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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 95 comments

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 1 day ago • 81 comments

Elon Musk Unveils Revolutionary Bulletproof Vest

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What’s wrong, babe? You haven’t touched your Eggo-brand alcoholic Appalachian sippin’ cream

submitted 1 day ago • 290 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1573 comments

Immigrants aren’t stealing jobs, Trump is.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

By Bruce Schneier, a security technologist and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Davi Ottenheimer, the vice president of trust and digital ethics at Inrupt, a data infrastructure company.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 995 comments

How are your egg prices doing? Costs have gone up 153% from this time last year. We'll offer an eggsplanation: the ongoing outbreak of bird flu. It's highly contagious, and 97% lethal in chickens. Unfortunately the best method to prevent spread is culling. www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/am...

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Mandela Effect? Your Friends Don’t Remember You Exist thehardtimes.net/blog/mandela...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Everything must grow forever at all times. Such is the Rot Economy. Games cannot be "kind of popular" or "profitable," they must always be insanely profitable. If you aren't growing you're dying www.wheresyoured.at/the-rot-econ...

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

“Democrats have built their entire party structure on polite deference, seniority, and chasing bipartisanship as an outcome, as opposed to elevating the most talented and passionate politicians into roles in which they can make impact..." @meredithshiner.com newrepublic.com/article/1909...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Musk named his little project DOGE. He's absolutely steeped in memes and online garbage. Of course he knows what 14 means when he posts those flags. Delete your Twitter.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

the problem with confronting a media guy with the fact that he is more offended by some kid on tumblr being too woke 8 years ago than a right wing president banning the use of several words is that most of them will simply say "yes, I am" and move on.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm gonna try to put this like @mtsw.bsky.social would: Elon Musk's wealth is fake because he is bad at business and good at fraud. Media outlets prop him up by covering him as a business and technology genius because they like him and his fascist takeover.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE solved the spy movie disguise issue by pretending Tom Cruise did masks so good that he just looked exactly like the other actor. THE SAINT, however, did things the hard way and we have to respect it.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

The Washington Post refused to run this ad. Sure would be a shame if it went viral.

submitted 5 days ago • 126 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Hey friends, just read this helpful article on Reddit. afsa.org/virtual-go-bag

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

I’ve been screaming this since 2016. Trump will back down in the face of resistance. He has every time. And Musk - who is going to fall out with Trump sooner rather than later - is going to have to get back to Tesla soon or face a shareholder revolt. We can win if we fight back. And we will win.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

So much for free speech. Let's make this cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social go viral. I'm married to @tealcartoons.bsky.social so I might be biased, but cartoons have long played a vital role in shaping political debate - both past and present. This type of censorship is deeply troubling.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

“There’s also a lot of Québécois who would usually fly the Québec flag are now flying the Canadian flag.” You Americans will never appreciate how pissed we are at your country that Quebecois are flying Canadian flags.

submitted 6 days ago • 395 comments