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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 3 days ago • 1575 comments

im starting to feel the slow transition from "i write software" to "i usually write software with a lot of meetings in between". is this what the beginning of the end looks like?

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 6 days ago • 765 comments

the other side wiped their ass with fact checking and ran entire propaganda campaigns on shit bozos with handles like BonerHitler1488 made up out of whole cloth run some fucking smear campaigns, throw a punch, play dirty at this point winning is all that matters

submitted 9 days ago • 35 comments

“It maps almost too neatly to his acquisition of Twitter in 2022: Get rid of most of the workforce. Install loyalists. Rip up safeguards. Remake in your own image… This is the way of the startup.” @wired.com

submitted 16 days ago • 267 comments

Again, imagine if George Soros took control of all our government intel, shared it publicly with … Edward Snowden, I guess? … and they talked about how they were going to take down evangelical mega churches. The right would self combust

submitted 22 days ago • 262 comments

grind the government to a halt stop voting for any nominees, object to every unanimous consent, do a rotating talking filibuster on the senate floor going over the transformation of the United States into Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s personal fiefdom act like what’s happening is happening

submitted 23 days ago • 88 comments

I want press conferences in front of Meals on Wheels buses. Live-streaming on social media from health care & child care centers that will close down tomorrow. Go go go.

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

Oh come on.

submitted 30 days ago • 371 comments

Here's the first of probably periodic warnings to remind yourself that the "firehose of falsehoods" disinformation tactic is about to go into full swing. You do not need to watch the news to bear witness. You do not need to watch hideous videos of violence. They will be circulated to keep you upset

submitted 34 days ago • 21 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 40 days ago • 379 comments

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 46 days ago • 430 comments

Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends. The one person he told was ProPublica reporter @josh-kaplan.bsky.social. propub.li/3DGXECO

submitted 51 days ago • 467 comments

"In those counties I’m talking about — 'news desert' counties — Trump won 91% of them by an average of 54 points ... those counties could be going more conservative because there’s no local media to counteract the foghorn blasts of rightwing propaganda."

submitted 61 days ago • 174 comments

this is legitimately a big deal. zillow now putting climate risk on their website.

submitted 56 days ago • 96 comments

I feel this so hard. I am a techno optimist. I think human-surpassing artificial intelligence is inevitable and will be a universal good But this is fake shit hocked by con artists. It is an expensive and useless dead end

submitted 58 days ago • 2 comments

this is a dril tweet

submitted 59 days ago • 1137 comments

It does kind of make sense that they'd believe the only people that count as Natural General Intelligence are CEOs

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with this article is that the media hasn't been very empathetic here. This isn't a case of "white man kills family" and the photo is him jet skiing. The media has actually been trying pretty hard to shame everyone who is being empathetic to him. The empathy is coming from social media.

submitted 65 days ago • 225 comments

At some point I would like to ignore Elon Musk. Sadly, that time is not now. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 66 days ago • 5 comments

There is one man responsible for lighting the fire of this drone conspiracy, Rep Jeff Van Drew who said it was an Iranian drone mothership despite having zero indication besides a Twitter comment, The hysteria started then. Please media hold him to account

submitted 70 days ago • 268 comments

SIMPLY HAVING A

submitted 72 days ago • 1119 comments

Imagine if they hadn't found it and some would-be assailant had to explain to their friends how they got pistol-whipped by a tweaking clown carrying a golden glock

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

We had one, it was called Black Lives Matter and since then we had the most virulent counterreaction to any movement since Reconstruction

submitted 77 days ago • 58 comments

i fuckin called it www.popsci.com/technology/t...

submitted 89 days ago • 13 comments

🚨🚨🚨RED ALERT 🚨🚨🚨BLOCK IMMEDIATELY bsky.app/profile/thel...

submitted 89 days ago • 161 comments

Tiffany sat on a stump and cried a bit, because it needed to be done. Then she went and milked the goats, because someone had to do that, too. - Terry Pratchett, Wintersmith

submitted 93 days ago • 4 comments

Democrats will often look at something that doesn’t poll well and think “oh no, better move away from that!” but they’re getting their role backwards. parties influence public opinion. if you’re purely reactive, you’re just letting the GOP frame every debate.

submitted 96 days ago • 89 comments

2025 white house cabinet meeting

submitted 96 days ago • 562 comments

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

submitted 97 days ago • 508 comments

The most winnable battles for at least the next two, if not four, years will take place in statehouses & municipal government. Going on offense there has the added benefit of becoming competitive in more federal races down the line. Money is finite but necessary to win. Invest wisely 👇👇👇

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

When Obama nominated Tom Daschle -- a congressional leader with three decades of experience working on federal health care policies -- to be HHS secretary, the senator had to withdraw because a donor provided him with a car. If only he'd beheaded a whale! www.theguardian.com/world/2009/f...

submitted 100 days ago • 305 comments

I, for one, think the director of national intelligence should have to do a background check www.cnn.com/2024/11/15/p...

submitted 101 days ago • 19 comments

really impossible to overstate the gift various liberal prosecutors and judges gave Trump by not throwing the book at him. he never got nailed so many people figured he must be a normal candidate

submitted 107 days ago • 34 comments

Kind of wild to live in a system that allows one man to spend a couple hundred million dollars to elect his favored political candidate and then see the free market reward him with tens of billions of dollars in net worth www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

submitted 108 days ago • 95 comments

What happens to Trump’s criminal cases now?

submitted 108 days ago • 8 comments

as long as journalists and pundits act as if they are amateur political strategists & not people trying to understand and tell the truth about the world, they are going to take the implicit view that voters can never be wrong, which then demands endless explanation of their morally blameless choice

submitted 108 days ago • 151 comments

submitted 110 days ago • 15 comments

oh, so we have to keep doing this forever wapo.st/4fkUVgo

submitted 110 days ago • 53 comments

Yeah. IMHO, Trump's gains across every demographic, every way of slicing the electorate, shows the effect of media normalization and promotion.

submitted 110 days ago • 14 comments

congratulations to the New York Times, the Washington Post, CNN, and many other outlets on running a successful campaign

submitted 110 days ago • 13 comments

I wrote about Donald Trump’s return to power. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 110 days ago • 18 comments