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NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

American conservatives are constantly bemoaning the decline of aesthetic standards and calling for a return to tailored suits and classical Roman architecture, but are now forced to defend the Cheesecake Factory. A constant tension between the Brooks Brothers patrician and the Kid Rock populist.

boy it sure seems like the main threat to democracy everywhere across the globe is right wing media and certain social media companies

100% this and proud to have @lydiakauppi.bsky.social on our team.

Weird Story real quick… A year ago my friend Bria and I released a cute little app that installs an easily distractible bean on your phone. If you use your phone less the bean can knit more and then you can trade in the stuff they knit for decor for their house. SINCE THEN............

I had no idea Ukrainian toddlers were his enemies.

It really isn't that hard to get him to fedpost on main and if he gets dragged into a congressional hearing you can ask him what he meant by this

BREAKING: Electronic Arts is cutting 400 jobs and shutting down BioWare, the legendary development studio behind Dragon Age and Mass Effect. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elon Musk threatens Congress.

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine on.wsj.com/4sgcxkt

Q: Macron is blaming the Iran war and you for the rioting in France-- TRUMP: That's fake news. Who are you with? Q: No, sir. Mary Margaret with the Daily Wire TRUMP: Oh, the Daily Wire is good. Sorry. Daily Wire is good.

There should be no Saving Trump From Himself Agenda. The prime objective is to (a) continue to blame Trump for everything he is doing and (b) create ways to hold his crew accountable.

It’s so funny that PEG is having the same experience as every New Yorker did for basically all of 2020

this remains a great study of the estranged parents movement, and one of the almost universal features of these narratives is the missing missing reasons--the extreme caginess with which these parents present the events that led to the estrangement

Graham Platner's campaign has spent $2.3 million since he dropped out in July, most of it to pay staffers, the top pay out? his wife

which accounts for how terminally consumer-brained they are (e.g. it's the job of the candidate to sell themselves, it's their fault if I don't, there is no greater good where I have a duty to e.g. vote against fascism) - the whole thing is strikingly devoid of any actual solidarity

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

just a casual reminder that inciting violence against his political opponents and others he dislikes has been a core feature of Donald Trump's approach for more than a decade. It is a defining characteristic of Trump and his movement, but rarely centered as such by corporate media.

The "SI" thing is was intended to provoke this exact sort of sniveling response from the courtiers, to train the oligarchs to humiliate themselves for Trump so they'll do it again later when it really matters.

I've always marveled at how the satanic panic took place without social media's help. Traditional media was all aboard the stupid train.

My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.

I think about this interview with the distinguished philosopher Conan O'Brien a lot. I actually think this is a healthy way to live your life! www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/a...

its worth asking why posts like this — a purported leftist warning others not to trust elected left-wing politicians — consistently do so well on the site where racist Trump ally Elon Musk controls the algorithm that chooses what posts people see

Hahahahaha come on! If you ever wanted a better example of MAGA media presenting an alternate universe to its base, you'd be hard pressed to find one.

It's kind of crazy that the Natalie Harp news cycle raised some extremely valid questions about the extent of her influence on our octogenarian narcoleptic, none were answered and the press just stopped wondering.

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

Forget grandiose talk of curing cancer - this is what AI is actually doing to healthcare. In the words of one cardiologist: “it’s bots fighting bots, agents fighting agents, a horrible dystopic future nobody wants to live in.”

A friend pointed out to me that people's "social scripts" used to come from fiction (novels, TV, movies) written by professional storytellers, and now they come from reality TV and short form video content, where the words largely come from attention-seeking amateurs. It has made us worse.

great piece. man social media is a cancer themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

It’s really stunning how the USA has so swiftly shifted from being one of the most techno-optimistic and tech-industry-loving countries on earth, to a country where most people seem to assume - not incorrectly, at least in many cases - that tech is out to get them.

my friend has been saying this since 2021

Five cops in Indianapolis were just criminally charged with abusing Flock to spy on their ex-wives, their wives' ex-partners and women they met on duty. Audit was triggered by us at the @washingtonpost.com, the prosecutor said. From last month: wapo.st/4yfNHng