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“presumably things are just disappearing into a void” Republican central governing principle is YOLO hope everything works out 🤷‍♂️

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Quick vibe check at the NIH, per a staffer there: "We have lost so many people: we have no comms, no HR, no acquisitions, no one to do travel or purchasing. So many people have left that there are chains of email bounces..."

submitted 7 hours ago • 6 comments

Siri, what form of government is this called?

submitted 7 hours ago • 12 comments

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

submitted 23 hours ago • 284 comments

NEW: So much for Mr. "Law and Order" President—Trump pardoned nearly everyone convicted of assaulting police on January 6th, said those insurrectionists were right, purged the prosecutors, and boasted that he had "removed the senior FBI officials" who, in his words, had persecuted the "J6 hostages."

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Everyone I knew who covered disinformation got laid off, their bosses got bullied into firing them, or they changed their beats from actual Nazi harassment campaigns. It cannot be stressed the damage the paid-for Substack “free speech” guys did in the service of fascism and against real free speech.

submitted 21 hours ago • 105 comments

When Trump is gone - and that day will come - the American people, left and right, need to be united behind the crusade to remove money from our politics

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Chair of history department at U.S. Naval Academy resigns after order to remove paper from symposium “for reasons having nothing to do with scholarship.” [James Matheson, Baltimore Sun]

submitted 23 hours ago • 27 comments

Sometimes I forget which publication is sane and which is… infused

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Since Jan, Trump administration members have 1) endorsed the Confederacy, 2) endorsed white Afrikaner attacks on the post-Apartheid South African government, 3) given a Nazi salute at the inauguration, 4) endorsed the neo-Nazi party in German elections. There's a pattern here, but it's subtle.

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

If people are in America illegally, what’s wrong with deportation? Nothing. But why were Obama and Biden able to deport millions without sending in the marines, or terrorizing people or disappearing them to third countries Dignity, due process, and a sane immigration system are reasonable demands

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Sources said that even at the start of his second term, Trump was discussing with multiple advisers where & when it would make sense to send in federal troops, either for supposed crime control or in response to larger-scale public activism against his agenda. 🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

Thomas Paine. A man of Common Sense. #NoKings

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Thread 🧵

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Today in random LLM anecdotes: I asked Perplexity a question about HHS and it replied that there was no credible reporting or government record that RFK Jr was even in charge of HHS 🤦‍♂️ As others vastly more authoritative than I have said, don’t rely on AI. Use it with extreme caution. Verify all.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Who knew the next country the United States would invade based on a lie would be the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

More than anything, I think this speaks to the impoverished view of the role of government. The idea of organizing collective support and aid to solve overwhelming problems is reclassified as akin to some sort of dealer-addict relationship.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 1 day ago • 497 comments

#starwars #andor

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

submitted 2 days ago • 1458 comments

There's no justifying this. They want to hurt people. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

submitted 2 days ago • 1033 comments

Exactly. People want dignity, due process, & a chance at citizenship. We need immigration rules that work, but instead of a functioning system we get aggression, chaos, & lawless overreaction. Previous POTUS’s deported millions without sending in the Marines AND they expanded our healthcare coverage

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When @dziblatt.bsky.social is quoting these lecture notes, you should be very worried

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Fox News’ depiction of the LA protests is a grim fantasy — one that encourages Trump to realize his vision of U.S. troops crushing left-wing dissent.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

yeah the big plus for guardsmen of presidents using Title 10 normally is that they get way better benefits. but they’ve decided to screw them out of it.

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This is almost grown-in-a-lab bespoke levels of how to cause a major diplomatic crisis with several allies bsky.app/profile/john...

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

The king will grant favors to his courtiers...

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

Per my @wired.com colleague @davidgilbert.bsky.social's reporting, we are not gonna Chat GPT or Grok our way outta this one: www.wired.com/story/grok-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Trump, talking at Fort Bragg right now about Los Angeles, is doing something I'm not sure I've ever seen a president do: he's actively maligning people in Los Angeles — an American city — in front of U.S. troops. And the troops are applauding. As an Army brat myself, this strikes me as very new.

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