If anyone was looking for solid evidence that a crash is imminent, here it is:

“This case, ladies and gentleman of the jury, is about a sandwich.” Closing arguments from the defense in the DC sandwich guy case are now underway.

Lina Khan stans we are SO BACK

One way that anti-feminism has been conceptually collapsed into a stand-in for all other political grievances is through the feminization of the state, which is cast as a scolding mommy for doing things like requiring milk pasteurization.

you're the one who told him he was above the law my guy!! who would have thought that he'd turn around and FLOUT IT bc you gave him permission...a Concept...

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

You want me to make friends? The thing that killed Julius Caesar?

oh we are in DANGER.

i’m stealing from @mtsw.bsky.social here, but we are seeing — on the national level — a very common red state dynamic. republicans tanking the economy and destroying the most dynamic sectors in order to *produce* a brain drain

don't threaten me with a good time

I mean...I have to google and double check that I'm thinking of a different guy every time he crosses one of my feeds. But maybe that's just me.

www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o... (@noemamag.com)

And I suggest that the United States should seize and nationalize Tesla, SpaceX, and Starlink. We can both make suggestions!

They should resign, and the very public resignation letter should read “I have no intention of lying about our journalism in order to provide Paramount with a pretext for paying Donald Trump a bribe.” Which is transparently what this is.

I kind of want the National Weather Service to stop issuing daily forecasts *now,* at the first big wave of cuts, instead of cobbling together a doomed, faulty, jalopy service, that will be easier to cut later. Lots of systems depend on those forecasts. They need to feel what cuts mean.

This is an important point. I already see people quavering over “I have a meeting with the DOGE team,” or “DOGE has asked for this data.” “Is this coming from *the Secretary?* Can I get in writing that it’s coming from *The Secretary?* *The Secretary* is directing this?” are all valid questions.

there's a very funny thing about being a city girl who's over 25 bc now my criteria for shoes are 1) can I walk in them all day and 2) will they cover my feet bc how are the girls walking all over these nasty streets with their entire feet hanging out 😭

what radicalised you? applicant tracking systems, actually

we are reaching levels of national security threats I did not even realize were possible this is the kind of thing you put in a terrible b-movie where some nefarious cybercriminal has hacked The Entire Treasury and everyone rolls their eyes at the implausibility except somehow it's actually real

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

funny you should mention this, because Elon Musk is on Twitter retweeting posts claiming that he WAS elected

NEW: WIRED confirmed various automated efforts to remove pronouns from both email and Slack at USAID, the EPA, the GSA, and more.

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

This is a national emergency:

NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents. WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.

I truly believe that everyone should - if they have the ability - live abroad bc it 1) fundamentally changes the way you view the world & 2) makes you realize that immigrants are not the enemy but in fact are people bc you have also been one and that is an understanding that makes a huge difference

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.

what if we kissed under the constant imminent threat of societal collapse

It’s not his government. It’s our government.

If you swore an oath to defend the Constitution, you are duty bound to refuse to comply with unconstitutional orders. If an illegal order purports to remove you from your position, you are duty bound to continue to serve.

On the campaign trail, President Trump promised to deport visa-holders that participated in pro-Palestinian protests on campus. Now, he has issued an executive order that could be used to do just that.

"It's cruel and disingenuous for the artist's estate to use acrobatic excuses and allude that the meaning of 'Portrait of Ross in L.A.,' created the year Ross died, should be left to the viewer's interpretation, ignoring the elephant in the room, that it is an AIDS memorial"

I want to make this clear: diversity is extremely popular. THAT is what they’re furious about. They lost that battle in the culture and want to reverse it by force.

When a single billionaire can accumulate more money in 10 seconds than their employees make in one year, while workers struggle to meet the basic cost of rent and medicine, then yes, every billionaire really is a policy failure. Read our op-ed here ⤵️

Love that the article slips in this banger of an observation: "...alongside other complaints from people who said they were in the middle of coding or writing essays and now had to do the work themselves."

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

it's so hard to be job hunting right now bc how am I meant to write a cover letter when The Horrors are screaming in my ear at every given moment

Bipartisanship is useless when one of the parties is actively trying to break literally everything. GROW A SPINE AND DO YOUR JOB?? HELLO?????? Being the intransigent opposition against literal fascism is a higher calling than "bipartisanship." FFS.

It would be just terrible if a group of people bearing hostile attitudes toward our citizens, culture, government, institutions, and founding principles got into the White House somehow.

can i just say i wrote a book about this and pete hegseth's beliefs and mike johnson's and they're laughable until they swallow you whole www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

History has consistently demonstrated that direct support for authoritarianism is relatively narrow. It thrives through surrender and acquiescence by elite institutions.

At no point will any legacy media outlet connect this to his backing for far-right populism in Europe.

Today, Donald Trump doubled down on his vows to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

The answer to a good and exciting and useful internet is not apps run by computers to make as much money as possible