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Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.

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UPDATE: We've added the members' phone numbers. You can take direct action by calling their offices and telling the member to vote NO on the budget resolution!

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I’m beginning to sound like a broken record, but the Federal Register block is intentionally being used to stop NIH from awarding grants. They might not call it a freeze, but things are effectively frozen. We need legal action ASAP.

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JFC. The rich got SO much richer the last 3 years. So naturally Trump and his GOP are about to give a $2 trillion tax cut to the top 5%, people making more than $340K. The only question is how much they'll cut poor people's Medicaid benefits to pay for it. Gift link: www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Why I Chose to Reenter the Matrix and Be a Living Battery for the Machines www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/why...

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Thanks Trump voters.

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Oh lol

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Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

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By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Copy and quote-skeet this with a genuinely decent song whose music video aged hilariously: (When Rundgren & Co. listened to XTC for a year and decided to do their own "Senses Working Overtime". Also, feels like the second take here to fix the lip synching got nixed when the video budget ran out.)

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Meanwhile in Canada:

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As usual, the Times buries the lede. This lawsuit is Musk's attempt to get back at Moraes, a Brazilian supreme court judge who closed down X for failing to comply with Brazilian law. Outrageous. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/w...

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To the extent that Musk has a super-power it is that he is an obscenely rich person who is willing to confidently say (and get many people to accept) completely untrue things that (coincidentally) always serve his own interests. He's an ignorant person's idea of what an informed person sounds like.

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Been thinking a lot lately about how great it would be if only the American literary canon contained a novel about how the American people voted themselves into fascism, with many voters thinking they were just choosing a straight-talking non-politician who could clean up the mess in Washington.

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Oh, I remember that, too. How dare Secretary Pete bring his husband along! The GOP and its mouthpiece are hypocritical bigots.

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Everyone in the Trump coalition voted for someone to get got. Most of them didn’t realize that they were that someone to someone else.

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Less than a month since a crash that took 67 lives, Trump is firing hundreds of federal employees who inspect and maintain air traffic control communications, radio and computer systems. This is extremely dangerous and could have deadly consequences. www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/p...

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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It is important to remember that the Eric Adams scandal is a three-headed monster. You have the Eric Adams scandal. It's also a Trump DOJ scandal and, at this point, it should be a full on Kathy Hochul scandal. This is a hydra of corruption.

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"Fire," a poem by Nikita Gill #kindness #softness

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The mere remote possibility of this was enough to sink Hillary in the media

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Allegory alert!

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Compiled some resources and talked to some experts about what to do if ICE shows up at your restaurant www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

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I just can't help but feel that if some 21 year old groyper told me to delete Meals on Wheels I would simply get out of my chair and beat the living shit out of him!

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Public health PSA frens as botulism can paralyze and kill you: Tuna Recall Hits Costco, Trader Joe's, and More Over Botulism Risk www.eatthis.com/tuna-recall-...

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In 1973, a brilliant critic named Stuart Hall created a diagram that changed the way we study media, and could help you survive this moment. Just dropped: the second letter in my series about how to analyze the media in a time of crisis. It's all about codes. buttondown.com/thehypothesi...

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"It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting."

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Reading Ayn Rand is a gateway drug to being a fucking idiot.

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Today is the birthdate of Samuel J. Tilden, who lost the U.S. presidency despite winning the popular vote in 1876, when his own party threw his opponent electoral votes in a backroom deal. On his deathbed, Tilden, who would be 211 had he lived, was philosophical: "Fucking blow me. I won that shit."

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I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

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Hungry, hungry guillotine www.inprnt.com/gallery/thou...

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My latest. As journalists and writers, we have a duty to use language that is accurate and describes our current reality. I’m no longer going to talk about DEI/Anti-DEI. Let’s be clear. We are facing racial purges and re-segregation. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Now with alt text.

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I used Splort to subscribe to Boozoo

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Every one of these guys thinks they’re Oppenheimer mixed with Andrew Carnegie and they own something called SplortDotCom that got bought by Boozoo

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I am listening to the audiobook of Elric of Melnibone and reading The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian. I feel that my fantasy credentials were in need of renewal.

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Strategic, really.

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well that seems sorted then

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"In our defense, we had absolutely no way of knowing that Trump was actually going to do all the things he said he would do, even though we told you throughout the election that democracy was on the line."

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A lot of people who have no idea what government actually does for their lives are about to apparently find out real quick.

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"The new regime must seize all points of power, without respect for paper protections." If you have not yet subscribed to @gilduran.com's Nerd Reich newsletter consider this your reminder.

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Sex Ed Teacher Demonstrates How To Drive Truck Into Abortion Clinic theonion.com/sex-ed-...

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