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A series of mistakes by DOGE shows just how arbitrary and destructive this slash-and-burn strategy can get.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 898 comments

SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:

submitted 14 days ago • 463 comments

All of Schoolhouse Rock is on Disney+, if you need them. The most problematic is the explanation of westward expansion as “Elbow Room.” But the rest are pretty good refreshers for what the US is meant to stand for. The irony that they’re largely accessible thru a giant corporation isn’t lost on me

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: “Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture [Phyllis Fong] out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration.” www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

submitted 24 days ago • 281 comments

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

submitted 30 days ago • 416 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 25 days ago • 3342 comments

The truth from the California Department of Water Resources:

submitted 25 days ago • 180 comments

This is the GOP’s long con on full display.

submitted 34 days ago • 921 comments

Things are going great 🤦‍♂️ Catch up now: www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

submitted 45 days ago • 103 comments

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

submitted 49 days ago • 2431 comments

As we gawk at the $250M Musk spent elect Trump, take a guess how long it took him to “earn” it back in the market? It took just 15 minutes. I'm not kidding... 15 minutes. According to Bloomberg, his net worth soared by $8B just today. That’s billionaire math for you—and it’s all of our problem.

submitted 78 days ago • 97 comments

This week, the FBI and CISA published a guide encouraging Americans not to text, and to use encryption messaging as much as possible. Here's our practical guide on protecting yourself from surveillance, from best encryption messaging platforms to location services:

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.

submitted 95 days ago • 339 comments

Want to find accounts of folks who write about, podcast, stream, or review #BoardGames? Here's a #StarterPack for #BoardGameMedia! go.bsky.app/14FHW6F

submitted 95 days ago • 72 comments

not a landslide

submitted 95 days ago • 1098 comments

Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

submitted 95 days ago • 3193 comments

THREAD: So let's take a deeper look at Elon Musk's Starship and the noise impact it is having on the South Texas area where it is launching. It is the largest, most powerful rocket ever built. As tall at 30 story building. Here first is our story. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/u...

submitted 95 days ago • 37 comments

Trump's FCC nominee Brendan Carr is on Fox News threatening to harass NBC and CBS over MAGA conspiracy theories

submitted 95 days ago • 216 comments