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I literally reported this Wednesday.

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Firing 7000 IRS agents will make it even easier for the rich to get away with skirting what they owe. But it's also a gift to the multi-billion dollar tax prep industry. Fewer IRS agents to help you file your taxes means more money in the pockets of companies like TurboTax.

submitted 1 day ago • 186 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 6 days ago • 860 comments

The president cannot “shitpost” and he certainly cannot shitpost about annexing another country. It’s not a fucking game.

submitted 7 days ago • 67 comments

I belong to some prepping groups on FB & "Jericho" comes up as a recommended watch. The writing is shite, the story lines lame... But the core dilemma and machinations of power are terrifyingly close to what we are experiencing now. Doesn't hurt that the performances are raw and stunningly real.

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Melania Trump personally pitched her self-produced documentary about herself to Bezos over dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Bezos's Amazon then bought it for $40 million, with 70% going into her pocket. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

submitted 9 days ago • 134 comments

Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck after Vance: "That is not conservative, or what conservative once meant. That is authoritarian-revolutionary" and "a new form of technological money aristocracy." Habeck bezeichnet US-Regierung als "autoritär-revolutionär" www.zeit.de/politik/deut...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

It's almost like they've been here before...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

2 grim observations from @alanrozenshtein.com re the implications of Trump’s TikTok Ex Order for the rule of law: 1) Oracle’s (et al.) decision to rely on federal non-enforcement despite enormous statutory penalties gives Trump leverage to extract from them personal tribute (my words, not Alan’s) …

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Laws. The word you're looking for here is "laws."

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

Elon Musk was raised in apartheid South Africa. He and his family observed, endorsed, and enjoyed apartheid. Until the age of 18, Elon was completely immersed in a wildly racist, homophobic, whites-only culture. These were Elon’s formative years, and as a result, bigotry is firmly embedded in…

submitted 15 days ago • 214 comments

People who are scholars of European history, as I am not, point out parallels to 1930s rise of fascism there. I have spent more time learning about China. Which is why I keep thinking about parallels to Cultural Revolution nihilism. (Article Jeremy Mayer) thehill.com/opinion/tech...

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Surprise surprise… 📌 Trump shuts down the task force targeting Russian oligarchs.

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A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

submitted 16 days ago • 100 comments

Affirmatively stating that you are a racist is no longer a fireable offense. But supporting workplace diversity is.

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Leopards thinking: so many faces, so little time

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

A federal judge has just ordered Musk to get out of Treasury’s computers. We are fortunate there are good lawyers representing democracy. Normally that would end the matter, but in this era there are legit questions about compliance & enforcement. We live on the edge of a constitutional crisis.

submitted 17 days ago • 864 comments

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 21 days ago • 329 comments

For those who say Elon Musk’s neo-Nazi ideology is just a troll and not a deeply held belief, I give you the reality of what happens when you give him this kind of unchecked power. This is who he is, and it’s also who he associates with. Essential we discuss it as it is instead of whitewashing.

submitted 20 days ago • 52 comments

Meta's newest board member:

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 20 days ago • 207 comments

this guy needs to be a focus of Dem TV appearances and Trump staff need to be asked about him in every interview “why is a 19 year old who called himself Big Balls being given access to our most sensitive personal information?” it sounds absurd because it is absurd and people need to hear it

submitted 20 days ago • 26 comments

I don’t want there to be six more weeks of anything

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

NY Times, Feb. 11, 1933.

submitted 22 days ago • 387 comments

If you are posting here that I need to fight harder, I think you've lost the plot. But good luck to you!

submitted 22 days ago • 1180 comments

NY Times, Oct. 8, 1933.

submitted 23 days ago • 254 comments

This May 2023 post from Musk (back before he was a Trump supporter) takes on new meaning these days now that a) Musk has threatened to primary any Republican who criticizes Donald Trump and b) this quote comes not from Voltaire, but from an American neo-Nazi named Kevin Strom.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

OK, some lawyer, represent me. —Acct is frozen on Xitter. —As an aviator and as a writer on aviation issues, I am specifically harmed by having NTSB etc notices come only via one proprietary source. —This is like saying that flood warnings, school closings, traffic alerts only via crony media

submitted 22 days ago • 78 comments

Governor JB Pritzker signs order banning January 6 convicts from State Government Employment.

submitted 23 days ago • 622 comments

This new RFK Jr material on illegally taping the wife who went on to commit suicide is unlikely to make any more difference than the alleged sexual assault by Hegseth, but it still includes a lot of extremely disturbing behavior and alleged lawbreaking

submitted 26 days ago • 14 comments

This same Christian Nationalist symbol is tattooed on the guy they just confirmed. Hegseth has raged against Muslims while drunk in public. He’s told racist jokes about Mexicans according to his sister-in-law. We know what he’s about and why he has that tattoo. So disgraceful.

submitted 29 days ago • 491 comments

I have never heard of a more DEI hire than a drunken, National Guard domestic abuser being elevated to run the entire military...

submitted 29 days ago • 361 comments

Harris beat Trump 54% to 43% among voters ages 18-24. Harris beat Trump 53% to 45% among voters ages 25-29. Harris beat Trump 51% to 45% among voters ages 30-39. Trump to Fox: “I won youth by 36 points.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/22/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 1095 comments

Seems pretty clear, both the 30 days and the “substantive rationale.” Let the lawsuits begin.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

Harvard wants to forget slavery. It would also probably prefer if you forgot that Harvard invented napalm, which burnt more civilians to death than the atom bomb killed during WW2, plus another 200k women, children, and elderly people in N. Vietnam and Cambodia.