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In context, that question would not about the present, but the future:

> It might be bad as well, but at least the news will be interesting.

Of course this doesn't mean "this might suck for me, but at least it will be interesting news for others". Why pretend otherwise?

> Approximately 20 members of Elon Musk’s staff have begun working within the Education Department. They have gained access to multiple sensitive internal systems, including a financial aid dataset containing the personal information of millions of students enrolled in the federal student aid program.

https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lhcyirig6k...

You don't receive such aid, correct? So why care. Just a bunch of dudes soaking up highly sensitive information to do whatever with.

Trump spoke plenty of times of his desire of purging all sorts of things including the "deep state". It's amazing to me that all it takes is to tack on some vague claims about "efficiency" from a guy who lies like a child about the dumbest things, for some Americans to say "but what IF it saves a bit of money?" and just ignore the whole "using a very flimsy excuse to purge political opposition" thing.



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