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DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
Bye bye, “DOGE”.
It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
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It no longer exists as a “centralized entity”, according to the Office of Personnel Management.
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/dog...
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
DOGE was created for data theft and infrastructure dismantling and it wildly succeeded on both counts within the first few weeks of its existence. It will take a generation to rebuild what it destroyed and the breach of data is unprecedented.
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The biggest problem in American society is that there are literally zero financial, political, electoral or social status consequences for committing crimes or being wrong & participating in harming people - as long as you retain a lanyard with a fancy media, government or corporate credential.
November 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The biggest problem in American society is that there are literally zero financial, political, electoral or social status consequences for committing crimes or being wrong & participating in harming people - as long as you retain a lanyard with a fancy media, government or corporate credential.
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Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Medicare for All Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
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November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
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I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
November 6, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I had a run in with ICE snatching a man out of his car while walking my children to school this morning in NW DC
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
I asked a neighbor to continue walking my kids to school and I turned back to document and confront the ICE agents.
I am in contact with @dcmigrantmutualaid.org with the full video.
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I've spent my life advocating for a politics challenging oligarchy. It's been an unpleasant and difficult line of work, to say the least. So when I see the longtime opponents of this kind of politics suddenly appropriating it as their new "centrism," I'm happy.
A short 🧵...
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Welcome To The New Uprising
Zohran Mamdani’s victory could be a turning point for Democrats — if the party finally learns from its past leaders’ betrayals.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I've spent my life advocating for a politics challenging oligarchy. It's been an unpleasant and difficult line of work, to say the least. So when I see the longtime opponents of this kind of politics suddenly appropriating it as their new "centrism," I'm happy.
A short 🧵...
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BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 PM
BREAKING: Former FTC chair Lina Khan to serve as co-chair of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral transition team.
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This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
October 29, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in the donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics.
It is the root of our dysfunction.
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SNAP exists because politicians take campaign contributions from large corporations in exchange for letting those corporations pay a poverty wage so low that it must be subsidized with taxpayer money, paid by middle class workers barely getting by—all so 700 billionaires can have a few extra billion
October 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
SNAP exists because politicians take campaign contributions from large corporations in exchange for letting those corporations pay a poverty wage so low that it must be subsidized with taxpayer money, paid by middle class workers barely getting by—all so 700 billionaires can have a few extra billion
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Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
October 27, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.
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What keeps New Yorkers up at night are not the right-wing fever dreams of Andrew Cuomo.
It's whether or not they can keep living in the city they love.
I'm the only candidate on stage tonight with a vision for the future and a plan to bring down costs.
It's whether or not they can keep living in the city they love.
I'm the only candidate on stage tonight with a vision for the future and a plan to bring down costs.
October 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
What keeps New Yorkers up at night are not the right-wing fever dreams of Andrew Cuomo.
It's whether or not they can keep living in the city they love.
I'm the only candidate on stage tonight with a vision for the future and a plan to bring down costs.
It's whether or not they can keep living in the city they love.
I'm the only candidate on stage tonight with a vision for the future and a plan to bring down costs.
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Yeah, my overall list is 2000 election, 9/11, Iraq War, financial crisis, and the decision to turn hope and change into more of the same by bailing out banks/shielding execs from prosecution while they threw millions of people out of their homes
October 21, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Yeah, my overall list is 2000 election, 9/11, Iraq War, financial crisis, and the decision to turn hope and change into more of the same by bailing out banks/shielding execs from prosecution while they threw millions of people out of their homes
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IMO promising people hope & change & then bailing out bank donors as they foreclosed on 10 million families was the defining political moment that birthed this era & IMO liberals/Dems still refusing to reckon with this & discard the politics that led to it is part of why this descent persists.
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October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
IMO promising people hope & change & then bailing out bank donors as they foreclosed on 10 million families was the defining political moment that birthed this era & IMO liberals/Dems still refusing to reckon with this & discard the politics that led to it is part of why this descent persists.
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You have to be shitting me... Ohtani homered again
October 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
You have to be shitting me... Ohtani homered again
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Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Mamdani vs Cuomo. Their debate in 3 minutes. From Zeteo.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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Like Scandinavian...but brown.
October 1, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Like Scandinavian...but brown.
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The two political parties are not the same, but if there's one ideology that unifies the leaders & elites of both parties, it is the ideology that says Americans being fleeced by corporations & oligarchs should be mad at everyone other than the corporations and oligarchs that are doing the fleecing.
September 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The two political parties are not the same, but if there's one ideology that unifies the leaders & elites of both parties, it is the ideology that says Americans being fleeced by corporations & oligarchs should be mad at everyone other than the corporations and oligarchs that are doing the fleecing.
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I made an unobjectionable comment that most people agree with.
Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.
Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.
The flattening of political conflict into "people I like" vs "everybody else" elides that the far-right option ("authoritarian nihilism") is actually materially worse for a lot of people than neoliberalism
September 23, 2025 at 3:31 PM
I made an unobjectionable comment that most people agree with.
Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.
Yes, the far right is worse than neoliberal corporatism. But neoliberal corporatism created the political backlash conditions for authoritarian nihilism - and yet somehow at this late hour, pundits like you still do not understand that.
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There should be better options in American politics than just neoliberal corporatism on one side, and authoritarian nihilism on the other side.
September 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
There should be better options in American politics than just neoliberal corporatism on one side, and authoritarian nihilism on the other side.
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Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
September 16, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this.
You're welcome
You're welcome
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This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 13, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for.
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
September 10, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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Checking in on the Democratic Party’s new video series and saw one titled "Dems on OFFENSE," which included a clip of Republican Sen. John McCain voting against repealing Obamacare.
The video has 685 views.
The video has 685 views.
July 24, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Checking in on the Democratic Party’s new video series and saw one titled "Dems on OFFENSE," which included a clip of Republican Sen. John McCain voting against repealing Obamacare.
The video has 685 views.
The video has 685 views.
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Just tuned in to hear @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social use his victory speech to recite my favorite FDR quote of all. Truly epic.
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June 25, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Just tuned in to hear @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social use his victory speech to recite my favorite FDR quote of all. Truly epic.
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Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
June 25, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Surprisingly effective things Zohran Mamdani ran on:
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks
-free buses
-rent freeze
-halal cart for $8 instead of $10
-taxing the 1%
-no cost childcare
-city-owned grocery stores
-a Department Of Community Safety for mental health programs and crisis response
-building affordable housing
-why Cuomo sucks