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Trump never had a peace plan for Ukraine. He had a plan for Ukraine's surrender, with a colonial resource grab. As Zelenskyy rightly refused it, or to cooperate in Trump's TV spectacular, the US has now cut Ukraine off. That's what blackmail looks like. That's what the world is up against.

submitted 22 hours ago • 141 comments

Earlier today the LA Times had AI-generated counterpoints to a column from @gustavoarellano.bsky.social. His piece argued that Anaheim, the city he grew up in, should not forget its KKK past. The AI "well, actually"-ed the KKK. It has since been taken off the piece. www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 23 hours ago • 43 comments

The Covid Inquiry is starting to deal with PPE sleaze. It's very hard to feel confident it will deal with it well. But here are the questions it should be answering. goodlaw.social/4kbs

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Steve Levitsky, who wrote "How Democracies Die" (which I'm reading now) says this is worse than he expected, and the wildcard factor is... Elon Musk.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Public Information Film^WComic thedevilspanties.com/archives/16538

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I know everything about Nixon seems quaint in comparison, but this was specifically one of the crimes mentioned in the articles of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

This week's impressive Climate Change Committee report makes a rock solid case for net zero. BUT it recommends a major program of new fossil fuel infrastructure—giving Big Oil exactly what it wants. Why that’s a bad mistake, and what the alternative is. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

submitted 3 days ago • 178 comments

Who knew that Trump would be able to add to his leadership team all Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Disease, Famine, War and Death.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.

submitted 3 days ago • 438 comments

IF TRANS ISSUES ARE SO INCONSEQUENTIAL DOES SOMEONE ON THE NYT MASTHEAD WANT TO EXPLAIN WHY THEY SPENT THREE YEARS RUNNING A1 “INVESTIGATIONS” INTO SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICAL CARE AND THE LANGUAGE CHOICES OF NON-PROFITS AND HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS????

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Guess who warned everyone?

submitted 3 days ago • 484 comments

America is now kidnapping and disappearing foreigners. I recommend strongly you stop coming here.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

The party line by the IRS has been that it is illegal to share IRS data. There isn't a "to help deport" people exception in the Privacy Act.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

BIG NEW STORY: The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway. by @annamaria.bsky.social and Brett Murphy

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

‘Ultimate bringers of life’: How one Cornwall farmer is using beavers to stop flooding

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Breaking it, then profiting off the fix The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc… They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

submitted 5 days ago • 2067 comments

The corruption is now just out in the open.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

This is such a fucking mealy mouthed article that shows so much of what is wrong with political journalism 1. the CONCERN IS DEAD AND SICK PEOPLE NOT 'POLITICAL PERILOUSNESS" 2. they don't fact check RFK's "measles outbreaks happen every year" comment.

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

This is an astonishing story. Trump's personal lawyers, now in government, are trying to find any prosecutor take on a case to stop payment of $20 billion in funds by claiming there is fraud. The fact that career prosecutors are resigning rather than do so tells you how weak the case is.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Going to use this site to teach new developers about OWASP TOP 10.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

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Great thread from @kgandersen.bsky.social about a new bill submitted to the US Senate that looks to ban some virology research. Its a nightmare read based on its vague description of "gain of function" and its application to live virus as well as other methods to study viral proteins.

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I'm a one-issue voter, and this is that issue. I want to lose $100k every month on something called Groincoin or $hart, and I don't want the fucking GOVERNMENT telling me I can't. Also I have injured 100% of my body in interactions with hot dog rollers at 7/11. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/b...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

New from me: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed: www.propublica.org/article/face...

submitted 8 days ago • 103 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 9 days ago • 763 comments

Just seen Farage and Truss (grifting over in the US) described as "the Slug and Lettuce".

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

"Waiting for Gorey" is my tribute to Edward Gorey (with a dash of Samuel Beckett) for the Phantasmagorey show at Custom House, Leith in Edinburgh. The show features forty other artists and is open for two more days. www.instagram.com/phantasmagoreyshow/

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

In Oaxaca, Mexico.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

@jamellebouie.net said - and I’m paraphrasing: “They don’t want to remember history because they want to repeat it”. That’s why they burn books and destroy archives & cultures & reality itself. Because they know what they are - and reality is a constant mirror to them.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Lol. I missed that the author of NIST 800-63 Appendix A had formally apologized for his sins

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

As a senior digital person in Higher Education, the thing i have to drill into everyone is that young people lie constantly on surveys. Surveys are a game to be won, by saying the thing they think the old people want them to say. They're not even conscious they're doing it. /1

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

It is a twisted combination of funny and frustrating that every Nazi dog whistle they did over the past decade plus, yes, including that OK symbol thing, got downplayed into oblivion by many of the people who feel like they are just all of the sudden heiling out of nowhere.

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

Fellow journalists, what shorthand phrase are you using to describe DOGE when "cost-cutting project" is clearly lying to readers? I opted for "government-disruption project" in this story I wrote Friday, but I'm open to ideas.

submitted 10 days ago • 21 comments

@catsofyore.bsky.social

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'Deal'? This is looting. #standwithZelenskyy "The new version says U.S. would hold a 100% financial interest in this fund, and that Ukraine should contribute... $500 billion. This amount vastly exceeds Ukraine's actual resource revenues... and is over four times the value of U.S. aid to Kyiv."

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

Being radicalized increasingly since 2016 has just been banging my head against this post indefinitely.

submitted 11 days ago • 26 comments

New US military promotion criteria announced.

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UK Artists/art fans upset about the government's AI copyright legislation plans that throw creatives under the bus, please see this document and fill out the linked government survey by the 25th!!! That's Tuesday!!!! Go go go! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

I wrote about how particularly ridiculous it is that Senate Democrats, led by Dick Durbin, think the priority should be repealing Section 230 and undermining the very open internet we need more than ever right now. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 11 days ago • 111 comments