Yeah, this was set to "Hide" in my settings. Fuck right off with that.

How'd he get down from the roof?

all the worst people are sad tonight and i just think thats neat

Andrew Cuomo was the US Secretary of Housing and is now running for mayor, where one of the largest agencies they manage is NYC's Housing Authority. And yet Cuomo literally had ChatGPT write his campaign housing policy. This is who the media and establishment want you to think is "serious"

can ppl stop screaming about WW3 the thing about world wars is to start one you need countries to go to war that have friends who also want to go to war for their buddy, not 2 countries led by guys whose own wives refuse to talk to them

This is so good

I knew what was going to happen on the Last of Us but I didn’t expect her to be so goddamn ANNOYING

so they're mycoblogging

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

Senator @chrismurphyct.bsky.social gets it right once again.

So who’s going to explain to trump what ended up happening to the boy who cried wolf

israel is committing genocide against palestine and the foundation of the united states is being torn apart to punish the people who think this is bad.

oh look y'all… a way to contact Schumer despite the fact he's doing his slimy, wiggly best to dodge the american people: SHARE WIDELY these are schumer's chief of staff and legislative director… two of the most critical staff positions:

Shit. I figured it out. It's a headline, not a motto.

when people try to parse eg a Nazi salute with “he was referring to / ironic reference” nonsense think of sex. let’s say you and I fuck, but my engagement is ironic — I’m doing it because I’m making reference to a previous discussion about fucking. are you less fucked now? me neither

JFC! We’ve got a teenager with full access to the State Department’s data—one who joked about wiping servers after getting fired for leaking a security firm’s info to a competitor. What could go possibly wrong—except permanent damage to our top national secrets and the trust of our allies.

For anyone still thinking that any of Musk’s douchebro daycare are at least intelligent, I’ve heard a few reputable sources say they tried to brute force their way into World Bank HQ and didn’t believe that it wasn’t run by the U.S.

I don't this story has registered with enough people. OPM is trying to make it possible for Musk to control the IT of every federal agency and department. I assume that would give him access--backdoor access?--to...everything. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“…you must be aware that it is not a crime for anyone — whether WIRED journalists, X posters, or otherwise — to identify individuals openly conducting government work that is of the utmost public concern.”

Trump caves when we react Trump caves when we react Trump caves when we react Trump caves when we react Trump caves when we react

Read this wrong, saw “House Incel Committee,” and all I thought was shit, that happened even faster than I’d thought

I... have no words for how... just... what... I mean... holy shit...

Fun one from today that nobody seems to be clocking amidst all the more substantive chaos. The White House comms department is now declaring that Trump can now "sign [an] executive order into law" without a bill passing Congress. Have never seen this language from a prior White House.

If you’re trying to access a site like ssa.gov and can’t get in, don’t necessarily worry- I have a feeling these places are getting 100x their normal traffic and I’d bet ten bucks they don’t have the servers to handle it

Are they replacing it with White Power?

Morning Joe reporting that Senate Republicans are falling into line on Trump’s worst nominees because they fear for their personal safety and the safety of their families. If true, our democracy is now effectively lost.

And it begins. FBI class action lawsuit against the retaliatory purge. First Amendment Violation of Due Process Rights to Privacy www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

I’d say Musk was deliberately going full Lex Luther to make the evil too outsized to believe, but no, I think he honestly believes this is how a sane and productive person acts.

@aoc.bsky.social Please get this to your colleagues. Musk can now cancel any payment in the Treasury. Payments already approved by Congress. This HAS to get their attention. And the method they’re using could easily crash the whole system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

@beyer.house.gov Congressman, please look at this. As an IT person I can’t emphasize enough how exceptionally dangerous this is. It could very realistically crash the entire Treasury system. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/musk-...

Forget handmaid’s tale. For the domestic endgame here, for everyone other than straight white men, I think we ought to be looking at what happened in Iran after the revolution.

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

I wish Iain M Banks was still alive so he could explain to Elon how much he loathes him and everything he stands for. That one might get through.

Van Hollen says members of Congress were blocked from entering a federal building on the orders of Elon Musk.

@schatz.bsky.social I think the contact form on your site bounces if you say you’re not from Hawai’i so I’m saying it here as well: thank you for taking actual decisive action to defend us and stop this insanity

I took a risk posting those videos because at no point did those guys say they were federal employees or that they had a right to be there.

this was successful “resistance” — the thing we’re being repeatedly told is done, over, can’t work, never to return

The Soviet Union only collapsed overnight because it spent decades being eroded from the center out until only a shell was left, and at that point all you need is a good whack with the right mallet

@wyden.senate.gov @sanders.senate.gov @smith.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov Any of you interested in actually doing something about the ongoing crisis in your country or would it disrupt your weekend plans

So while dems whine about tomatoes: -Musk seizes Treasury, controls disbursement of all funds -Trump crashes US economy and kills the dollar - Musk/Thiel push reorg of entire economy based on crypto with X as the portal to Treasury funds -demoralized country lets them all do what they want

Here is the guidance in full. The wording is very broad. This should help a lot of organizations and people.

In my drunker moments, eg now, I’ve been thinking that you could explain the last 20 years of America by following MGMT from Time to Pretend through till Little Dark Age

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

This is the correct framing