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El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 8 hours ago • 839 comments

Ok that made me laugh

submitted 5 days ago • 647 comments

The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again. They hit the shore and burned their ships.

submitted 12 days ago • 129 comments

Good thread. The reality is that organized religions are effectively massive political power systems, with different groups making completely different interpretations of the same religious texts.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Gotta say, the mainstream media is simply not doing the minimum amount of work to communicate that a bunch of Nazis implicated in child pornography have all of our banking information and can turn off social security whenever they want.

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

The purpose of a system is what it does. This applies to today’s political landscape too: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pur...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 16 days ago • 445 comments

And it looks like someone called the police, just not the representatives of the US … the goons did.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

These US representatives should be able to enter the building, and some random brown shirt shouldn’t be able to stop them. Call the police! Any bets the bandaid is covering an SS or 88 tat?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Back to back news on my Reddit feed. Our public health future looks bleak…

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

ProPublica tracker of the staffers who are part of Musk DOGE team. With biography and SpaceX/Musk corporate work history for each. Photos too. projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-do...

submitted 17 days ago • 47 comments

The best book about this current period in the USA gov is going to be named “Chesterton’s Fences for Dummies”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

So I posted a call to action on LinkedIn, because surely other software developers would be aghast at untested changes being pushed directly to production by people with 0 years of COBOL experience and less than 5 years of professional SWE experience. Most folks got it. Others, not so much...

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

1. I keep saying this, but it’s important to try to slow things down. It’s something that the Democrats really don’t get. You can win a war by losing every battle slowly.

submitted 18 days ago • 109 comments

That didn't take long. I wonder if Canadians or Mexican's will towards the USA is going back to pre-tariff levels... /s

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

1. Show up. Go to the places Musk is taking over, bring cameras, demand to find out what's going on and where it breaks the law. 2. Refuse to allow standard business to continue unimpeded. Deny unanimous consent, delay votes, etc. 3. Be public about how illegal all of this is 4. Lay out a plan

submitted 20 days ago • 197 comments

Trump wanted to be president again to soothe his injured ego, to exact retribution, and to stay out of jail. Most of the rest of the word salad is somebody else's hand up his ass using him as a sock puppet.

submitted 20 days ago • 10 comments

NEW: WIRED has identified six young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24, according to public databases, their online presences, and other records—who have little to no government experience and are now playing critical roles in Musk’s DOGE project. By @telliotter.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 966 comments

How we let the trans community be treated is how we all will be treated. They’re just testing the waters with what they think is the easiest target. Phase I of many

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Look for the helpers…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Musk's cronies tried to to gain access to classified USAID data. USAID Director of Security John Voorhees security said no. The Musk people threatened to call in the US Marshals and take the data at gunpoint. They still said no. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

submitted 21 days ago • 202 comments

Shouldn't they be at the treasury department

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

And where the fuck is the presidential candidate that got almost as many votes as Trump while the coup is going on? Why are they not going to the same offices that the insurrectionists are going to, even if it’s just to take photos, to document, to report? They have the absolute right to be there…

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

The tariffs can be reversed, but the idea that the USA (not Trump, the country itself) is an unreliable partner cannot be undone for at least a couple of generations. This is a huge blow to the current balance of power. China is now the reliable partner.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Go. To. The. Treasury. And. Demand. Entry. You are the ranking member on the Senate Finance Committee.

submitted 22 days ago • 131 comments

People don’t know History anymore. I see many of you drawing parallels to the putsch or to the book burning, even concentration camps, assuming that people know what those references are and why they matter. We stopped caring about History and the Humanities, and now we can’t warn people anymore.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t think that’s very clear at all. Trump and his Nazi billionaire friend are trying to destroy government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Anyone still on their side doesn’t want to work with you ever again. And the people who are on your side want you to stand in their way.

submitted 22 days ago • 194 comments

Then stop voting yes on his cabinet while the ketamine Führer stages a fucking coup. Democrats aren’t shutting shit down, so we are going to have to. That means a General Strike before it’s too late.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

Of these, only #4 is realistic. The dems are playing with yesterday’s rules, but this is a new game.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.

submitted 23 days ago • 602 comments

what Musk is doing is as close to the government being taken over by a hostile foreign power in our lifetimes, the coverage should reflect that

submitted 23 days ago • 165 comments

@corybooker.com hello I used to run the Wendy’s Twitter account and I am begging you to let me help you with the dems social media strategy, I will literally do it for free at this point

submitted 23 days ago • 1960 comments

Lookie here, the CIA has manuals for everything: www.cia.gov/static/5c875...

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

You know, at this point most other countries would have started a general strike and paralyzed everything until constitutional order is restored. But that requires giving away the sacred individuality, so I guess not?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Holy shit this is insane. This is not going to end well for anyone.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like someone was able to run an 8-bit quantization of DeepSeek R1 on “commodity” hardware ($6K rig, but no GPU) and got 6-8 tok/s news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4286... … this is quite a game changer if true (I can’t open twitter links, so 3rd hand knowledge here…)

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Now that we have the US government run like a private company, we all get a shared understanding of how US private companies are run...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments