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It isn’t only that there is a war on experts (I think). hannahforsyth.substack.com/p/what-if-th...

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 15 hours ago • 127 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 17 hours ago • 100 comments

NEW — The National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 282 just emailed its ~8,000 employee members strongly advising them NOT to reply to the “What did you do last week?” email from OPM/Musk.

submitted 22 hours ago • 87 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 123 comments

What Just Happened: Musk-OPM Send Email to Federal Employees Asking for Five Accomplishments Analysis by Professor Nicholas Bednar (@nicholasbednar.bsky.social) Bottom line up front: The threat of termination by implied resignation is legally invalid.

submitted 21 hours ago • 53 comments

“Sonny is part human, part AI: a new kind of chatbot that school districts are adopting to provide support when there aren’t enough counselors to go around.”

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

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

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

This was published last October www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

From Turkey to Hungary to Venezuela to Benin, firing civil servants and dismantling government departments is how aspiring strongmen consolidate personal power. Scholars share lessons learned from around the globe: #CivilService #autocrats #DOGE

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1460 comments

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 359 comments

Elon is out of his fuckin gourd man www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

I’m not sure the world has seen a genuine supervillain until 2025. Of course there’ve been countless monsters: hitler, Stalin, pol pot. But a real life figure who fits the Gotham/Metropolis model. Plutocrat bigwig who is actually deeply evil & wants to run the world for cartoonishly stupid reasons.

submitted 2 days ago • 536 comments

Sure looks like Google News caught the Latin Times using a large language model to write an article picking up on my latest report

submitted 2 days ago • 82 comments

worth mentioning again that senate democrats’ plan for strategic confirmation votes in exchange for blocking the worst nominees was a complete failure

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Trump is dismantling America's defenses against Russian intelligence and political-warfare operations as he allies himself with Putin against Ukraine and our NATO allies. He is openly inviting a Russian attack on Europe -- and the subversion of American democracy. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/b...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

submitted 3 days ago • 206 comments

fact check: since congestion pricing started, subway crime is down 36%.

submitted 3 days ago • 245 comments

The six factions dismantling democracy—but they don’t share the same endgame. Some are pawns. Some hold real power. If we don’t recognize this now, we won’t be able to stop it. #Democracy #NRx #Project2025 #Resistance

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

This is the now third deportation “detention” site outside the U.S. that the administration has disclosed. These are more than concentration camps; they’re what’s called “zones of lawlessness.” People being held in isolated facilities. Some if not all are de facto stateless.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Ex NFL player @chriswarcraft.bsky.social protesting the inclusion of a MAGA acronym in the Huntington Beach library plaque at last night’s council meeting. He was arrested and cited.

submitted 4 days ago • 236 comments

AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

submitted 4 days ago • 1094 comments

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 5 days ago • 270 comments

Just to be clear, because I don’t think the Post story highlights it enough: This was Trump’s day-one pick to lead the Social Security Admin until his nominee got confirmed who RESIGNED a career job rather than do what Musk’s DOGE team wants. This is Treasury (DOGE) and DOJ (Adams) all over again.

submitted 5 days ago • 90 comments

Elon Musk is an idiot on an almost inconceivable scale. He had his high-school toadies pull a random list from a database he doesn’t understand, and on that basis alone decided that 60 MILLION SOCIAL SECURITY ENROLLEES, out of 72 million total, are fraudulent. 83% fraudulent!

submitted 6 days ago • 302 comments

As a result, she said, just three full-time employees remain in both the Yellowstone and Bozeman ranger districts to manage 19 rental cabins, 60 bathrooms, 21 campgrounds and other infrastructure spread across 1 million acres. www.bozemandailychronicle.com/townnews/wor...

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

I mean they also like it because they are primarily interested in cutting corners, undermining labor, and maximizing ad engagement the actual quality of the output (plagiarism, fabulism, errors) isn't of interest to most of these guys as the sagging quality of Facebook and Google search attests

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

i think we are a few weeks to a few months away from finding out what a true mass panic looks like in a shattered and broken information environment

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

A narrative tic worth noting: When Biden pardoned Hunter, lots of ppl erupted saying “this empowers Trump to do the same.” But when Trump says he is above the law, no one replies “this will empower a future Dem to think the same.” And not bc “there won’t be one.” It’s deeper than that.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Has it occured to them that one reason voters aren’t biting on the idea that liberal democracy is facing an existential threat is that they find it inconceivable the opposition party would be nattering about fucking egg prices if they really believed that were true?

submitted 6 days ago • 159 comments

this is a fake screenshot. these people are bad enough as it is. we don't need to spread misinformation around.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 6 days ago • 108 comments

What Trump has done for US farmers so far: -frozen their foreign aid program (and left their food to rot) -encouraged EU to ban their products -frozen legally-owed reimbursements for their energy efficiency upgrades etc. -threatened to deport half their workforce -suppressed research on bird flu

submitted 7 days ago • 190 comments