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Neurologically spicy Aspie.. Old fart and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. Arkansas born and raised.
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Elon Musk didn’t spend $44 billion to buy Twitter, it was Elon Musk and his wealthy co-investors all of which are deeply tied to Russia, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and organized crime.

A new website created by about a dozen federal employees, called “We the Builders,” aims to be a secure outlet for government workers to share stories about how their workplaces are being impacted by DOGE, and a place to explain the real-world impact of its access to government tech systems.

This EV could reboot medium-duty trucking by not reinventing the wheel arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02...

When the leader of France’s far-right party—founded by an actual Nazi sympathizer—thinks CPAC is too racist for him, you know the GOP has fully gone off the deep end.

Proposal to eliminate State Library and PBS governing boards passes Arkansas Senate www.alternet.org/eliminate-pbs/

Trump expected to take control of USPS, fire postal board, officials say www.democraticunderground.com/10143400834

'I think that's over': Retired general declares death of key U.S. alliance www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

SpaceX engineers brought on at FAA after probationary employees were fired arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...

Dark Pence is back.

Critics warn Trump’s latest order 'should concern you ' “Trump Administration is setting up a constitutional crisis because they want civil unrest to enact martial law,” national security analyst Maine Wonk wrote on X above a clip of the announcement. www.rawstory.com/trump-execut...

Busted: DOGE took credit for canceling $8 billion contract — but it was really $8 million www.alternet.org/doge-ice-con...

An unbelievable excerpt of Judge Reyes schooling Trump's Attorneys on the biology of Trump's ban on trans in the military and why it's wrong on many levels. She is amazing! Worth a read, or listen, full alt text included!

Sarah Huckabee sure has lost some weight, hasn't she?

Postmaster General Louis DeJoy is resigning.

When your administration is too corrupt for DeJoy…

Senior US prosecutor resigns, citing demand to probe Biden-era contract www.reuters.com/world/us/sen...

The rightward drift of Silicon Valley didn’t come out of nowhere. In 2014, Corey Pein detailed the then emerging connections between tech elites and neo-fascist thinkers like Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land.

In 2024, The New Republic and Proof wrote a ton about Yarvin. Now—thankfully—everyone is interested. He's the leader of a cult at least one of the three co-presidents is in, along with the VP and a top lieutenant of yet another co-president. America needs to know how dangerous these cultists are.

This!!

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

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Sounds like how the oligarch class was created in Russia

Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

The democratic world will have to get along without America. It may even have to defend itself from it www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...