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Fantastically brutal review of Palantir CEO Alex Karp's new book, The Technological Republic by @lioneltrolling.bsky.social. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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ICYMI: I spoke to @reproutopia.bsky.social about the feminist imperative to fight fascism, even when the fascists are other feminists (and especially when those other feminists are providing a pseudofeminist alibi to a rightwing assault on bodily autonomy and trans people)

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The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming. Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases. boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...

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you have to see some of this as reactionary accelerationism (not that Musk, Thiel, and co. actually hide this fact)

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“In some ways that’s even more chilling than firing the four stars,” Rosa Brooks, a professor at Georgetown Law. “It’s what you do when you’re planning to break the law: you get rid of any lawyers who might try to slow you down.” By NYT Greg Jaffe www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/u...

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Hello I am version 9817932.2 of this man, recent patch notes include weird hair and general smoothness and stability of gameplay

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Here is the Associated Press complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... And here is the motion for a preliminary injunction: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.

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it is shocking the extent to which they openly sneer at morality

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"What is built on the basis of force, and not on the truth about the equal dignity of every human being, begins badly and will end badly." - the Pope (calling out JD Vance)

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Where did the mythology of the English Longbow Start? Take aim at this popular myth, because there’s no one finer then the always accurate @drcrossbows.bsky.social to take a shot at it!

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You're saying the billionaire's operation is like an octopus? An octopus? Huh, where have I heard that one before?

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We need to start the Politico Read A Fucking History Book Challenge.

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Tomorrow in The Atlantic: Trumpism has pulled back the curtain on the extremes of inhumanity of which Americans are capable, such as the failure of Bluesky NPCs to treat my insights with sufficient admiration. By Thomas Chatterton Williams, from FRANCE

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Important to start admitting that we’re living under Schrodinger’s constitution—one that is not in effect whenever it constrains Republican powers, but is in effect whenever it can be used to stymie democrats or suppress opposition.

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In addition to Congress being the place that makes the laws, pretty key thing, the constitution explicitly says Congress gets to create the postal system. It’s not left implied that that comes under law making generally. The President has no power to unilaterally abolish it and move it to commerce.

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at some point he is going to personally smash something important to every single person in this country and it depends whether or not they can bring themselves to accept that he’s done it there is nothing here but an endless, rapacious desire to destroy

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They're underwater largely because they refuse to fight tooth and nail, but they'll interpret this as "We need to reach out more to Nazis." poll.qu.edu/images/polli...

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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul’s response: “We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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What do you think would have been the reaction from Fox and the right if Obama's White House account tweeted this in 2015?

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Dems are getting the ball 1-on-0 in transition and waiting for all their teammates to get down the floor to run their usual offense instead.

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We are back for day two in front of Judge Reyes in Talbott v. Trump, the challenge to Trump's anti-trans military executive order. The plaintiffs are seeking a preliminary injunction; we do not expect a ruling until after a hearing after the military issues its implementing guidance next week.

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I've noted some of the procedural things Democrats could be doing in Congress, but this point from @edgeofsports.bsky.social's great piece in the Nation deserves emphasis. This is basic politics, and it's baffling that every Democrat isn't doing it every day. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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it's ironic the doge guys all fancy themselves outside the box thinkers but their interpretation of government function is almost entirely based on 45 years of reheated dogshit simplistic propaganda cooked up by "free market libertarian think tankers" sponsored by IBM and AT&T

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Trump's DOT withdraws federal approval for New York City congestion pricing, as local/state officials signal they may sue to keep congestion pricing going: nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/02/19/b...

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See? Now you can go ahead and buy your OWN cancer research, and hire your own air traffic controllers, and fund your own emergency management for floods and fires.

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Trump official announces that Trump has signed an executive order claiming that only the president can speak for “what the law is” (This is not how the Constitution works)

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Hakeem Jeffries unveils his nickname for Donald Trump. [drumroll] "Captain Chaos"

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USDA says it accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is trying to rehire them In a statement, an Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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Is this more embarrassing than the nuclear thing?

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Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

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So is prime censoring their ai descriptions to avoid mentions of trans people?

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Today marks the 24th anniversary of the arrest of Robert Hannsen, the FBI agent turned spy for Russia. Despite being one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history, no one in FBI was fired for the systemic security failures that made his espionage possible.

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they hire people like this instead of the many savvy and qualified journalists precisely because they are huge credulous dumbasses.

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Democratic politicians need to be screaming about this from the rooftops

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i will become a total shill for whichever politician decides to become the joe mccarthy of rooting out silicon valley ideology and influence

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Many people are asking why RFK Jr. talked about the sperm count of young boys in his opening address to HHS and I do not have a good answer for that.

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So anyways in Twitter news Stacy Cay apparently dunked on Josh Seiter so hard that he FUCKING DIED

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So uh, this is an interesting sequence of headlines for today’s Wired mailer. Next week are we going to talk about the health benefits for tech CEOs of massive amounts of cocaine, and then maybe about the “conspiracy” of government regulators to otherwise interfere with their exploitative schemes?

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"The emails were 'from an "exec order" Microsoft email address' — not a government email address." apnews.com/article/doge...

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