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NEW: Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.

submitted 1 hour ago • 76 comments

#UnmaskingMusk

submitted 27 days ago • 60 comments

So, today’s Trump Tweet (effectively “He who saves his country breaks no law”, but without poetry) is him asserting that he is (and his, are) the Saviour … in a Karpman Drama Triangle of interpersonal dysfunction

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Artwork of Martin Luther KIng, Susan B. Anthony, Michelle Obama were removed at one Dept of Defense school... Student artwork for Black History Month was ripped from the walls of the school... All to follow Trump's executive order to ban DEI...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

We are members of Congress at the Treasury Department. We want to be let in to provide oversight on behalf of our constituents. @jasmineforus.bsky.social @sethmagaziner.bsky.social

submitted 19 days ago • 4328 comments

I think it’s more to the point to call this “Trump’s Crusade”, cos it’s on that scale, it’s for the same purpose, and the loyalists would likely agree with the coinage

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Trump turned over massive amount of citizens’ private data to a group of college-aged groyper ideologues and their patron, the world’s richest man, who thinks federal civil servants are agents of an evil Marxist agenda to destroy western civilization which he is duty bound to destroy.

submitted 20 days ago • 18 comments

The most incompetent white people on earth blaming black and brown people for a plane crash is peak weak whiteness.

submitted 24 days ago • 43 comments

Today I experienced a variation on the "Sir, this is a Wendy's" meme.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Would you like to know how bad it is going to get? I spent 2015-2020 researching r/the_donald and other subreddits in its ecosystem Here is what happened then:

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

This is the cowardice of the Washington Post. Legacy media is failing.

submitted 34 days ago • 1704 comments

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t know how to shut off the parking brake

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

As stated in the 3,500+ letters that were sent to US Senators, “Mr. Kennedy is unqualified to lead the nation’s health department with a budget of over $1.6 trillion and over 80,000 employees”. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments