Uhm...TM1 went offline because it wasn't profitable

Great thread. Yes, wanting gov’t to work better should be a universal thing. It can seem like an ideology only when one faction nihilistically tries to tear down govt for profit. As Karl says, key is the dark money spent to make govt work less well, concealed behind thinktanks & pink slime media.

and these morons want to privatize social security I am so sick of watching everyone get robbed in a new exciting way every single day lol

HUGE lesson here for the response of legal system if (when) Dems regain power — there cannot again be a reluctance to pursue consequences for unlawful conduct out of concerns for comity or appearing too partisan

Marjorie Taylor Greene has been disliked by the left for years and years and had never had to fear for her life. She's been disliked by the right for 1 day and now has to hire security.

Sounds good now but I fear it’s just an opportunity to raise this to the Supreme Court so they can strike down the voting rights act. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

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Ditch all Google products: Chrome»Brave Google»Brave Search Gmail»Proton Mail Drive»Proton Drive Calendar»Proton Calendar Pixel»Galaxy Messages»Signal Play Store»F Droid/Aurora Maps»Magic Earth/OsmAnd Weather»Breezy The biggest🖕you can send to Google is to stop entrusting them with your data.

Wall Street brokers are literally just gambling addicts who've been told by society that being gambling addicts makes them very smart and very special big boys

That’s the fun part. There’s nothing to bail out. It’s literally impossible. None of these companies have ever made any money. It’s just a big fire burning dollars. All you could do is try to prop it up a bit longer. But once the faith is gone, it’s over.

Truly capitalism is so inbred it can barely stand

The AI bubble bursting is going to be AT LEAST the third in 25 years, after the subprime mortgage crisis in '08 and the dot-com crisis in the late 90s / early 00s We keep making the same mistakes over and over Or rather those whose hands are on the levers of power do

Capitalism is incredible. Sorry, former teacher, your retirement fund is gone because 5 guys who've collectively never worked a full hour told the banks to put all the money in the country into virtual girlfriend futures

My country's constitution requires the postal service, the only comms-over-distance of its day, to be publicly owned always on the basis it's an essential service. When phones were invented, they were included in this provision. Then the second-worst PM in our history violated this provision ...1/2

This is why I switched from M$ Office to Libre, even if output is slightly less polished ... it doesn't keep picking on me to change my workflow in ways that invade my privacy and which, frankly, I'm not interested in.

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities. 3/5

Anthropic pays Microsoft to pay Nvidia so Nvidia and Microsoft can both pay Anthropic back.

Keep this in mind as we start seeing more and more large scale outages from AWS, Cloudflare, Github, etc. These are the companies hoping to increasingly automate their systems with AI

hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff. Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […] [Original post on chaos.social]

If the president can just raise taxes and spend money without Congressional approval, the constitution is null and void.

After a gloomy cloudy day here, a breathtaking sunset.I almost missed it! Have a great evening everyone!☺️

One candidate was a highly experienced prosecutor The other was in the Epstein files And she thought the one who was best friends with Epstein was the one who would release the files.?????.

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public www.404media.co/contractor-p...

if you haven't actually read the bill—worth taking a look as inoculation against some untrue things being asserted about it online today www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

They just keep doubling down like the definition of insanity. They are the perfect example of reactionary centrist politics being implemented and it's incredibly unpopular.

Shareholders voted to give this dipshit a trillion dollar bonus with the implied agreement that he'd refocus on Tesla. And here's how he rewards them. You literally couldn't assemble a bigger bunch of marks than Elon's incel posse. #teslatakedown

A Common Raven shining with blue/purple iridescence in the afternoon sun #birds

First Trump allowed your premiums to skyrocket & now he wants medical bills to haunt you everywhere you go. Letting sickness crush people’s credit scores is exploitative & cruel. This is what it looks like when you put corporate debt collectors, not working people, first.

“Do you want to trust the person whose head is full of math instead of feeling? Myself, I would prefer a less-abstract pattern of moral responsiveness — call it analog morality, if you will, the kind that happens in our real lives outside of thought experiments.” — @benwurgaft.bsky.social

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

In the US, gasoline is $0.35/lb. Apples are $1.79/lb. Lettuce is $2/lb. When oil is subsidized more than food, you know the food system is broken.

Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds

Hell yes, a panel of federal judges have blocked Texas republicans from using their illegal redrawn racially motivated gerrymandered congressional maps that would’ve helped corruptly boost them in 2026. Fuck fascists. 💙👊

Home Depot stock fell again. Indeed people are tightening budgets and the interest rates are high but could it be worth mentioning that PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED TO GET KIDNAPPED AT HOME DEPOT and the rest of us are angry the store isn't doing more to protect our neighbors?

Trump has blown up at two women who dared to bring up Epstein to his face in the past 24 hours. It is not because he has nothing to hide.

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

Same played out in avocados. A 10,000 seedling University of California breeding program led to the Lamb-Hass, GEM, and Luna UCR varieties... good varieties, but not household names. Program started in the late '80's, Luna released in 2023. This was considered a successful program.

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Ahhh I see. So it’s ok to ruin the lives of completely innocent immigrants and their families, or the completely innocent lady across the street who sounds her horn as a goon alert for her neighbors, but it’s not ok to ruin some rich pedo’s reputation? Gotcha. Hypocrites.

Epstein survivor: "Today we stand in a moment that will decide whether our government still belongs to the American people or to those who prey on them."

Mike Johnson refused to swear in Adelita Grijalva for months because she was the 218th signature to force a vote on the Epstein files, but sure, Republicans always wanted to release them as they now claim today for the first time.

Here is the federal district court's 2–1 ruling, authored by a very conservative Trump appointee, striking down Texas' new Republican gerrymander on the grounds that it unlawfully discriminates against racial minorities. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

We need public investments and economic policies that expand opportunity and address the inequities that cost Indigenous women hundreds of thousands of dollars over their lifetimes.

Pay attention to how Mike Johnson is trying to shift the narrative today - he’s saying some Epstein files can’t be released because they’re intelligence products and would harm national security.

Can't go a mile in Tucker County, WV, without seeing a "No Data Center" sign.

Yesterday 15% of charlotte students were absent now that ICE has invaded. The normal absentee rate is half that. So many children are missing out on their childhood’s because of racism

Two signs the crash must be nigh on recent months: 1. Tech companies have been actively working to spread around the exposure to AI debt 2. People have increasingly been talking about that (which of course ‘strengthens’ the case for bailouts when it comes)