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All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
February 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
All members of Congress swore allegiance to the Constitution. They didn't ask just Democrats to defend America against all enemies.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
The house is on fire, y'all. I'll do everything I can to extinguish that flame, but I am begging my Republican colleagues to remember their oath.
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fuck google
Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including:
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
• Pride Month
• Black History Month
• Holocaust Remembrance Day
• Jewish Heritage
• Hispanic Heritage
• Indigenous People Month
February 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
fuck google
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It's important to remember that any principled effort to remove fraud from America's public life would start with an all-out push to prosecute and imprison Elon Musk.
There is no bigger fraudster alive today.
There is no bigger fraudster alive today.
Litigants seeking to block DOGE's access to student loan / DOE data cited this exchange as supporting their case:
February 10, 2025 at 7:47 PM
It's important to remember that any principled effort to remove fraud from America's public life would start with an all-out push to prosecute and imprison Elon Musk.
There is no bigger fraudster alive today.
There is no bigger fraudster alive today.
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Elon Musk’s loathsome attack on global aid is already killing and harming many thousands of innocent people around the world.
There is no punishment great enough for this evil.
There is no punishment great enough for this evil.
USAID’s inspector general—presumably operating from a remote base in the mountains—has just released a report on the staggering effect of the Trump Administration’s assault on the agency. oig.usaid.gov/sites/defaul...
oig.usaid.gov
February 11, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Elon Musk’s loathsome attack on global aid is already killing and harming many thousands of innocent people around the world.
There is no punishment great enough for this evil.
There is no punishment great enough for this evil.
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"Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on Shodan.io ...
[including] a Department of Energy server [that] allowed anonymous login with write access..."
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
"Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on Shodan.io ...
[including] a Department of Energy server [that] allowed anonymous login with write access..."
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever
A new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.
cyberintel.substack.com
February 10, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on Shodan.io ...
[including] a Department of Energy server [that] allowed anonymous login with write access..."
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
"Beginning on January 8, 2025, a surge of U.S. government infrastructure began appearing on Shodan.io ...
[including] a Department of Energy server [that] allowed anonymous login with write access..."
cyberintel.substack.com/p/doge-expos...
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ok but what if instead we just elected the absolute worst assholes we could find and let them destroy everything good in the world so the shittiest people could accumulate more and more ridiculous amounts of wealth
February 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
ok but what if instead we just elected the absolute worst assholes we could find and let them destroy everything good in the world so the shittiest people could accumulate more and more ridiculous amounts of wealth
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My honorable congressmember, you are not locked in there with them; they are locked in there with you. Act accordingly.
Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.
We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.
February 2, 2025 at 11:01 PM
My honorable congressmember, you are not locked in there with them; they are locked in there with you. Act accordingly.
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Look I’ll take one for the team. If you really really really need to threaten politicians or threaten to do violence hit me up and I’ll post it for you. I’m safe in Ireland
February 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Look I’ll take one for the team. If you really really really need to threaten politicians or threaten to do violence hit me up and I’ll post it for you. I’m safe in Ireland
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Ok, something a bit different I’ve been mulling over this week…
I found this review paper on “post-growth” economics - which is an umbrella including terms like “degrowth” and the “Doughnut” - very helpful. It clarifies a lot that I found confusing…
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I found this review paper on “post-growth” economics - which is an umbrella including terms like “degrowth” and the “Doughnut” - very helpful. It clarifies a lot that I found confusing…
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries
There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries
might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, or economically achievable.
In this Review, we expl...
www.thelancet.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Ok, something a bit different I’ve been mulling over this week…
I found this review paper on “post-growth” economics - which is an umbrella including terms like “degrowth” and the “Doughnut” - very helpful. It clarifies a lot that I found confusing…
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I found this review paper on “post-growth” economics - which is an umbrella including terms like “degrowth” and the “Doughnut” - very helpful. It clarifies a lot that I found confusing…
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.
February 2, 2025 at 5:14 AM
A government that deliberately abandons the rule of law is not morally entitled to its protections.
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Nah, not for me thanks.
January 28, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Nah, not for me thanks.
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Make 2025 the year you end your dependence on corporate breaking news outlets, and return to substantive long form and nonprofit journalism. Here are some outlets I'm reading (and subscribing to) this year:
1. CalMatters. A dedicated nonprofit newsroom covering California in depth. calmatters.org
1. CalMatters. A dedicated nonprofit newsroom covering California in depth. calmatters.org
Spectre: A Marxist Journal
Spectre is a new Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist.
spectrejournal.com
January 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Make 2025 the year you end your dependence on corporate breaking news outlets, and return to substantive long form and nonprofit journalism. Here are some outlets I'm reading (and subscribing to) this year:
1. CalMatters. A dedicated nonprofit newsroom covering California in depth. calmatters.org
1. CalMatters. A dedicated nonprofit newsroom covering California in depth. calmatters.org
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When I go on a web-site I will ALWAYS select “do not sell my personal information” and also I carry a card in my wallet that says I DO NOT CONSENT TO BEING MURDERED
January 19, 2025 at 6:42 AM
When I go on a web-site I will ALWAYS select “do not sell my personal information” and also I carry a card in my wallet that says I DO NOT CONSENT TO BEING MURDERED
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buying murder credits to remain murder neutral
January 11, 2025 at 7:15 AM
buying murder credits to remain murder neutral
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Today is *not* a “peaceful transfer of power.” It’s the completion of a violent coup attempt that began this morning four years ago. Yes, Trump won the ‘24 election; but he was only able to run because we failed to fully confront the fact of that violent coup attempt.
January 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Today is *not* a “peaceful transfer of power.” It’s the completion of a violent coup attempt that began this morning four years ago. Yes, Trump won the ‘24 election; but he was only able to run because we failed to fully confront the fact of that violent coup attempt.
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Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
January 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Who is up for a short thread on the intriguing parallels between OpenAI and Enron, as told by one of Enron's investment bankers -- that is to say, me? Here goes...
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i don’t think i am even joking anymore when i say the pop tart guy is prime evidence of the all consuming american death drive
December 29, 2024 at 4:19 AM
i don’t think i am even joking anymore when i say the pop tart guy is prime evidence of the all consuming american death drive
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The last 2 weeks exemplify the hierarchy of human life:
•1 CEO killed—national news for weeks, new security hired, people charged with terrorism
•488 mass shootings in 2024—no major legislation to stop future shootings
•200K+ Palestinians killed—send even more bombs to Netanyahu
This must change.
•1 CEO killed—national news for weeks, new security hired, people charged with terrorism
•488 mass shootings in 2024—no major legislation to stop future shootings
•200K+ Palestinians killed—send even more bombs to Netanyahu
This must change.
December 17, 2024 at 10:06 PM
The last 2 weeks exemplify the hierarchy of human life:
•1 CEO killed—national news for weeks, new security hired, people charged with terrorism
•488 mass shootings in 2024—no major legislation to stop future shootings
•200K+ Palestinians killed—send even more bombs to Netanyahu
This must change.
•1 CEO killed—national news for weeks, new security hired, people charged with terrorism
•488 mass shootings in 2024—no major legislation to stop future shootings
•200K+ Palestinians killed—send even more bombs to Netanyahu
This must change.
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Seeing someone use “woke” as a derrogatory descriptor is useful in that it lets me know I don’t need to take whatever they say next seriously.
Judith Butler is 100% correct. The word "woke" is pure reactionary bullshit. Its contemporary meaning also distorts history by making it seem as if every positive cultural change of the past 200 years has happened naturally, without agitation by people considered, at the time, dangerously "woke."
December 16, 2024 at 12:44 PM
Seeing someone use “woke” as a derrogatory descriptor is useful in that it lets me know I don’t need to take whatever they say next seriously.
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