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submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

If 272 Democratic members of Congress walk out of the President’s State of the Union address it will be a powerful statement, even if their empty seats are quickly filled by Elon Musk’s children.

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think about how quickly you'd get fired if your numbers were off by three orders of magnitude #uspol #elonmusk #DOGE

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump actually said this yesterday: "raw earth." Which I guess is him confusing "rare earth" materials,. which aren't really in the offering, and raw materials, which may well be. “As you know, our country doesn’t have a lot of raw earth,” said Trump. “What we do have is protected from the […]

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

There is something really repulsive about the fact that Fox News and CNN are now having long debates about the clothes Zelenskyy wore to The White House, and whether it was a problem, he did not wear a tie. It must be really awkward for all US servicemen and women who know what it takes to […]

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

This is the best thing I've seen all day. Go ski in Russia, Mr. I Did Not Have Sectional Relations with that Couch.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Here's the bottom line of what happened today in the White House Oval Office: President Trump has displayed an inordinate amount of servility to Russia to the point where he starts bullying an actual hero. This behavior projects cowardice, i.e. weakness, to the rest of the world. The other […]

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

New Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last week ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia https://therecord.media/hegseth-orders-cyber-command-stand-down-russia-planning

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

I stand with #Zelenskyy 🇺🇦 Screw you dictator #Trump

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall and said “Mr Gorbachev, how much of east Germany’s minerals are you willing to give us?”

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Honestly, I don't know how Zelenksy didn't punch the cheetoh that whole time. That man has remarkable restraint. I have never been so embarrassed for our country. What a thug. "World War III," he says over and over, echoing Putin's sabre rattling throughout his invasion. Even sitting in the […]

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

#Musk states w/out any facts that #Verizon’s efforts 2 provide critically needed upgrade to #FAA #airtraffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that #Starlink unit of his #SpaceX satellite & rocket company, take over. Verizon has massive $2.4B contract to provide […]

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

submitted 4 days ago • 933 comments

The top story on WaPo right now deserves its spot: "Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding." "Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth" […]

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

“There was a time when a newspaper, especially one that was a local monopoly, might have seen it as a service to bring to the reader’s doorstep every morning a broad-based opinion section that sought to cover all views,” Bezos wrote. “Today, the internet does that job.” […]

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is the US Attorney for the District of Columbia taking a shot at the Associated Press (presumably over their refusal to call The Gulf of Mexico by another name), while calling the Justice Department "President Trump's lawyers," which I'm sure isn't […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Picture 1: Trump claims the US has provided 350 billion dollars worth of aid to Ukraine. Picture 2: Trump’s own administration has forgotten to delete this page from January 20 this year, stating that the right number is 65.9 billion dollars. — His own […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

In the latest projection for today’s election in Germany, the right wing extremists of the AfD party double their support raking in 19.9 percent. To every German who now feel nauseous about this: This is exactly like Denmark in 2015, where the far right Danish People’s Party took 21 percent of […]

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Gee, do we think they're fascists or just being edgy? #CPAC #Fascism #FarRight #Trump #USPOL

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

It's been truly sickening to read the news today: Trump calls Zelensky a "dictator" who took US money to go to war, making it clear as day that the US president sides with Russia in this conflict. Zelensky says the president lives in a circle of […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

After having spoken to Vladimir Putin, Trump claims Ukrainian president Zelenskyy’s approval rating is 4 percent. The actual number is 57 percent, which Trump would know, if he ever did some fact checking. US voters have elected an amateur.

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

You had better take a shot, and then read this. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/charles-spitzer-stadtlander-jd-mpa-9b018b25_urgent-national-security-threat-i-work-activity-7296973991716499456-31eV

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Behold, the future: > "Zhang gazed at the deflating airbag in front of her. She could never have imagined what was to come: Tesla sued her…for complaining publicly about the car’s brakes—and won. A Chinese court ordered Zhang to pay…$23,000." […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

🔥🔥🔥 the latest resignation letter in Trump’s ongoing massacre of anti-corruption prosecutors who refuse to drop charges against #EricAdams is significantly shorter than #DanielleSassoon’s letter but damn if it doesn’t get straight to the point. > "If no […] [Original post on universeodon.com]

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Imagine if Franklin D. Roosevelt had told Europe, that returning France to its prewar borders was not "realistic", now that Hitler had invaded. This is how Trump is communicating about Ukraine. For the rest of our lives, Europeans will remember that 77 million Americans voted for a coward.

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely wild. The US financial services regulator has had their website suddenly deleted this weekend and according to the NY Times they’ve been told to stop all supervisory activity (ie regulation). It’s supposed to be protected by an act of Congress […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

submitted 22 days ago • 14 comments

All my life I have been listening to the excuse, that the US had to be flooded with weapons, because if a dictator ever came to power, these weapons were the guarantee that the people could defend itself against tyranny. In reality, those 2nd amendment people were never going to defend the US […]

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"I sense no appetite for a "works-with fascists-and-billionaires' message. I sense a desperate thirst for a 'fights fascists and billionaires' message." www.the-reframe.com/its/

submitted 27 days ago • 16 comments

NY Times - The far right Proud Boys group no longer has control of its name, which now belongs to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church, a judge has ruled. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/politics/proud-boys.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uU4.znvA.hfSDlNCHAagz&smid=url-share

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

President Bluster promised this wouldn’t happen. Another broken promise. Weird. Supporting source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-fighter-jets-scrambled-russia-warplanes-arctic-norad/ #USpol

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Alleged #X whistleblower published a thing about #Elon's election manipulation that sounds completely plausible to me: > "One of the most disturbing things we did was create thousands of fake accounts using advanced #AI systems called #Grok and #Eliza. These accounts looked completely real and […]

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Elon Musk’s Tesla paid a total of $0 in federal income taxes in 2024, new tax reports show, despite the company having raked in billions of dollars in income and being the most valuable car company in the world […]

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments