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Who did the salute better? Bannon or Musk?

Here's video of Steve Bannon doing a Sieg Heil today at CPAC. It is what it is and it's what Bannon intended. Don't let yourself be gaslit.

Former Vikings punter Chris Kluwe was arrested at a city council meeting after stating, “MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement. You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is,” before engaging in peaceful civil disobedience.

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It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

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

In the weeks since Trump took office, Elon Musk has posted on X at the pace of an iPad-addicted child. A sample: In two hours on Friday, Musk tweeted more than 40 times—about once every three minutes. @nlanard.bsky.social on the clear story the posts tell:

They suck equally hard.

People are getting up off the mat.

SCOOP: Kash Patel—whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI—took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries.

Deport Musk to Australia now! #fucknazis www.bbc.com/news/article...

Dems would get much more traction finding and promoting people saying what they know and experience. What has more impact, This man speaking his mind or the Dems speaking “in unison “ ?

Bilingualism is associated with a bigger brain. Similar to other cognitively demanding skills, it leads to dynamic subcortical structural adaptations which can be nonlinear, in line with expansion-renormalisation models of experience-dependent neuroplasticity. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research. I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

New from 404 Media: hundreds of subreddits, including some of the most popular, are considering banning all links/content/screenshots from X/Twitter. r/NFL, r/hockey, r/baseball, r/nba, r/formula1, r/ComicBookMovies, r/MadeMeSmile, so many more. Some already have. www.404media.co/hundreds-of-...

They really are.

German army withdraws from Twitter/X Germany’s defense ministry and army announced they were ending their activities on Twitter. “We have decided to take this step because an objective debate is becoming increasingly difficult here.” www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Joan Plowright, whose career in theatre and film spanned six decades, has died at 95

What could go wrong..

Are we sleepwalking into autocracy? Yes! Well, probably not YOU – my community is wide awake! But I try to shake many others out of their slumber in my latest @nytopinion.nytimes.com w/ @kimlanelaw.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/o...

More than 40,000 acres have already burned. Meanwhile, influencers peddle questionable products, right-wing commentators blame the devastation on ‘wokeness,’ and landlords look to profit.

120+ Indigenous tribal leaders have sent a letter asking for Executive Clemency for Leonard Peltier “A survivor of the federally funded boarding school system where he endured years of physical, emotional, and spiritual abuse” ndncollective.org/120-tribal-l... @ndncollective.bsky.social

Fundraiser to invest in tech which will keep future social media platforms out of billionaires' hands: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-fr...

Great essay by former PM Jean Chrétien in today's Globe and Mail: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/f0cfa6e...

She’s right, you know.