Art
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Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say | CNN
Some of the fired probationary employees included on-the-ground staff at facilities where nuclear weapons are built.
www.cnn.com
February 15, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Trump officials fired nuclear staff not realizing they oversee the country’s weapons stockpile, sources say www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...
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This was is same pretext the Nazis cited before they invaded other countries.
Trump on Canada: "I spoke to Governor Trudeau ... they don't have military protection, and you take a look at what's going on out there ... people are in danger ... they need our protection."
February 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
This was is same pretext the Nazis cited before they invaded other countries.
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Tesla is suing customers (and journalists) for defamation in China when they complain about their cars malfunctioning. www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-s...
Tesla has sued customers and journalists in China — and won most times, review finds
Tesla has sued its own customers and journalists in China for defamation – and won just about every time. Elon Musk's company has pioneered an aggressive legal strategy there.
www.cbsnews.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Tesla is suing customers (and journalists) for defamation in China when they complain about their cars malfunctioning. www.cbsnews.com/news/tesla-s...
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Please read this story, and share. Here is a free link again. With Inspectors General fired, Congress controlled by GOP that is aligned with Trump, top federal ethics lawyers removed, newspaper efforts like this are largely what's left of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
Elon Musk’s Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up (Gift Article)
Government investigations into Mr. Musk’s companies are stalling amid President Trump’s firings and Biden administration resignations.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Please read this story, and share. Here is a free link again. With Inspectors General fired, Congress controlled by GOP that is aligned with Trump, top federal ethics lawyers removed, newspaper efforts like this are largely what's left of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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Feel like we need to start developing a different form of posting here. Ones which don't chase the new but restate what matters. Like:
None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.
None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.
February 12, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Feel like we need to start developing a different form of posting here. Ones which don't chase the new but restate what matters. Like:
None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.
None of these "cuts" Musk is doing are legal. None. He has no authority to cut, dissolve, fire, vaporize. He's an extraordinary criminal, a traitor to the US.
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Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.
Google Calendar removes Black History Month, Pride and other cultural events
Company says listed holidays were not ‘sustainable’ for its model in latest move to roll back diversity efforts
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Insane how quickly the racist regression is happening in this country. Decades of progress being undone in weeks, without even any laws having to be passed. Just sheer intimidation from Trump and the right, and sheer cowardice from the corporations.
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Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty.
Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free.
The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ...
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Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free.
The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ...
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February 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Elon Musk proposed closing Radio Liberty.
Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free.
The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ...
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Well, as a person who was thrown into a concentration camp and put through torture because of my writing for Radio Liberty, I can say that Europe is far from free.
The work of the Ukrainian bureau of Radio Liberty is one of the main elements of ...
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This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
Trump team preps list of banned staffers
The names include conservatives linked to Project 2025 and Republicans viewed as disloyal to the former president.
www.politico.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This Politico story from last October shows how easy it is to launder lies through the press. It claimed Trump would ban anyone tied to Project 2025 from a job in a second Trump administration.
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
“Clearly people working on Project 2025 are blacklisted,” said an unidentified Trump insider. 1/4🧵
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Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
February 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Erasure.
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
At the National Institute of Health, posters of women and scientists of color have been taken down. Shared by @ivancalcantara.bsky.social
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Meet Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, a teenage DOGE engineer, who has access to sensitive federal data
• Runs Tesla.Sexy, a company operating a Russian website
• Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers
• Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack
www.wired.com/story/edward...
• Runs Tesla.Sexy, a company operating a Russian website
• Worked at startup that hired convicted hackers
• Someone using his Telegram handle solicited a cyberattack
www.wired.com/story/edward...
DOGE Teen Owns ‘Tesla.Sexy LLC’ and Worked at Startup That Has Hired Convicted Hackers
Experts question whether Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer who has gone by “Big Balls” online, would pass the background check typically required for access to sensitive US government systems.
www.wired.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
Trump fired Linda Fagan, the first female Coast Guard commandant, on his second day in office. A Trump official told her she had three hours to leave her house on Tuesday.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This is Nazi purge stuff. 40 years of service, only to be kicked to the curb like trash by fascists.
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i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
i wrote something about This Place for @404media.co. please read it, and then log off. 💗
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Someone should make a database that allows you to click on a location and see in detail how Trumps cuts are hurting you directly. What medical center closed? What schools aren’t being funded? What programs are shutting down?
February 5, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Someone should make a database that allows you to click on a location and see in detail how Trumps cuts are hurting you directly. What medical center closed? What schools aren’t being funded? What programs are shutting down?
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Importantly, these are *civil* actions under the Privacy Act of 1974, i.e. individuals can file suit and Trump can’t pardon defendants.
Giving access to SSNs, other data on government employees to non-employees like Musk is a violation of 5 USC 552a, and carries with it a penalty of $1000 per person whose data was accessed. We are building a case. Govt employees who want to participate should contact me directly
February 4, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Importantly, these are *civil* actions under the Privacy Act of 1974, i.e. individuals can file suit and Trump can’t pardon defendants.
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“Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning.”
February 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
“Constitutional crisis” does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy and of what Congress’s decision not to act may liquidate in terms of constitutional meaning.”
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The United States is a danger to world peace, a destabilizing force. To the rest of the world, the U.S. must seem like a heavily armed drunk.
February 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
The United States is a danger to world peace, a destabilizing force. To the rest of the world, the U.S. must seem like a heavily armed drunk.
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This will cause more violence than any other possible move. You’re taking their homes for the second time in less than century? Ethnic cleansing? Just evil. Blatant evil.
February 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
This will cause more violence than any other possible move. You’re taking their homes for the second time in less than century? Ethnic cleansing? Just evil. Blatant evil.
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I missed this at first glance: The Salvadoran deal includes *American citizens*, not just immigrants of any nationality www.wsj.com/world/americ...
El Salvador Offers to Take U.S. Deportees of Any Nationality Including Imprisoned Americans
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said said the offer includes incarcerated American citizens who would be held in the country’s maximum-security prison.
www.wsj.com
February 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I missed this at first glance: The Salvadoran deal includes *American citizens*, not just immigrants of any nationality www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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If this real, I think this is some of the best evidence showing that we’re looking at a white collar, far right version of a “Khmer Rouge”-like regime.
This is the dismantling of a state that is the financial, military, and scientific powerhouse of the world and all in pursuit of a crank ideology.
This is the dismantling of a state that is the financial, military, and scientific powerhouse of the world and all in pursuit of a crank ideology.
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 2:04 AM
If this real, I think this is some of the best evidence showing that we’re looking at a white collar, far right version of a “Khmer Rouge”-like regime.
This is the dismantling of a state that is the financial, military, and scientific powerhouse of the world and all in pursuit of a crank ideology.
This is the dismantling of a state that is the financial, military, and scientific powerhouse of the world and all in pursuit of a crank ideology.
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this is how to do it
New York lawmakers are considering a change to the state's special elections law that would keep Rep. Elise Stefanik's House seat open for months, a move backed by Hakeem Jeffries as a way to deny Republicans’ already bare-bones House majority of a crucial vote.
Jeffries Works With N.Y. Democrats to Weaken G.O.P. Control of the House
New York lawmakers may give Gov. Kathy Hochul more time to schedule special elections, a move backed by the House Democratic leader that could keep a key seat vacant for months.
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
this is how to do it
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NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
Gavin Kliger, Elon's DOGE hitler youth shutting down USAID, is now indirectly responsible for the deaths of thousands of children. His Instagram appears to be @gkliger. He's scrubbing his online footprint.
Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...
Here's an archived copy of Kliger's resume: web.archive.org/web/20240418...
February 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
NEW: Archived tweets for Gavin Kriger, Musk's 20-something DOGE employee wreaking havoc inside USAID, shows that Kriger has retweeted multiple neo-Nazis including Nick Fuentes, leader of the so-called Groyper movement, and another popular explicit Nazi account recently unmasked by @travisbrown.dev
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The fact that Trump backed down from tariffs so easily is a sign that he simply is not used to people actually pushing back against him.
February 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The fact that Trump backed down from tariffs so easily is a sign that he simply is not used to people actually pushing back against him.