, offsetting the tax. Owners of London property would suffer, while owners of property far from the charms of Kingsway would prosper. Not many people would actually move. Thank goodness.
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