Last week, Marco Rubio killed 90% of USAID’s life-saving foreign aid programs, including: malaria supplies, tuberculosis programs, and emergency food programs. Naturally, centrist writers were aghast, and leapt to their standard moral argument: if you don’t support this, you are bad. But it’s obvious that argument’s not hitting like it used to, which makes me wonder what these writers really care about. The average American would love a home and not to live in fear of basic medical expenses, and if you really cared about charity that’s where you’d start. No, my point is not that killing a relatively small foreign aid program is going to fix domestic housing policy. My point is there will never be an appetite for foreign aid until you fix domestic housing policy. And if you aren’t willing to pivot? I’m sorry, but I just don’t believe you care, and I know you won’t succeed.

Just days into his tenure, Kash Patel’s FBI is already leaking (crying) to the press about a possible agent-training partnership with the UFC — you know, the hyper-masculine combat sport that throws two angry, jacked guys in a cage and makes them fight. Gossipy insiders called the move “surreal” and “wacky,” and dinged Patel for falling for the “glitz and glamour” of the sport. And I guess that’s fair, but is it really such a bad thing? More time in the cage inevitably means less time in sensitivity seminars, and it’s no secret that the bureau, along with every other agency where fitness matters, has lowered its physical standards. America is being asked to choose: made-for-TV masculinity or body positivity for our nation’s law enforcement. Probably neither is ideal, but if you HAVE to pick (and it increasingly seems like you do), who’re you calling when the baddies show up? Sorry, folks. Fat camp’s over.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin made an appalling statement last week: becoming a leader in AI requires actually working. “I recommend being in the office at least every weekday,” Brin wrote in a memo to Gemini employees, adding that “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity.” Wait — actually showing up for work? Staying past 5:00pm sometimes?? Sounds like a Siberian labor camp, Sergey. But hey, if for some reason our sociopathic readers aren’t outraged, consider this: also last week, Tesla fired a manager who criticized Elon publicly on X, something the NY Times called “the latest example that public criticism of the boss was unacceptable in the Musk business empire.” So true, NY Times. First these tech demons want their employees to actually show up for work…now they say employees can’t go on public social media diatribes against the boss?! Welcome to your new fascist hell, everyone. My friends on Bluesky tried to warn us.

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