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So DOGE intern “Big Balls,” who under no ordinary circumstances would be trusted with sensitive government data access, was engaged in corporate espionage in a prev cybersecurity internship where his boss was so fearful of malicious reprisal he didn’t want to fire him. www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 127 comments

I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 7 hours ago • 21 comments

look up v-coding add trans women or transgender women to the search if you have to this is deliberately setting trans women up to be serially raped Don't bother with asking why the administration is ignoring the court order blocking this the administration doesn't give a fuck

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 14 hours ago • 100 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

"I archive Black people’s things. They are important because the lives that Black people live are important and have high value, and that meant that my life was also important enough to remember and preserve." @jerryleads.bsky.social #BlackHistoryMonth www.nashersculpturecenter.org/read-watch/a...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Oh look, it's the exact thing trans people warned all the cis women would happen to them as a result of this discrimination. Countdown to black women being told they don't qualify as "genetic women."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

“We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed,” said Amy Paris, who had been working to help reform the US organ transplantation network. “That is the scariest thing in the world.” New: @anniewaldman.bsky.social @deldeib.bsky.social

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 1 day ago • 236 comments

Please help get the word out to our friends who were working in the Federal Government: Some friends & I created this site to track the impacts of the Trump Admin's attack on the federal service, and we're trying to gather as many stories as possible. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The most achingly beautiful explanation of what science is, from @edyong209.bsky.social: “the idea that much of the world is hidden from us, that we don’t perceive it and don’t understand it, and that it is worth understanding and it is necessary to understand.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

“RESIST. DO NOT COMPLY WITH THEIR ILLEGAL MANDATES.”Judge Ortiz emailed her EEOC colleagues after the anti-trans EO. She told me, “The unknown was not as scary as being complicit and not speaking up. I can exist on cornflakes and community at the end of the day if it means that my soul is intact.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

Sharing this over and over again because I’m never going to give any cut of subscription money to the people running Substack

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Adam Serwer on the great resegregation. Good piece on the massive attack on the rights of everyone not a white man & the effort to wipe out multiculturalism, which is of course what they mean when they attack "DEI." Always ask if they oppose the diversity, the equality/equity, or the inclusion.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 18 hours ago • 107 comments

I'll say it again purging the highest ranks of the military and replacing them with retired loyalists is what you do directly before you deeploy the military against the domestic population and our allies abroad.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 234 comments

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

It's estimated that $150 billion would eradicate world hunger by 2030

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

“If DOGE is a federal agency, it can’t shield its records from the public. If it’s not an agency, then DOGE’s tens of millions of dollars in funding weren’t legally allocated and should be returned, some contend.” www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 2 days ago • 144 comments

Wait so Bigballs is both a neonazi satanist cyber terrorist and the grandson of a KGB spy?

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

FYI Dems: every air disaster is because of Trump, Musk, and the GOP. This isn't misinformation or exaggeration. It's a fair and necessary analysis of ripping the guts out of complex, proven safety systems. You're not being prudent waiting for NTSB reports, you're helping cover up the root cause.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

On the other hand, if you think the Bond franchise is a relic of Cold War and imperial chauvinism that should be discontinued despite Craig's late-breaking charm, then betraying him to the bald cartoon supervillain with an underground lair, superyacht, and launch pad is objectively funny.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Americans overwhelmingly want Trump to follow court rulings if they conclude he has overstepped legal bounds. From a new WaPo survey: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 2875 comments

Stop calling these acts of deliberate malicious destruction mistakes — if you close your eyes and fire machine gun spray ceaselessly into a crowd claiming you just want to scare some of them off, it’s not a mistake that there are casualties.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Trump now seizing the USPS. The USPS board has retained counsel to fight him. Breaking a 250 year precedent. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

The only reason the GOP is ‘panicking privately’ is because their constituents are yelling publicly. Otherwise they wouldn’t care. That means our organizing, our phone calls, our rallies, and our protests are working. Don’t let up on these cowards for one second. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

If we can't sleep peacefully, they don't get to sleep peacefully. Don't call your republican reps because you think you can convince them. Call them because fuck them, they don't get a free pass on this shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Judge John Bates characterized the government’s position as “we’re not an agency where we don’t want to be an agency, but we are an agency this one instance where we want to be.”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Bad policymaking: all too often, government adds layers of requirements and accountability checks to deal with bad apples but which equally constrain ethical leaders. Just get rid of the bad apples.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

Did I mention that the data broker industry must be destroyed?

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

The “run it like a start up” grift is a more extreme version of the “run it like a business” trend for infrastructure. We had decades of people trying to run things like businesses they never should have—public goods, like schools, universities, and hospitals. That, plus technophilia, got us here.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is one of the big things I am thinking about at this moment: how the place where we were is because when it came to equality, white America always went just far enough to feel good about themselves, but never far enough to feel good about other people.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

CNN covers SPLC’s catastrophic decision to layoff its entire immigration staff in June. SPLC says it did so because they want to focus on “broad, systematic issues.” So why can’t SPLC executives explain how they plan to do so? www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

SPLC deliberately gutted its Hatewatch imprint. They have no full time investigative reporters working in the intelligence project, which covers the radical right. They moved the editor of Hatewatch into the comms department. Spend your money elsewhere during Trump II.

submitted 46 days ago • 59 comments