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Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

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The U.S. government has put up a submission form for reporting schools who teach kids about “DEI.” It accepts file uploads. Internet, you know what to do enddei.ed.gov

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The leader of the free world conducts the first cabinet meeting of his new term. Also pictured: Donald Trump.

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

This story has brought our community together to support this lovely family from Turkey who owns a local restaurant. They offer food to the homeless and those w/little $. They are kind and generous. Yesterday ICE detained them…and people are PISSED. share.inquirer.com/gKqFM7

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If you have a device that CAN run Apple Intelligence you need to turn this off as well as the general Apple Intelligence setting. Settings > Screen Time > scroll down to Content and Privacy > turn on Restrictions > Intelligence and Siri > turn off the first three options

submitted 5 days ago • 97 comments

Finally using the “L” word. Let’s call things what they are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 121 comments

In case anyone has any doubt whose idea this is, Musk sent similar emails to employees shortly after buying Twitter www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-ex...

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

For the latest edition of @bloomberg.com Buying Power, I wrote about the booming business of American med spas, which are in some ways the vape shops of the healthcare world: 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

Ah, yes. Famous "free speech enthusiast" argues those who disagree and make their voices heard should be imprisoned. 🙄

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

This is pure evil.

submitted 9 days ago • 765 comments

Congrats to everyone who insisted they were better off four years ago -- you made it right back to the safety and security of "early COVID pandemic"

submitted 11 days ago • 61 comments

BREAKING: A plane just crashed in Covington, GA, leaving two dead. That’s the seventh plane crash in recent weeks.

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

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

submitted 12 days ago • 540 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 13 days ago • 438 comments

SECDEF said the beatings will stop when morale improves ✅ ending “paid days off” on 4-day weekends ✅ floating a change in the retirement system where you don’t get disability AND retirement

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments

SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews W/ @reporterev.bsky.social www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 17 days ago • 55 comments

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.” Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

submitted 16 days ago • 1486 comments

Reporter: You said an example of fraud that you have cited was $50 million of condoms was sent to Gaza but after a fact-check apparently it was Gaza in Mozambique meant to protect them against HIV. Musk: First of all, some of the things I say will be incorrect

submitted 16 days ago • 1185 comments

Musk is a uniquely incompetent person, elected by nobody, who has been allowed by Trump to take over the US, and who truly believes that he has a boundless, unrivaled intellect that allows him to go through a 6.7 trillion dollar budget in weeks, and overrule Congress and voters on what parts belong

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration. “Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵

submitted 19 days ago • 204 comments

Not just unusual. It’s unprecedented. It’s a seismic reordering of American government and an actual instance of the “weaponization” of the DOJ that the Republicans were heretofore so fond of complaining about (when it wasn’t happening).

submitted 34 days ago • 98 comments

RFK Jr. wanted a natural experiment of unvaccinated kids, which is messed up. But you know what's even worse? The result was unvaccinated kids dying of measles, and instead of the scientific conclusion that vaccination saves kids' lives, he concluded the opposite, and seeks to impose it on everyone.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

THIS is how you “stand up to big pharma,” not by taking fluoride out of the water or making children sick.

submitted 52 days ago • 9 comments

For all of his dystopian rhetoric, by many traditional metrics, the America that Trump will inherit from Biden is actually in better shape than that bequeathed to any newly elected president since Bush came into office in 2001. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/05/u...

submitted 53 days ago • 748 comments

Former D.C. police intel chief found guilty of tipping off Proud Boys leader ahead of Jan. 6 attack www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

submitted 66 days ago • 46 comments

People sometimes make fun of science that sounds stupid and random. Meanwhile, a study of lizard saliva turned into a peptide medication, which was turned into a diabetes medication, which was turned into a GLP1 weight loss drug, that just became the first therapy every approved for … sleep apnea

submitted 69 days ago • 380 comments

Look how much longer the TSA PreCheck line is than the regular line at Reagan National Airport. I know the PreCheck process is faster, but I sure don’t think it’s worth it right now! The line was even longer than the video shows because it stretches back towards the escalators. #DCA

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment