Anastasis

I don't know what level of clearance she holds, nor when it was last updated. If it is meaningfully out of date, I agree. That does not excuse the lunatics like John Bolton that 986 always aligns with.

How many background checks has she previously undergone as part of her military service and how recently were those performed. She was promoted to Lt. Col. in mid 2021. Rather than just parroting people like John Bolton uncritically maybe we consider the fact that disagreeing with neocons about foreign policy is not disqualifying.

Pharma getting absolutely hammered due to CR shit. Might be some value to snipe.

My interest in polymarket is increasing. If I am understanding correctly, the entire market is built on block chain tech and is decentralized. An interesting article that unpacks some of the potential motivations at play here among the regulators: https://www.piratewires.com/p/cftc-attempt-to-destroy-election-markets-kalshi-polymarket?f=author The CFTC’s rationale for prohibiting political event contracts — the need to defend democracy from money and manipulation — parallels that offered by progressive groups and elected officials. But the ‘defending democracy’ argument is nonetheless confused about, well, democracy. As Kalshi’s CEO Tarek Mansour explains, prediction markets are “unbiased aggregators of individual convictions” — their inputs are highly democratic. So are their outputs, which provide key feedback to researchers, operatives, leaders, and voters. In a primary campaign, for example, ultimate electability is a key issue pertinent to voters. Given these markets’ utility as a public information source for the electorate, and as John Phillips (a co-founder of PredictIt) observes, it’s therefore ironic that unelected bureaucrats claim to be “defending democracy by stifling and trying to destroy” election markets during an election cycle. One can make sense of these contradictions by understanding the Commission’s manipulation concerns as a species of anti-“misinformation” campaign. Indeed, explicit fears about election markets incentivizing misinformation — e.g., tricking the public to swing the race to win a buck, or tricking the market to sway the public to win a race — are littered throughout the CFTC’s order blocking Kalshi’s election market, arguments to the D.C. Circuit and District Court, and proposed ban on political event contracts. The fear that prediction markets will encourage misinformation is nevertheless perplexing, given their relative accuracy and resistance to manipulation. But one of the concerns animating the backlash to DARPA’s prediction market was that amateurs would replace professionals. One reason Robin Hanson originally was attracted to prediction markets was the hope that through them, “established insiders could no longer suppress contrarian outsiders merely by silence or ridicule.” As is often the case, campaigns against misinformation, while ostensibly concerned with whether the truth will win out, are also animated by concern over whose truth will win out. Far from threatening democracy, election markets may be offering too much of it in the view of certain regulators. To their consternation, though, federal courts may just end up saving a democratic information source from the regulators themselves.

Miriam Adelson's hand picked state dept and defense secretaries along with NSA will ensure that any reductions are just redirected to Israel.

Sorry no take backs. The rules are the rules.

Resigned both his current seat and indicated his intention to not take the seat he just won, which sets off a timeline to backfill the position. I think that he is done in the House.

If I hear one motherfucker talking about seed oils they’re getting it.

Topical memes allowed.

Largest single US federal budget item by agency.

Uh, they both roll up under HHS. He didn't just get one. He got them all.

Campaign is upside down. From that article: The problem with that premise is, of course, that the Harris-Walz campaign is reportedly in debt to the tune of $20 million, and it appears the operation is attempting to strip the wires from the walls in order to fend off its creditors. (It’s bad enough that the campaign is allegedly shopping around its email list, which is great news for our spam filters.) This sell-off comes after Harris managed to raise more than $1 billion for her four-month campaign.

I thought that you were trying to work on that white male toxicity thing?

For max lulz, he should threaten to have DeSantis appoint Gaetz to Rubio's seat on the Senate if the Senate does not confirm him as AG.

The laundry. The whites.

She was put on a TSA list for what appears to be naked political reasons. Gonna be interesting to see what laundry to she wants to hang out as DNI.

I don't either. Sounds like some weird caste shit to me though.

New one to me. From wiki The Chutias worshipped a primordial male deity and a primordial female deity. The male was called Kundimama, Balia-Baba or Pisha-dema, known by the Kacharis as Bathau or Bathau Brai[34] and the female deity was called Kechaikhati or Pisha-si.[35] The worship of the tribal goddess Kesai Khaiti, commonly found among other Bodo-Kachari groups[36][37][38][39][40] The worship of the goddess Kechaikhaiti was officiated by the priestly section that came to be today identified as the Deori people; and other Bodo-Kachari peoples had their respective priests who too were called Deori.[41] Another god and goddess were the Bura and Buri or the "Old Ones." which under later Hindu influence became Shiva and Shakti.[42]

I wouldn't tell you to do or it not do it. If you are worried about addiction with buspar, you should not. BTW, 5mg a day is a very low dose. If you have concerns you should talk with your doc.

Neither are benzos. Buspirone is non-addictive. Propranolol is a beta blocker, primary a drug used for cardiovascular indications. It tamps down the body's fight or flight response.

Apparently gaetz has already resigned his seat. Goons be funny if he doesn’t clear confirmation.

Kashyap still in the board. Seems like FBI director for him.

Update from politico.

I think that's probably right. I did see that DOGE is time constrained. And speaking of DOGE, what a world. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/13/dogecoin-surges-20percent-after-trump-announces-a-department-of-government-efficiency-doge.html Dogecoin spiked after President-elect Donald Trump formally announced the creation of the Department of Government Efficiency. The memecoin has been one of the biggest winners in the postelection rally, gaining more than 150% since Election Day compared with bitcoin’s 30% rise in the same period. Trump initially floated the idea of an efficiency commission in September.

So politico has this tracker that might be useful: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2024/trump-cabinet-picks-2025-tracker/