@mk-ellehoj.bsky.social
Reposted
Here’s what they’re stealing from us today.
We paid for these data.
They were collected for the public good.
The Trump Administration are a bunch of petty burglars doing a smash-and-grab on the American people.
We paid for these data.
They were collected for the public good.
The Trump Administration are a bunch of petty burglars doing a smash-and-grab on the American people.
This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry
NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
April 17, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Here’s what they’re stealing from us today.
We paid for these data.
They were collected for the public good.
The Trump Administration are a bunch of petty burglars doing a smash-and-grab on the American people.
We paid for these data.
They were collected for the public good.
The Trump Administration are a bunch of petty burglars doing a smash-and-grab on the American people.
Reposted
“We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name — and cynical claims of antisemitism — to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities,” the letter reads.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE
More than two dozen are joining a legal effort to free a Tufts University student the Trump administration is trying to deport because of her pro-Palestinian views.
www.nytimes.com
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 PM
“We are united in denouncing, without equivocation, anyone who invokes our name — and cynical claims of antisemitism — to harass, expel, arrest, or deport members of our campus communities,” the letter reads.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...
Reposted
on the Kleptocracy Presidency: The number and nature of conflicts of interest is astonishing
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Kleptocracy Presidency
Under Trump, conflicts of interest are just part of the system.
www.theatlantic.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:52 AM
on the Kleptocracy Presidency: The number and nature of conflicts of interest is astonishing
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Reposted
All you need to know about Twitter
March 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
All you need to know about Twitter
Reposted
DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Video: Musk’s Cost-Saving Claims Are Wrong in So Many Ways
We found huge errors in the “wall of receipts” for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, where the group lists what it has saved by canceling federal contracts. After The New York...
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 12:26 PM
DOGE has quietly deleted the biggest “savings” it once celebrated — but its list of savings is still full of errors. Why DOGE’s data is so wrong, and why it matters. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
Regime change right in front of our eyes
The Department of Government Efficiency isn't interested in efficiency. Or transparency, or cutting costs. It's real goal is to destroy the federal civil service. In other words, regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Regime change right in front of our eyes
Insane
This is just insane and you all know that, right? Unelected, unfettered, untouchable, unsupported by facts and completely without transparency: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...
Musk makes sweeping claims about federal corruption, without providing evidence.
The billionaire, whose federal cost-cutting team has been operating in secrecy, asserted that he had uncovered waste and fraud across the bureaucracy, without providing evidence.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Insane
Beyond parody. In front of everyone to see
For those who continue to deny that Trump and the MAGA GOP's objection to asylum-seekers and refugees isn't racist, check out which group, out of all the conflicts on earth, Trump has made a very special refugee resettlement for.
Yep.
White South Africans. Beyond parody.
Yep.
White South Africans. Beyond parody.
BREAKING
President Trump has signed sanctions against South Africa for their recent land seizure bill.
He is ordering all aid to South Africa be halted and he is also ordering federal agencies to prioritize humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for Afrikaner refugees.
President Trump has signed sanctions against South Africa for their recent land seizure bill.
He is ordering all aid to South Africa be halted and he is also ordering federal agencies to prioritize humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for Afrikaner refugees.
February 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Beyond parody. In front of everyone to see
One brilliant hypothesis 👇
just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't
February 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
One brilliant hypothesis 👇
Reposted
We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
February 5, 2025 at 9:29 AM
We've reached the chapter in Gibbon where the mad emperor is appointing magicians, acrobats, and paid agents of the Persians to the highest offices of state.
I thought it was kakistocracy but even that sound too sophisticated for this complete idiotic collapse of a system
Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."
REPORTER: Does Musk or anyone at DOGE have direct access through the government systems to how money is dispersed?
TRUMP: No. Nothing.
TRUMP: No. Nothing.
February 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I thought it was kakistocracy but even that sound too sophisticated for this complete idiotic collapse of a system
It is just 🤯🤯🤯 that a proper coup is unraveling in front of our eyes, like a proper complete state takeover by a *private South African citizen* and it’s goons… and the media - and we ourselves - go about our days… like, watching Golden Globes and stuff. Just 🤯
"Musk is a private citizen taking control of established government offices. That is not efficiency; that is a coup."
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Elon Musk May Have Your Social Security Number
The billionaire and his DOGE agents were reportedly granted full access to the Treasury’s federal payments system, and nobody knows to what end.
nymag.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
It is just 🤯🤯🤯 that a proper coup is unraveling in front of our eyes, like a proper complete state takeover by a *private South African citizen* and it’s goons… and the media - and we ourselves - go about our days… like, watching Golden Globes and stuff. Just 🤯
That really is all there is in this “three-dimensional chess”
Remember:
The tariffs aren’t about economics, and DOGE isn’t about fiscal responsibility.
They are both about ••psychopathology**.
The tariffs aren’t about economics, and DOGE isn’t about fiscal responsibility.
They are both about ••psychopathology**.
February 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
That really is all there is in this “three-dimensional chess”
Let’s see Sherlocks
Let’s see. What impact would a “severe recession” in Mexico have on unauthorized migration to the US? Does anyone know?
www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...
February 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Let’s see Sherlocks
Reposted
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Can Europe Stop Elon Musk?
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2025 at 1:45 PM
American social media companies write the algorithms that determine what voters read; moderation systems are opaque; political advertising cannot always be tracked. Do European democracies, or any democracies, really have sovereign elections anymore?
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
Irony is truly dead in this administration. It’s pure, unsophisticated tragicomic
Well, this is good news for Trump, because otherwise he’d have to send his own Secretary of State back to Cuba. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Judge Blocks Trump’s Effort to Restrict Birthright Citizenship: Live Updates
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Irony is truly dead in this administration. It’s pure, unsophisticated tragicomic
Even WSJ is concerned
The lede of a WSJ editorial:
"Donald Trump doesn’t always separate his personal interests from his public obligations, and a howling example is his sudden new status as a crypto billionaire. The President is inviting trouble with what looks like remarkably poor judgment."
"Donald Trump doesn’t always separate his personal interests from his public obligations, and a howling example is his sudden new status as a crypto billionaire. The President is inviting trouble with what looks like remarkably poor judgment."
January 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Even WSJ is concerned
MAGA brain at work. Making space for decline and rot @pkrugman.bsky.social
What are you gonna believe, MAGA or your lying eyes? paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-ener...
Trump, Energy and MAGA Brain
Drilling down on a right-wing delusion
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 23, 2025 at 1:27 PM
MAGA brain at work. Making space for decline and rot @pkrugman.bsky.social
Couldn’t emphasise this more or shout it louder. Half of this country voted for Kamala — she has to not disappear on us — and her voice is so powerful
we knew Democrats might be caught on their back feet, but when Senate minority leader issues anodyne declarations so utterly inapt in the current climate, it’s time to look for a single charismatic voice, one well-versed in law and unafraid to trim her sails contrarian.substack.com/p/harris-was...
Harris was Right: We Need to Hear from Her
We need a real law-and-order advocate to denounce Trump’s lawlessness
contrarian.substack.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Couldn’t emphasise this more or shout it louder. Half of this country voted for Kamala — she has to not disappear on us — and her voice is so powerful
This is one terrifying true insight @jvl.bsky.social
We have a presidential administration that views itself as being at war with half of the country and sees its mission as subjugation.
Every act and policy we are seeing fits with that lens.
Every act and policy we are seeing fits with that lens.
January 21, 2025 at 11:10 PM
This is one terrifying true insight @jvl.bsky.social
Zieg heil is a zieg heil is a zieg heil #wannabekaiseroftheworld
So many contenders, and it's not even 330 pm, but this has to be the leading candidate so far for Photo of the Day
January 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Zieg heil is a zieg heil is a zieg heil #wannabekaiseroftheworld
Peak progress 2025 👇
January 15, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Peak progress 2025 👇
Literally this 👇
Get ready for the return of “Pope Endorses Donald Trump” and other similar viral bullshit.
This is part of the redefinition of “freedom of speech” to mean “freedom from moderation,” where any limit on algorithmic boosting or virality at all is “”censorship””.
www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
This is part of the redefinition of “freedom of speech” to mean “freedom from moderation,” where any limit on algorithmic boosting or virality at all is “”censorship””.
www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...
Meta just flipped the switch that prevents misinformation from spreading in the United States
The company built effective systems to reduce the reach of fake news. Last week, it shut them down
www.platformer.news
January 15, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Literally this 👇
Excellent, terrifying piece
This piece turned out more frightening than I'd really intended. But sometimes you write your way through your thoughts and find they're more alarmed than you'd like.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...
Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through. (Gift Article)
Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.
www.nytimes.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:28 AM
Excellent, terrifying piece
Goldilocks is about to get killed and wokism pronounced the culprit, while the billionaire cabinet lines pockets deeper.
Everyone should read @pkrugman.bsky.social, especially now. Not only read but shout about it.
Everyone should read @pkrugman.bsky.social, especially now. Not only read but shout about it.
Trump wants a disaster. He needs a disaster. He’s likely to declare formally that the economy is a disaster, never mind the facts. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/this-econo...
This Economy Is Too Good for Donald Trump
The plot to kill Goldilocks
paulkrugman.substack.com
January 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Goldilocks is about to get killed and wokism pronounced the culprit, while the billionaire cabinet lines pockets deeper.
Everyone should read @pkrugman.bsky.social, especially now. Not only read but shout about it.
Everyone should read @pkrugman.bsky.social, especially now. Not only read but shout about it.