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submitted 6 days ago • 2075 comments

The most important podcast conversation I have heard so far on what this political moment means and how dangerous it is. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/o...

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 days ago • 1680 comments

SCOOP: FBI director nominee Kash Patel disclosed he received up to $5M in shares of a mysterious entity in the Cayman Islands called Elite Depot. Elite Depot is a parent organization of fast-fashion giant Shein, according to corporate records I reviewed www.wired.com/story/kash-p...

submitted 16 days ago • 174 comments

"One of the most important lawsuits in the history of the United States has been filed by one advocacy group and two unions, seeking to halt Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) team’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment system." prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

One reason Donald Trump is going after USAID: Polls show Americans think foreign aid is about a quarter of the US budget. It's actually ~1%. Across the board there's a disconnect between actual gov't spending and perceptions of gov't spending. From the Brookings Institution:

submitted 20 days ago • 50 comments

NEW: Elon Musk's friends have infiltrated another government agency, and they're trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources say: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

Department of Transportation order signed by the secretary tells staff to “give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,” including on certain grant programs. It bars recipients of funding “from imposing vaccine and mask mandates.”

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

submitted 24 days ago • 347 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 3028 comments

Recently took a peek at Twitter and the disinformation is getting substantially more dangerous. Someone could get killed. The tactics of constantly repeating outright lies, targeting specific people, repurposing years-old footage and presenting them as new is getting to another level. It’s scary.

submitted 62 days ago • 3674 comments

Elon Musk is big mad he’s not in on the Stargate project. So he’s basically calling Donald Trump a liar? 🤣

submitted 32 days ago • 79 comments

Scoop: RedNote Recruited US Influencers to Promote App Amid TikTok Ban Uncertainty www.wired.com/story/rednot...

submitted 34 days ago • 32 comments

“Everyone had a pretty good suspicion that there were Iranian and Russian plots to kill our forces in Afghanistan…But it was always going to be easier to publicly pin the blame on Iran because of Trump’s reluctance to take a hard line with Putin.” theins.ru/en/politics/...

submitted 46 days ago • 8 comments

Dear Kristen Weller and all other press, when they say we deleted evidence, refer them to this…. It’s all the evidence: www.govinfo.gov/collection/j...

submitted 77 days ago • 485 comments

God i love @propublica.org so much

submitted 79 days ago • 72 comments

Some info you might want to know about Trump’s new AI & Crypto czar — an Elon minion — from a story I wrote in 2016: www.vox.com/2016/10/24/1...

submitted 80 days ago • 68 comments

The Russians are pumped about Trump’s picks. Especially Kash.

submitted 82 days ago • 45 comments

Karoline Leavitt was paid by Guo Wengui underlings to put her name on op-eds they largely prepared for her. The articles ran in Epoch Times, HeadlineUSA and Townhall. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 83 days ago • 37 comments

Sunday reading: Meet the Ideologue of the “Post-Constitutional” Right I wrote about Russell Vought, one of the architects behind Project 2025, who believes there is nothing left to conserve. He desires revolution – and to burn down the system. This week’s piece:

submitted 84 days ago • 29 comments

The meme I didn't know I needed

submitted 87 days ago • 1006 comments

Thank you to Tynan DeBold and Dov Friedman at the @wsj.com. Measles. 1/

submitted 100 days ago • 88 comments

This is such an obvious bill to pass that it's supported by Jim Jordan, @wyden.senate.gov, and everyone in between. It's absolutely bonkers that Schumer won't let it come to a vote, and every single person in NY who works as a journalist or with journalists should be lighting up his switchboard.

submitted 101 days ago • 45 comments

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submitted 105 days ago • 61 comments