The "large scale social deception" contract Musk is conspiracizing about was:
* first awarded under Trump
* paid to Reuters' data division, not the newsroom
* for researching *defenses* against deception
* not revealed by "DOGE investigations" and was a public record, visible online for many years
Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.
Opportunities are everywhere.
Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
I used to be conservative.
I'm not anymore, because the cognitive dissonance was obvious to me.
It was also obvious that the ethical framework and justification for my beliefs was founded on subjective morals that don't comport with reality.
Only you can make the decision to change.
after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"
"96% of children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.
~17,000 children in Gaza are unaccompanied, separated from their parents, although (...) the real number may be much higher."
www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...
Hasan Piker rightly pushes back on the idea that the Democrats simply need their own Joe Rogan, telling CNN "It's 100% a policy thing," calling for "real left-wing economic populist messaging instead of purposely avoiding that stuff because they're terrified of upsetting their corporate donors."
I've got a meeting with a customer in 8 min and I feel like maybe not joining and just downloading a pay-to-win game on my phone and playing until I'm bankrupt.
Ugh. I hate myself. I hate life. Fuck this shit. Everything sucks. I hope I die. I hope somebody kills me.
[I take precisely one bite of food, after having been hungry and cranky all day]
Oh wow. Fantastic. I feel great. Now I have the energy to kill myself.
🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )
it disgusts me the national democratic party barely pushes back at this attempt from the right to wind back LGBTQ rights decades after claiming to be the party of LGBTQ rights
anyway i have now vented my frustration and would rather not doom about things i cannot immediately change, there is as much hope for a better future as there is reason to despair for the present
I have been worried that republicans will take advantage of congressional overview of home rule to enact anti-LGBT policies on the district of columbia they'd like to push nationwide and this is not helping. the DMV has one of the largest trans populations in the country
i am stressed about the idea of not being safe using the restroom i've been using for almost a decade at the DC airports but moreso i am stressed for trans friends in the press, legal profession, or who work in politics for whom working on federal property is a daily occurrence
The testimony of Eleanor Rykener - the earliest surviving record of a trans person in the English language. She began living as a woman in the 1390s, working as a seamstress & sex worker, until her arrest and imprisonment by the Mayor of London. She may have later escaped prison in 1399.
Poor sweet Paw-lloween has been at the shelter so long he still has his awful Halloween pun name. 😭 But just look at the extraordinary quality of his biscuits!! Available in Burlington, VT. www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...
"The Left needs its own Joe Rogan," I say, unveiling the machine from "The Prestige" and leading you into a room with 800 Joe Rogan clones all saying "Wow, that's crazy" again and again