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another Nazi salute at CPAC

submitted 20 hours ago • 1128 comments

Shutting down chargers that are already installed isn’t policy. It’s vandalism. electrek.co/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

One thing I’m seeing re: today’s Apple news is a lot of people blaming Apple. Saying that Apple is selling people out by withdrawing encryption features from the U.K. market. For example, here’s Tim Sweeney. I want to propose a different take.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

submitted 2 days ago • 1494 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

Bonkers Reform plan to: - whack up your energy bills by making renewables and pylons cost more (costs that are passed straight onto bills). - leave us with hugely volatile energy prices. Good for Putin, terrible for us.

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 11 days ago • 381 comments

The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 11 days ago • 917 comments

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

submitted 11 days ago • 460 comments

The corrupt Prime Minister of Hungary and key Donald Trump ally in Europe, Viktor Orbán, revealed to own a €45 million castle after officially declaring, only having €14 thousand in his bank account and only owning two houses. #SpookyConnections 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

Rep. Mary Miller introduces Rep. Sarah McBride as “The Gentleman from Delaware, Mr. McBride.” Performative cruelty.

submitted 15 days ago • 234 comments

i genuinely wonder if the right realizes that this basically means that a lot of US soft power will basically evaporate in the next 4 years

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

“Democrats” using Gaza as a gotcha sound exactly the same as MAGA, it’s not only embarrassing but disgraceful. The world cringes.

submitted 18 days ago • 88 comments

BREAKING: Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from implementing anti-trans Trump orders that would stop trans-related medical care in federal prisons and lead to trans inmates’ transfers. This followed a hearing in DC earlier today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 18 days ago • 62 comments

Serious Mad King territory. Trump orders Army Corps of Engineers to drain CA reservoirs storing water for summer-fall use onto already flooded Central Valley farms nowhere near LA, tweets that if only people had listened to him when he wanted to do this last time, no fires

submitted 22 days ago • 49 comments

yeah this is what has me totally losing my mind I assumed, as evil rich white guys, that they would rob the bank I did not expect them to go into the bank and set everyone’s money on fire, including their own nobody’s getting out of this unscathed, rich white guys included

submitted 22 days ago • 52 comments

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare. Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.” We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

submitted 22 days ago • 3405 comments

this is so awfully, performatively cruel and it’s also so explicitly discriminatory that in a country with any semblance of rule of law remaining it should be illegal

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

It's still early and we have to wait for the investigation to make conclusions, but the latest cable incident in the Baltic might have been an actual accident.

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

It's not surprising in the slightest, but even so, trial balloning genocide openly is insane AF.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

For real, though

submitted 33 days ago • 6 comments

Scoop: I obtained a confidential presentation outlining how a major conservative think tanks plans to go after volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are "abusing their position" and promoting antisemitism forward.com/news/686797/...

submitted 46 days ago • 170 comments

We're getting the social media crisis wrong The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics. On Zuckerberg today and Musk over the last few weeks. www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getti...

submitted 46 days ago • 51 comments

“The effect may be considerable in a few centuries” is a really remarkable sentence here…

submitted 52 days ago • 53 comments

Musk considers himself a centrist in a "woke" world that is supposedly shifting left. But then he endorses the Great Replacement theory and expresses support for the Germany political party with ties to neo-Nazis. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/20/w...

submitted 64 days ago • 56 comments

imagine being a university leader, clearing $500k a year, and pushing for the prosecution of a teenage reporter. absolute cowards. www.cjr.org/getting-the-...

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

NEWS FLASH: tax cuts for the rich and big corporations only help the rich and big corporations.

submitted 82 days ago • 636 comments

Call me crazy, but I think Justin Sun, a Chinese national being prosecuted for fraud by the SEC, sending Trump $18 million should be a bigger story The direct enrichment of Trump by a foreign national weeks before he takes office has merited no coverage in the NYT or Washington Post

submitted 82 days ago • 699 comments

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration. Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare. This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

submitted 90 days ago • 783 comments