anyway, zelensky is a more popular figure than either trump or vance, putin is brutally unpopular, and the public still supports ukraine aid. better than even chance that none of these facts will show up in coverage of the incident.

In China even poor have egg, in America only rich because trump take egg

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Breaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...

Musk knowingly facilitates and profits from large-scale slavery, which would end without his help. He just personally defunded the U.S. initiatives that help people escape these compounds. www.wired.com/story/starli...

It just hit me that across every dimension Trump is destroying a full century of human progress. Free trade, the norm against aggression, vaccines and public health, desegregation, victory against fascism and ethno-nationalism. All onto the bonfire. One of the greatest criminals in history.

This sort of comic book corruption is quite literally illegal in every single country in the world that has written laws. I don't even know what else you say about this, it's amazing

NEW: Elon Musk’s Starlink is being used at scam compounds that have fleeced billions from people around the world, a @WIRED investigation shows Between November 2024 and Feb, hundreds of phones at eight scam compounds in Myanmar logged 40,000 uses of Starlink, mobile data shows

The corruption could not be more blatant if they were handing Elon Musk bulging sacks with dollar signs on them on the steps of the Treasury building.

The creator of one of the most predatory monopolies of our time believes in free markets? News to me.

Scientists: We may have finally found a cure for one of the cruelest human diseases! The United States:

Contrary to a lot of the reporting, there is a very long precedent for this sort of thing. Trading mineral rights for defense work is how the shadier mercenary companies operate in Africa. Notably, Russia's Wagner group worked this way. (Link to follow) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

I think any smart analysis of the situation in europe needs to step back and consider what russia has actually accomplished in ukraine in the last 3 years: -taken some territory -suffered so many losses it has instituted conscription and dusted off armor/vehicles from '60s -lost its own territory

The current proposals that AI companies should be uniquely excluded from paying for other people’s IP and creative labour is effectively a state subsidy worth trillions of dollars, paid for by content creators and copyright holders.

Hey dummies, guess who else were "an oppositional culture" that, after victory, never stopped acting like it was in the opposition?

Nobody gives university teachers any guidance, and no one checks on you. You could teach kids to drink their own urine and love Satan, and no one would find out unless a student complained. As it happens, my students loved drinking pee and worshipping the Prince of Lies, so my evals were great.

This one was at the weekend but now it won't answer the question

I don’t know if Google can top this, their finest work to date

Anyone pledging that government digital services should be as good as the private sector should know that I've spent less than 5 mins successfully ordering a new driving licence and so far about 15 trying and failing to update my travel insurance policy

Wow.

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and sign it "Spartacus"

i'm actually really brave for going against the grain and being both trans and a pig headed jerk with no new ideas

Each of the mirrors in a disco ball holds captive the soul of a fallen dancer.

I present to you the next deputy director of the FBI!

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1/ Elon Musk's forced resignation threat appears to be wreaking havoc in US Navy. "At this time, if you have received this email, DO NOT respond."

so then it's not a cost-cutting team, is it

This gets my vote for tweet/post of the year. This is a RED ALERT post. This is exactly why he’s doing it.

Go to town hall meetings. When they get a reception like this, it absolutely scares the hell out of them.

Referring to a Nazi salute as a "controversial gesture" is morally the same as referring to the Final Solution as a "controversial policy."

The Democrats still haven't found anything or anyone they're willing to fight for, only things they will follow rules for. And when the GOP easily trounces them by breaking the rules, they issue a strongly worded statement saying we must fight to defend the rules. This has gone on for years.

An idle, defunct high-voltage power-line may have started the Eaton fire in LA last month. Still unknown: How many more neglected lines may pose fire risk. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

On average, 250 people are killed by cars in New York City every year. 10 people were killed on the subway in 2024. This was the highest level since 1997 and occasioned endless news coverage and national panic about the dangers of mass transit.

I am again not trying to be alarmist but I am a subject-matter expert in a couple things and if you know someone who is in nursing home (SNF per the regs) I would try check in on them pretty frequently over the next few years

I will believe AI is useful when I am allowed to remove it from my devices

this is exactly how to frame it, great work by Slate here

Trump is a far-right imperialist in league with other far-right imperialist powers and billionaire plutocrats to carve up the world. Divvying up Ukraine with Putin is just step one....

I absolutely don't think that we'd have a world with trans people being accepted if we hadn't put people on the moon. I don't think we're going to keep moving forward until we wrest the idea of accomplishing great, magical-seeming things from conmen and put them back in the public sphere

No book, no movie, no story told to me by my Jewish émigré family or my in-laws who grew up under Hitler, prepared me for how much I would hate fascists.

What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

I meant to end with this one so just want to say again- if you or someone you know has a story that they are comfortable sharing, you can tell us here. We will respect your confidentiality and keep it private unless you give us express permission to share beyer.house.gov/forms/form/?...

Now that Trump has fully taken off the mask, far too many people are still talking as if the discarded mask is Trump. They're forming theories based on the features of the mask as it lies in the trashcan, and dismissing attempts to talk about the real face as alarmism.

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

My illegal Pinkerton is driving me to my illegal hotel while the hallucination machine in my phone summarizes the emails my coworkers wrote using their hallucination machines. My burrito travels separately in its own limo. This is innovation and normal.

Me: you know they used to kill horses for glue? Friend: no way [flashback to 1953] Farmer: [cocks gun] Horse: [holding tube of Elmer's] no I need this for my crafts

The literal wealthiest man in the world donating hundreds of millions of dollars to a presidential campaign and getting rewarded with a government post where he can award his companies with contracts is the most cartoonish possible rendering of what people warned about after Citizens United.