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“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 7 days ago • 382 comments

A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

You are MEMBERS OF CONGRESS. If they threaten you with arrest for trying to access a site you are lawfully entitled to access, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING ARREST YOU. YOU MAKE THEM SLAP THE CUFFS ON A CONGRESSMAN LIVE ON TV, YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING DO IT.

submitted 19 days ago • 202 comments

Elon Musk is NOT: - An elected official - An appointee confirmed by the Senate - Or even a legit fed So why the hell has he been given access to fire federal employees, sensitive gov data, and federal payment systems. He must be stopped.

submitted 20 days ago • 157 comments

At home, Trump has enabled Musk to stage a coup against the government with his army of unvetted stooges taking over the Treasury. Abroad, he's shut down aid & canceled malaria/ HIV programs & put 1000s of lives at risk. Meanwhile, top Democratic leaders are tweeting about egg and priza prices. 😠

submitted 20 days ago • 361 comments

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

submitted 20 days ago • 1097 comments

Elon Musk has been granted full access to the U.S. Treasury Department's payment systems, he has access to every single USians financial data, and can disrupt $6 trillion in federal payments. He’s not an elected official nor is he part of any confirmed government department.

submitted 20 days ago • 183 comments

This thread outlines what I think will likely be looked back as one of the most consequential few days in American history and maybe world history. Musk and cronies have access to OMB (Gov HR), Treasury (Gov Finance), and GSA (Gov Facility & IT Mgmt), it should freak everyone the fuck out.

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We are all we've got. (We all we got.)

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

You should sue ExxonMobil for climate change, says retiring ski executive Auden Schendler. The appendix to his new book offers a blueprint. One of the most “aha”-filled chats I’ve had about corporate sustainability, climate change and saving what we love most: w/ @sambrasch.bsky.social

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

Throwing tomato soup on a painting seems like an under-reaction, to be honest

submitted 42 days ago • 22 comments

youtu.be/cJeT6MXxG08?...

submitted 45 days ago • 6 comments

youtu.be/0QVAbJfBqYU?... My jam for the day.

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A gift link to the @chrislhayes.bsky.social piece on human restlessness and the gadgets that have supercharged that restlessness. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/o...

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

You want to see someone doing the Lord's work, this guy and the WCK is it.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), has been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the United States' highest civilian honor. Chef Andrés is being recognized for his extraordinary contributions to humanitarian work and the culinary world. The honor was presented…

submitted 49 days ago • 462 comments

This may be my favorite story of the week. I really like what they are doing, trusting local staff and stores to reflect their own communities and interests. My closest bookstores are all independent and I get great joy in each store's uniqueness. www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

I like when cats stare at something and go ekekekekek

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments

commenting on something happening in some corners of tiktok right now but this is a general observation: it is absolutely brain-breaking how so many people have lost the ability to disagree with someone without denouncing them as ontologically evil or pathological or whatever else

submitted 50 days ago • 409 comments

I really love the idea of live aboard sailing like this. I'm reality I'm sure it is very hard, loneliness, total self reliance, all the rest.... All post of the adventure and maybe the appeal.

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If this sort of strategy and effort is going into a B movie project, I have to wonder where else these types of digital manipulation strategies are being deployed. Likely everywhere. Think about this the next time you see the online outrage machine in action.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

it's not a hotline. it's a hopeline. 216-361-6772.

submitted 65 days ago • 31 comments

Zion is a pretty cool place

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Ride along with me as I DIY repair my kids 1970s Fisher Price turntable… Step 1: what the hell are these screws!? #vinyl #maker #electronics

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If it fits, it sits.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Colorado (but not today)!

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

To build the best Silo sometimes you need the corporate synergy to tear down and work across silos. Needs some workshopping but this could be the new Buffalo buffalo buffalo..

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments