‘In a real sense, US democracy has died’: how Trump is emulating Hungary’s Orbán

Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the CDC but then abruptly vanished.

Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

hey, cis folks who followed for call scripts!

this is good. communities standing together can help protect trans kids—it’s terrifying for single teachers to stand alone.

there’s a doc in shay’s link. copy the alt text—whatever. it’ll take so little time. resisting compliance is actual resistance.

This comments section is the first time I've felt even a shred of hope in eight days.

"The US should use military force to obtain new territory like Greenland and the Panama Canal"

Disagree: 71%
Agree: 9%

Ipsos / Jan 21, 2025 / n=1077

*Jan. 6 pardons
*Draconian anti-immigrant EOs
*Nazi salutes

All of it is intended to normalize and embolden violent extremism. And all of it directly threatens Jews, so many other communities, and our very democracy.

If we can’t call this out, I really don’t know what we’re doing.

Elon Musk doing the Nazi salute at Trump’s inauguration rally. Did it twice, actually.

Don’t waste time arguing with the people telling us that’s not what happened. They’re not mistaken, they are engaged in propaganda.

Faced with authoritarianism in power, it is crucial we trust our own eyes.

youtu.be/yNpgY8g1sgs?...

AOC comes out swinging against a Nancy Mace for targeting Sarah McBride.

"They're doing this so that Nancy Mace can ... fundraise off an email. They're not doing this to protect people. They're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kinds. And everybody should reject it. It's gross."

Btw

I’m starting to understand what it must have been like when Caligula made his horse a senator.

If you paywall the truth (news/journalism), the liars and peddlers of half-truths will rejoice.

Defeating the far right in the information space means being easily accessible

OK, here's my first attempt at the kind of thread I used to do on the hellsite. At a guess, the first place we'll really see the economic impact of Trumpism will be from mass deportation — and it will be worse than many people, even macroeconomic modelers, imagine 1/

I was a rock collecting kid, Geology was my college "comfort" class. Go check out some old ass sandstone before doom scrolling today

There are gonna be disabled folks who can't contribute anything to The Cause. They have no money, no energy, no physical ability, no time. They will need to receive and will never be able to give back. You gotta save them, too. Especially them.

If you share Trump’s mugshot today please share that the Fulton County Jail where it was taken, is at 3x it’s capacity, infested with bugs, holding 87% Black people, most of whom haven’t even been convicted of a crime.

6 people have died in custody this year alone. Fuck cops, shut down jails.

How the U.S. government came to rely on the Elon Musk—and is now struggling to rein him in.

‘On the phone with Defense, Musk said he had been speaking with Putin personally and then said that he was looking at his laptop and could see ‘the entire war unfolding’ through a map of Starlink activity.’

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