Sensible Pirate
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Sensible Pirate
@SensiblePirate
We can have opposing opinions and still love one another. 💜💛Aarrgghhh. 🏴☠️🦜Bubbles up.



Jerome Powell on the $39 trillion U.S. national debt: "We don't have to pay the debt down, we just need to have primary balance and begin to have the economy actually growing better... It will not end well if we don't do something fairly soon."






@SirDustyDirks @fab The first step in this direction will be support for publishing shared Verse modules containing code and prefabs, and all of the required features for evolving them live and backwards-compatibly. Smart objects are the future, e.g. getting a working car, not just a car mesh.

JUST IN: Catholic Pope Leo XIV says God rejects prayers of leaders who start wars.


House GOP proposes 60-day CR with full DHS funding—likely rejecting Senate deal ow.ly/Ip7r50YzZjE








I've been one of the loudest voices in the Senate fighting to stop blank-check U.S. taxpayer dollars from flowing to Ukraine. I single-handedly blocked quick passage of the $40 billion Ukraine aid package by denying unanimous consent and demanding an independent Inspector General for real oversight. I then voted NO on final passage. I introduced the Ukraine Aid Oversight Act to force proper auditing of every dollar sent so Americans know exactly where their money is going. I publicly vowed to block any government funding bill that included more Ukraine aid. I led a filibuster and used procedural delays to slow and oppose the $95 billion foreign aid package (which contained roughly $60 billion more for Ukraine), calling it “Ukraine First, America Last.”















