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To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing.
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who Is in DOGE? Tracking Its Staffers and Allies in the Federal Government
The Times identified 49 people within the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, a group formed by Elon Musk that in a short few weeks has radically upended federal agencies.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
To go along with our piece today, we published an extensive list of folks associated with DOGE. It builds off and adds to the strong work that Wired, WaPo, ProPublica and other pubs have been doing.
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
The public has a right to know who is dismantling the government.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Isn't it nice living in a world where the de facto hard drive diagnostic tool for WIndows, CrystalDiskInfo, comes in four different editions - which are identical other than featuring a different anime character as the background to the main window?
February 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Isn't it nice living in a world where the de facto hard drive diagnostic tool for WIndows, CrystalDiskInfo, comes in four different editions - which are identical other than featuring a different anime character as the background to the main window?
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After Trump embraced crypto, Coinbase gave millions to PACs backing pro-Trump candidates.
After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin.
Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase.
See how this works?
After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin.
Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase.
See how this works?
February 26, 2025 at 8:34 PM
After Trump embraced crypto, Coinbase gave millions to PACs backing pro-Trump candidates.
After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin.
Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase.
See how this works?
After Trump's win, they gave $1M to his inaugural and listed his meme coin.
Now, Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Coinbase.
See how this works?
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The CFPB is the financial watchdog for the American people.
The agency has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.
Trump fired its director and put his treasury secretary, a Wall Street hedge fund manager, in charge.
Guess what happened next...
The agency has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.
Trump fired its director and put his treasury secretary, a Wall Street hedge fund manager, in charge.
Guess what happened next...
CFPB halts work after Trump appoints Bessent as acting head
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a consumer watchdog agency formed in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Elon Musk wants to “delete” it.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:48 PM
The CFPB is the financial watchdog for the American people.
The agency has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.
Trump fired its director and put his treasury secretary, a Wall Street hedge fund manager, in charge.
Guess what happened next...
The agency has returned $20B to the victims of financial fraud and abuse since 2011.
Trump fired its director and put his treasury secretary, a Wall Street hedge fund manager, in charge.
Guess what happened next...
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“nobody saw this coming” = “we considered everyone who saw this coming a nobody”
"No one ever thought this would happen" is dishonest and journalists not pointing that out are doing you all a disservice. Many people said word for word this would happen. You just didn't respect those people. And you need to be honest instead of the feigned surprise for sympathy.
February 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“nobody saw this coming” = “we considered everyone who saw this coming a nobody”
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Hey wait a minute. I just realized there's like a million of us and only like four of them...
February 3, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Hey wait a minute. I just realized there's like a million of us and only like four of them...
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I drew a handlebar mustache on Strahd last night and remain obsessed. A top tip from @leonyarwood.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I drew a handlebar mustache on Strahd last night and remain obsessed. A top tip from @leonyarwood.bsky.social
American Freedom activists, but the real kind
Anti-ICE protesters in California have shut down the 101 freeway in Los Angeles marching towards City Hall.
February 3, 2025 at 4:00 AM
American Freedom activists, but the real kind
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if democrats promise to throw elon musk and everyone in DOGE in jail on day 1 in 2029 they will win a 50 state landslide
February 2, 2025 at 11:49 PM
if democrats promise to throw elon musk and everyone in DOGE in jail on day 1 in 2029 they will win a 50 state landslide
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So… Trump is like an unsupervised infant, mashing buttons clumsily the helm of a ship… meanwhile, Elon’s looting sensitive government data.
Welcome to America…
So much destruction as the rich play with the rest of us like we’re toys.
Welcome to America…
So much destruction as the rich play with the rest of us like we’re toys.
February 3, 2025 at 2:49 AM
So… Trump is like an unsupervised infant, mashing buttons clumsily the helm of a ship… meanwhile, Elon’s looting sensitive government data.
Welcome to America…
So much destruction as the rich play with the rest of us like we’re toys.
Welcome to America…
So much destruction as the rich play with the rest of us like we’re toys.
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I’m hoping that in these Dark Days, the libraries can be a center for interests, enjoyment, and community. #library #librarysky
February 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I’m hoping that in these Dark Days, the libraries can be a center for interests, enjoyment, and community. #library #librarysky
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DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes
Yes totally cool that a 19-year-old who called his deleted LinkedIn "Big Balls," where he lists his experience working as a camp counselor can access the entire US federal payment system without anyone looking into his background, for instance, his Russian national close relatives or anything else
February 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
DEI is when a woman or non-white person who is qualified for a job receives that job. The meritocracy is when a 19 year old gets to run the United States government because he posted the dankest memes
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Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.
So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
February 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Most of the people reading this have a sense of how bad things are right now.
So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
So for encouragement, here's a thread with examples of folks fighting back.
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
I'm trying to save them.
You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
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So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
January 31, 2025 at 8:26 PM
So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.
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it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say
Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the U.S. government human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees, according to two agency officials.
www.reuters.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
it's not hyperbolic to say we're witnessing a coup.
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I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
January 24, 2025 at 11:25 AM
I kept this screenshot assuming someday we might be asked to forget.
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Yes. We have more neurons in our belly than a cat has in it's brain (or so I've been told). And everyone forgets that, evolutionarily, we are stomachs with brains, not brains with stomachs.
January 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Yes. We have more neurons in our belly than a cat has in it's brain (or so I've been told). And everyone forgets that, evolutionarily, we are stomachs with brains, not brains with stomachs.
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Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.
Many sudden and shocking health care developments this week. But this was a big one: The Trump administration on Friday paused funding for PEPFAR, the famed program to fight HIV/AIDS around the world.
@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me
@mradamtaylor.bsky.social @johnphudson.bsky.social Missy Ryan + a little help from me
Funds for fight against HIV/AIDS paused in Trump aid freeze
The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, is credited with saving 25 million lives worldwide and has long enjoyed bipartisan support.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 25, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Trump just undid the only good thing GWB did in his entire 8 years.
Is it weird to share Instagram reels here?
Is this how we are all feeling rn tho? www.instagram.com/reel/DElSF0g...
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January 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Is it weird to share Instagram reels here?
Is this how we are all feeling rn tho? www.instagram.com/reel/DElSF0g...
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hate to burst our bubble & give Top Banker a W but lefty ladies On Here love saying the R-word
January 14, 2025 at 1:21 PM
hate to burst our bubble & give Top Banker a W but lefty ladies On Here love saying the R-word
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I thought I'd dedicate a thread to the October 1983 issue of Videogaming & Computergaming Illustrated. It's a significant issue, I'd argue, because it's maybe the earliest instance of a gaming magazine really digging into matters of gender and sexuality in games at length. 🧵
November 20, 2024 at 5:28 PM
I thought I'd dedicate a thread to the October 1983 issue of Videogaming & Computergaming Illustrated. It's a significant issue, I'd argue, because it's maybe the earliest instance of a gaming magazine really digging into matters of gender and sexuality in games at length. 🧵
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Had to delete this post because it was being liked by these mentioned accounts.
November 20, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Had to delete this post because it was being liked by these mentioned accounts.
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He should. They should. But they won’t. The Democratic Party and much of the media has already implicitly—even explicitly—capitulated to fascism by refusing to make the hard choice to do everything within their power to oppose it.
It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.
It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.
Opinion | Biden should order background checks of Trump’s Cabinet picks
The FBI has conducted background investigations of White House nominees since at least the tenure of President Dwight Eisenhower’s time in office.
www.msnbc.com
November 19, 2024 at 8:43 PM
He should. They should. But they won’t. The Democratic Party and much of the media has already implicitly—even explicitly—capitulated to fascism by refusing to make the hard choice to do everything within their power to oppose it.
It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.
It’s cowardice and normopathy and sanewashing up and down the line.
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An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump.
This should be a scandal.
This should be a scandal.
Source:
eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/
A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints
Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)
eprints.qut.edu.au
November 17, 2024 at 12:26 AM
An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump.
This should be a scandal.
This should be a scandal.