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I wish reading the news felt less like binge watching the final season of a long running series that’s been a major part of your life for decades.

Teachers teach. We need a leaderful movement, and there are leaders all around us.

Here’s a good model for responding to this dipshit’s letters:

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

There's no widespread fraud in Social Security payments, as Elon Musk claims. The number of people receiving benefits by age is available online. In Dec 2024, 89,106 people 99yo & older received benefits. There are about 101,000 people in the US over the age of 100. www.ssa.gov/oact/progdat...

reading the Declaration of Independence and it is so fucking wild to me how Trump is literally doing like 75% of this

This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

If DOGE messes with the National Archives, I'm going to be REALLY pissed. #genealogy

Why is Elon Musk hiding what they are doing inside the USAID building?

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

A man of Japanese ancestry wears his WWI US Navy uniform as he enters an incarceration camp in 1942. catalog.archives.gov/id/537044

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

Regarding Pete Hegseth, I can't get past the fact that he doesn't wash his hands. I'm a NO right there. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Worth reminding

A millionaire co-founder of real estate investment firm, who bragged about not paying taxes, offered to throw cash at any concierge private fire department to protect only *his* house. We are living in the age of selfish plutocrats. (The account was subsequently deleted.)

everything about this new Meta AI bot is so dystopian but for me the AI-generated images of nonexistent donated coats is up there