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Republicans back young man with Trump surname even though he's never said a word about *anything* in public. So don't tell me this isn't just a mindless cult blindly associated with the name Trump.

"the problem is not Russia. The problem is us." How many lines will we have to cross before we come to our collective senses?

Gold from beginning to end

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. By @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

This is a great piece.

www.propublica.org/article/janu...

Thrice impeached has a nice ring to it. Third time's the charm

One of the deepest problems with our economic system is that human misery is profitable

Think Tank Called ‘The Himmler Institute’ Assures Nation This All Legal theonion.com/think-t...

*lifts hood* Ohhhh, that’s your problem right there. You needed a normal deregulation Republican regime, but somebody installed the unhinged toddler Caligula regime instead. Ooh, yeah, that’s a problem. *sucks teeth* Fix it? No, no, you’re gonna need a complete rebuild and it’s gonna be expensive.

Futurama tried to warn us

Musk is literally giving pep talks to Nazis. www.joemygod.com/2025/01/musk...

It wasn't just that he was running a marketplace. www.wired.com/2015/02/read...

"digital freedom is now equivalent to actual legal and personal freedom, and we must be allowed to control our own destinies"

Congressional insider trading walked so that Trump's meme-coin could run.

Trump has held rallies at temperatures MUCH lower than the temperatures predicted for his inauguration. This isn't about worrying about the number of the temperature, it's about worrying about the number of people in the crowd for this horrible person.

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

This is impressive viejospellejos.com/post/7693812...

Wow, this is a wild ride

You will be visited by three spirits. The spirits:

Sketchy promoted post offering to tell me how "the mother of all bubbles will pop". Listen, mr hack financial writer, THIS is the mother of all bubbles: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_v...

Privacy policies always start with "we respect and value the privacy of our users" and then go on to describe how they Hoover up all your personal data so they can sell off every last crumb of it

Founders: let's create a system of checks and balances to keep anyone from having too much power Republicans: let's put billionaire ceos directly in charge of the branch that enforces the regulations on their businesses

Open-Government Nonprofits Are Dying Off Just When They’re Needed Most — By @americalabs.org via @thebulwark.bsky.social

Well I guess Gary Johnson knows what Aleppo is now

If corporations are people, then the stock market is slavery

Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it.