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don't recall if there's a more appropriate thread to drop this Rep. Self adjourned a hearing rather than introduce Sarah McBride properly

i'm private sector, so for this particular change technically nothing. but folks in my cohort who went in that direction are at or nearing that ten-year mark. but to extent that i'm in that broader student loan bucket generally and paying attention, it's just infuriating the absolute contempt these people have for kids who were told all their lives to stay in school and then were promised that if they sacrifice earning potential to work in the public sector for a decade, that debt would be wiped clean. the PSLF stuff in particular is just mean, cruel, spiteful, and terrible all around.

why does my phone send push notifications for the clickbaitiest shit

Executive Order curtailing the PSLF program: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/restoring-public-service-loan-forgiveness/

Does he know of any "fair" alliances or is the goal just to pull America out of the US-centric post WWII world order and revert to pre-WWI "great empires" carving the world up between themselves?

I was taken aback that it said only three riflemen and no blanks. Wasn't it a thing that there's always like four shooters and a blank so no one knows for sure it was them? Then I read this part.

trump folks talking to Ukraine opposition parties https://www.politico.eu/article/donald-trump-allies-secret-talks-volodymyr-zelenskyy-opposition-ukraine-elections-yulia-tymoshenko-petro-poroshenko/

There is a constitutional question - if he has that degree of power, he should probably be Senate-confirmed.

Trump has started boxing Elon in https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/06/trump-cabinet-musk-025093

He signed an executive order maybe last week or the week prior. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/designating-english-as-the-official-language-of-the-united-states/

The people who dont like him didn't watch, of course the response was positive.

that update did allow bsky embeds

Post this statement after the meeting. What's more telling is his entire feed after that statement:

literally the most transactional human to ever exist