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A lively industry is growing of talkers/influencers trying to sell the idea that there is some rational patriotic motive to Trump's pro-Putin foreign policy and his costly trade wars. Don't believe them. My latest. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

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Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

submitted 6 days ago • 167 comments

abundantly clear that this administration takes “discrimination” to mean “any regard for minority communities” and treats “merit” as a synonym for “white (and preferably male)”

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MUSK: A sophisticated cyberattack from Ukraine took out Twitter's servers REALITY: Twitter's servers were not secured properly and were publicly visible Great explainer here from @lhn.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/x-ddos...

submitted 7 days ago • 191 comments

⚡️Musk calls Sen. Mark Kelly a 'traitor' over Ukraine trip, Kelly pushes back. "Elon, if you don't understand that defending freedom is a basic tenet of what makes America great and keeps us safe, maybe you should leave it to those of us who do," Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly wrote.

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Any psychologist or psychiatrist (or former abused spouse) will tell you that President Zelensky gave a master class today on how to deal with a malignant narcissist. He is an amazing man. We can all learn from him.

submitted 18 days ago • 1944 comments

When Trump and his followers cried “deep state,” they did so because it wasn’t their deep state. www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

NGL I knew in September that this was going to be fly or fight serious situation terrifying, but not physically kick out Zelenskyy, demolish Medicaid, fire the JAG, lay off half of CISA, and stop tracking Russian cybercriminals by month 2 bad.

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

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submitted 23 days ago • 242 comments

Trump’s executive order shutting down DEI claims that recruiting diverse applicants “diminishes the importance of individual merit, aptitude, hard work, and determination.” Donald Trump’s war on DEI isn’t about merit.

submitted 24 days ago • 170 comments

American institutions—from the media to Congress—continue to underreact to the unraveling of our democracy. Overseas our media would not hesitate to call what we’re living through a full-blown autocratic coup. Here's my attempt at the story they should write: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-trump...

submitted 31 days ago • 79 comments

So the only asylum seekers the US will now admit are White people from former apartheid South Africa.

submitted 39 days ago • 256 comments

Elon Musk wants to kill the CFPB to help himself and his rich tech buddies scam you look at him with his buddy Austen here just a day ago the government didn't unfairly come after Austen. the CFPB found that Austen and his company were deceiving people like you.

submitted 39 days ago • 7 comments

The White House has said that any of Elon Musk's conflicts of interest regarding his work with DOGE will be monitored and addressed by....Elon Musk. He's determining which government contracts are "fraud" while he himself has billions in government contracts. Hello?

submitted 40 days ago • 376 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 39 days ago • 938 comments

The SAVE Act is systemic misogyny. It would disenfranchise tens of millions of women--those who changed their name after marriage but don't have either a birth certificate or a passport with their new legal name.

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The answer is yes www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

submitted 39 days ago • 568 comments

A must read article. I learned so much about Hungary’s slip toward autocracy. Trump, Musk and their collaborators are following the same playbook. apple.news/A0OgAqMRfSRO...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

submitted 40 days ago • 6574 comments

As someone who has studied autocratization elsewhere, I can tell you that you need to keep your eyes on THIS. Changes to the partisan balance of bodies overseeing elections or changes to the electoral system is key to how wannabe autocrats become actual autocrats. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/u...

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

Definition of irony? The guy Trump put in charge of shrinking government subsidies is the largest government subsidy recipient in the world.

submitted 40 days ago • 141 comments

Hillary Clinton literally lost an election for installing a private server in her own damned house.

submitted 43 days ago • 15 comments

Yesterday Google announced the replacement of its Responsible AI Principles with vague, non-binding commitments, abandoning a previous decision to limit military use of its AI. Read EPIC’s statement: epic.org/google-rolls...

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

NSF plans to lay off a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months. www.eenews.net/articles/sci... This reckless move will shatter U.S. scientific leadership and cripple innovation for generations.

submitted 42 days ago • 11 comments

What tech company will be the first to stand up and say that gutting the NSF is bad actually? The economic argument seems pretty clear Less NSF --> fewer PhD students --> fewer researchers --> smaller AI tech pipeline --> slower progress --> less competitive globally

submitted 42 days ago • 4 comments

Endorsing the crime of ethnic cleansing.

submitted 42 days ago • 1059 comments

I wrote about Google unveiling its 'responsible AI progress report' by quietly deleting the part of its AI principles where it promised not to work on weapons https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-principles-military-safety/

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

To instrumentalize what my sister is saying below: every time someone says DEI say “you mean civil rights?” Every time someone says they are against woke reply “oh so you’re a segregationist!” Words have meaning! Don’t allow that nonsense to stand.

submitted 53 days ago • 65 comments

Just pointing out that Elon Musk, government employee, removing content from ExTwitter criticizing government employees, seems like the kind of First Amendment issue that old Elon Musk was concerned about: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/m...

submitted 43 days ago • 7 comments

The Trump 3-step: -create a crisis by announcement -make a "deal" that does nothing new but withdraws the announcement -claim that he prevented the crisis he initiated

submitted 43 days ago • 41 comments

The unelected South African oligarch tearing apart American civil service is calling the international aid-and-soft-power apparatus started at the height of the Cold War to counter the influence of the Soviets a “viper’s nest of radical-left marxists.” Wont anyone read a book?

submitted 44 days ago • 63 comments

look this is all going to suck a lot for everyone but I do think it's important to take this special tariffs moment to say to all the "he won't actually do the tariffs tho, it's just words, he won't really do it" people from the very bottom of my heart my loudest and most heartfelt "i told you so"

submitted 45 days ago • 78 comments

American citizens should not have to enter into a contract with a private company (that’s an X account signup!) to receive government communications

submitted 45 days ago • 158 comments

The constitutional crisis is here, and it's Elon Musk, an unelected mega-billionaire benefactor of the president, being granted almost total authority over the operation of the federal government with zero oversight.

submitted 45 days ago • 24 comments

CDT’s @silvperez.bsky.social in The Cyber Wire on how the changes to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board could impact the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF). thecyberwire.com/new...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

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He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.

submitted 47 days ago • 2842 comments

Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel: "Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th." BOOM! 🔥

submitted 47 days ago • 717 comments

Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America. He didn't blame Bush. He didn't blame Reagan. He just consoled America. A REAL Commander in Chief.

submitted 47 days ago • 686 comments

I wonder if it has anything to do with owning a company that mines and streams everything we say and do?

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The FAA is facing its first major aviation disaster in 16 years without a leader because Elon Musk helped push him out. The former FAA administrator stepped down on Jan. 20th after Musk called on him to resign. Musk was angry after the FAA fined SpaceX for failing to get approval for launch changes.

submitted 47 days ago • 494 comments

"The buck stops here"- Harry Truman "I don't take any responsibility at all."- DJT

submitted 47 days ago • 935 comments

The government has no right to decide what name or nickname your child goes by in class. The government has no right to pick out what clothes your child wears to school. This is not just an attack on trans children. It's an attack on personal choice. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

submitted 47 days ago • 235 comments