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submitted 74 days ago • 6 comments

1/ The people drawn to work in humanitarian assistance are the polar opposite of Elon Musk. Some were refugees or other recipients of aid when they were young & want to pay it forward.

submitted 75 days ago • 3 comments

The CFPB shutdown is a flashing warning that no one in the Trump administration is interested in better or more efficient consumer financial regulation. Trump is aiming to slam a wrecking ball into a critical oversight agency that safeguards consumers from unfair and predatory business…

submitted 76 days ago • 96 comments

A friend of mine passed me the memo (full text linked below) which is being circulated among civil servants laying out the truth of the “buyouts” they’re being offered. If you know anyone working in the federal government, consider circulating to them, but do NOT use their work email to do so.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

Remember, the same clowns claiming they've found widespread government fraud also claimed that they found widespread election fraud Court case after court case proved them to be liars. Their lawyers even plead guilty, were disbarred Their circus tent is erected on a hill of lies & conspiracies

submitted 75 days ago • 11 comments

If any other developed democracy abolished its official government aid & development agency, all Christian & other religious and secular NGOs would be apoplectic . The silence of American evangelicals & their NGOs is another example of their descent into fascism. www.micahprojects.org.au

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Blah, blah, blah. Like fascist liar Trump & all his corrupt, deluded, insincere MAGA Republican GOP cronies, Mike Johnson has nothing but babble to defend Trump & Musk's lawlessness, stolen data. Nothing he says is meaningful nor true; just distraction, deflection, denialism, false "what-about-isms"

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

Given everything that’s happening in the world and Europe, a Polish-German spat is quite high on the list of things we don’t need right now. on.ft.com/4hTEhFh German war reparations loom large in Polish election race

submitted 75 days ago • 8 comments

Let’s be clear in this. An executive order is a directive from the president to the executive branch. It is not a law. Places like Google and Apple do not have to comply with this nonsense. They choose to. Just like we can choose Android devices and engines like Duck Duck Go… #RadioFreeAmerica

submitted 75 days ago • 18 comments

It's Intenational Celebration of Women in Science Day! The CERN Lab in Geneva has this page in honor of the day. home.cern/news/news/ce...

submitted 75 days ago • 26 comments

The crisis in the DRC’s eastern provinces marks the third time since the end of the Second Congo War that a group receiving significant support from Rwanda has seized DRC territory.

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Forget DEI! START THINKING ABOUT DISCRIMINATION... AGAIN! Women, black & brown skin ethnicities, college applicants (any federal grants left?), the disabled, seniors, etc. We fought for EQUALITY! With the stroke of a pen, Trump made it go away and called it discrimination against white men! 😠👊🏼👊🏽

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

Here we go! Watchdog group @weareoversight.bsky.social is SUING Elon Musk. Can DOGE conceal its records from FOIA requests? Only one way to find out… This is one to watch. 👀

submitted 75 days ago • 38 comments

This is a flat-out, clear-cut violation of the First Amendment.

submitted 75 days ago • 1065 comments

The Hang Seng Tech Index, tracking top 30 Hong Kong-listed tech groups, is up 25% since January 13, entering a bull market after the DeepSeek breakthrough (Arjun Neil Alim/Financial Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...

submitted 77 days ago • 31 comments

This administration & the GOP are completely rewriting the events of January 6. The president is doing it right here. They pretend all the evidence, footage, confessions, & documents just don't exist, that we didn't see it happen. It is an authoritarian move, and it should terrify all of us.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

submitted 78 days ago • 451 comments

lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE

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submitted 80 days ago • 56 comments

Surprise surprise… 📌 Trump shuts down the task force targeting Russian oligarchs.

submitted 78 days ago • 279 comments

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

submitted 78 days ago • 402 comments

(1/X) The media spent ten years ignoring Trump's obvious personality disorder. We were told "he's a pragmatist, a businessman". Now they are doing the same thing with Elon Musk....

submitted 78 days ago • 73 comments

⚠️ Another nightmare dimension of the Trump administration’s foreign aid freeze and shutdown of USAID: thousands of participants in clinical trials around the world are in limbo without essential monitoring or care, raising major ethical concerns. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

This is a significant announcement. Years of lobbying, media attention and angry women have led to this moment. May there be much more to come - www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

submitted 78 days ago • 11 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 79 days ago • 351 comments

Here is Judge Paul Engelmayer’s remarkable TRO barring (in effect) DOGE from accessing Treasury’s payment system & ordering (in effect) any DOGE person who has had access to destroy anything already copied. A short thread ... www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 79 days ago • 220 comments

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NEW: Shortly after Pam Bondi was sworn in Wednesday, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger asked her to drop the Department of Justice’s lawsuit challenging the state’s 2021 voter suppression law, S.B. 202. I warned you, Raffensperger is no hero. He is a GOP vote suppressor.

submitted 80 days ago • 1228 comments

"In our conversations, each expert was unequivocal: They are terrified and struggling to articulate the scale of the crisis." www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Musk made no. 3 in 2021. Where on earth would he be now? theintercept.com/2021/12/24/1...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments