It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

A new strain of the Streisand Effect has been discovered...

Today on Commotion, we had @stevenhyden.bsky.social + @porican.bsky.social on to talk about Geesegate:

Tesla paid $1 billion in taxes to China & $0 in federal income taxes to the US. At least 88 highly profitable corporations paid $0 federal income tax last year while bringing in $ billions. Disney, CVS, Palantir, Taco Bell & others are making massive profits, paying executives enormous ⬇️

You Do Not Hate Congress Enough

this guy has always been a steaming pile of shit and it’s a travesty that he owns the knicks

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

With printed media, you can just store it in a warehouse. When some company says "we never said that," you can go to the archives, fetch a newspaper, and that ends the argument. When the companies on their websites change stories, there is no archive outside the Internet Archive.

the only thing remarkable about this conversation is that this asshat receives free healthcare from his job where he worked diligently to deny people free healthcare. and it’s not mentioned once. thanks for ruining UF, asshole.

i’ve always loved the way artists have used the dj-kicks mix to tell stories. @pitchfork.com let me write about the latest one from sofia kourtesis pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

Brown University is home to George Orwell's original manuscript of 1984. Most of it is marked up heavily in Orwell's hand-writing but this untouched page caught my eye.

I would like some of the folks who signed the Harper’s letter or spent years yammering about the threat to free speech posed by Oberlin undergrads protesting eugenicists to bring an ounce of that energy to the state censoring entire disciplines.

I’ve been a journalist for 27 years. I’ve reported major stories about mass surveillance, torture, war, the military-industrial complex, police black sites, etc. But this is the most important story I’ve ever had the horror/honor to work on. For it is a story about the current phase of a genocide.

This horrific story gets worse when you find out how this young woman originally came to the US: as a 17-year-old on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane

derosa in the clubhouse texting the guy who kidnapped maduro to see if he’s free tomorrow night

Watching Politico get told they're sanewashing shit by the guy they're sanewashing is just excellent. Media cooked. Getting dunked on by the people they're protecting. We are in the post-dignity era of the press.

pura manía fuckin rips

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

feels like a minute since i have pointed out that donald trump has pardoned more child sex offenders than every other president of the united states combined

They’re still lying to us. www.startribune.com/close-to-650...

I wrote about how the US and Israel carried out an attack on an Iranian girls school on par with the OKC bombing and US media relegated it to a back page story. No stand alone evening news segments, no front page stories, it made A11 in the NYT then everyone moved on.

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

blinks in Edward Snowden

An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

Ongoing “lol” at every entity that cuts a lopsided deal with this guy rather than telling him to fuck off

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

the "just asking questions" to "legitimate questions about fairness in sports" to "the state doesn't have to consider us as real people" pipeline working exactly as designed.

It's just insane the degree to which the federal government has simply declared war on a U.S. state. A punitive war with no discernible objective other than to immiserate its people. bsky.app/profile/apne...

"In January alone, more than a dozen lobbyists with firms representing Palantir bundled a combined $2.9 million for the DCCC, according to a newly filed FEC disclosure. The January haul from Palantir’s lobbying firms represents 38% of the DCCC’s total contributions for the month."

deeply embarrassing

it really is as bad as it seems. are we meant to just accept this? “department of justice” how does anyone even say that with a straight face

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

Absolutely unreal. Years and years of Defense spending increases and calls to cut every program outside of DoD and now they admit they cant even find ways to spend it all. Don't let anyone tell you universal Healthcare, rent relief and food aid is too costly.

The NY Times dutifully reporting that the Supreme Court sided with Trump only 42% of the time and with Biden 54% of the time sort of leaves out the necessary context that Biden was doing normal, completely legal presidential stuff, and Trump was doing insane crimes

Underlying everything that's happening, even if the public isn't super aware of it, is that there aren't many journalists left. 75 percent fewer journalists now than 25 years ago, and newspapers, the bastion of American journalism, are in even worse shape. share.google/2KL2PkERkgnQ...

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

The Department of Homeland Security is flooding social media platforms with subpoenas demanding they unmask the people behind anti-ICE accounts. This crackdown on speech shows EXACTLY why online age verification laws are so dangerous. Here's why: 🧵

This stuff is the equivalent scandal to landlords exploiting grants for buy to let mortgages. Massive data brokers will lease the hardware back to the public at a profit having bought it all out with government subsidies and destroy everyday amenities in the process.

Every one of our governments around the world who have committed to vastly expanding data centre construction funding has probably contributed to this insane economic partition in who can afford to buy computation.

I can’t help thinking there’s so much money changing hands wrt ICE detention that there aren’t even enough investigative reporters to track www.michiganpublic.org/criminal-jus...

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Sorry but it’s not a free press if there is a class of people too powerful to risk telling the truth about.

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.