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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
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HAHAHA ELON MUSK JUST KICKED OFF THE TESLA INVESTOR RELATIONS CALL BY DEFENDING HIS WORK AT DOGE.
Incredible. Thank you Elon. #LFG #teslatakedown
Incredible. Thank you Elon. #LFG #teslatakedown
April 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
HAHAHA ELON MUSK JUST KICKED OFF THE TESLA INVESTOR RELATIONS CALL BY DEFENDING HIS WORK AT DOGE.
Incredible. Thank you Elon. #LFG #teslatakedown
Incredible. Thank you Elon. #LFG #teslatakedown
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NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
April 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
NEW: AI bots caused Wikipedia's bandwidth costs to increase by 50 percent last year, and are still growing exponentially. I wrote about its plan to fight back — and whether it will be enough. www.platformer.news/wikipedia-ai...
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When we're done with all of this, we should really get rid of:
- the two party system
- the presidency
- the US Senate
If we had a parlimentary, multi-party system, we could have elections in months to remove this clearly insane guy from office. Instead, we have to wait almost three years.
- the two party system
- the presidency
- the US Senate
If we had a parlimentary, multi-party system, we could have elections in months to remove this clearly insane guy from office. Instead, we have to wait almost three years.
April 3, 2025 at 3:02 AM
When we're done with all of this, we should really get rid of:
- the two party system
- the presidency
- the US Senate
If we had a parlimentary, multi-party system, we could have elections in months to remove this clearly insane guy from office. Instead, we have to wait almost three years.
- the two party system
- the presidency
- the US Senate
If we had a parlimentary, multi-party system, we could have elections in months to remove this clearly insane guy from office. Instead, we have to wait almost three years.
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In the fight against authoritarianism, there is no stronger weapon than mass noncooperation: strikes, boycotts, etc.
Protests and direct action is important, but mostly as methods of convincing large numbers of people to not comply. We can stop the regime if we refuse to cooperate with them.
Protests and direct action is important, but mostly as methods of convincing large numbers of people to not comply. We can stop the regime if we refuse to cooperate with them.
March 31, 2025 at 12:50 AM
In the fight against authoritarianism, there is no stronger weapon than mass noncooperation: strikes, boycotts, etc.
Protests and direct action is important, but mostly as methods of convincing large numbers of people to not comply. We can stop the regime if we refuse to cooperate with them.
Protests and direct action is important, but mostly as methods of convincing large numbers of people to not comply. We can stop the regime if we refuse to cooperate with them.
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March 29, 2025, we are calling for a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION to stop Musk! Join us!
Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it.
We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. #TeslaTakedown
tesla-takedown.com
Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it.
We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. #TeslaTakedown
tesla-takedown.com
March 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
March 29, 2025, we are calling for a GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION to stop Musk! Join us!
Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it.
We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. #TeslaTakedown
tesla-takedown.com
Elon Musk is destroying our democracy, and he's using the fortune he built at Tesla to do it.
We are taking action at Tesla to stop Musk's illegal coup. #TeslaTakedown
tesla-takedown.com
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Call to Action: Every pro-democracy & progressive institution should transition 100% to Bluesky and get off Elon Musk’s Twitter/X platform. Make it an empty & worthless platform. Need rapid change in lots of places. Examples below. Push on groups to change quickly. #TakeDownTwitter-X
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Call to Action: Every pro-democracy & progressive institution should transition 100% to Bluesky and get off Elon Musk’s Twitter/X platform. Make it an empty & worthless platform. Need rapid change in lots of places. Examples below. Push on groups to change quickly. #TakeDownTwitter-X
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Yup. People don’t vote for parties. They vote for candidates they think will reduce their stress
Democrats can't just sit around talking about messaging strategy. They need to change their actual policies if they want to win.
thedispatch.com/article/demo...
thedispatch.com/article/demo...
March 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yup. People don’t vote for parties. They vote for candidates they think will reduce their stress
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Bluesky says it is now sending referral traffic through its "go" subdomain to make it easier for publishers to track the traffic coming from the social network (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
March 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This is more important than you realize. Bluesky doesn’t downgrade links. Which means news sites will get more traffic from here than other sites.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
Which gives them economic reasons to post here first.
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Starlink at the White House complex — and the messy way its installation began — is obviously fascinating. But I think it's also worth scrutinizing why federal workers at GSA are being offered the X app as one of their only approved "news" options.
March 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Starlink at the White House complex — and the messy way its installation began — is obviously fascinating. But I think it's also worth scrutinizing why federal workers at GSA are being offered the X app as one of their only approved "news" options.
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PAGES FOR WHITES REMAIN ONLINE Message, again: If you’re not a straight white male, anything you accomplish – even rising from segregated schools to 2-star general, rallying men to repel an attack while wounded, earning the Medal of Honor – comes with an asterisk
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US department of defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters “DEI” added to website address
www.theguardian.com
March 16, 2025 at 8:32 PM
PAGES FOR WHITES REMAIN ONLINE Message, again: If you’re not a straight white male, anything you accomplish – even rising from segregated schools to 2-star general, rallying men to repel an attack while wounded, earning the Medal of Honor – comes with an asterisk
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt.
Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
March 16, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I am tracking 3 separate cases where the government is violating court orders. The question now is whether judges find willfulness and hold officials in contempt.
Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
Democracy Docket members will receive my latest on this and more in their inboxes tomorrow. Join now. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/
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If you’re still on X… why?
March 17, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If you’re still on X… why?
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These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
March 16, 2025 at 10:46 PM
These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.
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For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...
The Delirious, Violent, Impossible True Story of the Zizians
A handful of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death.
www.wired.com
February 22, 2025 at 9:24 PM
For the last 2 years, for WIRED, I've been on the trail of the Zizians, gifted young people who set out to save the world and ended up enveloped in violence and death. You may have seen headlines about them. This is their story, based on years of reporting in real time: www.wired.com/story/deliri...
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The new chairman of the FTC wants to investigate cENsORsHiP on social platforms and boy do I have a platform for them! www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
February 21, 2025 at 2:09 AM
The new chairman of the FTC wants to investigate cENsORsHiP on social platforms and boy do I have a platform for them! www.platformer.news/ftc-censorsh...
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Wow. @brianstelter.bsky.social runs down all headlines from so many outlets talking about the constitutional crisis. Striking to see them all together. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/173...
Happy Tuesday. Here's the latest on OpenAI, John Oliver, Jeffrey Toobin, Tamika D. Mallory, Will Cain, "Euphoria," and more...
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February 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Wow. @brianstelter.bsky.social runs down all headlines from so many outlets talking about the constitutional crisis. Striking to see them all together. view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/173...
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Elon Musk and his many conflicts of interest are dominating the top of the @nytimes.com home page and app right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
February 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Elon Musk and his many conflicts of interest are dominating the top of the @nytimes.com home page and app right now. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...
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I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out
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SCOOP: Inside DOGE's takeover of CFPB
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
What went down over the past five days based on emails and other documents and interviews
W/ @reporterev.bsky.social
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk’s Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
Government-efficiency team’s initial ‘read-only’ access expanded quickly to encompass closely guarded data, internal emails say
www.bloomberg.com
February 11, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I want to highlight what I believe is a significant document that I reviewed for this story. It's a memorandum of understanding between DOGE & CFPB. In all the coverage of DOGE's takeover of agencies I haven't read or heard about a document like this. I think this stands out
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When we generalize about any group of people , we shut out the people who are on the fence. Trump is going to convince a lot of MAGA to stop supporting him. I'm ok being told I have TDS if the end result is that we convince the 1.5m more people that voted for him, to no longer consider him.
Part of what has me in a spiral is that there is no reaching them, Mark. They cannot have a civil conversation that does not include insults and hatred. That's the only way they can live with the ugliness of their choices. They are now devoid of diplomacy and decency.
February 10, 2025 at 4:54 AM
When we generalize about any group of people , we shut out the people who are on the fence. Trump is going to convince a lot of MAGA to stop supporting him. I'm ok being told I have TDS if the end result is that we convince the 1.5m more people that voted for him, to no longer consider him.
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I’ll say it again. What makes this platform different is that it’s moderated. And, The Terms of Service are enforced. Bluesky is not like Twitter
The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.
The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.
The problem is you assume they want to "engage and have reals discussions on real issues." They don't. When confronted with facts, data, science, actual laws, and the like, they resort to spewing lies, disinformation and hate.
February 10, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I’ll say it again. What makes this platform different is that it’s moderated. And, The Terms of Service are enforced. Bluesky is not like Twitter
The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.
The world needs a platform where people who disagree can have a real discussion.
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Visit me in the camps
February 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Visit me in the camps