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As Elon Musk guts entire government agencies and fires thousands of federal workers that deliver vital services to the country, remember that his corporations have received at least $38 billion in government contracts over the past 20 years. Yet will any of this be touched by DOGE? Of course not.

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“Now that real car companies make electric vehicles, there’s just no way that Tesla can maintain its previous unchallenged market share, and that’s before you factor in their CEO being a Nazi who is destroying his company’s brand with the people most likely to buy his cars.”

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I did Nazi this coming

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At a London bus stop. The Brits are telling it like it is.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

They look like if Transformers pooped

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You can tell this is a product that's in high demand because they keep hiding the ways to turn it off

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Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 4 days ago • 124 comments

This is the House Republican budget plan that Donald Trump endorsed. Trickle up economics.

submitted 4 days ago • 232 comments

#teslatakedown I made some protest art.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk is “exploiting vulnerabilities that are built into the nation’s technological systems, operating as what cybersecurity experts call an insider threat,” our columnist Zeynep Tufekci writes.

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Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

#TeslaTakedown is happening! Join a protest or register your own event at Teslatakedown.com!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

It’s not a “savings” if you’re getting fewer services in exchange. I’m still paying the same taxes!

submitted 8 days ago • 176 comments

URGENTE: JAIR TB INDICADO AO OSCAR OSCARCEREIRO DA PAPUDA JÁ EM ALERTA PARA RECEBÊ-LO

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Extermine todos os Brutos é um doc dramático lançado em 2021 pela HBO. Nele, o diretor Raoul Peck ensina de forma didática o quão a história é contada para justificar e até manter alguns dos principais problemas, como o colonialismo e a ascensão da ideia de que exista uma supremacia branca no mundo.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Nursing a take that the major Silicon Valley firms can be understood as organized crime syndicates and perform some of the same functions as the old ones used to — money laundering, feeding addictions, skirting regulations, political influence.

submitted 11 days ago • 70 comments

remember Medicare for All? Wish that was still a thing

submitted 11 days ago • 102 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 12 days ago • 540 comments

this is a good example of the attitude that has led democrats down the road to disaster. it rests on the belief that public opinion cannot be shaped or mobilized or moved, only reacted to

submitted 13 days ago • 465 comments

Attacking CPFB just so happens to clear the way for X payments www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 22 days ago • 588 comments

Tremendous new addition to the Louvre

submitted 17 days ago • 142 comments

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

submitted 17 days ago • 215 comments

Shout out to Corporate Media who spent summer/fall 2024 amplifying Trump's lies that he had nothing to do with Project 2025. Here is NYT "fact-checking" "accuracy" of Harris tying Trump to Project 2025 on October 22, 2024.

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Musk is the living embodiment of AI: a broken, tech-bro tool that inserts itself into everyone's life unsolicited and makes everything worse.

submitted 21 days ago • 135 comments

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt. Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

submitted 22 days ago • 807 comments

A very real thing that can definitely be done at a glance by skimming a spreadsheet in a computer system you're unfamiliar with

submitted 22 days ago • 459 comments

NEW: The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk's Government Takeover from @telliotter.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 24 days ago • 59 comments

"Both Sides" Psychosis: In 2022, The New York Times equated Republican election lies with Democratic warnings about fascism. Today they're doing the same false equivalence with Trump/Musk's premeditated implosion and plundering of the treasury:

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For a photo op & a bragging media post, Trump minions at the USACoE have thrown away millions of gals of #water farmers were relying on for later this year. This water will not be captured, will not be useful for cities or farms or firefighting. It is now lost. www.latimes.com/environment/...

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This tweet sent out 14 hours BEFORE the crash needs to be immortalized in stone. Or on a plaque in every ATC tower. Or on a disclaimer before every Mayday: Air Disaster episode. Or on an Amber Alert type system to every American. Or on a stamp. Or maybe currency. Something.

submitted 27 days ago • 69 comments

Intelligence officials are starting to leak to me now too. Here’s a memo Defense Intelligence Agency personnel received instructing them to suspend observances including: - Holocaust Remembrance Day - MLK Day - Juneteenth

submitted 29 days ago • 884 comments

The buyouts email sent by OPM uses the same headline as what Elon Musk sent to Twitter employees when he took over the company — “Fork in the Road.” It also has a similar “click yes or no” form at the end of the email. www.opm.gov/fork

submitted 29 days ago • 91 comments

O que eu venho dizendo sobre o fim da "conciliações", sobre como é mais do que necessário (e urgente) que as esquerdas mundiais se reinventem enquanto esquerdas de fato, e não como conciliadoras entre os (supostos) interesses do povo e do capital.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

When the history of this conditional crisis is written, it should be reflected that the best training ground for flouting laws and reneging on obligations was being an American CEO. The voters got their wish. These guys are running the country like a business.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

someone forgot to scrub the author metadata in OPM memos... www.404media.co/opm-memos-to...

submitted 30 days ago • 25 comments

This by Dan Savage is I think important to keep top of mind. It speaks to the point I made earlier that bad news is never the only news.

submitted 30 days ago • 57 comments

Quando meu pai foi parar nos EUA durante o exílio os Quakers foram uns dos principais grupos a oferecer ajuda

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Tech VC's won't be happy until The Internet of Shit becomes The Planet of Shit.

submitted 30 days ago • 23 comments

because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die

submitted 30 days ago • 91 comments

ESTAVAM GASTANDO TODO O ESTOQUE DE ÁGUA DOCE DO MUNDO PRA FAZER O QUE DOUTOR XI JINPING FEZ EM UM GAME BOY

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"Data center do tamanho de Manhattan" O nível absurdo de infraestrutura necessário para uma tecnologia que nem de longe conseguiu provar seu valor torna inevitável levarmos mais a sério as diferentes versões das discussões sobre aceleracionismo, pq é exatamente isso q se coloca diante de nós.

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“Spotify is probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians,” says Bjork. ”The streaming culture has changed an entire society and an entire generation of artists.”

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This isn't a stockpile, it's a bailout

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