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It’s interesting how Facebook is full of utter garbage like posts claiming Trump admin members are giving SUVs to janitors or Elon is an angel sent from the heavens but there’s no counter-programming BS from the left. Pretty sure all this garbage is coming from xAI.

Hail to the thief. Using the money they stole from us by illegally cancelling government programs to pump cryptocurrency

A peaceful country next to Russia heard this same thing before from them.

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

Suggestion: Tesla is scheduling test drives of the new Model Y. Sign up for one and then don't show.

Not just a king but a mad king. And the last time America was ruled by a mad king there was a revolution. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

trump took egg

i know a lot of gov employees are watching my feed at the moment 👇

A mistake the techno fascist billionaires are making is thinking people will want to live in their corporate dictatorships. There will be a massive brain drain and no-will want to prop them up. It’s the wet dream of man-boys with no clue how good they have it now

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

Eggs UP Taxes UP Gas UP RX drugs UP Dow Jones DOWN Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA, VA all on the chopping block. Trump was never going to make anyone in America's life easier. In just 2 weeks he's made life harder for everyone except his billionaire friends.

The same people who scared you about TikTok stealing your personal data are right now stealing your personal data, your tax dollars, your government transparency, your government research & guidance, your security, and your government enforcers of laws aimed to protect you & our democracy from them.

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

Treat Trump voters as if they fought tooth and nail to let Elon Musk have unmonitored access to your social security, tax refunds, and benefits.

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

The way that Trump's transparently dishonest "moderation" on Project 2025 and abortion was treated with "brilliant gambit, sir!" rather than "he's a flip-flopper and liar, uh look at his actual record as president" is a vintage example of the media being wired for Republicans

More FAFO inbound (from Paul Krugman’s Substack)

Elect a clown, expect a circus. Elect a criminal, expect crimes.

You know you’re not the good guys when you’re firing someone like Chef Jose Andres.

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

Very grateful I left X two years before this wildfire and never used Facebook or Threads for news. It’s clear which of my friends still use X by how crazed they are by the bullshit right wingers are spewing. Misinformation is actively harming people who are grieving and also disaster efforts.

remarkable to me that far from seeming cool or masculine zuck seems like an even bigger loser — the kind of nerd who preemptively gives his lunch money to the bully and thanks him for the opportunity

One small thing you can do when responding to concerns like these from a friend or family member is be explicit with them that their information sources misled them intentionally—that they’re untrustworthy and their efforts to mislead people are contemptible.

6,000 stories about Trump's fake invasion of canada 4 stories about Trump's concrete, court-approved plan to dismantle the entirety of U.S. consumer protection

i recall a time when using a private email server was the single greatest scandal in american history. i guess today’s it’s just tuesday www.politico.com/news/2024/12...

Three shocking, and what should be campaign-killing, Trump/Vance stories today: 1) Milley calls Trump a fascist. 2) Trump/Miller engage in Nazi rhetoric at rally in Aurora, CO. 3) Vance once again repeatedly refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. Will these be covered widely?