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Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE apnews.com/article/doge...

Feels like we are entering an era where the hushed conversation in a lot of (all-white) media boardrooms is, in careful euphemism, “we’re not hiring black people in major roles anymore” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/b...

Mazón no va a sobrevivir a la cremà... y no estoy hablando de los ninots que van a arder estas fallas. cadenaser.com/comunitat-va...

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

Drawing upon the phenomenal success of the Jones Act, the protectionist policy with longstanding bipartisan support that has rendered the US shipbuilding sector completely uncompetitive, this latest suggestion could do the same for all US manufacturing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sumar pide a la Fiscalía de la Audiencia Nacional que investigue las consecuencias en España de la presunta estafa de la criptomoneda difundida por Milei desde Argentina

“Statistical forgery is usually associated with autocratic and illiberal governments, as well as economically unsuccessful and extremely corrupt administrations.” www.liberalcurrents.com/can-we-trust...

"Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows." apnews.com/article/doge...

It’s as though the Trump admin. is running FDR’s first 100 days in reverse: Instead of rebuilding institutions and public trust at a moment of national peril, it seems to be trying to unravel both—and is creating a moment of national peril. (@ebharrington.bsky.social) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

Jane Fonda in SAG Awards speech: "Woke just means you give a damn about other people" cnn.it/3XdUSvy

Emmanuel Macron corrige en direct Donald Trump sur l’Ukraine Macron a coupé son homologue américain quand il a minimisé l’aide européenne au pays en guerre. Ambiance.

🔴‘Trump’s New World Order: America Will Enable Authoritarians to Win’ The spread of war in Europe is now a greater possibility than it has been since the height of the Cold War, writes AC Grayling bylinetimes.com/2025/02/25/t...

a (very timely) reminder of the legacy of germany’s partition:

👏The White House barred U.S.-based Associated Press reporters from the Trump-Macron press conference, as part of a feud over the newswire’s refusal to call a body of water the “Gulf of America.” So the French press corps opted to give a Paris-based AP reporter the 1st question, @politico.eu writes

Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Truly one of the stupidest people.

Patri Friedman leads Pronomos Capital—backed by Peter Thiel & DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen. Last year, he tweeted,”I’m super-excited for the Freedom Cities initiative & my dream is to turn part of the Presidio…into a neo-Tokyo of LED-accented skyscrapers & Make San Francisco Great Again.” 1/

On February 17, Elon Musk and DOGE claimed they had already cut $55 billion in government spending. But the data was littered with duplicate entries, data errors, and items that demonstrated a fundamental misunderstanding of the federal contracting process.

the abandoning is working, the nerds thirst 🙏

A former Tesla employee shares her perspective on Elon Musk, his playbook and what he's doing now in the Trump WH with DOGE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZ7...

Elon Musk renewed his threat to fire federal workers who do not comply with his demand to justify their jobs, even after the Trump administration said workers did not have to respond reut.rs/3EQzMNz

The petition to strip Elon Musk of Canadian citizenship has 168,000 signatures. This grassroots initiative has exploded in just a few days. Now the UK media are covering it. Musk is a fascist threat to democracy. We kicked out Ernst zundel, Musk is just as bad. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trump es la definición gráfica del hazmerreír.

[Silence.]

Russia will not be readmitted into the G7 nations as US president Donald Trump has requested, German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies told Reuters in an interview reut.rs/4hUbzo4

"Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s envoy to the Middle East, said he and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, are discussing bringing together real-estate executives to come up with a plan to rebuild Gaza. "

The United States voted with Russia, North Korea, Iran and 14 other Moscow-friendly countries against a resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine and calling for the return of Ukrainian territory. The resolution passed overwhelmingly. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here's a dissertation topic for a media studies major: analyze how the right-wing propaganda machine made "Russia" into a synecdoche for the overreach & hysteria of Trump critics, even as Trump more & more nakedly behaves as an agent of Russian interests.

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-resp...

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

The fascism is coming from inside the house amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/...

Dan Bongino rose through the ranks of right-wing media thanks to his unflinching loyalty to Donald Trump and willingness to push baseless conspiracies—including about the FBI.

"Asociar a la delegada del Gobierno la responsabilidad en los fallecimientos y lesiones imprudentes del día 29 de octubre, cuando la competencia en materia de protección civil es autonómica y la inactividad se produjo en dicho ámbito, carece de cualquier asidero legal” Auto d la Juez n3 Catarroja.

Macron, a duras penas conteniendo la risa, creo que nos representa a todos los europeos.

To those suggesting that Zelensky should stop responding to Trump: note that he is responding not to Trump’s ad hominem attacks, but to his falsification of history, which is an attack on the Ukrainian people. As a president with a democratic mandate, how can he not?

If you don't pay close attention to German politics, you don't know how much of a political earthquake it is to see a _CDU_ leader making this kind of statement.

Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project." Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s. It has been a member of the US longer than Russia. It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations. youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k

Israel Sends Tanks into West Bank Amid "De Facto Annexation" of Palestinian Lands: Mariam Barghouti

Roberta Flack, the magnetic singer and pianist who was one of the most popular artists of the 1970s, died on Monday at 88. Flack was known for her majestic anthems like “Killing Me Softly” and “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” nyti.ms/4h1KzSh

How to change a swastika that cant be removed

New York's (de)congestion pricing, which charges $9 to drive into Manhattan below 60 St, has reduced traffic, increased ridership, reduced subway crime, and is raising funds to fix the decaying transit system. Rare for a public policy to have this many benefits!

Cuando ya has usado a tu hijo para el evento y te puedes marchar a hacer tus cosas

Europe should be flattered by the Maga attacks - it means the new US regime sees it as its most dangerous adversary. on.ft.com/43dvh9V

“Tesla de 0 a 1939 en tres segundos”

BREAKING: The Monitors were just hacked at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to display an AI video of Trump licking Elon Musk’s toes. The caption over it read: “LONG LIVE THE REAL KING.”

The youth gender divide is real and important, but it can mask the fact that the populist right is gaining ground among young women as well as young men in many countries (this was also true in the US). AfD tripled their vote share among 18-24 year old men, but the same was true of young women.

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

Elon Musk's pinned tweet right now.