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Here’s a future Do Not Hire list, Musk minions placed into DOGE, originally using the Obama era United States Digital Service, and now hidden within the White House staff. Steven Miller’s wife is among them. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

How an Elon minion used one keyboard to halt all Federal payments, the sort of thing that ought to earn Marko Elez some time in a Federal pen to think about his life choices.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

No oligarch can avoid the appearance of conflict of interest, given all the pots they have a finger in. That said, if enough Fortune 100 firms think Trump/Musk are screwing them out of contracts and opportunities, some knees will start straightening out. www.reuters.com/business/med...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

For the radical-right-dog-whistle-impaired, Musk is referring to the white nationalist “14 Words”: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourtee...

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

If Trump can disregard process to give Musk’s employees quick access to the Treasury payment system, he can just as easily give them access to the IRS and Census. If that doesn’t bother you, you’re part of the problem.

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

Excellent post

submitted 42 days ago • 2083 comments

JUST IN: Judge MEHTA has barred Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers whose sentences were *commuted* from going into Washinton or the U.S. Capitol without permission from the court.

submitted 44 days ago • 1492 comments

Most open source researchers rely on search engines to do reverse image searches. However, there are also niche tools like RootAbout: It lets you upload a picture and checks it against Internet Archive collections. @anisashabir.bsky.social tested it: bellingcat.gitbook.io/toolkit/more...

submitted 48 days ago • 6 comments

It’s going to be a bit nippy, so Trump’s taking his Inaugural indoors. 2021 wasn’t exactly picture perfect, but Joe did it outside anyway, because he’s not a t-word.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Alice Springs, Oz was my first experience with locked up toiletries, to keep the Aboriginal kids from huffing deodorants. And my workaround 10 years ago was the same as everyone in the US now: “screw it, I’ll get it on Amazon.”

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

A tale of two PRC corporations: Kunlun Tech divested Grindr for $490m profit. Bytedance would rather take a $16b loss to close US TikTok business than sell? Perhaps Congress was onto something.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Any Senator/Congressman from a state colored blue should STFU about aid to orange states that create the tax surplus they leech off of. @speakerjohnson.bsky.social

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

A minor bit of aviation news caught my eye, the 34th F-14 delivered to Iran, USN BuNo 160334, IIAF/IRIAF #3-6006 flew from Isfahan to the Kish Island airshow last week. The radome looks a bit worn because Iran can’t buy any more of the rubberized coating.

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

We are going to get nine-elevened again so fucking hard

submitted 85 days ago • 249 comments

Made the whole thing up

submitted 87 days ago • 342 comments

If Luigi Mangione turns out to be “the guy”: based on his Twitter profile background and a sample of his Goodreads library, I’m going go out on a limb that he/family is suffering from Spondylolisthesis or other back issue. With the UK NHS, no big, but I’m guessing UHC told him to take aspirin.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Paul Krugman was right about a lot of things xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2012/02/anot...

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Trump doesn’t care about most of the government. What he wants is control of the centers of real power: Defense, Intelligence and Justice. That’s how Russian autocracy began. Senate GOP: This is a road you do not want to head down. Reject the Trump nominees.

submitted 97 days ago • 213 comments

We’re not accepting complaints about the Hunter Biden pardon unless you also complained about the Steve Bannon, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and Paul Manafort pardons.

submitted 98 days ago • 647 comments

Trump pardoned his son-in-law's daddy, his campaign manager who lied to protect him, his NSA who lied to protect him, his Coffee Boy who lied to protect him, his rat-fucker who lied to protect him, & his former campaign manager who had just helped him launch an insurrection.

submitted 98 days ago • 107 comments

THREAD: A timeline for you of facts. I'm just sharing facts, so no need to get yelly or upset. 1. DoJ opened two investigations into Trump and the coup in January 2021 within two weeks of the attack on the Capitol 1/

submitted 103 days ago • 275 comments

Holy moly. MAGA is losing their mind over an uncovered video from 2016 where Donald Trump says people should use the bathroom they feel is inappropriate and speaks out against trans bathroom bills. Feel free to share this so MAGA implodes.

submitted 104 days ago • 407 comments

Aussie car culture: Yes, that is a black Pursuit Special behind me, from the 2016 Winter Nats in Alice Springs.

submitted 612 days ago • 0 comments