Josh
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I guess this kinda counts as good news? sort of?
Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the FDA’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a review to determine if other critical posts were cut.
F.D.A. Scientists Are Reinstated at Agency Food Safety Labs
After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and review firings to fill gaps in critical roles.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I guess this kinda counts as good news? sort of?
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Donald Trump keeps losing in court.
That's why he's lashing out at judges who go against his authoritarian agenda — even going as far as to have them arrested.
His regime is starting to crack bit by bit. Keep up the pressure. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
That's why he's lashing out at judges who go against his authoritarian agenda — even going as far as to have them arrested.
His regime is starting to crack bit by bit. Keep up the pressure. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Judge blocks Trump executive order that strips union rights from federal workers
The judge suggested during a hearing Wednesday that the administration's moves appear targeted toward unions that have opposed his agenda.
www.politico.com
April 25, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Donald Trump keeps losing in court.
That's why he's lashing out at judges who go against his authoritarian agenda — even going as far as to have them arrested.
His regime is starting to crack bit by bit. Keep up the pressure. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
That's why he's lashing out at judges who go against his authoritarian agenda — even going as far as to have them arrested.
His regime is starting to crack bit by bit. Keep up the pressure. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
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In 2015 Stephen Hawking described two possible economic futures for humanity & how we're now choosing the bad one: reddit.com/r/science/co...
April 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In 2015 Stephen Hawking described two possible economic futures for humanity & how we're now choosing the bad one: reddit.com/r/science/co...
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the de facto social contract in this country has been you don't get a good welfare state or infrastructure or (with few exceptions) a union job, but you do get access to a cornucopia of cheap consumer goods. I'd guess people will *flip the fuck out,* but we'll see!
April 8, 2025 at 7:12 PM
the de facto social contract in this country has been you don't get a good welfare state or infrastructure or (with few exceptions) a union job, but you do get access to a cornucopia of cheap consumer goods. I'd guess people will *flip the fuck out,* but we'll see!
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Elon Musk, who wants AI to replace federal workers, is now using it to spy on them.
The Trump administration told federal employees that DOGE “technologists” are using AI to monitor “anti-Trump or anti-Musk language” at the EPA.
The Trump administration told federal employees that DOGE “technologists” are using AI to monitor “anti-Trump or anti-Musk language” at the EPA.
Elon Musk’s DOGE Is Now Using AI to Spy on Federal Workers
Be careful what you say if you’re a federal employee.
newrepublic.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Elon Musk, who wants AI to replace federal workers, is now using it to spy on them.
The Trump administration told federal employees that DOGE “technologists” are using AI to monitor “anti-Trump or anti-Musk language” at the EPA.
The Trump administration told federal employees that DOGE “technologists” are using AI to monitor “anti-Trump or anti-Musk language” at the EPA.
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“Using AI to surveil and silence speech has long been raised as a boogeyman by privacy advocates—something that could happen, in theory. Now, it is actually happening, and anyone can be a target for anything they might say online.”
We're doing AI generated smear campaigns now
Yale University has suspended a law school scholar after an AI-generated news website claimed that she was a member of a terrorist organization
www.usermag.co
March 15, 2025 at 1:01 AM
“Using AI to surveil and silence speech has long been raised as a boogeyman by privacy advocates—something that could happen, in theory. Now, it is actually happening, and anyone can be a target for anything they might say online.”
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Aristotle was actually right, there is such a thing as "natural slaves".
Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power.
Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power.
March 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Aristotle was actually right, there is such a thing as "natural slaves".
Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power.
Today we call them "conservatives", and they will do anything they can to turn themselves into docile servants to anyone with wealth and power.
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Tesla is in big trouble. Sales are plummeting and consumers are boycotting the brand as Elon Musk champions far-right politics.
But the CEO’s reputation isn’t the only problem. He’s also made a series of bad business decisions that are coming back to haunt the automaker.
But the CEO’s reputation isn’t the only problem. He’s also made a series of bad business decisions that are coming back to haunt the automaker.
Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground
His far-right politics aren’t the automaker’s only problem
www.disconnect.blog
March 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Tesla is in big trouble. Sales are plummeting and consumers are boycotting the brand as Elon Musk champions far-right politics.
But the CEO’s reputation isn’t the only problem. He’s also made a series of bad business decisions that are coming back to haunt the automaker.
But the CEO’s reputation isn’t the only problem. He’s also made a series of bad business decisions that are coming back to haunt the automaker.
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This is correct.
Health care is one of the data-driven ways you reduce crime 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Health care is one of the data-driven ways you reduce crime 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
The GOP is signaling major cuts to Medicaid are coming.
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
Recent studies have shown cuts to Medicaid have a big consequence that gets typically ignored: crime increases.
boltsmag.org/medicaid-cov...
“We Need to See the Bigger Picture”: How Cuts to Medicaid Hurt Public Safety - Bolts
When a state made cuts to Medicaid, depriving people of access to health insurance, the crime rate increased: That’s the finding of a new academic study, supported by the National... Read More
boltsmag.org
February 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
This is correct.
Health care is one of the data-driven ways you reduce crime 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Health care is one of the data-driven ways you reduce crime 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
holy f*ck this is extremely important
this is actually insane
this is actually insane
👀 “[I]f there is an intent to punish perceived enemies, someone could erase your earnings record, making it impossible to collect the Social Security and Medicare benefits you have earned.”
Powerful warning from @socialsecurityworks.org as Musk’s DOGE hacks reportedly are breaching Soc Sec Admin.
Powerful warning from @socialsecurityworks.org as Musk’s DOGE hacks reportedly are breaching Soc Sec Admin.
February 18, 2025 at 4:26 AM
holy f*ck this is extremely important
this is actually insane
this is actually insane
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This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
February 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
This guy is literally trying to access your banking information via the IRS.
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
It really is amazing how much cutting out vices like spending too much time watching TV/scrolling social media can do for being more productive and advancing our reading goals
February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
It really is amazing how much cutting out vices like spending too much time watching TV/scrolling social media can do for being more productive and advancing our reading goals
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Hookworm never went away, we just stopped looking for it. New research suggests parasitic infections are widespread across the South.
My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Infrastructure neglect and poverty lead to parasites in the Mississippi Delta
New research suggests parasitic infections in US south are far more widespread than previously acknowledged
www.theguardian.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Hookworm never went away, we just stopped looking for it. New research suggests parasitic infections are widespread across the South.
My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
My latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
February 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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Some transgender Americans report they’ve been refused a passport altogether — with any gender marker — in recent weeks. “The goal is to make life untenable”: www.vox.com/politics/399...
Trump’s new passport rules are trapping transgender Americans in bureaucratic limbo
“Can I leave the country, and how can I leave the country?”
www.vox.com
February 15, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Some transgender Americans report they’ve been refused a passport altogether — with any gender marker — in recent weeks. “The goal is to make life untenable”: www.vox.com/politics/399...
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Alex Lawson: Pharma wants to charge prices that are so high so that some people die. They want some people to die so that everyone else is terrified enough to pay whatever they can afford and whatever they can borrow to keep them and their loved ones alive.
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Alex Lawson: Pharma wants to charge prices that are so high so that some people die. They want some people to die so that everyone else is terrified enough to pay whatever they can afford and whatever they can borrow to keep them and their loved ones alive.
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Under questioning, RFK Jr referred to the fact that people in Medicaid pay high premiums.
Here’s the thing: People in Medicaid don’t pay premiums, except in special circumstances or through state waivers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Here’s the thing: People in Medicaid don’t pay premiums, except in special circumstances or through state waivers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
RFK Jr. Doesn't Seem To Understand How Medicaid Works
www.huffpost.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Under questioning, RFK Jr referred to the fact that people in Medicaid pay high premiums.
Here’s the thing: People in Medicaid don’t pay premiums, except in special circumstances or through state waivers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Here’s the thing: People in Medicaid don’t pay premiums, except in special circumstances or through state waivers.
www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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this thing on here of people responding to arguments about legality/illegality of an action with nihilistic declarations that it doesn’t matter is infuriating and i share josh’s frustration with it
FFS, folks, nothing in this thread says *anything* about what I expect other actors to do about it. That is a separate question. But before we ask how other institutions will respond to blatant illegality, we first need to make the argument that something is blatantly illegal.
January 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
this thing on here of people responding to arguments about legality/illegality of an action with nihilistic declarations that it doesn’t matter is infuriating and i share josh’s frustration with it
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There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
January 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.
Yooooo let’s be friends on Xiaohongshu (REDnote) 🙏
It’s the new SPOT !!
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It’s the new SPOT !!
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January 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yooooo let’s be friends on Xiaohongshu (REDnote) 🙏
It’s the new SPOT !!
Same @
It’s the new SPOT !!
Same @
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Please don't divorce Yoon Suk Yeol from the Biden administration that has backed him. The US has been pushing South Korea to enter into a military alliance with its former colonizer Japan. Yoon has been willing to do it.
Yoon has been a considerable asset in the US strategy to contain China.
Yoon has been a considerable asset in the US strategy to contain China.
January 2, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Please don't divorce Yoon Suk Yeol from the Biden administration that has backed him. The US has been pushing South Korea to enter into a military alliance with its former colonizer Japan. Yoon has been willing to do it.
Yoon has been a considerable asset in the US strategy to contain China.
Yoon has been a considerable asset in the US strategy to contain China.
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The American flags, the virulent Sinophobia…this tells you all you need to know about Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters
January 4, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The American flags, the virulent Sinophobia…this tells you all you need to know about Yoon Suk Yeol’s supporters
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adrian dittman may not be elon musk but it’s very funny if we continue to pretend he is
while everyone else was busy writing slop articles about how adrian dittmann sounds like elon musk i decided to actually find him. investigation with @jsweetli.bsky.social and @ryan.staticnoi.se
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
thespectator.com/topic/real-a...
The real Adrian Dittmann
The account appears to be, in fact, Adrian Dittmann, a German Musk fan living in Fiji, according to a Spectator analysis of his posts
thespectator.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
adrian dittman may not be elon musk but it’s very funny if we continue to pretend he is
lmao yesss
Breaking News: President-elect Trump failed in his appeal of a $5 million judgment that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll and defamed her.
Trump Loses Appeal of Carroll’s $5 Million Award in Sex-Abuse Case
The president-elect had asked a court to overturn the defamation judgment against him in the case, which centered on E. Jean Carroll’s account of a sexual attack in a dressing room.
www.nytimes.com
December 30, 2024 at 7:21 PM
lmao yesss
In 1994, when Jimmy Carter learned that Bill Clinton was considering a nuclear first-strike on the DPRK's nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, he gathered a CNN crew to fly to Pyongyang and meet Kim Il Sung to sabotage Clinton & prevent that outcome, and hammer out a diplomatic agreement
December 29, 2024 at 11:58 PM
In 1994, when Jimmy Carter learned that Bill Clinton was considering a nuclear first-strike on the DPRK's nuclear reactor in Yongbyon, he gathered a CNN crew to fly to Pyongyang and meet Kim Il Sung to sabotage Clinton & prevent that outcome, and hammer out a diplomatic agreement