Hi I'm posting a 54-page PDF to the only app where when I post a 54-page PDF people sometimes read it everyone should read the ENTIRE whistleblower statement about DOGE attempting to falsely "kill off" 2.7 people through the SSA Death Master File. www.washingtonpost.com/documents/be...

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

Trumpists win by making people distrust elections because they don't like democracy, don't like voting (at least as suffrage currently stands) and resent and dislike America (as presently constituted pre-100 million-deportations).

a fairly under discussed GOP schism that is likely to erupt in chaos if we ever get permanent Republican rule: Mormons have been loyal GOP voters while conservative evangelicals literally believe they worship Satan.

A president who can't stay awake during a televised Oval Office meeting is a president who can't manage a war. The war on merit continues apace. The only thing that matters is membership in The Club. Meanwhile, the rest of us are gonna burn.

82 years ago today my grandfather, who lied about his age to enlist in the military, was in one of the first waves of landing crafts to hit the beaches of Normandy. He's been gone a long time now, but today I remember him and the other brave souls who fought and died for a righteous cause.

As @gregpak.net pointed out, this man is one of the most destructive in this admin with worldwide & longterm ramifications. I also want people to stop acting like he's just "stupid" or doing things for no reason. His reason is eugenics & wellness grifts.

being working class doesn't depend on things like 'whether you work' or 'whether you live off of your trust fund.' it depends on whether there is a picture of you in overalls turning some kind of valve.

Is it possible that today’s market selloff was driven by White House insiders (and their cronies) front running a planned after-market escalation? Trump did blurt out that he had “a war to get back to fighting” towards the end of his event this afternoon.

All these guys sound exactly like those accountants who were stoked about using slurs at work when Trump got elected again

one major asymmetry is the way in which defection from the party consensus at the left edge of the party is considered betrayal because it's principed, but defection from the consensus at the right edge of the party is trustworthy because it is presumed to be a dishonest appeal to moderates.

We're continuing to keep our eyes on this kind of stuff, so if you work in tech or government and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82

The two were also involved in the take over of the US Institute of Peace, an independent nonprofit funded by Congress, that is still the center of a legal dispute after Cavanaugh attempted to gift the organization's building to the government. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

Earlier this week, we reported how shortly after the NLRB whistleblower, Dan Berulis, filed his disclosure with Congress claiming that DOGE had compromised sensitive data at the agency, he found his brake lines cut. Fox and Cavanaugh aren't named in the complaint. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

While with DOGE, Cavanaugh and Fox were part of a team that focused on small agencies, like Interagency Council on Homelessness and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB).

The startup, called Special, is building an AI operating system, with the plan being to “vertically integrate,” buying up businesses in critical sectors and running them using Special’s operating system. Their first target industry is senior care.

NEW: Two DOGE members, Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, have started a new company, backed by VC firm a16z and a host of other former DOGE members, including close Musk associates like Steve Davis and Antonio Gracias. The idea? "DOGE for the private sector." @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-do...

Governor Walz Is Correct.......

When Bari Weiss claimed the NY Times’s newsroom had been overrun but intolerant “woke” staffers a lot of decision makers and money men thought this was plainly self-evident, etc.

Part of the problem is that they don’t consider the sentiments these people are expressing as actual intolerance. Vance's claim that people in Appalachia had similar cultural problems as Black people was seen as an enlightened and progressive perspective rather than a denigration of both communities

It's not just the actual corruption - it's the staggering ROI for the donors. It's like putting a dollar in a slot machine and getting back a million in return.

exactly the right response

The U.S. long sought to protect the freedom of navigation on seas, but now the government is seizing ships, plundering cargo, and inflicting casualties, David A. Graham writes in The Atlantic Daily. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I fucking love Van Eyck. They have a replica of the Ghent Altar piece in its original side chapel so you can see how much they'd painted it for exactly that spot. Adored pointing out the way the light falls to visitors when I was a tour guide there. I didn't catch the reflection in the 3 mm gem 🤯

Who amongst us...

Worth remembering that 45 total men have occupied the office and the press would've flexed its muscle to force out any of the other 44 for this But not this guy. Why not?

In case you were wondering what the acting DNI's marching orders are.

it's kind of hard to escape the conclusion that the entire spacex IPO is just a way for Elon Musk to financial engineer a huge, distributed theft from index fund holders?

Key from @brianbeutler.bsky.social: When GOPers attack Talarico as "low-T," the real aim is to bait him into *not* defending himself, into making himself look weak. Dems need to remember that this is the real GOP playbook and act accordingly. Our exchange on this: newrepublic.com/article/2113...

When Ted Lieu cornered Rubio with video of Trump sleeping, it forced Rubio to choose, says @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "I either have to lie and debase myself, or tell the truth and lose my job." On the pod Brian is good on why Dems should use such tactics more often: newrepublic.com/article/2113...

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

Collective action problem for like every otherwise okay funded progressive advocacy org — everyone should be kicking in 5% of their comms budget to shared infrastructure

It's truly depressing. The _need_ is there, but the resources … (*sigh*).

I kept coming back to what the next steps were: a policy agenda, funding, etc. and there's almost no infrastructure to figure out what the solutions are and advocate for them.

I have a longer thing I'm working on about this, with more data and stuff, but the key thing folks need to know: anyone on the left *CANNOT WIN* with any kind of content on platforms where the right owns the algorithm. Not just in politics — in entertainment media, or anything else.

In 1933 Adolf Hitler shook down German industrialists for millions of Reichsmark to establish what he called the Adolf-Hitler-Spende der deutschen Wirtschaft—a slush fund he used to pay off Nazis whose violence got them into legal trouble. In 2026, Donald Trump is quietly doing the same thing.

“… a new Civil Service law of the following year (January 26, 1937), which called for the dismissal of all officials, including judges, for ‘political unreliability.’” - Shirer, William. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. p. 344

Holy fuck, they not only cut the whistleblower's break line, they disabled his airbag and other safety features.

Terror and retribution are a core part of how the Trump administration has governed. DOGE whistleblower had threatening note taped to his door and his brakes cut after Elon Musk accused him of lying. www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

"Big Balls" also worked for nihilist pedophile cyber terrorists

"it is a shallow sort of fascism, obsessed with outward appearances and completely uninterested in everything else...violent purges and jackbooted pogroms are the sort of thing that fascist bad guys do in movies and TV." - @resnikoff.bsky.social publiccomment.blog/p/hyperfascism

The Washington Post. CBS News. CNN is next, once Paramount Skydance buys WBD. Support independent media. Today. Tomorrow. And forever.

GLORIOUS sunset baby killdeer moment!! or killfawn, as it is. around here. 🪶 🐣

You didn't hear it from me but if you're in the U.S., you can win an advance copy of Pia Guerra and my graphic novel Frostbite on Goodreads. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/ent...

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I will fucking die mad that we let the stupidest people in society with medieval peasant brain ruin recognizing what should have been a moon landing level triumph

roberts and alito have concocted a jurisprudence in which constitutional amendments explicitly ratified to secure the right of black americans to vote now restrain congress from securing the right of black americans to vote.

section 2 of the VRA? nullified? the 15th amendment? only applies to intentional discrimination. intentional discrimination? impossible to prove given an unbreakable assumption of good faith for a state legislature. 14th amendment? equal protection clause means the constitution can't even see race.