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@cloudflare.social We still can't login to the CF dashboard:

Republicans keep claiming there’s no urgency to act on ACA subsidies until year’s end, but people have to enroll in November! Apparently Republicans want them to do that without knowing what their costs will be. It’s hypocritical and could trap families in plans they can’t afford..

This doesn't bode well at all. I'm still shocked at how quickly and willingly people are giving so much power over and faith into AI.

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

Humanity's laziness, unwillingness to think for ourselves, and willful ignorance are on full display during these turbulent times. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/after-kirk...

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The yearly pay at the federal minimum wage: $15,080 The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States: $17,340 We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.

According to a new report, nearly 27% of homes sold in Q1 of 2025 were bought by real estate investors — the highest share in at least five years. If we want to make housing affordable for working people, we must get Wall Street out of our homes. https://youtu.be/q9TOGxDJ0TE?si=vGkgsj8jyHBFtUyW

“Elon Musk's 'Grok' AI Bot Goes Full Nazi” An astonishing story and development, even by Musk’s standards:

🚨🚨🚨Not only was Kerr Co denied funding for a siren system by TX Republicans 8 times since 2016 guess how much they needed to do it? 75K That’s what the town 15 miles downriver built. 75K

Grok stops posting text after flood of antisemitism and Hitler praise

Here’s the bottom line for what’s going on with Grok - if the owner of the website is putting his thumb on the scale hard enough for the chatbot to turn into Goebbels, you should be deeply concerned about what he’s doing to the algorithm that you can’t so easily see, and what it’s doing to you

Want to know why the tech bros are obsessed with AI? By 2040 80% of online content could be AI-generated. AI becomes the Gatekeeper of truth & “news”, telling us what it wants us to know. It’s synthetic consensus where AI (The Oligarch-Tech Bros) decides what the “public” thinks. #WakeUp

I'm amazed at how quickly people are willing to give up thinking for themselves, problem solving, decision making, etc. to these AI models with very little concern about future consequences.

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

Last year, 84% of the world's corals were exposed to bleaching-level temperatures. PROJECT ZERO is fundraising to further the science to help us save the reefs. Weareprojectzero.org

REF is in danger

I find it increasingly disturbing how quickly and willingly so many people have jumped on the AI train with pure abandon.

Sound on 😽🤍 #cat #purr

The war against the truth continues

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

Thousands of protesters gathered at the Japanese American Historical Plaza on Portland’s waterfront before they started marching south down Naito Parkway onto the Morrison Bridge. #HandsOff protest live updates: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

West Coast numbers are coming in, and estimates have now surpassed 5 million. People are still pouring into the streets—nearly 2% of the American population is rising up. America, we are so proud of you. You did it.

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

This is a real exchange I just had:

When Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions. Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars — working class Americans will. It's crony capitalism at its worst.

SCOOP: Elon Musk’s DOGE has plans to stage a “hackathon” next week in Washington, DC. The goal is to create a single “mega API”—a bridge that lets software systems talk to one another—for accessing IRS data, sources tell WIRED.

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Absolutely proud of you all! HUG! So far, 3.1 million protesters counted today — that’s nearly 1% of the U.S. population! Photos are flooding social media everywhere. Still waiting on more numbers to come in.

Yes. The alarm bells are still ringing.

Among the thousands of groups affected by the sudden cessation of funds are state arts councils, museums, historic sites, archives, libraries, educators and media outlets in all 50 states.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Pretty much!

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

open.substack.com/pub/closerto... #resist

Are you ok?

@schumer.senate.gov you need to get better at informing us of what you and the Democrats are doing to stand up against the fascists

Musk’s staffers have entered an independent government agency by force. Employees from DOGE are now inside the Washington offices of the United States Institute of Peace. This comes just days after agency representatives were unable to gain access to the building on Friday being blocked by lawyers.

This is a coup! U.S. Institute for Peace called the DC police on the Musk team members in an effort to stop them from trespassing because the institute has control of its own building and the land it sits on. But instead, the DC police allowed them to enter and kicked out the institute’s officials.

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

DOGE claims to have saved $115 billion, but we can confirm this figure is overstated by 77.3%, meaning the actual savings amount to only $26.05 billion. To verify this, we had to rely on internal connections, as Musk has obscured details of these claims on DOGE despite promises of transparency.