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Wasn’t the politico thing specifically bunk? Like those were $44k of subscription fees over several years and not $8M
My understanding was that the fees were for Politico Pro, which has an API that’s useful for pulling us govt open data.
I’m not going to fall for paying politico for subscriptions means we’ve fallen to communism but how is the US Gov. paying a private third party for an API to pull data off of US govt. open data?
What do you mean? Public institutions don’t necessarily have interconnected systems and private companies have often be tasked with filling those gaps. I learned this during Covid when they specifically paid private companies to collect and analyze wastewater data.
I’m not saying that it’s a good thing just that is how it often works here
I completely misread the source I was thinking of. My bad.
Even if it was $8m, that’s a super super tiny drop in the bucket compared to budgets like 841 billion for the pentagon or hundreds of billions for Israel/Ukraine. Trumpers getting fixated on 0.0001% of the budget and blowing a gasket
I’m all for stopping the handouts to Politicos though, fuck them.
That’s why I mentioned it. The politico thing is purely a right wing Twitter and Fox News framing. There’s no reason to go along with it.
in shambleslatuff is so good
