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It's Cold Outside · Stuff Keeps Happening

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  Hello. I watched an empire fall in real time.
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  But stuff still happened. So what's up? It's
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  cold outside. It's icy. At least around me. It's
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  also very icy in Minnesota. Still. The snow.
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  The snow kind of ice. And the - fascist kind
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  too. I want to start off today by highlighting
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  that Minnesota really hasn't changed a whole
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  lot, despite talk about drawing down the forces
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  there. In Minneapolis, Rene Nicole Goode and
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  Alex Pretti were both gunned down by ICE agents,
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  who were then protected by the federal government,
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  as the citizens who were killed in the streets
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  were called terrorists. This was a bit of a difficult
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  thing for the White House to explain, and so
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  they're like, well, we got to do something. besides
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  call our own citizens terrorists after we get
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  them murdered. So what they did, presumably to
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  not have to keep dealing with this, maybe, was
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  to get rid of Greg Bovino. Bovina? I've never
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  looked up how to pronounce his name because I
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  don't care. We're gonna call him Bovi. Greg Bovine.
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  Greg Bovino or whatever. He's the fashy looking
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  dude who like explicitly tries to dress like
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  a Nazi. He's been the head boy of ICE for a little
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  bit now going out in the field. Doing all the
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  flashy stuff and hyping them up talking about
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  how this is this is our town ice agents Anyway,
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  they pulled him out of Minneapolis and replaced
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  him with Tom Holman who is the border czar anyway,
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  Tom Holman He looks like he's melting all the
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  time and also I'm pretty sure his soul already
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  has so he comes in and he talks about drawing
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  down the troops that are currently there by 700
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  That entire statement could be analyzed for years.
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  Drawing down the personnel and talking about
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  it like it's a war zone is fucking crazy, my
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  guy. And they're pulling out 700 people leaving
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  2 ,000 agents, which is more than twice the total
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  employee count of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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  Tom Homan went on to refer to Minneapolis as
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  a theater. You ever heard of the term, like,
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  the Pacific Theater? You know, like, that's a
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  war thing. It's a way to refer to, like, a war
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  front. This is an American city. A cold one.
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  But it's an American city, not a fucking war
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  front. Or at least it wasn't supposed to be a
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  war front. But it turns out that the people in
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  Minneapolis are still, to this day, hiding people
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  from feds and trying to not get stopped in the
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  street by a masked armed guy who's like, show
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  me your papers. It was just a couple of weeks
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  ago that I talked about a contact that I have
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  on the ground in Minneapolis who was telling
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  me about someone they knew who was being hidden.
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  I have since received a text message saying they
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  took her. Every single day people in Minneapolis
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  are on the ground trying to help, trying to push
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  back, and making this a huge pain for the administration.
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  These people are working day and night to make
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  it so that this administration doesn't get to
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  get away with this bullshit. We are all very
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  aware of it because of how strong that local
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  community has been, and they've been winning.
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  It is horrendous that multiple people have had
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  to die for this. And we should be holding the
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  administration accountable for that. But this
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  would not be the first time by a long shot that
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  American citizens died by gunfire at the hands
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  of government agents on U .S. soil. for standing
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  up for what was obviously right. Now, of course,
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  there's a lot of ICE operations going on outside
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  of Minneapolis, too, and we are also getting
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  reports now of outbreaks of various diseases
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  in ICE concentration camps. These outbreaks include
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  tuberculosis, measles, and COVID -19 in places
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  that have children. Those classic detention centers
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  for children that we have. On the topic of children
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  that our government abducts, by the end of Biden's
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  presidency, we were taking 25 children a day,
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  give or take, into ICE custody. It is now at
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  about 170 children a day being rounded up, thrown
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  into camps somewhere that, according to the nurses
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  who have been trying to offer health care at
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  these camps, they are overpacked by three times
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  capacity. People have reported that the ICE agents
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  are more interested in deporting people than
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  ensuring that they actually are healthy and have
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  access to life -saving medication or anything
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  like that. There are so many of them that health
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  screenings are happening in groups. Public group
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  health screening. But again, it's not like this
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  is happening unimpeded. And like, the system
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  is strained right now. A whole bunch of attorneys
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  in the Minneapolis area are quitting because
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  they're like, fuck this. I either don't want
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  to do this because this is fascist as hell or
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  this is making my life impossible. Here's a quote
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  from an attorney who was at her breaking point
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  in court to the judge. She says, quote, The system
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  sucks. This job sucks. I wish you would hold
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  me in contempt so that I could get 24 hours of
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  sleep. I think that about sums it up. They're
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  fucking miserable. But that's okay, we can make
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  them more miserable. We'll get there. Have faith.
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  Hold. If you like what I do, you can help me
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  keep doing it by supporting me. You can head
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  to isupport .dev and there are options for monetary
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  support or just sharing my stuff and other ways
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  to help me keep all this going. So thank you
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  so much for being here. I'm doing this for you,
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  but I can't do it if I can't feed myself, so...
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  Thank you anyone who is interested in supporting,
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  and that's great, let's move on. And now for
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  sports. We go to the sports desk. It's over here.
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  Hi, welcome to the sports desk. I'm the same
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  guy. The Olympics are happening. And the Super
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  Bowl. The Super Bowl is not at the Olympics.
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  That'd be funny. The Winter Olympics of 2026
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  have started in Milan. They are going from the
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  6th to the 22nd, and a whole lot of people are
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  gonna do a whole lot of cold stuff. There have
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  already been a handful of medals passed out,
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  just sort of like handed out. I haven't competed
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  yet, so I haven't gotten my medals. But I can
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  say that Japan got a medal for Men's Snowboard
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  Big Air. Now look, I know that Men's Snowboard
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  Big Air... is a really rad sport. I'm not - I'm
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  not dogging on it. It does sound like a bargain
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  bin Nintendo 64 game, but grats on the big air,
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  Men's Snowboard? Of course, we also had the opening
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  ceremony, which was a whole thing, and JD Vance
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  was put up on the Jumbotron, and the entire fucking
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  world booed him. Which is the only reaction,
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  really, to having JD Vance on a Jumbotron. Over
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  stateside, we've got the very big bowl going
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  on. It's when they take all of the superest people
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  that have... a lot of knowledge of the pigskin
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  and the gridiron, and they put them in an arena
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  together with a bad bunny. It is the Seattle
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  Seahawks versus the New England Patriots this
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  time around, so that just goes to prove that
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  the closer you are to the border of Canada, the
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  more frequently you appear in the Super Bowl.
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  That's my thesis, because I don't know a whole
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  lot else about the NFL. The Super Bowl is happening,
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  like, as I'm recording this, so if you're watching
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  it, I hope you're enjoying your buffalo chicken
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  dip. And I'll let you know who won. Here, I'll
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  edit it in right here. The team that won was
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  the Seattle Seahawks. Moving on, I want to acknowledge
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  that the situation in Gaza really hasn't changed.
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  I'm kind of tired of things not changing. I feel
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  like things could change a little bit for the
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  better. Now look, I don't honestly have a whole
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  lot more to say here. I have spent years now
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  saying some rendition of the same thing of Israel
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  has attacked Gaza again. and I don't know why,
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  and they claim Hamas was there, and then they
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  don't really give any evidence, and then they
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  say also, no, we didn't do that, and also it's
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  a ceasefire. All I really have to say is to encourage
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  people to be loud. If there's any semblance of
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  someone suggesting that the conflict, in huge
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  air quotes, between Israel and Hamas has ended,
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  it's just not the case. People are still actively
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  being targeted by heavy artillery while trying
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  to dig their homes. Out of the rubble. That doesn't
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  sound like an end of conflict to me. A very different
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  kind of explosion. A waplosion. The Washington
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  Post just kind of fucking beefed it. Like, holy
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  shit, dude. On February 4th, the Washington Post
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  announced job cuts of 300 people. That's about
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  a third of their staff. Among the things that
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  they cut were their entire sports desk, the entire
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  books desk, their audio and video teams, including
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  some of their podcasts, their culture teams,
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  and their foreign coverage teams. What are they
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  going to report on now? I don't know. They say
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  they're going to focus on like government and
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  security. Here's how it went down though, because
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  this is even crazier. Pretty much with no prior
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  warning, just the editor had to say, hey, you're
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  all are getting your jobs slashed. The CEO isn't
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  here to say that because he's elsewhere. It later
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  came out that the CEO, Will Lewis, was off at
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  a party for the Super Bowl while absolutely cutting
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  his staff to shreds. That didn't sit well with
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  the team. He's since resigned. Because obviously.
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  To drive home how sudden and absurd this was,
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  Lizzie Johnson, a reporter for the Washington
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  Post in Ukraine, posted that she had been laid
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  off by the Washington Post in the middle of a
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  war zone. She had been working out of her car
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  with no power in Ukraine on the war front where
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  Russia has been attacking energy infrastructure.
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  And then she found out that she was laid off
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  in a car in the middle of a war zone. Jeff Bezos
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  bought the Washington Post in 2013. for $250
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  million, which is like, fuck all. This is the
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  paper that exposed Watergate. This paper has
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  76 pooled surprises. It started in the late 1800s.
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  Like, regardless of anyone's current outlook
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  on the media and the news and whatnot, it's wild
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  that Jeff Bezos is so much more interested in
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  lobbying Trump that he'd rather just annihilate
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  the Washington Post. It doesn't sound like he
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  was super happy with how this was all handled,
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  but it's not like he hasn't been doing active
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  harm to the Washington Post reputation for a
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  while now. You'll recall that right before the
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  election last year, he personally stepped in
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  to stop the Washington Post from endorsing Kamala
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  Harris. Now, did that change the election? Probably
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  not. But that's not a thing that you should do
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  if you are a billionaire donor who owns a newspaper.
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  Hey, maybe fewer billionaires owning newspapers,
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  please. Here's a very good quote from a former
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  executive editor of the Washington Post, Martin
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  Barron, quote, If you are Elon Musk, you are
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  not liking Europe. There you go. I helped you
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  out there. Elon Musk has been beefing with the
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  EU and multiple individual states at the same
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  time. Last week, French authorities raided Twitter's
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  headquarters in Paris because of the whole Grok
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  generating non -consensual images of children
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  thing. Quick recap, Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok
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  is baked into Twitter now, and you can ask it
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  to remix images that people have posted, including
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  images of other users, and in some cases, children.
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  People have been using this feature to undress
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  people en masse. Notably, that's bad. Not long
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  ago the EU hit Twitter with a big old find about
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  a whole bunch of other stuff and messing with
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  the blue check marks and shit and Britain's been
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  looking into them for privacy concerns and now
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  France is looking into them for the whole child
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  porn thing. Musk's response to basically all
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  of this is to say that the EU is tyrannical and
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  unfair and being political? Yes. It turns out
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  when you want to operate for profit in a country,
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  you have to adhere to the regulations. I don't
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  think that's gonna get through to Elon. I don't
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  think he has a super great grasp of regulations
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  and adhering to them. Speaking of which, we have
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  some new stuff about Doge. There was a court
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  filing about the whole Doge situation back when
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  Elon Musk was like, I'm gonna be in the government
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  now. And yeah, they did the dumb shit that we
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  were assuming they did. A court filing shows
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  that Doge employees were doing a whole bunch
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  of nefarious shit with social security data that
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  they were not supposed to have access to, including...
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  uploading it to third parties that were not approved,
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  such as CloudFlare. This means an unknown amount
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  of unknown data from the social security database
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  was sent over an unauthorized third party, and
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  we have no idea what it was, where it is, or
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  how much might be retained. Neat! That's not,
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  that's not me, actually. Here is an idea. Elon
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  Musk, but not. Any takers? Lightning round! The
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  Clintons will be testifying in front of Congress
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  over the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. They're pushing
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  to make it a public hearing. It's going to be
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  a disaster. GameStop employees have a new dress
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  code. They gotta wear polos and stuff. I don't
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  know why this made my list of nudes, but it's
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  in there. Okay, here's a more salient gaming
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  thing. Valve has released a statement saying
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  that their upcoming array of new hardware, including
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  the new Steam machine and their new VR headset
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  and stuff, is going to be delayed and possibly
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  more expensive. They chalk this up to essentially
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  the situation with AI right now. If you've tried
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  to buy any hardware parts, it is way too expensive
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  for parts that should not be expensive. So they're
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  basically saying, hey, the market's fucked, we're
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  figuring it out. Today host Savannah Guthrie's
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  mother was abducted, and we don't know where
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  she is, and they've been trying to figure that
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  out. There was a ransom note and everything,
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  and there's just not really any information about
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  what happened. They've apparently been in contact
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  with the abductors. I can't even... I cannot
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  imagine. Don't... abduct people. That's my PSA
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  for today. And finally for today, according to
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  an analysis from the Wall Street Journal, if
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  you take all the spending that AI companies have
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  been doing as a portion of GDP, it rivals the
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  Louisiana Purchase. It's like double the cost
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  of the Interstate Project. Like... that's a lot
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  of money! I am once again... casually requesting.
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  Just... One of those billions. Just a single
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  one. Thank you so much for listening to today's
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  episode of Stuff Keeps Happening. Head to skh
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  .news for sources, bonus content, and a second
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  Louisiana purchase. I'm buying Louisiana back.
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  My name is Endeavorance. We'll talk again soon.
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  Take care and be well.