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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 13 days ago • 2693 comments

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

submitted 26 days ago • 1122 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 26 days ago • 166 comments

I promised some historical background relevant to the implication that "DEI" had played a role in Wednesday's tragic accident in DC. Since today is the 1st day of #BlackHistoryMonth, it's time to lay this out. So, herewith a 🧵 on just what it took to integrate commercial aviation in the 1st place.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

The new regime's racism just helped inspire what I predict will be the Blackity Blackest Black History Month in a while. Reposting this photo to commemorate the festivities. Also, a whole mood. #LiftEveryChairandSwing

submitted 26 days ago • 44 comments

This is a huge red flag for a crucial, non-political federal agency. Unlike NHTSA, NTSB has pulled no punches asserting that Tesla Autopilot is dangerously designed. Musk once hung up on the NTSB Chair: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

submitted 27 days ago • 360 comments

Remember how I keep telling y'all to stay updated on ALL of your vaccines? Well the ACIP specific guidance on individual vaccines has been taken down. Pediatricians and primary care providers use these guidelines EVERYDAY! www.cdc.gov/acip/

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

Sounds like Trump is upset that civilian airliners have become too safe and is cracking down.

submitted 35 days ago • 90 comments

Me, just now: "Yes, but I still need to publish my book in the apocalypse."

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

It's so funny to me that the debate boils down to share your data with American tech bros or Chinese tech bros. There is no actual privacy issue in this debate, even though that is how it's framed.

submitted 32 days ago • 3 comments

Note that what is being tested here is not even what most academic historians would recognize as worth asking, but just basic ‘facts’ (compiled by a research team then cross compared to genAI multiple choice responses). It can’t pass school rote learning, it sure AF can’t do independent research 🗃️

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 44 days ago • 379 comments

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 51 days ago • 194 comments

REMINDER: Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a bill in May 2024 making it LEGAL for drivers to KILL PEDESTRIANS who block their way in the road.

submitted 58 days ago • 27 comments

There are 21 million Black people in the US. Fewer than 6% of us earn over $100K a year. The median net worth of Black households fluctuates between about $20K and $40K, depending on how much scamming happens that year (eg crypto, asset forfeiture). Black. People. Are. The. Working. Class.

submitted 61 days ago • 18 comments

Harvard Law enrolled 19 first-year Black students this fall, the lowest number since the 1960s, following last year's SCOTUS decision banning affirmative action

submitted 73 days ago • 88 comments

"Stop asking why schools don't have bulletproof glass and metal detectors at all the doors. Ask why schools have to. That's the question that needs to be asked,” Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes

submitted 73 days ago • 373 comments

LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date

submitted 82 days ago • 149 comments

You used to call me on my self-own

submitted 94 days ago • 106 comments

Kamala Harris's vote total is now well over 100,000 more than Trump's was in the high turnout election of 2020. Where are the calls from political reporters for folks to understand Kamala Harris's voters?

submitted 99 days ago • 61 comments

A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/

submitted 109 days ago • 38 comments

We are literally still doing phone banks to help voters get their votes counted. There’s still work to do. The media just wants you to passively watch their ads. Don’t fall for it

submitted 114 days ago • 7 comments

If it helps, here's the 2020 timeline of when stuff was called

submitted 114 days ago • 53 comments

another success for republican social policy www.propublica.org/article/joss...

submitted 121 days ago • 35 comments

#Kamala #KamalaHarris #Harris-Walz #Harris2024 #Election2024 #Georgia #JimmyCarter Early voting has begun in Georgia, and Jimmy Carter has cast his vote for Kamala Harris.

submitted 136 days ago • 70 comments

It's absolutely wild this isn't bigger news. "Arizona Democrats closed their field office in Tempe, Ariz. after three shooting incidents. The office served as a base for the Sun State’s congressional campaigns and Vice President Harris’s presidential effort in recent weeks."

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

“He is the most dangerous person ever. I had suspicions when I talked to you about his mental decline and so forth, but now I realize he’s a total fascist. He is now the most dangerous person to this country,” Milley said. “A fascist to the core.” www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 140 days ago • 49 comments

I find it striking how in the aftermath of Helene, libraries are providing crucial community services like free wifi while cops are guarding stores with rotting food from potential "looters" instead of serving and protecting people. Worth considering how we spend local funding.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Hope everyone gets a chance to read this one today. My colleague Kate Knibbs visited the Internet Archive IRL. It’s in grave danger. www.wired.com/story/intern...

submitted 154 days ago • 8 comments

We're kind of burying the lede here which is that 6 weeks before a coin-flip election and Trump isn't on the campaign trail but rather he's at home golfing.

submitted 166 days ago • 6 comments

A near ironclad rule of race science is the dumbest motherfuckers you will ever meet are obsessed with IQ.

submitted 168 days ago • 44 comments

Horrible and beautiful. A picture of the Bridge fire blazing behind Los Angeles. Taken from Baldwin Hills.

submitted 169 days ago • 37 comments

it seems like a problem that one party is constantly engaging in dehumanizing and violence-stoking rhetoric against anyone outside their volk, and that the media is largely treating it as an minor detail in an exciting horserace

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

thin blue line flag but the blue line has been resized to reflect the proportion of your city's municipal budget that goes to police

submitted 174 days ago • 58 comments

The Internet Archive's lending library was so helpful for my research on the history of psyops. There are tons of primary sources like government documents, plus obscure, out-of-print books that can reveal a lot. This ruling against them is a blow to the public sphere. www.wired.com/story/intern...

submitted 176 days ago • 18 comments

Meanwhile, in Ohio today: “Hulk Hogan’s trip to a Medina Township bar began as a way to peddle his new beer. It ended with a woman getting nine stitches after being hit in the head by a beer can, a police report shows.” www.cleveland.com/news/2024/08...

submitted 190 days ago • 4 comments

Still thinking about this remarkable moment. Maybe that’s on me, but I haven’t seen nearly as much attention for this as I believe it deserves, as it precisely captured a key shift towards Democratic leaders finally, aggressively asserting a (small-d) democratic patriotism.

submitted 197 days ago • 4 comments