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war is bad for infrastructure week, basically https://youtube.com/shorts/-NZye_eaA78?si=RetVoaUhec7NAbeC

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I thought we weren’t doing “DEI” programs anymore

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Does the JSON license mean a whole bunch of modern software can’t be used for Evil (Looking at you, package.json)

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Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 8 days ago • 273 comments

Donald Trump signed a bunch of executive orders rolling back abortion protections in the middle of the night, hoping that no one would notice. This is — and always has been — about controlling women’s bodies. I’m fighting back.

submitted 8 days ago • 288 comments

we… already knew they had no taste?

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

So far, US Bank is still committed to LGBTQ+ equity initiatives. (Will keep monitoring as they're one of my banks.) www.usbank.com/about-us-ban...

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Damn. Guess Dora will feel more at home though.

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One nice thing about being a free person, or the operator of a free press, is you don’t have to consult—much less “obey”—a goddam book of presidential proclamations to learn what words, geographic or otherwise, are permissible to use. Any government encroachment on that freedom ought to be fought.

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New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.

submitted 17 days ago • 644 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 17 days ago • 84 comments

This very stupid story feels important to me. The fact that lots of government workers pay for subscription news sites, and that this is a work expense, was not secret. The spending was public (on USASpending.gov). What changed? Elon's reply guys raised a ruckus and he RT'd them.

submitted 18 days ago • 58 comments

the fucking enforcement arm of the federal government is launching a war on integration an effort to push tens of millions of americans to the bottom of an arbitrary hierarchy of value and yeah, it pisses me off to see nominal allies say “oh yeah maybe they have a point”

submitted 18 days ago • 226 comments

isitacoup.com

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CNN with an absolutely gigantic story: "Elon Musk’s top lieutenants at the Treasury Department asked its acting secretary, a career civil servant, to immediately shut off all USAID payments using the department’s own ultra-sensitive payment processing system." edition.cnn.com/2025/02/06/p...

submitted 18 days ago • 89 comments

I’m sorry for that really bad code that I wrote. In my defense, it was past-me that wrote it. I’m not responsible for the code that past-me merged

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NEW: U.S. govt officials privately warn Musk’s blitz on federal agencies appears illegal -Alarm over how Musk’s deputies appear to be operating as a strike team, outside typical rules and constitutional checks on executive power wapo.st/40LVERn

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For friends who are in the federal government, this is a very good guide on why you should be using Signal. In short, it’s safe and it’s free! a.wholelottanothing.org/a-guide-to-u...

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 19 days ago • 1280 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 19 days ago • 1757 comments

y'all ever see a take so bad you are forced to immediately go to sleep?

submitted 19 days ago • 160 comments

1/ ❗Really chilling. Thanks to Sen. Mark Warner, for releasing Memo from acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove to FBI leadership ordering the purge. -Memo is a clear abuse of power and weaponization of DOJ -Memo bolsters FBI lawsuits filed today. VERY clear the list is for retaliatory purposes

submitted 20 days ago • 488 comments

Two plus two equals four. This simple truth exposes the alarming reality of our constitutional crisis. Elon Musk's unprecedented concentration of power isn't just a conflict of interest—it's a direct threat to democracy. We've normalized the unthinkable. It's time to wake up.

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Keep saying creepy! Call them Musk's bloodboys! This is better!

submitted 20 days ago • 312 comments

OK @schumer.senate.gov - show us what you are made of. Hold on all business. All the roadblocks and parliamentary tricks you have. America is committing soft power suicide.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Andreessen Horowitz hiring Daniel Perry exemplifies what debates over preferential treatment are really all about. White men are actually rewarded professionally and personally by other white men for their willingness to commit acts of violence against people who threaten white male dominance.

submitted 20 days ago • 36 comments

What do I do if I was unintentionally horny on main

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I would just like to remind everyone that the Senate's role in "advise and consent" is Constitutionally enshrined and it is pretty clear that not a single nominee Trump has put forward is competent and for ... symbolic reasons? ... Senate Democrats cannot stop giving cover to these people.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Once again, can we go back to precedented times, please

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A bunch of demon twinks control the treasury now

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Federal workers are sounding the alarm, worried the public isn't fully grasping the impact of Musk's hold on the federal government. They are trying to hang on, while also wondering when they'll confront a line they're not willing to cross. Here's what they told us: www.theverge.com/policy/60561...

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What really gets me is the instant switch from “they’ll never seriously try to get rid of birthright citizenship, you hysterical ninny, it’s black letter constitutional law” to “birthright citizenship isn’t really required by the constitution, we should seriously engage with its opponents.”

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Hit my limit of bad political news for the day at 8.34am.

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

If your markup language has an if-else block it is no longer a markup language, it is a feature-poor programming language.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Also: they're gonna overturn Roe, get rid of contraception, and take away women's right to vote. The first has happened, second is underway, and they're working on the third.

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Federal crime is okay when white boys do it

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The world’s richest man appears to be dismantling the government with an eye toward consolidating power and punishing his political enemies, @cwarzel.bsky.social writes. Will it work?

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

there’s going to be lots of scary and dubious security advice floating around for the foreseeable future. if you only remember 2 things, remember these: - someone who doesn’t know your threat model can’t give you sound advice - surveillance is a suppression tool; if it’s stopping you, it’s working

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The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

A bunch of red states just filed a brief opposing birthright citizenship. They claim they’re harmed because they have to provide health care to undocumented mothers and their babies—and don’t want to because it’s expensive. All of them claim to be pro-life. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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