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What an absolutely awful time to be giving a speech such as this www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/02...

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I see whoever designed the new Apple photos app has now also applied their talents to the new Apple Mail app 🤦‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The U.S. Attorney for DC posted this full-frontal attack on freedom of speech:

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

The clips coming out of town halls in republican states of very angry voters are fascinating in how the politicians looked shocked - does make you wonder if the GOP will begin to reverse course (at least a little bit)

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Completely shocked to hear that getting a bunch of postgrad students to take over federal buildings, fire all the experts, and aimlessly go through thousands of government contracts trying cut spending does not lead to great savings...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The Google AI results at the top of searches are so pointless. We have a resource (the internet!) that knows everything, and instead of going to the source, it's like you asked your stupid cousin who is trying to recall the information from a podcast he heard last week.

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 2947 comments

No! If you watch an old video of Elon, like this 2010 tour of SpaceX, it's obvious that he is physically and mentally almost a completely different person. He's dweebier and more earnest, but his cognition and speech are also way more fluid and coherent. youtu.be/0lJWmhpextE?...

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

Wow. Genuinely shocked by this. That’s the end of Bond as we know it today www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not the first time but still shocking to hear comments from the US president that echo those from the Kremlin. Trump falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war (Russia invaded) while also wrongly claiming Zelensky has just 4% approval rating (its 52%). www.ft.com/content/2506...

submitted 8 days ago • 39 comments

Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime. Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy. I’d like to hope Republicans, who used to believe in resisting tyranny, would disavow the things Trump is saying & doing.

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

Even after several weeks of bleak headlines coming out of the US, the Trump comments on Ukraine really do achieve a new level of bleakness and despair www.ft.com/content/2506...

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I know saying they’re hypocrites is old hat now but the absolute gall to say this when you’re banning journalists from the White House if they don’t say Gulf of America and even removing the word ‘biodiversity’ from scientific papers is unbelievable

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is obviously a very serious issue, but also a hilarious push notification in its understatement

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The White House says it will bar the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One indefinitely due to the news outlet's use of Gulf of Mexico

submitted 12 days ago • 323 comments

Musk's minions are firing people responsible for securing our nation's nuclear arsenal and their panicked bosses are frantically reaching out to them to say actually no please come back oops abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...

submitted 12 days ago • 69 comments

I'd say the biggest forces "undermining our nation from within" are the fake patriots loudly cheering on these attacks on our country by a hostile foreign government

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Terrifying - apparently calling it the Gulf of Mexico is now a straight up lie according to the White House

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

The level of hyperbole in this column is astonishing. Labour sacking the head of the CMA and loosening regulations around housebuilding is nothing compared to what Trump is doing. To compare the two is offensive and mad www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

We got a message from the university to remove any use of the "DEI", "diversity", "equity", or "inclusion" from all public-facing documents. They said that even "biodiversity" is being flagged by the federal government. We live in the dumbest timeline.

submitted 16 days ago • 934 comments

Oh the irony is too good www.404media.co/anthropic-cl...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The line about agents being ordered to pause their work helping recover bodies from the Black Hawk plane crash so they could answer a questionnaire about their involvement in the Jan 6 investigation is particularly horrific www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

One of the best pieces I’ve read on Musk’s astonishing and terrifying takeover of much of the US government www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

I know complaining about NYT headlines is old hat, but this is NUTS to me – every word choice glamorizes him as an exciting provocative badass, instead of focusing on the danger and illegality of what’s happening

submitted 22 days ago • 165 comments

Genuinely baffled as to why US news sites are still making tariffs the top story rather than the terrifying stuff Musk’s team are doing at the moment

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility except somehow it's actually real

submitted 23 days ago • 107 comments

Musk claims the authority to personally destroy an independent federal agency.

submitted 24 days ago • 272 comments

More of this. Resigning in protest has little significance anymore. Say no, throw a fit, make waves. Politicize the public in favor of the civil service. We are in danger without it.

submitted 25 days ago • 51 comments

Potentially a big deal www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Shameful and murderous www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 25 days ago • 274 comments

The government is granting no bid, exclusive media rights to certain announcements to Twitter.

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint is going to get rid of those little quotes from other authors on the back and front. I'm torn, having been a bookseller, a book reviewer and having been asked to write many blurbs. I'm also on holiday so I can't columnise on it, so here's a 🧵 instead.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Side point on this article everyone is sharing about S&S getting rid of blurbs, but good on the new publisher Sean Manning to do an actual fun and engaging article about the change rather than putting out some boring corporate press release about it www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Feel like I've seen so many books in recent years that have transparently been blurbed by the author's social circle, which only means that you trust people's opinion a little less than before.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

This is a profoundly depraved response to a national tragedy, there's no other way to say it

submitted 27 days ago • 45 comments

I missed this entirely: The FAA Administrator criticized Space X’s safety record and threatened fines. Musk demanded he resign. He did. On January 20th. www.thedailybeast.com/faa-chief-mi...

submitted 28 days ago • 1050 comments