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Is Doge Taking Credit for President Carter's Death?: An Investigative Report by a data junkie with too much time on his hands 1/6

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

Elon—the richest man on Earth—is gutting the world’s largest provider of food aid. He could end world hunger single-handedly and still be the richest man alive. But he won’t. Instead, he spent 40 million on Super Bowl ads attacking USAID! Stand with USAID: share this counter-ad…

This is happening to thousands of people fighting for their lives because in real life, government does a lot of good and important shit.

Right wing extremists are trying to block access to PrEP, which all but eliminates HIV risk. It’s part of their Make America Sick Again agenda. PrEP can end HIV infections globally. These zealots don’t want that. They want to go back to the 1950s. They want people to get HIV as punishment for sin.

This is the most-read piece on @theatlantic.com. It should be the most-read piece. You should all read it, even though it may make you sad. Here’s a gift link so you can read it. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

the frenzy over the hunter biden pardon is a good reminder that the press knows how to make something a scandal and has decided that nothing trump does is truly deserving of that treatment

I know temptation and old habits call us, but remember friends: when an anon rando with no platform has a weird bad take You can just block them I know, the optimists amongst us think that surely a person wearing the trappings of reason can be reasoned with Don't do it Be free

Trump thinks he just invented DARE

The United States is Compromised in many ways and another big one here. This is scary shit. We are putting Putin in charge of our National Intelligence

As an internet old who has watched countless social platforms, chat systems, and BBSes (!) rise and fall, I'm flummoxed by the current hot take that "nothing has or will come along to replace what Twitter once was." Um, hello? Social networks are always ephemeral, online and off. Join a new one!