I want to believe University adminstrations in #Australia are poaching US academics.

The broligarch CEO of #Coinbase (#BrianArmstrong) was one of the largest donors to the 2024 election. His sister #KatherineArmstrongLoving works for #DOGE.

Is this the #meritocracy we were promised?

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-trump-musk-funding-foia-congress-transparency

tfw #SteveBannon keeps making great points:

> "Remember, #Zuckerberg and all these guys came out of graduate schools [and] they didn't have any money. The people that invest - it's all pension fund money. So it's Oregon State Pension Fund, it's #CalPERS, it's Alabama Teachers Fund. All of their money: this is the Greek tragedy part of this. The American working class and middle class have essentially, through their hard work and savings, paid for their own destruction. Your greatest strength was turned against you. Your ability to be a good householder, your ability to actually have something, your ability to pay your taxes on a regular basis and have a little something put away, that's what the venture capitalists and the hedge funds use to ship the jobs overseas and destroy, not only your own economics and your personal life but to make sure that your children and grandchildren essentially live like serfs"
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fpoT7EWVzejpSlBgRHioq

live look at #a16z’s #MarcAndreessen after killing off the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (#CFPB), making sure americans will be paying extortionate junk fees and usurious interest rates on payday loans in addition to having zero protection from crypto scams: