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People’s reactions to these stories tend to be of the leopards-eating-faces variety but this is a great piece of reporting in part about how voters very disconnected from politics make their choices. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1383 comments

I should become the 'alt text, please' person on this app. I've seen way to many images without alt text on here.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

People who hate the EU don't know anything about the EU. I said what I said. They would rather watch a dumb youtube video trashing the EU and believe every lie than actually go to the EU website and read everything about it.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Krasnov doesn't suit him. Can we call him Oranzhev from now?

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submitted 14 hours ago • 556 comments

Historians years from now will have a really hard time describing the Nazi shit show that happened in 2025.

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Let's be honest: the only way we can get rich folks like Bezos, Musk and Zuckerberg the tax cuts they so desperately need is by giving everyone else measles, plane crashes, and higher prices. Fair trade, right?

submitted 16 hours ago • 5 comments

The party of DOGE just voted to extend the 2017 Trump tax cuts, slashing $4.5 TRILLION in government revenue—overwhelmingly benefiting the top 0.1%. At the same time, they backed what will almost certainly be a massive reduction in programs that the bottom 30% of Americans rely on.

submitted 2 days ago • 88 comments

A description of the Kremlin press pool around the start of Vladimir Putin’s second term, from CJR. www.cjr.org/feature/what...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Maybe a less tech obscurantist example is called for. Normal: “Pineapple on pizza is a matter of personal preference.” Monetized: “Pineapple on pizza is a globalist psyop designed to weaken traditional culinary values.”

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

This is not a good combination of trending topics 😬

submitted 13 days ago • 73 comments

Why does the world's richest man want to gut the CFPB? Because it would shield him from having to follow financial laws to keep customers' money safe — and give him access to confidential records about his competitors. Follow the money.

submitted 17 days ago • 228 comments

Monday thought:

submitted 17 days ago • 638 comments

When Musk's minions forced their way into USAID's servers, they made themselves "super administrators" meaning they had access to workers' Social Security numbers, credit histories, and home addresses. They may have well broken the law. www.propublica.org/article/usai...

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

lol elon musk's dealer is running DOE

submitted 19 days ago • 83 comments

If you share a link from X, the value after ?t= is used to track who shared the link So if you are a reporter and not trimming that off, you are essentially helping Elon Musk build a social graph of your sources Usually anything from the first ? onwards in a link are unnecessary parameters anyway

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

Russian oligarchs: 1 American public: 0

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

New — USDA sent an email yesterday to employees in its procurement office instructing them to immediately stop credit card payments to Politico, Axios and Reuters for department subscriptions to those outlets. No reason was given in the email, a copy of which was provided to me.

submitted 21 days ago • 80 comments

Hi, I’ve been a software developer for 30 years, including in very large IT projects. Everything about “DOGE” and a bunch of Hitlerjugend walking into a data center and optimizing a code base and data grown over 70 years in a few days is complete bullshit on its nose. Sincerely, Thomas

submitted 22 days ago • 235 comments

Holy shit. “USAID’s inspector general was investigating a public-private partnership involving Musk’s company just before Musk shut the agency down. Key USAID web pages mentioning Musk’s company have suddenly vanished from the agency’s website.” Follow the money.

submitted 22 days ago • 345 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 23 days ago • 1278 comments

laws are just pesky hurdles to committing crimes.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

21-Year-Old: (in charge of treasury) You need to put taxes on the blockchain. People can get refunds in their choice of Doge, ShibaCoin, or DogDollar 80-Year-Old COBOL Programmer That Is Secretly God: (starts destroying Earth) I have failed this time. Next universe I shall do better

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

NEW: FBI officials have filed a class action lawsuit aiming to block the identification of agents who worked on Jan. 6 / Mar-a-Lago cases. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 23 days ago • 99 comments

I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣

submitted 43 days ago • 964 comments

1. Let's be clear A central premise of the Trump admin is there is pervasive discrimination against hard-working white men, who are being replaced by less-qualified women and minorities So over the last 2 weeks Trump has implemented an aggressive affirmative action program for white men

submitted 23 days ago • 116 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 24 days ago • 505 comments

Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.

submitted 24 days ago • 129 comments

WIRED is tracking numerous reports of Musk-related shenanigans across the federal govt. We're looking for fed employees open to discussing the activity they're seeing or to help confirm other reports. Anonymity offered. Please use @signal.org (contact dell.3030). Do not use work networks/devices.

submitted 24 days ago • 136 comments