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This is not just embarrassing, it's actively destructive. It's lending legitimacy to a project whose purpose is to gut the state, immiserate public workers, and replace them with political loyalists. It's textbook authoritarianism, and the biggest impediments it faces is anyone taking it seriously
I'm ready to work with DOGE to slash waste. I have a track record of doing so. I led the charge to get TransDigm to refund $16 million after investigative reporting exposed price-gouging. Let's look to the Truman Committee and ensure Americans get their money's worth with DOD spending.
December 5, 2024 at 6:40 PM
This is not just embarrassing, it's actively destructive. It's lending legitimacy to a project whose purpose is to gut the state, immiserate public workers, and replace them with political loyalists. It's textbook authoritarianism, and the biggest impediments it faces is anyone taking it seriously
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Washington State is the easiest state in the country to vote in. Moved from NY To Seattle in 2017 and I'm still infatuated with being able to vote by mail while still wearing pajamas
costofvotingindex.com
costofvotingindex.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:49 PM
Washington State is the easiest state in the country to vote in. Moved from NY To Seattle in 2017 and I'm still infatuated with being able to vote by mail while still wearing pajamas
costofvotingindex.com
costofvotingindex.com
earthquake! in the east bay, at least. just followed @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social but no updates from it yet.
December 5, 2024 at 6:49 PM
earthquake! in the east bay, at least. just followed @earthquakebotsf.bsky.social but no updates from it yet.
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for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
November 29, 2024 at 5:39 PM
for my next newsletter and episode i bought the bestselling laptop on Amazon to try and explain how shitty most people's exposure to tech is. Currently at 30 minutes of menus and updates. I have agreed to three privacy policies and created two new accounts. We live in hell
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He's a liar. He's lied in the past. He'll continue to lie.
The real question is will the press do their job and call out the lies . . . or will they fold and cower like The L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Joe Scarborough?
The real question is will the press do their job and call out the lies . . . or will they fold and cower like The L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Joe Scarborough?
November 29, 2024 at 9:26 PM
He's a liar. He's lied in the past. He'll continue to lie.
The real question is will the press do their job and call out the lies . . . or will they fold and cower like The L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Joe Scarborough?
The real question is will the press do their job and call out the lies . . . or will they fold and cower like The L.A. Times, Washington Post, and Joe Scarborough?
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This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.
November 29, 2024 at 2:30 PM
This is your daily reminder that this really did happen.
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Gonna be cool when they use this to claim they know what marginalized communities want.
November 24, 2024 at 3:18 PM
Gonna be cool when they use this to claim they know what marginalized communities want.
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Well, he allegedly disrupted a woman’s ability to leave his hotel room and not be raped by him
Sen. Eric Schmitt on Pete Hegseth: "Ultimately, this is a decision that President Trump made to bring in another disrupter ... he's not been charged with anything. I think that's important."
November 24, 2024 at 3:21 PM
Well, he allegedly disrupted a woman’s ability to leave his hotel room and not be raped by him
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Why are we talking about self-driving cars again — or robotaxis, as we now call them? Not because they’re about to solve all our transport problems, or even significantly replace existing road trips. It’s simply because AI hype is back — and AV makers are taking advantage.
Roundup: The return of self-driving hype
Read to the end for a graph of Elon Musk’s real-time mental decline
disconnect.blog
November 24, 2024 at 3:28 PM
Why are we talking about self-driving cars again — or robotaxis, as we now call them? Not because they’re about to solve all our transport problems, or even significantly replace existing road trips. It’s simply because AI hype is back — and AV makers are taking advantage.
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Remember this guy? Trump just made him director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Shout-out to everyone who tried to convince us he knew nothing about Project 2025.
Shout-out to everyone who tried to convince us he knew nothing about Project 2025.
November 23, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Remember this guy? Trump just made him director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Shout-out to everyone who tried to convince us he knew nothing about Project 2025.
Shout-out to everyone who tried to convince us he knew nothing about Project 2025.
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Crime reporting be like
November 22, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Crime reporting be like
this is my shocked face
President-elect Trump and his allies disavowed the conservative Project 2025 during the election.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Now, his transition team is turning to Project 2025 to help staff the next administration, sources tell @nbcnews.com.
Trump's transition team turns to Project 2025 after disavowing it during the campaign
Transition officials have used Project 2025's extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.
www.nbcnews.com
November 22, 2024 at 7:01 PM
this is my shocked face
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There are, of course, laws about this stuff we could actually enforce, depending on whether we decide the problem is 1) he is not yet a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell; 2) he is now a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell. But since we're not a serious country 🤷♂️
November 22, 2024 at 6:50 PM
There are, of course, laws about this stuff we could actually enforce, depending on whether we decide the problem is 1) he is not yet a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell; 2) he is now a federal employee & therefore this is illegal as hell. But since we're not a serious country 🤷♂️
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Reminder that a key strategy of project 2025 is to fire scores of federal employees, then install tons of theocrats to number two positions in all of these departments, so that while the department head role is tied up in Congressional approval, the Deputy Director is de facto running things.
On Authoritarianism
Or: What Year 600 of the Reich Taught Me About Project 2025
www.lifeisasacredtext.com
November 20, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Reminder that a key strategy of project 2025 is to fire scores of federal employees, then install tons of theocrats to number two positions in all of these departments, so that while the department head role is tied up in Congressional approval, the Deputy Director is de facto running things.
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I lived in Greece when the government was hacking phones of journalists, politicians, and activists. @citizenlab.ca checked our phones many times 🙏 it was so stressful!
Surveillance has massive psychosocial impacts - and such targeting will likely grow under Trump
www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Surveillance has massive psychosocial impacts - and such targeting will likely grow under Trump
www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
The Technology the Trump Administration Could Use to Hack Your Phone
Other Western democracies have been roiled by the use of spyware to target political opponents, activists, journalists, and other vulnerable groups. Could it happen here?
www.newyorker.com
November 22, 2024 at 6:38 PM
I lived in Greece when the government was hacking phones of journalists, politicians, and activists. @citizenlab.ca checked our phones many times 🙏 it was so stressful!
Surveillance has massive psychosocial impacts - and such targeting will likely grow under Trump
www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
Surveillance has massive psychosocial impacts - and such targeting will likely grow under Trump
www.newyorker.com/news/news-de...
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great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.
One thing I think people talking about the threat of authoritarian creep have gotten, if not exactly wrong, not quite right either is to frame discussion in terms of various European precedents.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
Those are relevant to be sure, but we also have an American precedent - namely the South before 1965.
November 20, 2024 at 2:53 PM
great thread and this has been one of my obsessions in my column, to point people away from the european example and toward the american one.
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Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.
This is not how it’s going to play out, no matter how many times people repeat it. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-c...
November 20, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Having read a bunch of really sharp critiques of AI, I’ve found myself assuming that AI entrepreneurs must have equally smart arguments. I’m always astounded to find that they don’t: it’s just easily disproven boosterism. But then, of course it is. It doesn’t matter, because capital is behind them.
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To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
November 21, 2024 at 2:38 AM
To review:
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
ATTORNEY GENERAL: Allegedly paid for sex with multiple women and a 17-year-old girl
SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Allegedly raped a woman at a conference in 2017
SECRETARY OF HHS: Allegedly sexually assaulted his kids’ baby sitter
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basically every pro-consumer regulation we have is on the chopping block and it is very frustrating to see normal people parrot this sort of “regulatory overreach” language when almost every individual regulation that gets rolled back is immensely popular on its own
Delta’s CEO says Trump has promised to roll back a rule requiring automatic refunds on canceled flights and another requiring airlines to disclose the full cost of a ticket up front
Delta CEO says the Trump administration will reverse government 'overreach' seen under Biden
The chief executive of Delta Air Lines says the incoming Trump administration will be a “breath of fresh air” for airlines after what he called government “overreach” under President Joe Biden.
apnews.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:41 AM
basically every pro-consumer regulation we have is on the chopping block and it is very frustrating to see normal people parrot this sort of “regulatory overreach” language when almost every individual regulation that gets rolled back is immensely popular on its own
well great
1/IMPORTANT thread about Bluesky funding and origins. Many folks know that it was seeded by Jack Dorsey around a libertarian vision of a magical network that wouldn’t need moderation because it would be decentralized and baked into a protocol (somehow).
November 18, 2024 at 3:24 AM
well great
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RFK Jr.: “Thank you [to the NIH] for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
RFK Jr. comes ‘home’ to his anti-vaccine group, commits to ‘a break’ for U.S. infectious disease research
He has suggested without evidence that researchers and pharmaceutical companies are driven by profit to neglect chronic conditions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:45 PM
RFK Jr.: “Thank you [to the NIH] for public service. We’re going to give infectious disease a break for about eight years.”
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Kennedy wants to take a “break” from studying infectious diseases like COVID-19 and measles.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
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Meanwhile:
“An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
“An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
Surge in worldwide measles cases driven by lack of vaccine coverage, WHO says
The WHO and CDC say there were about 10.3 million cases of measles last year, up 20 percent from 2022. Children are especially susceptible to complications.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:52 PM
Meanwhile:
“An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
“An estimated 10.3 million cases of measles occurred worldwide last year, up 20 percent from 2022, primarily because of inadequate immunization coverage, the World Health Organization and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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If traffic seems to be getting worse, it is. People are driving 12% more than pre-pandemic.
We need to invest in public transit and biking to get cars off the road. Even if you love driving, you should want better public transit and biking so that you aren't sitting behind other cars in traffic.
We need to invest in public transit and biking to get cars off the road. Even if you love driving, you should want better public transit and biking so that you aren't sitting behind other cars in traffic.
US Driving and Congestion Rates Are Higher Than Ever
After a reprieve from car traffic in 2020, vehicle miles traveled have now surpassed pre-pandemic levels in almost every metro area.
www.bloomberg.com
November 17, 2024 at 2:50 PM
If traffic seems to be getting worse, it is. People are driving 12% more than pre-pandemic.
We need to invest in public transit and biking to get cars off the road. Even if you love driving, you should want better public transit and biking so that you aren't sitting behind other cars in traffic.
We need to invest in public transit and biking to get cars off the road. Even if you love driving, you should want better public transit and biking so that you aren't sitting behind other cars in traffic.
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NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 AM
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next.
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...