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Wrote a thing warning people to expect a "Twitter Files" redux, of "The Government Files" in which Elon's dumbest fans will make a bunch of blatantly false conspiracy theory claims, he'll find some credulous "reporter" to repeat them, and people will believe it: www.techdirt.com/2025/02/03/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

“Elon Musk, who isn’t elected, is shutting down entire federal agencies in the middle of the night. He has taken control of the government’s money and usurped Congress. This shreds the Constitution, and is effectively a coup.” That wasn’t so hard after all, was it?

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

submitted 19 days ago • 1040 comments

seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments

None of the big papers, for all their resources, has been covering the (incredibly stupid and vile) chaos that Musk and his strike-force of libertarian Beavises nearly as well as Wired. It's an extremely cheap subscription (and a very good print product as well) and I recommend it.

submitted 19 days ago • 53 comments

I am writing about what is happening to federal personnel policy. One difficulty is that it's hard to observe and verify what is actually happening. I am particularly interested in information about the employment status of individuals working with/in DOGE. Anonymous tips welcome. Signal: Nbednar.46

submitted 20 days ago • 204 comments

please help my favorite Palestinian farmer if you can with a boost and/or donation!

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The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.

submitted 20 days ago • 241 comments

This is what happens when you ask me to help sanewash the Trump tariffs.

submitted 20 days ago • 491 comments

Black History is 365 Days! Black Inventor’s

submitted 19 days ago • 63 comments

Literally if you are a reporter with any kind of a backbone, you should take Elon musk’s threats as a signal to be even more fucking annoying

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

I want to address the concerns about Elon Musk's DOGE people getting access to Americans' basic personal data: Your SSN, birthday, address, and credit history are already for sale and could EASILY be obtained by the richest man in the world. That being said ... 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 20 comments

US Attorney for DC threatens prosecution against anyone unmasking "DOGE" employees in blatant violation of the First Amendment. DOJ is now Musk's personal army he will use to target his critics with baseless criminal investigations.

submitted 20 days ago • 232 comments

President Trump has confirmed a one-month pause on tariffs of Mexican goods.

submitted 20 days ago • 179 comments

ATTN: State AGs nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 20 days ago • 11 comments

i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet

submitted 20 days ago • 1711 comments

Today's newsletter: www.readtpa.com/p/the-media-...

submitted 19 days ago • 32 comments

I'm sorry, American friends, but we have to take back Superman, basketball, IMAX movies, egg cartons, and Keanu Reeves now. I wish it didn't have to be this way.

submitted 21 days ago • 1286 comments

chappell talking about trans rights at the #grammys 🫂🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 20 days ago • 47 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

submitted 20 days ago • 523 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 20 days ago • 1178 comments

WELCOME LINNEA STERTE! @decassette.bsky.social will have new illustrations in this year's issues. See cool previews and sign up to be alerted when the crowdfund launches: buff.ly/4gL2xJA

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

An unelected Billionaire is running rampant through the payment system millions of Americans rely on for their Social Security payments, Medicare, and tax refunds. This is very dangerous turf. Americans demand answers before their information is irreparably breached.

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

submitted 19 days ago • 49 comments

The VA has inactivated coursework in "Whistleblower Rights and Protections Policy Statement," per memo leaked to me

submitted 19 days ago • 43 comments

i mean. trudeau is right. donald trump represents a betrayal of everything america promised to be. canada has been our ally for a hundred years, through the fires of two world wars, the cold war, all the great struggles of the twentieth century--and this is how we repay that? it's disgusting

submitted 20 days ago • 15 comments

I know why people are focusing on 47's fans. But I want to say that they don't matter now. There are so many people to engage who haven't paid attention to electoral politics for years but can be part of mutual aid & rapid response networks now.

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

Democrats; the only people who simultaneously believe that Trump would use the power of the presidency to destroy the country, and also that Biden, a man bestowed with the power of the presidency, couldn't have possibly done anything to stop it. Smug assholes.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 21 days ago • 329 comments

Congressional delegation outside USAID now: “We are here to shed a light on a crime unfolding before our eyes.”

submitted 20 days ago • 1099 comments

No one has to wait for anyone to take action. If you have ideas, execute them. Don't act like an East German Figure Skating judge or a red pen Karen. EXECUTE YOUR IDEAS. That's the bottom line. Let 10 million flowers bloom. No one is gatekeeping you.

submitted 20 days ago • 53 comments

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

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submitted 22 days ago • 1310 comments

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

submitted 21 days ago • 1308 comments

“How do you, as a national Democratic leader who has lived through the last two weeks, get through an entire interview without mentioning transgender Americans, immigrants, or birthright citizenship? Klobuchar shows the way.” NEW for The Bugbear Dispatch www.bugbeardispatch.com/p/when-will-...

submitted 21 days ago • 25 comments

The thing is that an undercurrent of the whole free speech charade was that a lot of people in elite spaces genuinely did not like trans people or respect trans identity and wanted a way to resist by proxy.

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

here’s a thing!

submitted 21 days ago • 166 comments

I know my work may not endear me to many at the NYT, but believe me: I love journalism! I have always respected NYT. I thought the problem was a blind spot on trans issues. I don't think that anymore. I think we're losing the profession, at least insofar as it's represented by mainstream news.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

“There’s nothing Democrats can do right now!” if nothing else, many top democrats have frequent opportunities to be in close physical proximity to high-value members of the fascist government

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

Another airplane is on fire. www.fox26houston.com/news/united-...

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments