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Dude living in Machida Japan, make art, think about spirituality and also nonsense. We are Everywhere.
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Daily Beast: Trump told the FDA to quit using the words woman, women, elderly, disabled, underrepresented, under served, diversity, sex, identity, promote, continuum, definition, ideology, intersex, equity, transgender, and more. Republicans are literally the thought police.

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Ivan Albright, one of most interesting artists you probably never heard of, was born today in 1897. Albright developed a detailed, almost hallucinatory realist style evident in arguably his best-known work, a portrait of the title character featured in 1945 Hollywood film The Picture of Dorian Gray

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 3 days ago • 78 comments

when the president is claiming the powers of the legislature while skirting at best and arguably outright defying the orders of the judiciary this impulse to say "the president calling himself a king is trolling, a distraction" goes beyond normalcy bias and into something malignant, metastatic

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

If you’re going to avoid saying Trump lies because you can’t prove his state of mind, you should also avoid saying he’s just trolling when you can’t prove that state of mind.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

What used to be a warning is now a statement of intent

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

The disbelief, anger, hurt, fear being shared by so many federal employees being laid off is painful to watch unfold, one person -- each with their own story -- at a time. A tiny sampling from group chats + messages I've gotten from some:

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

Japan knows the emperor has no clothes. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

To love the Divine is to despise oppression. To follow the path of justice is to make fascism impossible. Step forward, boldly and together.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

No one voted for Elon. Elon out!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Bondi, which directly alleges a quid pro quo, is a searing, meticulous indictment of DOJ's leadership. static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Very much agree with Walz here. What kind of government do we want and believe in. What kind of society do we want in 10, 20, 50 years?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

what was old will be made new what was forgotten will be remembered those that oppose it will shine for a day a day and no longer

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New filings from the Trump administration in a DOGE lawsuit are jammed full of details about Musk allies Thomas Krause/Marko Elez's access to Treasury systems. They say they erroneously gave Elez read *and* write privileges but don't think he knew it. t.co/iY9E51WycH

submitted 11 days ago • 149 comments