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"Mistakenly deported" FUCK YOU nyt

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🔥 “There’s something wrong in this country… everything has gone up but wages… how many yachts and houses does one person need? — They want us to stay poor, stay hidden, and die silently.” 🇺🇸 #FightTheOligarchy H/T @violadavis.bsky.social

submitted 36 days ago • 780 comments

Don’t let Congress hand private actors an internet kill switch. Stop site-blocking bills.

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 54 days ago • 808 comments

Once again, we institute BIRD PROTOCOL. Take a bird, leave a bird. Bird. (photo by me) (also reminder: when you post photos, use alt-text, please and thank you)

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Jayzus, this guy is even more fucked up than I had thought. [WSJ gift link}

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

I made a site today that lets you compare the net worth of billionaires and corporations to the GDP of entire countries. Check it out. I want to raise awareness of the scale. There are many people - and tons of companies - with more wealth than the annual economic output of individual EU nations

submitted 69 days ago • 52 comments

Hearty cheers www.techdirt.com/2025/03/20/s...

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

The New York Times identified 45 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 101 days ago • 44 comments

okie dokie, last time for the night shift, if you didn’t get a chance to read my interview with nate brought, check it out. tomorrow is a new day for doge, which means tomorrow is a new day for DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS.

submitted 103 days ago • 4 comments

Today's phrase: punctuated equilibrium. It refers to the fact that evolutionary change doesn't happen slowly at a constant rate, but has periods of great change interspersed with periods of apparent stability. We're seeing this kind of change in the US now. Things are changing in a big way.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

DOGE in practice: Disabled Army veteran who has 4 kids and did 3 tours overseas is fired from his job at Bronx VA hospital

submitted 110 days ago • 440 comments

CNN: Do you think that calling Elon Musk "a dick" is effective messaging? Rep. Robert Garcia: "Well, he is a dick."

submitted 116 days ago • 53 comments

What the last decade and more of American politics is making clear is who each party is afraid of. Republicans are afraid of their primary electorate, and thus have been ratcheted steadily to the authoritarian right. Dems are afraid of rich donors and are stuck absolutely nowhere.

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STOP ELON Act: Sen. Jeff Yarbro & Rep. Jason Powell file legislation — targeting Elon Musk — to create a criminal penalty for unlawfully interfering with the distribution of government benefits. Read the full release: tnsenatedems.medium.com/tenn-democra...

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Git his ass!

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

You can say this doesn’t matter because billionaires view normal people as instruments for their will but keep in mind we’re talking about a guy who cried after being booed at a Dave Chappelle stand up set

submitted 124 days ago • 48 comments

Exclusive: Federal workers have filed an emergency motion requesting a restraining order to disconnect the DOGE server that's being used to conduct Trump's "deferred resignation program." The workers had previously accused DOGE of illegally bypassing a mandated privacy audit. By me at @wired.com:

submitted 124 days ago • 215 comments

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility except somehow it's actually real

submitted 124 days ago • 108 comments

at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around

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look I’m no messaging expert but it seems like the American people might be interested to know that Donald Trump just gave our social security numbers to a teen called BigBalls

submitted 126 days ago • 78 comments

This is illegal. These are crimes!

submitted 126 days ago • 167 comments

cutting live now to the Senate Dems caucus meeting

submitted 127 days ago • 11 comments

ONE BILLION SKEETZ

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

do they break us?

submitted 128 days ago • 35 comments

Trump flooding the zone means "that it is incredibly hard for the media and his critics to keep up." That is a confession of failure by the Times. You knew this is what would happen. You were not prepared. #BrokenTimes

submitted 128 days ago • 20 comments

Elon Musk is locking government employees out of government systems and demanding access to the government's entire payment network. This is not legal, of course. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 128 days ago • 56 comments

Surprise: Guy cosplaying as roman emperor is really just a whiny little shit. [gift link]

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

NYT judging this as a performance. [screenshot, in case they change the headline]

submitted 129 days ago • 0 comments

It turns out when you lie under oath to the Senate to distance yourself from an antisemitic white supremacist conspiracy theorist podcaster so you can get confirmed as FBI director, the bigot in question might get upset and reveal you’re lying & you used to regularly text his personal cell phone.

submitted 129 days ago • 25 comments

not to downplay the ugliness of this but this is the equivalent of busywork. they are giving him executive orders to sign so that it feels like he’s doing something.

submitted 129 days ago • 1214 comments

DeepSeek hot take: The emperor still has no clothes, but it's very distressing to the emperor that their non-clothes can be made so much more cheaply.

submitted 129 days ago • 8 comments

It was likely after he agreed to the $25 million bribe that he complained about how insulting it was that Biden suggested he was an oligarch.

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments