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I remember laughing at Saddam Hussein claiming that he got 100% of the vote in the Iraq 2002 referendum.. I thought “that kind of shit could never happen here”
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Yes. That Kristie.
10 months ago
Authoritarians can fuck all the way off.
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Krassensteins
10 months ago
Make this go viral! Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
BREAKING: A federal judge orders that the departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy, Interior, and Treasury reinstate probationary employees who were terminated last month 👏
www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
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Judge orders some federal agencies to reinstate thousands of probationary workers
Federal Judge William Alsup said the directive to fire all probationary employees was based on "a lie."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-orders-federal-agencies-reinstate-thousands-probationary-workers-rcna196275
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Drew Harwell
11 months ago
Meta loves free speech so much
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/technology/meta-book-sales-blocked.html
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I encourage everyone to buy this book : Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams Meta has gone through the courts to block its sale
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/t...
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Meta Seeks to Block Further Sales of Ex-Employee’s Scathing Memoir
An arbitrator has prevented the employee from promoting her book and disparaging the company until private arbitration concludes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/technology/meta-book-sales-blocked.html
11 months ago
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Peter Stefanovic
11 months ago
New anti-Elon Musk adverts appear in London "Autopilot for your car - autocrat for your country”
www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-ant...
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New anti-Elon Musk adverts appear in London
New anti-Elon Musk adverts have been put up at bus stops in London, criticising the Tesla CEO and Donald Trump.
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/new-anti-elon-musk-adverts-appear-in-london-390657/
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Senator Bernie Sanders
11 months ago
No, Mr. President, you cannot illegally arrest and detain legal US residents because of their political views or opinions. In America, we have a little something called the First Amendment. Throwing protesters in jail is yet another step on the path to authoritarianism.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM
11 months ago
Who made this? 🤣
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Krassensteins
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Walter Olson
11 months ago
At BWI airport where power has been out since 7:40 a.m. All terminals out. Emergency generators came on but no power in food courts, signage etc. and no indication flights are taking off or landing.
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CALL TO ACTIVISM
11 months ago
This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.
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Just completed God of War : Ragnorok … fantastic game. Hit me hard in the feels at the end.
#gaming
#ragnorok
#godofwar
11 months ago
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New fear unlocked…
12 months ago
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Aaron Rupar
12 months ago
Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"
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Abe Newman
12 months ago
10/The overarching takeaway is that the plumbing is political and politicians and the media need to focus on what Musk is doing as a strategy. See what is not helpful....
www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/p...
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Analysis: We do not know what exactly Elon Musk is doing to the federal government | CNN Politics
Americans don’t know the full extent of what Musk is doing as he embeds alongside President Donald Trump at the top of the federal government.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/01/politics/elon-musk-federal-government-what-matters/index.html
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Abe Newman
12 months ago
4/The General Services Administration is operations i.e. buildings, usage, IT.
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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Elon Musk’s Friends Have Infiltrated Another Government Agency
Elon Musk’s former employees are trying to use White House credentials to access General Services Administration tech, giving them the potential to remote into laptops, read emails, and more, sources ...
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-lackeys-general-services-administration/
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Abe Newman
12 months ago
3/Office of Personnel Management is about human resources i.e. the federal workforce.
www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...
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reuters.com
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-workers-out-computer-systems-us-agency-sources-say-2025-01-31/
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Abe Newman
12 months ago
2/These systems seen arcane and technical but are critical to key operations of the federal government -- payment, personnel, and operations. In good times they make the trains run on time, but now they may be exploited for control. The Treasury system = payment.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html
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Abe Newman
12 months ago
1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
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Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html
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