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Just got my official termination notice. I will be unemployed, thanks to DOGE, at the end of the week. Things are going to be tough. But! I've got books available (and more to come). Also, I'd like to help on any of YOUR creative projects. Need a writer? Editor? Sounding board? I'm your guy.

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Ah, yes; makes perfect sense!

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there an administrator of DOGE at the present time? GOVERNMENT COUNSEL: I don’t know the answer to that

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People are this upset right now. Just imagine how upset they'll be when a recession hits.

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Not the white man for the moment

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Bluesky seems to also be talking about Eurovision already, so this is just my annual reminder of the song that should've totally won in 2020 (to lighten up the feed for you) youtu.be/VFZNvj-HfBU?...

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submitted 6 days ago • 956 comments

If you haven't realized it yet, Trump and MUSK are doing an open coup and purging the government of any guardrails as they assume authoritarian rule. But pronouns! Kamala is a woman! Woke!

submitted 6 days ago • 44 comments

The Freedom of Information Act is an essential pillar of transparency and democratic accountability for the US government. Eliminating the capacity to comply with laws in general, and FOIA specifically, is a ticking grenade under our democracy.

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"But why would Trump do somthing that will hurt the G.O.P at the next election?" Umm... Maybe because they don't plan on having a "next election"?

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Lol this sign "Do not bring food into the library Food residue will attract mice Mice will acquire knowledge in the library Get into university Then replace you" 😂

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Put tariffs on the podcast mics. Enough.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

once again, kathy hochul could literally oust him tonight. she has that legal right

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

Grave of the Fireflies and Gauche the Cellist composer Michio Mamiya died on December 11 of pneumonia. He was 95.

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this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!

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Sometimes I'll just make thumbnail graphics for YouTube videos that don't exist.

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Please Participate If You Can. Kindly Repost! 💙😎

submitted 25 days ago • 605 comments

It's a coup. The actions being taken are complex, premeditated, have Orbán's fingerprints all over it, and we are going to lose our Republic if a broad, multi-ideological coalition to resist it is not quickly assembled.

submitted 26 days ago • 64 comments

unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers

submitted 26 days ago • 797 comments

Hahahahahahahahhahaha

submitted 28 days ago • 17 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 28 days ago • 3624 comments

I can determine neither the speed nor direction of Rod Stewart

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It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

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remember stuff like this when they tell you that diversity means a lowering of standards

submitted 31 days ago • 993 comments

I am going to put together a thread covering RFK Jr's confirmation hearing for the HHS secretary job. Follow along for clips and commentary.

submitted 31 days ago • 560 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 32 days ago • 3337 comments

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

submitted 31 days ago • 4287 comments

Morning Bluesky. Serbia’s PM Milos Vucevic has resigned after student protests over government corruption.

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

AI startups captured 46 percent of ALL venture capital funding last year. The reason DeepSeek humiliated them is not that they needed more money!

submitted 32 days ago • 42 comments

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

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Allow me to invite you to consider what the Sunday NYT front page & the Sunday shows would look like if Kamala Harris or Joe Biden had said this at any point in the last 12 months. Now allow me to invite you to consider what they will look like tomorrow.

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

Wow — there are now more than 29 MILLION users on Bluesky! Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

submitted 37 days ago • 801 comments

The Mayor of Newark says ICE detained citizens and a military veteran in a warrantless raid there today. www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 36 days ago • 483 comments

This is what happens when you don’t listen to / censor people who actually study f*sc!zm

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

If you want further proof that American journalism is dead, the Hollywood Reporter showed more moral clarity in their coverage of Elon Musk’s Nazi salute than the Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, WSJ, CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS or NBC. Cowards all. bit.ly/4gdjnQe

submitted 38 days ago • 621 comments

Tim Kaine: "It's not anonymous when your own mother writes you the letter telling you you gotta get help."

submitted 37 days ago • 68 comments

i have to assume that “pursuing DEI efforts” means hiring anyone who isn’t a white man?

submitted 37 days ago • 169 comments

Where is Debbie Dingell, head of the Committee Chair, and Gerry Connolley, head of Oversight? Why are AOC and Jasmine Crockett reflecting the righteous anger to the American public?

submitted 37 days ago • 136 comments

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

submitted 37 days ago • 2388 comments

I am alarmingly heterosexual man but I am prepared to explode in a cloud of gay anger on behalf of my friends tonight

submitted 39 days ago • 86 comments