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ATL enjoy the city, share a coffee, protect trans kids, and never listen to anyone John Brown would’ve shot
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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I don’t like sharing this country with fascists. Especially when there’s so many.

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"Move fast and break things" sounds like some bold techbro vision of innovation, but it's also the same motto of thieves who want to do a smash-and-grab and get the fuck out before anybody can catch them.

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Today on Volts: As YIMBYs (pro-housing activists) win battles across the country, they are beginning to network & learn from one another. Momentum is building. It's exciting! I talk with two superstar activists about recent victories in New York City & Austin, TX.

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Petition to refer to Musk etc as “the greediest” in lieu of “the richest” people in the word.

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“It is often said that Trump has no real ideology, which is not true—his ideology is White supremacy, in all its truculent and sanctimonious power.” Ta-Nehisi Coates www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... I think of this piece often.

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Again, this. Why has everyone decided Orange Man who got 49% of the vote can’t be publicly opposed? “They’re all in the tank for Trump” is not a convincing explanation, nor is “they’re all afraid.”

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Mass protest in New York happening now against Trump/Musk authoritarian regime.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

The wealthiest man in the world who is engaged in a coup of the government is openly stating that his end goal was never about efficiency. It was always about white power and instituting what the new right tech world has called “the event” the moment which governments collapse and they take over

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ALWAYS ask who benefits. Gutting the FAA to increase plane crashes. Who benefits? Looks like this was all for Elon Musk & SpaceX. Don’t look so surprised.

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To be clear, this was great reporting that had the details if the MOU, but TPM was first to report about DOGE demands for IRS taxpayer data two days before this was out. I would argue that merited a link at least. 🤷‍♂️ 🚨 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-ir...

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Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website That didn’t last long www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

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Republican Senators just voted to confirm RFK Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services - a man that believes Black Americans should receive a different vaccine schedule than White Americans. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...

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I think it's both depressing and telling how many Americans (including many members of the elite media) view "masculinity" basically in terms of being an abuser and are excited and thrilled to sign up themselves and others for more abuse.

submitted 8 days ago • 70 comments

If you understand that apartheid was an economic system first, and a brutally violent system of social segregation second, you'll understand how Elon Musk is trying to update the principles from his homeland, and bring about a neo-apartheid system in the US. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

Our Supreme Connections database tracks who’s paid the Supreme Court justices, reimbursed their travel expenses or given them gifts. We just added Justice Samuel Alito’s 2023 filing and newly uncovered Justice Clarence Thomas filings from the 1990s.

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

I watched that Seal-as-a-seal mountain dew superbowl ad and it made me turn communist.

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Audits of massive agencies take months. At minimum. When ppl uncritically parrot that word in regard to what Elon & his boys are doing, they look like idiots.

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