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February 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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This is incredible reporting and an important read. WIRED has been absolutely running circles around NYT and WaPo. I bought a subscription.
They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.
They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.
SCOOP: We've learned at least three individuals closely associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year. Step inside the recruitment effort that helped build Elon's DOGE army:
The Recruitment Effort That Helped Build Elon Musk’s DOGE Army
At least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.
wrd.cm
February 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This is incredible reporting and an important read. WIRED has been absolutely running circles around NYT and WaPo. I bought a subscription.
They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.
They're going to need our support when Musk and Thiel try to sue them out of existence Gawker-style.
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This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
They posted an update confirming it was from Trump's order. sjvwater.org/trumps-emerg...
Trump’s emergency water order responsible for water dump from Tulare County lakes – SJV Water
The sudden announcement Thursday by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers that Kaweah and Success lakes would immediately begin dumping water was in response Trump’s emergency water order responsible for w...
sjvwater.org
February 1, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This should be 25th amendment level conduct. The president ordered water to be released from a random dam in California nowhere near the wildfires and then claimed it would help. That’s literally Mad King behavior.
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i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
February 1, 2025 at 5:43 AM
i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.
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I have this madcap notion that 4 GOP congressmen would switch to independent and give Democrats control of the house. Those 4 could set the agenda but would allow impeachment and investigations. Could Trump allowing Musk to directly siphon $$$ out of the US Treasury spur 20 senators to convict?
February 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
I have this madcap notion that 4 GOP congressmen would switch to independent and give Democrats control of the house. Those 4 could set the agenda but would allow impeachment and investigations. Could Trump allowing Musk to directly siphon $$$ out of the US Treasury spur 20 senators to convict?
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This would be a good time for all the Republican Senators, Representatives, Governors, State AGs, and Judges I've heard say how pro-law enforcement they are during the course of my career to speak up.
February 1, 2025 at 2:33 AM
This would be a good time for all the Republican Senators, Representatives, Governors, State AGs, and Judges I've heard say how pro-law enforcement they are during the course of my career to speak up.
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January 31, 2025
January 31, 2025
On February 1, 1862, in the early days of the Civil War, the Atlantic Monthly published Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic,” summing up the cause of freedom for which the United States tro...
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 6:32 AM
January 31, 2025
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I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.
February 1, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
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The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
Trump’s pretense as king has quickly devolved into his strutting insult routine. He will always exploit tragedy to display his self-regard
Outrages of Donald Trump’s rancid character topple over each other so rapidly and in such volume that they long ago…
www.theguardian.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:21 AM
The tragic air collision revealed Trump’s rancid, irredeemable character once again | Sidney Blumenthal
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Jan 2017 blog acuity-design.medium.com/thinking-fas...
Thinking Fascism, slow and fast
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acuity-design.medium.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Jan 2017 blog acuity-design.medium.com/thinking-fas...