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it's cool that we live in a country too corrupt to ensure our primary voice communications networks are actually usable 🇺🇲🇺🇲😎

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

FEMA Chief Confused By Wind theonion.com/fema-ch...

submitted 1 day ago • 319 comments

We have paid 15% of our income* for our entire fucking lives. Please go fuck yourself. * I know half technically comes from the employer but if they weren’t paying it we would make more money

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

submitted 2 hours ago • 218 comments

The University of Michigan spent $800,000 hiring private investigators--one of whom FAKED A DISABILITY--to surveil anti-genocide protesting students. I'm speechless. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 40 comments

I'm starting to think elected Democrats may not be the most morally consistent bunch

submitted 2 hours ago • 22 comments

seeking common ground with fascists is like expecting physical intimacy from a running chainsaw this guy is embarrassing and needs to be primaried

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

"For now."🙄 Like we could just stuff that genie back in the bottle. Trump's Extreme Court is all in on implementing Project 2025, that's why they had to make sure he had immunity.

submitted 2 hours ago • 5 comments

These two orders combine to provide DOGE with both access to extremely sensitive information and protections against accountability. 1. Access: bsky.app/profile/chri...

submitted 3 hours ago • 12 comments

I cannot get over the press' compulsion to treat kara swisher as an Elon Musk expert when she was central to the media's construction of his supergenius engineer mythology

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

DOGE brutality was the ultimate manifestation of the "free market" libertarian movement's generational quest to portray the destruction of federal governance and corporate oversight as the path to utopia many of those think tankers should be ostracized almost as intensely as the fascists

submitted 4 hours ago • 7 comments

DOGE brutality was the ultimate manifestation of the "free market" libertarian movement's generational quest to portray the destruction of federal governance and corporate oversight as the path to utopia many of those think tankers should be ostracized almost as intensely as the fascists

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

“.. after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.” 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 100 comments

Pretty egregious error from this book: The authors say Swedish deaths fell by 2.3% during the pandemic, proving that the country's lax lockdown strategy worked. But they misread their source: Mortality is only down if you remove the COVID deaths. research.abo.fi/ws/portalfil...

submitted 4 hours ago • 75 comments

while the press obsesses over a billionaire cat fight, over at the Institute for Local Self Reliance I wrote about how Republicans are retooling a $45 billion broadband subsidy program to slather Elon Musk with billions in new taxpayer subsidies he doesn't deserve:

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Even if the Musk-Trump feud is permanent, he will have already done incalculable damage to federal programs, workers and civilians. But it's even worse than that—he's installed a framework and a logic that will *continue* to tear apart the federal government. Musk's job has already been automated.

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

why would an autocrat ban a propaganda machine when he could instead make it spread *his* propaganda

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles. Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

submitted 6 hours ago • 820 comments

One after another access journalist is reporting a convo with Trump where Trump says Musk has a problem. None asked why Trump let him have unfettered access to the govt, and our data, for the last four months, then. And what he'll do to make sure Musk didn't do permanent damage.

submitted 5 hours ago • 63 comments

This list is like the Avengers for people who only read airport books called something like "Leading Leadership for Leaders"

submitted 6 hours ago • 54 comments

Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year www.latimes.com/business/sto...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

More of this, please. Continue to burn these Vichy firms to the ground.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

Dems supporting this TikTok ban during an election season when they desperately needed young voter turnout remains one of the biggest political own goals in a long while it's always been clear the goal for the GOP was to turn TikTok into another right wing propaganda mill

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments