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Elon Musk and his gang of pimple faced hackers ran wild in the government. According to both whistleblowers, they broke the law, over and over again. Today, we're launching a simple demand: #InvestigateDOGE and hold them accountable 👉 actionnetwork.org/petitions/el...

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tbh this seems like a remarkable acknowledgment of the importance of non-traditional media. Yes the language is a bit off - it's Politico - but the article makes it clear that a true, devastating story could not have come out without these women, in a kind of partnership with traditional media.

This motherfucker's name is "Braden Peters"? And his middle name is ERIC!?! Hahahahahaaaaaa Why don't you try namemaxxing next, you fucking dork.

lmaooo have fun

the one correction i'll make is that the ADL doesn't need to worry about reputational risk because they're already a fucking joke

The series of events that resulted in Swalwell's downfall bring up a really interesting (and depressing) conversation about traditional media vs. independent and how money in journalism controls who has the safety to tell the truth www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

what it's like to be in a room with war criminals.

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Someday, someone is going to make a movie about the tech-bros who recklessly dismantled the professional US administrative state and it’s going to be devastating. Gripping excerpt from “Into the Wood Chipper,” Nicholas Enrich. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

No matter how stupid and evil you think the MAGA chuds running the government are, I promise you: the truth is so much more stupid and evil.

I can't stress enough how much USAID is all over Project 2025 in relation to abortion. Out of the 200-some times it's mentioned, if my memory serves me right, at least half of them were in relation to USAID.

My brother's book comes out tomorrow. Here's an excerpt. Wild stuff.

When a USAID whistleblower told Trump people that it'd be hard to pull together accurate info on Malaria since DOGE had turned off access to the whole team who worked on that issue, one of the guys shouted “See, this is why, just because it might work at Twitter does not mean you can do it here!”

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

i get one drink with @alexshephard.bsky.social and half of congress resigns?

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

Reminder of this awful story:

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.

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burn it all down.

losing my mind tbqh

bodied

I'm gonna get this out of my system so I don't go insane: What Trump said about the pope is easily the most genuinely anti-Catholic thing any American politician has ever said in my entire lifetime, and if Obama or Biden had said it, there would literally be calls to disband the Democratic Party.

ms. rachel is WEAK on the economy

AT _LEAST_ ONE PERSON ON THIS WEBSITE GOT DRUNK AT A BULLS GAME WITH THE POPE AT SOME POINT AND WE NEED YOU TO DROP A LINE RIGHT NOW

if you are this dude PLEASE message me on signal

i’ll be in rome in a few weeks. pope leo handbasket interview??

he got everything he ever wanted and he’s fucking miserable

actual shit for brains

swalunwell

right I have wifi again - here was Budapest just now - at quarter past midnight!

Be funny if Usha was like “how’d the trip go?”

Feel like the headline from the event is BERNIE TO BILLIONAIRES: GO TO HELL

So JD Vance traveled to Hungary to endorse a candidate who appears likely to lose and then went to Pakistan to fall on his face with the Iran negotiations. Truly an impressively terrible international trip.

Hungary sends JD Vance to voicemail

Union leader: “We demand AI to be a subject of collective bargaining.”

At the Union Now event in NYC where Bernie Sanders, Zohran Mamdani, union leader Sara Nelson and others will be speaking