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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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Over at EPA, new administrator Lee Zeldin is trying to "claw back" $20 billion that the agency has already dispersed. In other words, the government gave the money to private parties, and now it's going to steal the money back. It is straightforwardly illegal.

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On this special episode of "Uncanny Valley," WIRED's politics editor and global editorial director catch us up on Elon Musk's involvement in the Trump Administration.

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She's right.

submitted 19 days ago • 271 comments

A guy with his mind fried by ketamine and a 24/7/365 diet of Nazi shitposts is inside the federal government’s general payments system canceling whatever he personally decides looks like fraud while taking legal advice from his own busted AI chatbot, that’s the status report?

submitted 21 days ago • 35 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

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USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.” THIS HAS TO STOP.

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@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

submitted 23 days ago • 1960 comments

On his orders, his henchmen murdered my former colleague and chopped up his body with a bone saw.

submitted 31 days ago • 500 comments

Let me see if I understand what’s happened at CNN over the past eight years. I’m happy to be wrong. I just want get a better understanding. (0/13)

submitted 31 days ago • 703 comments

"his own"

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So a supercharged US Digital Service to get antiquated government up to civilian standards when it comes to basic tech? Fine by me except for the part about no transparency & a hopelessly conflicted tech mogul with massive federal contracts given total power. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 32 days ago • 55 comments

In this Ohio town , it was a tradition: early morning mass, softball game on the village green, then everyone logs onto Silk Road to buy some smack. But then the woke mob took all of that away.

submitted 33 days ago • 24 comments

Public policy / social media mind hive: I'm interested in finding social media newsie-types/influencers who would be interested in what's happening in the Texas foster care space. Cross-interests: children and families (obviously), mental health, human trafficking, the courts, politics, good gov..

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FYI, folks from Bluesky. Reporters at The NYT, among other news organizations, are now generating a giant wave of accountability stories about the new Trump era. Reading these stories, sharing them, is a form of accountability as well. It is a form of participatory democracy too. Substance matters.

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Can’t Biden declassify it with his mind? Didn’t Trump establish that precedent?

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My heart breaks for LA. A city I love almost as much as my own. And as the US watches in horror, I understand that we knew this was coming. This magazine cover is from 2006, almost 20 years ago.

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NEW: Platformer has obtained the dehumanizing new guidelines moderating what people can now say about trans people on Facebook and Instagram. Employees tell me these changes are likely to inspire more violence against LGBT people: www.platformer.news/meta-new-tra...

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com: “If Bluesky turns out to be a long-term home for political conversation, it will be because, as also happened on early Twitter, the new arrivals create appealing new habits and norms, not just new content,” Clay Shirky writes in a guest essay.

submitted 78 days ago • 63 comments

I think you could argue a bunch of different takes on the Hunter Biden pardon, clearly! People have! But it seems INSANE to have dozens of stories and a fucking live blog on this given everything else that's so much more consequential happening right now.

submitted 83 days ago • 169 comments

i'm looking to speak to independent journalists for a story about how the rapid growth of the field means an increased number of journalists without institutional legal protection—and how to insulate ourselves from a trump admin that says it will prosecute journalists. DM me if interested!

submitted 83 days ago • 16 comments

Elon, here you go again making false and completely unfounded accusations without providing any specifics. That’s the kind of response one would expect from a conspiracy theorist. What oligarch? What treason?

submitted 88 days ago • 885 comments

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

submitted 89 days ago • 473 comments

Night sky in West Texas. Keeping things in perspective.

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