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Dear manager, this week I: 1) went crazy 2) got nuts 3) looked for the purple banana 4) did so until they put me into the truck 5) oh no let's go!

submitted 25 minutes ago • 1 comment

The greatest trick Musk ever pulled was convincing people he was a genius.

submitted 57 minutes ago • 0 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 117 comments

Apropos of nothing, I once again have to say the the Lego Movies have absolutely no right being as good as they are. Yes, it's family movie night tonight. And yes, we're watching The Lego Movie 2 again...

submitted 2 hours ago • 0 comments

This is harassment. And like most of these Musk-Trump scare tactics, it’s also illegal. The unelected billionaire says failure to respond will be taken as a resignation, but in the federal government, resignations must be voluntary.

submitted 23 hours ago • 10 comments

I'll say again, any time you see the administration attack trans people in any way, understand that trans people are not the actual target. They are a tool. Woman are the target.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

Keep. The. Pressure. Up. No peace and quiet for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Helping Ukraine has been simultaneously the morally correct thing to do AND in our objective national interest AND something we can do (and have done) effectively. An exceedingly rare trifecta and it has completely broken the brains of cynical people who assume there simply must be a catch or angle

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Oh cool, outright extortion that media outlets are going to pass off as "bargaining". Cool cool cool.

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Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 493 comments

Again, the most interesting political development of 2025 is a large and growing class of civic professionals...scientists, military officers, teachers, park rangers, diplomats etc etc etc...who have had their futures cut short by the whims of a lame duck and his unelected, drug-addicted benefactor.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I'm sure this was for entirely rational, performance-based reasons and not because he was black. Zero chance Trump automatically associates darker skin color with DEI and immediately feels the need to purge the offending individual like a picky eater pulling tomato slices off a sandwich.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump administration is pro-unemployment.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Very important PSA about what not to do, and specifically how not to do it.

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Tom Krause is in charge of both a sensitive government payment system and a company that has millions of dollars’ worth of active contracts with various federal agencies through distribution partners, a WIRED review finds. Conflicts posed by this are unprecedented in the modern era, experts say.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

I'll say again: trans people are not the target. They are a tool. The target is woman.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Loud, consistent public pushback works.

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Similarly, First Candle, a non-profit organization dedicated to ending SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths, has had their government grants frozen and are scrambling to figure out how to operate if they never get those funds. firstcandle.org

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By the way, this is one of the issues where you might be able to make some headway with GOP reps if you live in a rural district. It has always been the heavily red rural districts that stopped them from destroying USPS in the past. Reps know their constituents depend on USPS.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

List of Telegram search tools from "OSINT Experts Society" Linkedin group. #osint #socmint

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Performative legislators gonna perform.

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THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 3 days ago • 289 comments

"provocative gesture" "controversial salute" No, it's a Nazi sieg heil. Stop beating around the bush, and call it what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Any major company would have him peeing in a cup after this.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Extraordinary story the Wall Street Journal. X is threatening advertisers that if they don’t spend more, Elon Musk will use his influence in government to block company mergers. That’s extortion.

submitted 3 days ago • 179 comments

Musk has surrounded himself with cronies and yes-men for so long that he fully melts down over the slightest pushback or correction.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Friendly reminder that showing up in my replies with a completely unrelated comment trying to dunk on someone, or just being a festering stool sample in general, will earn you an instant block.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE may soon gain access to USX, a database of US-made defense items for export, a potentially massive conflict of interest: "USX often contains sensitive business information, including technical data, contracts info & blueprints, including [on] SpaceX & its competitors."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

These mugshots look like marketing for a Texas Chainsaw Massacre reboot.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Watching Alina Habba (whose family owns parking garages in NY and NJ) urge "everyone" to drive for their commute to Manhattan reminds me of this great moment from Clerks, where the anti-smoking agitator was a "Chewlies gum representative". www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gHq...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

At the very least keep harping on the fact that Trump fired the people who were finding fraud in his COVID programs, to the tune of $100s of Billions. And DOGE's receipts page is near-fraudulent itself.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments