JD Cleveland 

Engineer, MBA, Independent, old but still working
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NGO.

From their website -- "the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is an independent, nonprofit foundation dedicated to the growth and strengthening of democratic institutions around the world."

Also, from their Form 990 -- Damon Wilson received $369K in compensation and $48K in other benefits in 2023.

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How come we’ve never really heard of the National Endowment for Democracy? Is it a federal department? Is it an NGO? Is it a think tank? Is it a money launderer?

Even the little screed linked doesn’t really say.

Just because it’s been laundering money for decades doesn’t mean it’s still worthwhile

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“In other news: Steve Bannon pleads guilty in border wall fraud case—but will face no jail time.”

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Weekly reminder that Joe Biden’s fake cancer charity, where he was profiteering off of his son’s death for the 10,000th time, spent all of the funds raised on salary and travel expenses for his friends. It did zero cancer things aside from being a cancer itself. Nobody went to prison.

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Can you imagine Kamala’s speech: “AI is two letters.” Giggle giggle.’

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“In fact, a very good speech by a pretty senior politician. I am referring to Vice President J.D. Vance’s address at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris. In his first overseas trip as VP, Vance issued a blistering warning of the risks of overregulating AI.”

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Yeah but JD Vance is weird. We need Tim Walz to trans our kids and turn the entire country into Mogadishu like he did with Minneapolis.

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Some of you may have read or heard about Sesame Street in Iraq as an example of the phenomenon Celia discusses here. I happen to have intimate knowledge concerning that project because my niece was the International Rescue Committee (IRC) coordinator in Jordan for Alhan Simsim (its Arabic name) from its inception until she quit during the holidays. If Celia and the Purple Fam are interested, I can write a guest post about what I know and learned: how seemingly well meaning ideas morph into mone…

Dog L, two unrelated comments…

1. It does not matter. It’s like a meme I saw yesterday. Trump could literally find a cure for cancer and people would demand that he give them their cancer back. That is the illness of TDS.

2. I could write an entire book on how unfair it is to put special needs children in classrooms with regular kids. I just made a comment the other day on IG about how I think IEPs are a bunch of crap. In the real world, your boss is not going to give you an extra hour to do the …

EXCLUSIVE: PBS Disappears DEI Department in Wake of Free Press Investigation
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This is a terrific explanation/observation. Thank you.

We see this happen frequently at the local level with regards to school funding -- "if you don't pass the tax increase for the school budget, we'll cut sports."