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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.

submitted 2 days ago • 4000 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

Jeff Bezos’ statement today makes this worth doubling down on a month later.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

CNN interviewing James Carville in 2026 about the midterms

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

This is for @gtconway.bsky.social Five things I did last week. 1. Took too much ketamine 2. Danced onstage with a chainsaw 3. Ignored my new baby momma 4. Laughed at my own jokes. 5. Neglected all of my children except for the one I use as a human shield.

submitted 10 days ago • 401 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 763 comments

“Chainsaw” is not a policy position. It’s simply the embodiment of the demagoguery that leads to tyranny, as Hamilton warned in Federalist Papers #1: “. . . it will be equally forgotten that the vigor of government is essential to the security of liberty”

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The Attorney General of the United States — the chief law enforcement officer of the country — just told Apple and Google that they can break the law with impunity. Maybe you like this result; but is this the kind of country you want to live in? open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...

submitted 19 days ago • 75 comments

DOJ resignations over orders to drop charges against the NYC mayor (via Reuters) - Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon - Kevin Driscoll, head of the Criminal Division - John Keller, head of the Public Integrity Section And 3 of his deputies: - Robert Heberle - Jennifer Clarke - Marco Palmieri

submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

Again, this idea has been floating out there for ages, and many other governments around the globe use the concept of shadow cabinets. Why haven't the Dems actually done this?

submitted 19 days ago • 147 comments

I'm hearing now that every technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 19 days ago • 487 comments

Holy Shit. They're burning through people pretty fast now. After Sassoon refused/resigned, the next two people - heads of Public Integrity Section (DC) and the Criminal Division also refused/resigned. This all JUST happened. And these are all 'actings', so they're people the Trump crew chose.

submitted 19 days ago • 227 comments

The Danielle Sassoon letter to AG Bondi is wow. If you have a tip about what’s going on in DOJ/SDNY, I can be reached on Signal at annabower.24 Read the letter: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 19 days ago • 212 comments

The passive authoritarian tense

submitted 20 days ago • 112 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 22 days ago • 1570 comments

Vance is openly calling for the end of the constitutional order here, which is a betrayal of his oath of office. It is as plain as day now, Loper Bright ain’t gonna save you

submitted 24 days ago • 23 comments

Is it just me or has WIRED been dogwalking the rest of the media on this story

submitted 25 days ago • 188 comments

The wording of this decision is crystal clear. “The President cannot change, limit, or qualify this Constitutional right via executive order.”

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

BREAKING: we just blocked Musk & Trump out of the Treasury systems! Court order just secured — big win by us at @sddaction.bsky.social & our partners including @publiccitizen.bsky.social!

submitted 27 days ago • 2061 comments

I think Musk is the kryptonite. No one likes him. I don’t think even Trump, or a good portion of Trumpers, like him. Focus all the negative messaging on him, channel the negative coverage on him. As an added bonus he is super insecure and fragile and he will lose his mind

submitted 27 days ago • 294 comments

This was indeed another great and inspiring interview by @reckless.bsky.social.... we're all rooting for @bookshop-org.bsky.social.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Musk has had no problem naming individual federal employees he thinks should be fired (see article). Now he wants anonymity and zero oversight for his officials who are creating a constitutional crisis. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/fake-jobs-...

submitted 30 days ago • 53 comments

makes perfect sense but also wild to see retaliation focused on red states

submitted 31 days ago • 184 comments

This is a monumental day for the future of the open web, though it might not be obvious for a while. Mastodon matures its governance model with a great, solid non-profit blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-... and a coalition of independents push to open up Bluesky's AT Protocol: freeourfeeds.com

submitted 51 days ago • 19 comments

Who did this

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

submitted 59 days ago • 319 comments

The Washington Post has gone to the darkness where truth dies. 🫗

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Yikes.

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

Destruction Of Government (by) Elon. That’s what DOGE really means. Say it! A simple lesson on framing: www.theframelab.org/destruction-...

submitted 84 days ago • 7 comments

My colleague @danielletomson.bsky.social and I published an article in The Conversation expanding upon the metaphor that the dynamics of right-wing/conservative media look a lot like improv theater: theconversation.com/how-right-wi...

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

imo it's a legit scandal how much legacy social sites are suppressing link content i think we all knew that they were doing it, but i didn't realize that news orgs & creators would get over an order of magnitude better engagement over here

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments