Today’s feelings brought to you by Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra channeling the 19th century Urdu/Persian poet, Mirza Ghalib.
February 22, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Today’s feelings brought to you by Indian poet Arvind Krishna Mehrotra channeling the 19th century Urdu/Persian poet, Mirza Ghalib.
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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
February 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Never watched The Newsroom when it was on air. Watching it now. Prescient and (in an odd way) cathartic.
February 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Never watched The Newsroom when it was on air. Watching it now. Prescient and (in an odd way) cathartic.
Reposted
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
February 19, 2025 at 8:15 PM
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
Some people buy their way into everything and claim they created it alone. Others foolishly believe them and follow mindlessly.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...
'Not a bid at all': OpenAI to Musk on $97.4-billion offer
OpenAI has officially rejected Elon Musk's proposal to buy the artificial intelligence startup's nonprofit parent for $97.4 billion.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com
February 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Some people buy their way into everything and claim they created it alone. Others foolishly believe them and follow mindlessly.
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...
www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/busines...
Preach
You cannot fire so many people and shutter so many agencies and services and not expect things to start to go very bad very quickly.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
Our job is to highlight not only the chaos and cruelty of the firings, but also the devastating consequences.
The public must turn on this madness and soon.
February 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Preach
Massive layoffs of recent hires at EPA, FDA and NIH. Friends and colleagues in the field affected. Make America Unsafe Again (BTW-It was never safe here for some of us).
February 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Massive layoffs of recent hires at EPA, FDA and NIH. Friends and colleagues in the field affected. Make America Unsafe Again (BTW-It was never safe here for some of us).
This is how the administration thanks them for their service.
"the Department of Veterans Affairs announced the dismissal of more than 1,000 employees who had served for less than two years. That included researchers working on cancer treatment, opioid addiction, prosthetics and burn pit exposure, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, said Thursday."
February 16, 2025 at 1:17 PM
This is how the administration thanks them for their service.
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This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
February 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.
Plans to shutter CFPB (that was set to regulate digital payments, including through X) and now this with these ugly and unsafe vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
US Department of State plans to spend $400m on Tesla armoured vehicles
Plan raises possibility of more conflicts of interest for Elon Musk as he leads efforts to slash government spending
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Plans to shutter CFPB (that was set to regulate digital payments, including through X) and now this with these ugly and unsafe vehicles.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Somehow, watching Mo ad Lupin on Netflix right now is very satisfying.
February 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Somehow, watching Mo ad Lupin on Netflix right now is very satisfying.
Just realized that Trump does his own kind of virtue signaling. Huh…
February 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Just realized that Trump does his own kind of virtue signaling. Huh…
Err
Trump, Vance, and Musk are pushing to rehire a staffer who resigned after being called out for a social media account with a history of racist posts. “To err is human, to forgive divine,” Elon Musk said in defense of the move. No—it’s not err; it’s racism. No excuses.
February 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Err
Oh, so the liberal outrage is sparked by Trump’s candid comments, not by the destruction that has been unleashed on Palestinians for decades, including the last year and a half. I see…
February 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Oh, so the liberal outrage is sparked by Trump’s candid comments, not by the destruction that has been unleashed on Palestinians for decades, including the last year and a half. I see…
Reposted
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
The underbelly of USA.
theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...
theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...
Trump Leans on WWII Japanese Incarceration Law to Deport Immigrants
The Alien Enemies Act provides sweeping powers to detain or deport foreign nationals. It’s ripe for abuse, experts say.
theintercept.com
February 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The underbelly of USA.
theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...
theintercept.com/2025/01/28/t...
So, if you’re a natural-born insurrectionist (with violent prior offenses) you can be pardoned, but if you’re a foreign-born student exercising their first amendment rights on campus you’re in the crosshair of deportation. No better way to tell us to go back where we came from.
January 31, 2025 at 2:56 PM
So, if you’re a natural-born insurrectionist (with violent prior offenses) you can be pardoned, but if you’re a foreign-born student exercising their first amendment rights on campus you’re in the crosshair of deportation. No better way to tell us to go back where we came from.
What he says and I couldn’t say it better. Now, I have too much to worry about!
We used to all hold our breath hoping a shooter wasn’t a Muslim or a trans person.
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
Now we gotta worry if the air traffic controller was Black?!
Do you see how far they have moved the window?
January 31, 2025 at 3:20 AM
What he says and I couldn’t say it better. Now, I have too much to worry about!
If it couldn’t be the “T” word that ends with an “m”, then it has to be the “D” acronym that ends with an “I”? 🤔
January 31, 2025 at 3:19 AM
If it couldn’t be the “T” word that ends with an “m”, then it has to be the “D” acronym that ends with an “I”? 🤔
So now we’re starting to privatize critical government functions important for national security, while foxes guard the hen house (no offense to foxes, a creature I quite adore). First SpaceX (which the current administration is not wholly to blame) for NASA and now OpenAI for US National Labs.
January 31, 2025 at 12:44 AM
So now we’re starting to privatize critical government functions important for national security, while foxes guard the hen house (no offense to foxes, a creature I quite adore). First SpaceX (which the current administration is not wholly to blame) for NASA and now OpenAI for US National Labs.
Too good not to repost. Just about sums up this nepo cabinet.
Unqualified TV dude goes back on TV to lecture everyone on merits and qualifications.
Pete Hegseth: "Diversity is not our strength"
January 30, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Too good not to repost. Just about sums up this nepo cabinet.
This really hit to me yesterday…Administration after US administration this sin continues.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
Trump plan to open migrant detention centre at Guantánamo Bay an ‘act of brutality’, Cuban president says – US politics live
US president signs executive order to prepare huge detention facility at Guantánamo Bay he says could hold 30,000 immigrants
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
This really hit to me yesterday…Administration after US administration this sin continues.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...