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Sanders: I will tell you what I think the worst addiction in this country is, the most dangerous, and that is the greed of the oligarchs. Everybody wants to do well. These guys already have billions, tens of billions, hundreds of billions. How much money do you need?

Elon Musk posted these two tweets the same day, just hours apart. Don’t sugarcoat it — he’s not just a far-right authoritarian, he’s an outright fascist. Musk isn’t even trying to hide his true intentions at this point. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM.

Elon musk is the richest man in the world, he could be funding hospitals, medical research and universities. He could be solving the climate crisis. He could be feeding, hungry children. Instead, he’s trying to make sure that your grandmother doesn’t get an extra dollar of Social Security.

RFK being an addict isn’t the issue — no one better understands drug misuse than a former user. RFK being a fanatical pro-life, queerphobic, mental illness-denying anti-vaxxer, ‘nutrition huckster’ and conspiracy theorist is the issue. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... @annamerlan.bsky.social

Trump cuts aid to South Africa over ‘racial discrimination’ against Afrikaners

Old enough to remember when the right thought censorship was bad, part 3,463 www.kqed.org/news/1202597...

Four government IT employees tell Ian Bogost and Charlie Warzel that Elon Musk's incursion into the U.S. government may be worse than anyone realizes: “This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history."

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Propaganda www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

If you are supporting Trump’s and Elon’s action, you are on the wrong side of history and the object of villainy in movies to come.

It's called hypernormalization

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

If you're not afraid of this, you're not paying attention... www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Say hello to your new acting undersecretary of state for public diplomacy.

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And they cried about partisanship in public servants.

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

The property insurance industry knows what’s up with climate change and socio economic risk. It’s just about math and science to them. So it’s interesting to see what they have to say www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/brea...

They are coming for the abortion pill next 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

The current administration reminds me of this: theoatmeal.com/comics/idiocy I might even be able to laugh about it if we weren't all being forced to run a marathon with a trout in our underwear

Democrats should keep banging on the Gulf of America. Make it his Jimmy Carter rabbit. It may seem trivial, but “the President is a really dumb guy who does really dumb stuff” is 1) actually very serious 2) actually very true

www.gocomics.com/mikeluckovic...

The full email sent to federal employees is available here www.opm.gov/fork

Trump is doing everything Putin wants him to do: abandoning our nation’s core values, attacking longtime allies, and picking Tulsi Gabbard for a critical national intelligence role. Putin has us right where he wants us, with his puppet as our President. America first? youtu.be/iPXXFfXk5aM?...

Anyone who read Project 2025 saw things like this coming a mile away

Heard from inside the National Cancer Institute, part of NIH — travel through April is canceled. Purchasing with government card is frozen. All public comms are off limits. Can’t even submit abstracts to future meetings. Can’t submit *manuscripts* for publication. All hiring activity frozen. Fuck.

While Musk and Altman wage their silly little feud, China is making all the broligarchs look like chumps | Arwa Mahdawi

www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-phi... Just hoping to make this more visible

Digested week: Desperado Brits come to finally realise Trump has no need of them

Instagram and Facebook Blocked and Hid Abortion Pill Providers’ Posts www.nytimes.com/2025/01/23/t... So much for free speech

Zuckerberg has always been a loser with money starting when he stole the idea of Facebook from the creators of the fb prototype.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...? What could possibly be bad about this?

Maybe the reason it feels like a tipping point is because he has his boot on the scale. Either way, it's going to be a lot harder for people to know what is real

He's not wrong. Diversity is our strength.

CNN confirmed on-air just now that top Trump aides are furiously calling journalists to insist that Elon Musk has been following the orders of Trump rather than the other way around. As predicted, Trump is horrified and enraged at the idea that Musk is now seen as the President of the United States.

Hey Jeff, Maybe you can post here as well

Jeffries: In our nation's history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the former president, 25%. How dare you lecture America about fiscal responsibility ever.

I stand with the thousands of Teamsters workers across the country who are striking over Amazon's refusal to bargain. Amazon had $15B in profits last quarter. Don't tell me they can't afford to bargain a fair contract.

Lots of clarity today

If you see anyone talking about how the Amazon strike could disrupt the flow of packages:

My legal assessment is exactly the same as George’s. This only makes sense from a PR standpoint—i.e., ABC News desperately wanting to evade, clearly at any cost to itself financially or reputationally, the promised future vengeance of a corrupt fascist madman about to take power (possibly forever).