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Living in the Upside Down. Dreamer of unattainable things. Skeptic extraordinaire. Parent, grandparent, sibling, friend, writer, maker and collector of weird things and people. MAGA is a cancer. Not looking to be humble.
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AYFKM?

Fetterman Staffers Quit Amid Frustration Over Israel Focus theintercept.com/2025/02/19/f... #PrimaryFetterman #VoteProgressive #IsraeliWarCrimes #EndAidToIsrael #NetanyahuWarCriminal #FreePalestine #EndTheGenocide #BDS #SettlersOut #StopAIPAC

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

This is what oligarchy looks like.

This is so fucking dumb

Aside from the total lack of qualifications, Sean Duffy somehow manages to add a third syllable to the word “pattern.”

RFK is using the terms Medicare and Medicaid interchangeably. What a dangerous nincompoop.

A database detailing Jan 6 crimes and convictions has disappeared from the Department of Justice website. “This is a huge victory for J6ers..." www.cnn.com/2025/01/25/p...

White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr...

Elon Musk biographer here. The "missing context" from the op-ed below is that Musk has been spreading racist and antisemitic memes, screenshots, graphs, charts, unsourced narratives, tropes, and buzzwords for 18 months now. Publicly. Daily. The Post either knows this or should not be in business.

BBC not buying the gaslighting

In another era, if the gesture was even a 'gaffe' it would be disqualifying. You cannot claim he is a genius and should run the government if we also think he is just a little bean, whose arms flap in the breeze.

Guardian vs. NYT. You know who's going to call things by their true names and who's not even gonna give you syrup with that waffle. Guardian: "Elon Musk waded into controversy on Monday when he gave back-to-back fascist-style salutes....

Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades

SCOOP: Instagram blocked teens from searching LGBTQ-related content for months. Posts with LGBTQ+ hashtags were hidden under Meta's “sensitive content” policy which restricts "sexually suggestive content", Meta said they are fixing this “error” after I reached out for comment.

And all the post-election think pieces should be be focused on the question of why voters refused to accept that message from Biden and Harris. But that would lead inevitably to an examination of media coverage of Biden and of Harris.

Wait, I’m sorry…if the truck blows up, it locks you in?

I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣

Over in the other place, the billionaire owner is threatening to fund ‘moderate’ (rightwing) candidates in heavily Democratic districts too. This is what oligarchy looks like. It’s the biggest threat to democracy today. Not ‘cancel culture.’ Not trans kids. Not college protesters. Oligarchy.

sounds right

This is absolutely something Orwell would have written into 1984 if artificial intelligence had existed or been more foreseeable in 1948

Why the crypto industry backed Trump: because the crypto oligarchs want billions of dollars from the US government @chrislhayes.bsky.social has the best explanation of this story I have seen youtu.be/qWANiC28M8o?...

For most of my life the Republican strategy is to prevent Democrats from doing popular things and they keep getting rewarded for it. At the same time, Democrats keep trying to seek common ground and they are punished. Over and over again. Be kinda nice if some lessons were learned and applied.

He is the best of the best. As an Ohioan I am ashamed and pissed that my state's voters fell yet again for the lying POS