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I’m sorry. You can all be mad at journalists for this or whatever. And maybe in some cases it’s deserved. But this is a high-risk profession that’s dying. There’s little support for most working journalists who still have jobs. When you blame “the media,” blame executives. Not workers.

submitted 9 hours ago • 27 comments

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 381 comments

i’ve never really bothered to learn about the memecoin world because it was so obviously crooked and fucked up, but this look at the argentinian memecoin libra and america’s own melania coin and just HOW crooked and fucked up these things are is absolutely fascinating youtu.be/Ud6GuH7gSDw?...

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

As we watch DOGE eliminate critical government functions, I'm reminded of "A Libertarian Walks into a Bear." newrepublic.com/article/1596...

submitted 2 days ago • 68 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 • 2877 comments

🚨Is Musk Using Private Government Data for his AI Company?🚨

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can. -Arthur Ashe Holding these words in our hearts and wishing you a good night.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Here’s a small, easy thing Dem communicators can do: when stories like this break, call the reporters and a) ask to be contacted going forward on stories within their jurisdiction, b) give them a blistering statement, c) blast it out on all channels. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

How much is Congress cutting from their $6.5 billion/year budget? Don’t you think congress can operate on say, maybe, $5 Billion? And each congressman has 18 staff, they could operate on say, 14? What about the White House?

submitted 4 days ago • 1469 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

REPOST if you support our federal workforce and know how dedicated they are to their jobs. Show them you appreciate them!

submitted 9 days ago • 598 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 791 comments

Have you ever seen wildflowers or even trees growing up through cracks in sidewalk? The sidewalk breaks under that gentle yet resilient and inexorable beauty. We are the wildflowers. They are the sidewalk.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care. This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine. An absolutely hate-filled group of people

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

As someone with an actual PhD in geography, I am utterly disgusted with Google for this. What a joke.

submitted 12 days ago • 857 comments

One of the most frustrating things AI proponents say is, "You just don't understand the technology." It implies that AI is universally good and ethical, and that disagreement or criticism can only come from a place of ignorance, rather than understanding. Don't let them gaslight you.

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

The Acting President discusses affairs of state, while the young boy and the old man share their boredom.

submitted 11 days ago • 894 comments

"As we navigate a new normal"? While people are kidnapped off the street by people with no identification? Fuck that. Anyone who accepts this is dead to me.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

submitted 11 days ago • 388 comments

Hey, elites, politicians, and those in power! Dystopian novels are 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀, not 𝗵𝗼𝘄-𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝘀 for building the perfect state! You’re not supposed to read "1984" or "The Handmaid's Tale" and think, “𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘴, 𝘭𝘦𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦.” 🙃

submitted 12 days ago • 70 comments

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

There are people who truly believe Trump will just walk away in four years. Y’all he gives no fucks about democracy. He has immunity and will pardon his loyal supporters that don’t. Attempt to stand in his way, he will try to incarcerate or impeach you. We are in crisis. Wake up.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Those dystopian books we read in school are looking less like fiction and more like a blueprint. No wonder they’re being banned—they want to keep us in the dark.

submitted 12 days ago • 604 comments

Art matters. Art is a powerful means of speaking truth to power. When it seems the powerless are being silenced, artists, musicians, writers, entertainers, and poets give the people a voice.

submitted 13 days ago • 36 comments

This is reporting.

submitted 14 days ago • 54 comments

There's a logical problem in their 'efficiency'* claims. They're gonna fix the government! Run it like a startup. Make the post office turn a profit! But, uh, 90% of startups fail and the government doesn't have a rich daddy. Sorry, nepo-babies. *I know cruelty is the point

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Just calling it like I see it.

submitted 14 days ago • 1473 comments

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

This is how it’s done 🔥 Cut off Karoline Leavitt and fact-check in real time. We heard what Trump said about sending troops to Gaza yesterday! @msnbc.com

submitted 17 days ago • 274 comments

The shock and awe Musk, Vought, Bannon and Trump — are bringing will backfire if we’re smart about it. Make clear that DOGE is the Dept of Govt Extermination, not Efficiency. Let people see that their taxes are no longer paying for vital public services but to fatten the richest people on earth.

submitted 18 days ago • 284 comments

There is no precedent for anything like this. Musk is a private citizen who has not been elected to anything. He is not a federal employee; he has not been confirmed by the Senate to any office or post.

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

Restating what I said in my final post on what once was Twitter.

submitted 18 days ago • 171 comments

What is it called when an erratic billionaire, whom nobody elected, rampages through the federal government, purging civil servants, seizing functional control over trillions of dollars, and attempting to destroy entire agencies—all in violation of the law? This is a coup. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

I think @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com just said, Democrats in Congress are trying to fix stupid. 😂 “Every rational thing the opposition is saying to Donald Trump and to Elon Musk is just bouncing off that solid wall of stupidity.” And we need to keep asking them—what are you going to do about it?!

submitted 18 days ago • 151 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 18 days ago • 127 comments