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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 4 days ago • 388 comments

Dying in a hideous plane crash because the world’s most racist and unlovable nerds couldn’t handle a 45 minute HR training.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 6 days ago • 1091 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 8 days ago • 329 comments

By going out on this limb I’ve proven my loyalty to President Trump. And now, to kick back and wait for the favor to be returned

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

The problem is there’s just been no political consequences for lying since… W lied about Iraq? At least? And it all finally trickled into the lower rungs of our political process, like confirmation hearings. “You lied when you told us…” has zero repercussions.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

this is the most bleakly funny thing about the whole “AMERICAN DOMINANCE” shtick from people like Nate Hochman: every actual thing that this country has concrete advantages in they’re enthusiastically involved in tearing down. ensuring a Chinese century to own the blue hairs.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

Purging dissent in the security services and giving loyalists power is something we instantly recognize in other contexts.

submitted 14 days ago • 410 comments

Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous. I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them. 🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:

submitted 100 days ago • 139 comments

Shutting off USAID payments is bad, but it's not just that: if someone (Trump, Musk, a lackey, whoever) can unilaterally shut off Congressionally-appropriated payments, they can shut off anything. Medicare payments to certain hospitals. Social Security checks to selected voters. Sky's the limit.

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

submitted 17 days ago • 168 comments

Notably, Wall Street is quiet, apparently preferring to keep favor with fascists than to raise the rather important objection that the world's richest person and his friends having early access to, and the ability to manipulate, U.S. economic releases will be catastrophic to our financial markets.

submitted 18 days ago • 43 comments

Not for nothing, but announcing that the US is taking over Gaza the same week you’re neutering the FBI’s entire counterterrorism program isn’t that smart from a security perspective.

submitted 18 days ago • 220 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

a big part of what's happening right now is that there's no way to actually game out what fears and risks are rational and which ones aren't and what the fallout could be, and if you are a person who pays attention and reads the news, this is going to drive you mad. ask me how i know.

submitted 19 days ago • 34 comments

In this Ohio diner, inflation is why you wear extra large pants to a tailgate. But they do know this: Paying higher prices on everything is a fair tradeoff for getting a bunch of new laws that target the one trans kid in town.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

🧵I think we need to talk about waves hands wildly in all directions differently. I see 3 goals: -Dismantling democracy+systems of accountability -Advancing white supremacist policies here+abroad -Immiserating non-billionaires for financial gain Each action is toward those one/all of those goals.

submitted 20 days ago • 33 comments

The one and only reason Musk would want this confidential personnel data is to forward it to hostile foreign powers so they can kill, kidnap, extort, or otherwise leverage Americans working abroad for the U.S. government.

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

I don't know whether to laugh or cry, or scream... or all of the above.

submitted 21 days ago • 3934 comments

honestly that was an extraordinary speech which I kinda recommend watching in full (starts 1:14)

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

As the president delivered remarks blaming the D.C. plane crash on his political opponents and diversity programs, across the Potomac in Arlington, young figure skaters were choking back tears as they laid flowered at a makeshift memorial to three of the dead.

submitted 24 days ago • 64 comments

So far the war on so-called "DEI" - has come for - women at the CIA who want to get together and celebrate women spies - people at the Defense Intelligence Agency who want to observe...Holocaust Remembrance Day. - apparently, any federal celebration of...Black History Month.

submitted 25 days ago • 433 comments

did america vote to stop suicide prevention efforts for veterans?

submitted 26 days ago • 686 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 27 days ago • 231 comments

Trump has rescinded a Biden executive order calling for the development of policies to lower drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.

submitted 33 days ago • 105 comments

The Trump executive order against trans people defines "female" and "male" at conception. Not birth. This is fetal personhood language (in addition to being scientifically inaccurate). www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

Musk's last spaceship blew up during launch.

submitted 34 days ago • 8 comments

Four years ago we all said it would be nice to have a President we could go days without thinking about and if there's any takeaway from the last four years it is that we were fucking right.

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submitted 38 days ago • 6 comments

Trump and Musk are spreading disinformation about CA for several reasons. First, they need their tribe to think the worst of both CA politicians AND those affected. So they invent stories to make it their fault. Second, they need govt to be incompetent to drive the dissatisfaction they feed off.