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Trump’s $45 million birthday parade with its tanks and helicopters is an authoritarian ego trip. But the real show of force this weekend won't take place in D.C., it’ll happen in the streets as protesters gather nationwide to declare "No Kings in America!"

submitted 4 days ago • 131 comments

If that’s what they do to a United States Senator with a question, imagine what they can do to any American that dares to speak up. We will hold this administration accountable.

submitted 5 days ago • 554 comments

The “we don’t need PMs, just hire more engineers” mindset tech execs seem to have these days is both stupid and short-sighted. Engineers are not good at PM work and they don’t enjoy it, so they’re not motivated to bother learning - especially when “glue work” isn’t rewarded come review time. 😡 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 8 comments

I'm thinking about how tonight was probably the first time Kilmar Abrego Garcia learned that millions of people care about him - the first time he learned that the United States Supreme Court ruled 9-0 to bring him home. I'm thinking what it must mean for him to know, right now, that he isn't alone.

submitted 60 days ago • 331 comments

250 years ago we started our war against tyranny. Our country was born rejecting a king and we sure as hell won’t let Trump destroy our democracy now. No Kings!

submitted 60 days ago • 12 comments

I hate to be that guy, but this is the five-alarm fire, and every elected Democrat and frankly, every Washington reporter should be ringing the bell. If it can happen to him, it can happen to anyone. Nobody with a voice should give this administration a moment’s peace about it.

submitted 64 days ago • 122 comments

This is NOT ok

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

The Democratic senator from New Jersey began speaking at 7 p.m. Monday and continued into Tuesday evening.

submitted 76 days ago • 9 comments

Cory Booker is a badass #SenatorCoryAnthonyBooker #TotallyNOTaFilibuster #MakeAmericaActuallyGreatAgain

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

This is not okay

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"virtually all modern internet services experience [DDoS attacks] regularly and must proactively defend themselves.... [But] some X ... servers...weren't properly secured behind the company's Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible.....As a result attackers could target them"

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

Why is the headline on all X outage stories about Musk blaming Ukraine for the DDoS? Why aren't media outlets putting the emphasis on the security lapse that allowed script kiddies (or whoever) to launch the attack against X as well as the lack of any evidence that the traffic came from Ukraine IPs?

submitted 97 days ago • 11 comments

“Though both Hitler and Hugenberg were fiercely anti-Communist, antidemocratic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic, their attempts at political partnership failed spectacularly and repeatedly.” Timothy W. Ryback on Hitler's relationship with his oligarchs: theatln.tc/Hy5fsNe5

submitted 109 days ago • 10 comments

RFK Jr. and his movement do not simply ignore the need for vaccination, Benjamin Mazer writes. They also trivialize and dismiss preventable child death. theatln.tc/dbdtuQVB

submitted 109 days ago • 37 comments

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The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 120 days ago • 132 comments

I repeat…

submitted 120 days ago • 1030 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 122 days ago • 294 comments

Trump is firing employees at the Western Area Power Administration. According to New Mexico Senator Martin Heinrich “we could be looking at a 20% reduction in their workforce, crippling the western grid and leading to blackouts and power outages.”

submitted 121 days ago • 12 comments

A federal judge ordered the CDC to temporarily restore the pages it has taken down from its website to comply with President Trump’s executive order barring any references to race, gender identity or sexual orientation.

submitted 125 days ago • 38 comments

This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 125 days ago • 879 comments

projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

In response to a post on X from @maxwellfrost.bsky.social showing the effort to get into the Department of Education building this morning, Elon Musk replied, "No such department exists in the federal government"

submitted 130 days ago • 432 comments

Ellen Weintraub, a Democratic member of the Federal Election Commission, says President Trump is trying to improperly remove her from the post.

submitted 129 days ago • 83 comments

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

submitted 130 days ago • 1115 comments

been waiting for someone to cover and confirm this one! just about everyone OSINTing must have found this trustpilot review and i never got around to confirming it myself. great reporting @jasonleopold.bsky.social @margimurphy.bsky.social @anthonycormier.bsky.social @sooophie.bsky.social!!

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately." | www.wired.com/story/treasu...

submitted 130 days ago • 324 comments

An attempt to identify and explain some of the biggest things that happened each week, and draw attention to some that have been overlooked.

submitted 130 days ago • 33 comments

youtu.be/u4viueoaEHg?... This is not okay. As a citizen and taxpayer, I demand that POTUS and his staff not hinder congressional oversight nor direct others to do so.

submitted 130 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

submitted 135 days ago • 8528 comments

A sprightly little ditty to start your February 2025 with: youtu.be/bWXazVhlyxQ

submitted 136 days ago • 143 comments

Unelected agents of a oligarch have seized core services of the state without legal sanction or authorization; yes, that's a coup

submitted 136 days ago • 102 comments

The US constitution was built to avoid centralized power and tyranny. It is not the constitution that is failing us. It is the partisans who have promised to uphold the constitution that are failing us.

submitted 136 days ago • 127 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 136 days ago • 2889 comments