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‘Venture capital is killing more value than it creates,' author and tech activist Catherine Bracy argues in a new book, World Eaters. Silicon Valley needs to focus more on solving real-world problems and less on fast profit, she says.

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“So fucking dumb,” says one air traffic controller. Here's how that DOGE email is roiling federal workers, who can't get answers from leadership because they apparently had no idea it was coming: www.wired.com/story/doge-e...

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DOGE missed $200 million of government waste!

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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Trump: "We were the richest relatively -- think of this -- from 1870 to 1913. That was our richest. Because we collected tariffs ... we had so much wealth. Of course, now we give it away to transgender ... everybody gets a transgender operation."

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“The costs of dismantling agencies, dramatically politicizing state capacity, and demeaning the idea of public service will still be counted long after Trump has departed the scene,” Donald Moynihan writes:

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all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

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The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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KUDLOW: "There could be some short term, one-off price hikes. But at least for now, the economic signals are flashing slower growth and higher inflation. Not good." 😬😬😬

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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

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thoughtful resistance would be to either buy every available ticket and no show or buy the tix and relentlessly heckle and boo the criminals

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Trump: "I've had very good talks with Putin. And I've had not such good talks with Ukraine."

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AOC is showing what resistance looks like; Schumer, Hochul, and the rest of D leadership not so much. www.publicnotice.co/p/aoc-homan-...

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JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

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Totally fine smh 🙄 www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

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If Trish Regan is saying it….

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Americans opposed to the early actions of President Donald Trump and his allies, including ally Elon Musk, took to the streets in protest across the country. cnn.it/411hctE

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Thousands of protesters opposing President Trump’s agenda took to the streets on Monday across the U.S., derisively calling him a “king” on Presidents’ Day for his efforts to terminate thousands of federal workers and to fire prosecutors and independent watchdogs. nyti.ms/3CQA2LX

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most journalists today can be divided into two groups: dedicated, impoverished people who mostly write for publications you've never heard of that started eighteen months ago or JP Random House The First, who writes columns for the New York Times about which ethnic groups it should be OK to hunt

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Call to Action: Picket Tesla, Saturday February 15, 11am, at all Tesla dealerships everywhere to oppose Elon Musk and the oligarchy. #3E #EndOligarchy #TeslaTakeover If you can't make it, flood the lines with your concerns, all US locations and numbers here: www.tesla.com/findus/list/...

submitted 12 days ago • 190 comments

Spotted in New York. #3E

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Houchul can remove Adams. And at this point, she must. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/n...

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Longtime Tesla shareholder and owner of two Teslas who just sold all his stock: “I bought into the scam and that’s on me — but now he’s doing the same thing to the country" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... @gerritd.bsky.social

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“MaYbe shE’s goiNg to be in TroUble nOw” Maybe he can learn to read. The Constitution would be a good place to start

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Monday Changed Everything: Gov Hochul Needs to Remove Eric Adams from Office talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/monda...

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“.. “The term ‘doxxing’ has become unmoored from its origins .. “.. if living in the U.S. in 2025 means you can expect a criminal investigation for criticizing the government, we’re all in a whole lot of trouble.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

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WSJ is on a tear this week. @wsj.com

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This is corruption on a scale unseen before in American history. www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

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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?

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Goldman: "My Republican colleagues are so weak and afraid of Donald Trump that they're willing to undermine their own constitutional authority just to please them. You're giving away your own power in fealty to Donald Trump."

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"America is not a software company. And letting a thin-skinned, Ketamine-fueled, video-game cheating, Nazi apologist billionaire take over the machinery of the United States is not something that anyone voted for." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Murphy: "This isn't hyperbole to say we are staying the death of democracy in the eyes right now. The centerpiece of our democracy is we observe court rulings."

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this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 13 days ago • 3701 comments

folks really need to accept that "lawful" and "lawless" don't matter, what matters is being able to marshal and deploy force (force of capital, the force of arms, the force of a crowd...) none of the people running the country right now give a good goddamn about the law

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Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

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