Hmmm…nothing to see here, no conflict of interest, I’m sure:

There is also a full economic boycott on Feb 28. Small businesses exempted from the boycott. I will buy NOTHING on Feb 28!

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

Is this because it is pretty much the only way to short the US dollar?

thinking of leaving google products? you're not the only one who might be finding it challenging erikaowens.com/blog/cutting...

Oh Apple, you’re so weak.

Tesla is suing drivers who complain about their cars after accidents – and winning

Maga-lujah 🙌🏼

BOYCOTT GOOGLE AT THE VERY LEAST USE A DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINE e.g. DuckDuckGo, Brave Search, Startpage (businesses will stop paying google for advertising to appear in search results if no one is using it!) #PeoplePower #BoycottGoogle #BoycottAmazon #BoycottTwitter #BoycottFacebook

FT Editorial Board | Elon Musk’s dismantlement of federal agencies, freezing funding and pushing staff to resign goes far beyond a mere restructuring. It aims to shift the constitutional separation and balance of powers. www.ft.com/content/f766...

Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

China is helping Russia's military drone production by becoming a hub for the smuggling of critical Western components for Moscow's armed forces, Estonia's foreign intelligence said in its annual national security report reut.rs/4hWbTT9

❗️2/17 NATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST❗️

In the UK, Ofcom is a good place to start since they advertise links to Twitter and Meta on most mainstream TV stations. Since these stations do not warn viewers that these sites could manipulate them, it is clear breach of Ofcom's rules www.ofcom.org.uk/make-a-compl...

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

GigSlave Goes Public With $84 Billion Valuation. The popular slave-hailing app made its Wall Street debut today with a highly anticipated IPO that could grow the slave sharing company's value by more than 80%.

Wikipedia Prepares for 'Increase in Threats' to US Editors From Musk and His Allies 🔗 www.404media.co/wikipedia-pr...

What Trump wants, he buys, elections and coups alike.

Lex Luthor, Sinestro, Solomon Grundy and Joker found new anti-crime group.

'It’s going to mean a lot more business for America,' said the US president, calling the anti-corruption law 'a disaster' in practice. www.ft.com/content/f880...

Are you fluent in newspeak yet?

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

Freedom of speech on x is what musk says it is edition.cnn.com/2025/01/06/b...

Kendrick Lamar's Superbowl performance is why funding arts and humanities matters. We have Kendrick because his teacher introduced him to poetry and writing.

Bluesky tip: If you want an easy way to block right wing trolls and bots, just visit one of their media mouthpieces, like The Spectator, and you get a convenient list in the comments ✅️

Feels like we're being massively gaslit by big tech these days. Endless crappy features no one wanted, sold as revolutionary. Constant praise for things that barely work. And they’ll probably succeed - not because they're good, but because they control the game more than ever.

Working project to project, of all the jobs to steal, AI is hurting artists the most. What will happen when no one is incentived to create new material? A circular hell of ghost art from a time before.

“For whatever reason, people of color have a higher incidence of maternal mortality."

"We will find it impossible to fear diversity and enter the future at the same time." - Gene Roddenberry

Segregation and hiring discrimination is back in style. qz.com/google-diver...

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

With loopholes & incentives for private equity pillaging, this is bound to happen over & over again. I’ve got legislation to prevent private equity looting from destroying jobs, putting valuable companies out of business, & putting lives at risk in our health care system:

Trump just fired the National Archives Director Colleen Shogan “This evening, President Trump fired me. No cause or reason was cited." 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-fires-...

even spambots have given up

❗️🇱🇻Latvia, 🇱🇹Lithuania and 🇪🇪Estonia are no longer dependent on the energy system of the 🇷🇺Russian Federation and 🇧🇾Belarus - the countries have officially disconnected from the Russian energy grid Now the Baltic countries will be powered by the energy system of Western Europe,connecting through 🇵🇱Poland

human beings are not illegal

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

US Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub said she received a letter from President Donald Trump that purports to fire her but added that the action was illegal reut.rs/40PoErp

As the broligarchs are announcing massive job cuts because of AI, they should remember... if people don't have jobs they wont have the money to be customers. AI will be the downfall of the very companies that are viewing it as their salvation. Goodbye capitalism, let's talk about what comes next.

ICE Argues Migrants In Camps Are Free To Die At Any Time theonion.com/ice-arg...

SCOOP: The US Treasury claimed a DOGE's Marco Elez didn’t have ‘write access,’ when he actually did. Sources tell WIRED that his ability to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded, days after officials said it didn't exist.

Great job by Ruben (@rubenbolling.bsky.social).

"The biggest critics of the government are, oddly, some of its biggest beneficiaries. Tech billionaires are often the first to shitpost America, even as they continue to harvest wealth from the investments taxpayers make via the U.S. government..." www.profgalloway.com/welfare-quee...

The UN World Food Programme was ordered by Washington to stop work on dozens of US-funded grants, according to an email seen by Reuters, that was sent five days after Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a waiver for emergency food assistance reut.rs/4aWKpdF

Representatives from Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fed sensitive data from across the Education Department into artificial intelligence software to probe the agency’s programs and spending, according to two people with knowledge of the DOGE team’s actions.

“I told you if you hold on to clothes long enough they come back in fashion” From the new Private Eye, out now.