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We are way past impeachment time

submitted 22 hours ago • 1074 comments

Break 👏 it 👏up! Break 👏 it 👏up! Break 👏 it 👏up! If 'money talks' doesn't work and Zuckerberg loses this case- there's more hope for battling the rest of the Big Tech monopoly 🤞

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

“Since these mysteries are beyond us, let's pretend to be their organizers.” - Jean Cocteau

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a real "national emergency": College kids won't, and often can't, read a book from cover to cover. The rise of what one prof calls "functional illiteracy" in the iPhone Age is happening right when our imploding democracy needs critical thinkers My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/stud...

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

The budget passed by House Republicans today steals $880 billion from Medicaid to give tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations. By voting for this cruel bill, Republicans have betrayed hardworking Americans by raising costs for those already struggling to make ends meet.

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Every answer is some kind of snow job with this guy.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Started up a project with Astro and Sanity! Now just to figure out why anyone would want to do this

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I signed a petition on Action Network telling Washington Post leadership to voluntarily recognize The Washington Post Tech Guild. Can you join me and take action?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent capture of US tariffs impact by Singapore's PM Lawrence Wong.

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Thank you, Senator Booker, for standing up for the American people.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

submitted 14 days ago • 534 comments

Want to hear something eerie? I was just thinking about this guy, Jim Quinn, as I went about my routine this morning. Later, this article shows up in my news feed informing me of his death.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Please join us this Weds. at 3 pm ET for an expert discussion on the rapid development of AI policy and implementation across the federal govt, including the risks to privacy and democratic governance. brennan.swoogo.com/risksofgover...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

submitted 18 days ago • 802 comments

Tech oligarchy is profoundly anti-human.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

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submitted 21 days ago • 202 comments

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

submitted 21 days ago • 52 comments

publicseminar.org/2016/02/its-...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It took me longer than a lot of people to divorce Meta products, so I knopw it's a big decision for some depending on their circumstances, but reading this story will really, really help you see the company you've given access to is all about. ar.al/2025/03/21/car...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

“We’re going to see actions and they’re going to escalate across the country." U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a second-term Democrat from Swissvale, hosted a packed March 20 town hall to address Trump and Musk's actions and call on Democrats to do more.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

What venture capitalists celebrate as "disruption" is, with damning frequency, nothing more than a moderately sophisticated way to extract rent from existing systems that functioned perfectly well before tech entrepreneurs arrived to "save" them.

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Can’t emphasize this enough: if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the debased assault on our country, the antidote is connecting with other people in the flesh who are feeling the same way. There are millions of us.

submitted 31 days ago • 2126 comments

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats. An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

submitted 31 days ago • 1039 comments

By voting for the CR, Rep Jared Golden just gave the GOP a talking point of “bipartisan bill” and he also just voted to give up all leverage in pushing back against the administration. The spending power is congress’ only power. While i usually applaud bipartisanship, this is a travesty

submitted 34 days ago • 902 comments

Greetings from SXSW. Just saw Meredith Whittaker (Signal CEO) gave a great talk on why everyone needs privacy even if you don’t think you do. And how being a nonprofit removes the temptation to “further monetize” information you have on your users

submitted 38 days ago • 5 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to steal from us so regularly, so openly, so unapologetically that Americans just accept it as normal. We can’t let them. I’m headed to the Senate floor right now to lay out the story of 6 weeks of stunning, brazen White House corruption.

submitted 40 days ago • 309 comments

Make the Democratic reaction to the speech more of a spectacle than the speech itself.

submitted 42 days ago • 8 comments

Trump is giving away 75 years of America’s global leadership for free. He’s actively ceding ground to Russia by turning on Zelensky.

submitted 42 days ago • 98 comments

If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then its tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.

submitted 44 days ago • 177 comments

A Seattle Times op-ed summarizing a few of the arguments from my UW talk this week: "To understand right-wing media's power, study improv and theater of influencers." I end with some recommendations for countering the right's bullshit machine: www.seattletimes.com/opinion/to-u...

submitted 45 days ago • 30 comments

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

submitted 46 days ago • 1023 comments

Got a few minutes today during the economic blackout? Go through your e-mail inbox and unsubscribe from as many corporate marketing e-mails as you can. Companies monitor these numbers, give them a record of you opting out.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The People's Union USA, a grassroots group, is calling on Americans to join a national boycott by not shopping for 24 hours on Friday.

submitted 46 days ago • 1115 comments

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submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

"Many wondered, 'How do I shop, if I don’t shop on Amazon?' ILSR’s Kennedy Smith is here with answers." ilsr.org/articles/its...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

John Oliver has a new one on content moderation where he suggests alternatives like Bluesky and Signal, and offers a guide to making your personal data less valuable to advertisers on Meta platforms: johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Letting our Amazon Prime subscription lapse. There’s probably some economic way I could justify keeping it, but I’m tired of paying more each go-round for a deteriorating experience by a company increasingly aligned against human interests.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments