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Here is Democratic Senator Mark Kelly (who the White House is currently threatening to hang), among other Senate Democrats, voting to confirm an Elon Musk ally to run NASA. These people are impossible to take seriously.
16 Democratic senators joined Republicans in confirming a close ally of Elon Musk as head of NASA:

Baldwin
Cantwell
Durbin
Fetterman
Gallego
Gillibrand
Hassan
Heinrich
Kaine
Kelly
Kim
King
Schiff
Shaheen
Slotkin
Warner
December 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
First time I think I've ever seen YouTube go down

:( I wanna watch stuff
December 19, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Well the Dodgers union busting worked again.

I don’t know if I can continue working for this team.

And I love this team. But they have treated us abysmally.

I’m so heartsick right now.
December 18, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things
December 15, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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"Any Europeans puzzled about the level of transatlantic ferocity in last week’s US National Security Strategy document should listen more closely to the broligarchs. Their arch-enemy is the EU and its digital privacy and digital services acts, which they want swept away."
December 13, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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“This is not America having priorities that don’t involve Europe. It is not isolationism. It is America taking sides with Russia against Europe, because one of America’s two political parties now sees Russian autocracy as preferable to European democracy.”
Trump’s Long-Term Damage
The things we won’t be able to fix even if we wanted to.
www.thebulwark.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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The cat is out of the bag:

The Danish intelligence service names the US as a threat and sources from the Swedish military intelligence share the assessment that the politicisation of the FBI and CIA has caused a deep crisis of trust
USA pekas ut som del av hotbild i Danmark
För första gången pekas USA ut som en del av hotbilden mot Danmark.
www.svd.se
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
$190k student loans on a $30k salary...we have lost the plot.
December 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is going to further destroy our economy. Nobody will want to come here to visit or to do business. This is all for Palantir, I suspect. None of this is necessary.
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.

The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.

Below is the full, mind-blowing list.

🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨

1/
December 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Nearly a year into Trump’s second term, the Guardian asked activists and opposition leaders from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey what their experiences have taught them about authoritarianism – and what they wish they’d understood sooner.
We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away
Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.
www.forbes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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A UN Environment Programme satellite watches for super-emitter events of methane (the main component of natural gas and a fast/potent greenhouse gas) and alerts the people responsible. Out of 3,500+ alerts since 2022, UNEP "documented 25 cases of mitigation action."

That's a 0.7% action rate. 🤦
Better data driving action on methane emissions, but more work needed
Nairobi, 22 October 2025 – Government and industry responses to UNEP’s more than 3,500 satellite methane alerts climbed from one to 12 per cent in the past year. Nevertheless, action must accelerate t...
www.unep.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Russian state tv is propagandizing this idea all over the place:

“Perhaps Russia and the United States will decide the fate of Europe without it. This is a very possible prospect”
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I pray for a day I can wake up and not read things that makes me completely embarrassed by my government's failures. This is one of the dumbest things I have ever read.
one of the wildest stories i've seen in a minute: twin brothers who previously pled guilty to hacking the State Department while gov't contractors... got new jobs as gov't contractors.... then allegedly deleted a bunch of gov't data... and were just arrested again.

www.axios.com/2025/12/03/v...
Feds arrest twin brothers for allegedly deleting government data
The brothers worked for a contractor and previously pled guilty for hacking into the State Department.
www.axios.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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We need to be creating UBI for people displaced by robots NOW.
November 28, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Dems who voted to repeal DC's law that creates a board to review police misconduct and prevents hiring police with history of misconduct:
-Cullar
-Davis
-Gillen
-Golden
-Goodlander
-Gottheimer
-Gray
-Kaptur
-Lee
-Min
-Panetta
-Pappas
-MGP
-Riley
-Ryan
-Schrier
-Sorensen
-Suozzi
-Vindman
-Whitesides
November 20, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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PRESIDENT ORDERING AG TO INVESTIGATE POLITICAL OPPONENTS FOR CRIME PRESIDENT COMMITTED WOULD LEAD TO IMMEDIATE IMPEACHMENT & REMOVAL FOR ANY PREVIOUS PRESIDENT, BUT NYT TREATS AS JUST *NORMAL* NEXT TO FLUFF PIECE ABOUT PREISDENT'S OFFICE. NYT IS ANTI-DEMOCRACY, ANTI-RULE-OF-LAW, PRO-TRUMP.
November 15, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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trumps administration is the largest looting of the working class funneled up to the wealthy in history
November 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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NOAA cut funding to the Alaska Earthquake Center, directed by my friend Mike West. As a result, seismic monitoring by nine stations in Alaska tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes will go offline by the end of the month. This endangers people in Alaska, Hawaiʻi, and other parts of the Pacific.
This lab is key for tracking deadly waves. Its sensors are about to go offline.
After NOAA cut funding to the lab that’s been monitoring seismic activity for more than 25 years, nine stations tracking tsunami-causing earthquakes for the agency will go offline by the end of the mo...
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
This is absolutely insane. Watch this.
Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero
November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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ICE sprays large canister of pepper spray directly into family car—hitting 1 year old baby.

"They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said man who took video.

"ICE agents drove by and sprayed pepper spray directly inside—where their baby and 16 year old sister sat."

Cicero, Illinois
November 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

No matter how they voted last night, every one of them has a say in maintaining Chuck Schumer and Dick Durbin as their caucus leaders. Every one of them is accountable here.
November 10, 2025 at 1:18 PM