We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

NEW: 2020 footage said to be in 2025. A neighbor who keeps reappearing in the same clip, said to be on different days & months. A broadcast from elsewhere suggested as Portland. How Fox News misled its viewership -- which may have included the president. www.propublica.org/article/port...

never not thinking about the AI bros putting creatives on the chopping block first

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

the decision to really just abandon moderation and let it rip suggests that this is what meta wants for its platform. this is the final, idealized form of the product

I wrote about going to a national park as escapism in the year 2025 and how you can only ever run toward america, even when you try to run away. taylorhatmaker.ghost.io/bear-guys-an...

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Another explicit warning from Pritzker

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

world bad garden wild, free

in my protecting my peace era (not explaining the meme bullets in a professional capacity) 🙏

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

so has anyone heard from the etsy witches lately

The point of excluding categories of people from the military like this is to send the message that they are unworthy of citizenship, it is pure bigotry and the assumptions behind it are disproven by the honorable service of the people being targeted in the first place bsky.app/profile/bran...

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

First measles death in a decade. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

RFK Jr has cancelled the US’s participation in creating next fall/winter’s flu vaccine. insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v...

what is there to say? it’s all so fucking unfair. trans people literally just want to exist. we want to go out in public in our normal clothes, we want to piss safely, we want to be able to travel without flagging to every one that we’re trans. all we want is to be treated like the rest of you

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

2025 vibes at the vet

He’s using his illegitimate position in government to steer federal contracts to the companies he heads and to shield those companies from regulatory scrutiny and law enforcement.

It's always good to see an elected official who truly represents the people.

The $400M worth of State Department Teslas? Trump admin said that started in Biden White House. But I obtained a document showing the amount Biden's State Department planned to spend on EVs: $483,000. Former WH official on $400M: "I don’t think this is a clerical error" www.npr.org/2025/02/24/n...

When people speak derisively about “activism” and “activists” they’re typically referring to marginalized people speaking about their lived experiences of oppression in a way that is intended to undermine their credibility

dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

One of the first targets here will almost certainly be blocking the mailing of abortion medications like mifepristone. If I'm right, it'll be a the biggest blow to reproductive freedom since the repeal of Roe.

Sports Have Become a Battleground for the Anti-Trans Agenda and We Must Fight Back. Me for @sbnation.bsky.social www.sbnation.com/2025/2/14/24...

The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."

Every single year my anxiety brain tells me that this is the year no one turns out...and every single year we break the previous year's record. Together, we raised half a million dollars for @translifeline.bsky.social!💜💜💜 Trans rights are human rights, and all are deserving of equality and love. 🏳️‍⚧️

still think we should try this

A federal judge ordered the nation’s premier health agencies to restore online access to several websites that monitor HIV, health risks for youths and assisted reproductive technologies, which were abruptly taken offline to ensure they complied with President Donald Trump’s recent executive order.

You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

pottery studio has been PACKED lately i’m sure it’s got nothing to do with the looming constitutional crisis

Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

It's important to keep emphasizing that what Musk proposes in this tweet is illegal. Congress created the CFPB, just as it created USAID, the DOE, etc. Neither the President nor a billionaire can dissolve them by fiat. Doing so is a violation of the law and the President's constitutional duties.

This was a really smart take. www.404media.co/email/343266...

NEW: Days after Trump's inauguration, ICE changed the timestamp on its archive of press releases to 1/24/2025--causing a flood of stories about mass arrests to shoot to the top of Google search An immigration atty said "it was creating terror in the community” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This constantly gets brought up in response to AI criticism. No one objects to these applications. They object to the consumer facing dreck that's being marketed to us as groundbreaking and forced onto our devices.

Elon Musk Offers Self $10 Billion Federal Buyout theonion.com/elon-mu...

oh cool the guy in charge of the pentagon is too dumb to even make his venmo private prospect.org/politics/202...

It’s very cold and rainy/borderline slushy outside, but well over 50 people have turned out to Portland City Hall to protest the city issuing Zenith Energy a Land Use Compatibility Statement earlier this week.

For @msnbc.com I spoke with a trans 19 year old about Trump's executive order on gender affirming care for youth and wrote about the importance of surviving -- if only out of spite. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Wyden: "Tell Elon Musk to take his hands off your money!"

Someone did have a sign that said he cheats at Diablo lol

woof