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When you're suddenly desperate to convince people it's a good thing you drove the economy into recession.

submitted 2 days ago • 432 comments

Happening right in front of us

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Russia, Russia, Russia.

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Musk claims to be removing fraud from government, but the corruption is happening in plain sight. He called for the FAA chief who regulates his companies to resign FAA then cancels a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon and gives it to Musk instead donmoynihan.substack.com/p/musks-frau...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

The richest man in the world has seized control of federal spending and is demonstrably lying to the whole cabinet on television.

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He said he was “deporting criminals” but he’s actually importing them…

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

The White House Correspondents' Association needs to stop covering the White House. Boycott. Blackout. Get out and cover what this administration DOES not what it says.

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Merit is when you hire don jr’s buddy who has no experience whatsoever. Racism is when you hire a black person who is qualified for the job. bsky.app/profile/kath...

submitted 5 days ago • 37 comments

“the Deconstruction era” is honestly appropriate coinage. bsky.app/profile/high...

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

submitted 6 days ago • 2170 comments

My newsletter is monthly so it's rare that I post twice in a month. But I wanted to share this love letter to my organizer/activist comrades and friends. I hope that it serves as a reminder to celebrate our wins, no matter how small. open.substack.com/pub/prisoncu...

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

New in PN: Despite the hype, DOGE hasn't found a shred of fraud "With nothing to show for its efforts to find actual fraud, it has become clear that DOGE is the enforcement arm of a Trump administration that has no interest in working with Congress to implement its policy priorities."

submitted 6 days ago • 417 comments

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

submitted 7 days ago • 54 comments

If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 9 days ago • 487 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 9 days ago • 102 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 10 days ago • 860 comments

New Q... Musk Too Much Power +19 (55/36) Approve Trump -4 (45/49) Approve Cong Dems All -47 (21/68) all time low! Dems -9 (40/49) 😬 Approve Cong Rs -12 (40/52) new high Trump Gaza Plan -40 (22/62) Trust Putin -72 (9/81) Trump econ + 0 (44/44) Gender EO +19 (57/38) DEI good +15 (53/38)

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

I saw student protesters in encampments — yeah the ones adults demonized so much — offer a highly organized model for support, mutual aid. People brought in food and water. Students organized shelter, first aid, and even educational opportunities. We have models for how to sustain each other.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

New Quinnipiac poll— Congressional Republicans Approve 40% Disapprove 52% Congressional Democrats Approve 21% Disapprove 68% Elon Musk Favorable 38% Unfavorable 50% Donald Trump Approve 45% Disapprove 49% Trump plan to take Gaza Pro 22% Anti 62% DEI policies Good 53% Bad 38%

submitted 11 days ago • 77 comments

Trump rode to political prominence on birtherism and spent the last month of his campaign claiming that Haitians were eating cats. The rise of authoritarianism in America must be understood as a misinformation crisis.

submitted 11 days ago • 96 comments

10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions. Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks. Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.

submitted 11 days ago • 200 comments

41% of new ICE detainees have no criminal record, according to new data obtained by @nbcnews.com, despite President Trump's promises to target the “worst first” in arrests and deportations.

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My wife found a map from The Technocracy, the 1930's group Elon Musk's Nazi-sympathizing grandfather was involved in, that explains Trump's desire to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal. Behold the Technate of America. Thread.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

The concept of the corporate state has been downplayed as a core component of fascism, but that's exactly what's happening with Elon Musk being put in charge of the US government while still running his business empire.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 14 days ago • 73 comments

Not to flex but anyone who followed Elon's hyperloop arc saw this coming a mile away. He said he could save 90% over high speed rail by ... buying land cheaper. That was it, he never offered any further specifics and the media utterly failed to convey how much of a charlatan he was.

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

one of the stupidest things i have had the misfortune of reading today and i am sharing it with you.

submitted 13 days ago • 1814 comments

There is always something you can do to gum up the works of fascism. A story. Claude Cahun. The queer nonbinary French-Jewish photographer. Nazis conquered France, were training soldiers on Jersey, where Cahun lived w/their partner, Marcel Moore. They did disinfo & morale smashing via Surrealism.

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

The national park service is literally making their sites unreadable by simply deleting the word trans everywhere on the site. MarshabP Johnson's page appears to be down as well.

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

Far-right billionaires are waging a war of attrition against the working class, overwhelming and exhausting the opposition. As @lfelizleon.bsky.social writes, the labor movement needs to embrace a strategy of addition, forging new and unlikely alliances across the working class.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk thinks the poor are a "Parasite Class", & his philosophical guru Curtis Yarvin has "joked" that they should be melted down into biodiesel. But this is a fascist ethos, & some say the true "Parasite Class" are those who have become grotesquely rich off the labor of others.

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

🧵"So this is how liberty dies..." Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up. I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was: * first awarded under Trump * paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom * for researching defenses against deception * not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years

submitted 17 days ago • 184 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 239 comments

Keep in mind that OpenAI just signed a government contract to use its software for US nuclear weapon security. If Musk gains control it would be the most dangerous consolidation of power in history. Everything is alarming, but this is horrifying. www.economist.com/business/202...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

submitted 18 days ago • 336 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 18 days ago • 309 comments

The thing about White Christian Nationalist is that they're engaged in a project that explicitly rejects the teachings of Jesus Christ.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 19 days ago • 2313 comments

Excellent distillation of the technofascist movement of Curtis Yarvin, Peter Theil, JD Vance, Elon Musk, and Balaji Srinivasan, whose goal is to destroy our federal government and replace it with a privatized monarchy www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-plot-a...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

the republican party showed more resistance to a moderate democrat who happened to be black than the democratic party has shown to the full dismantling of the federal government in service of a fascist take over.

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments