Can anyone explain how this is not a quid-pro-quo bribe?
Especially since US law demanded the transfer of TikTok’s US operations as the one way to avoid a ban.
Big donors to the president got the company as the govt forced the sale, and he gets $10 billion.
If not a bribe, why so bribe-shaped?
oh no the guy who ruined people's lives is being made fun of online
The worst world events filtered through the worst AI imaginable by the worst people on earth overseen by the worst man on earth
www.404media.co/groks-ai-csa...
Remember kids, if you buy boxes, shipping supplies, office supplies, or industrial supplies DO NOT SHOP ULINE.
Gov. JB Pritzker signed into law a package of bills meant to better protect immigrants throughout Illinois, a direct rebuke of Operation Midway Blitz. blockclubchi.co/48KFWKm
Hail to the thief
Cyberpunk is a warning not a manual.
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago.
Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Let the record show once again that the rule of law and thus the Constitution and democracy are dead.
Trump Claims Sweeping Power to Nullify Laws, Letters on TikTok Ban Show www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/u...
ICE *already* can't meet their detainment numbers without rounding up children, veterans, people born in the U.S., people with no criminal records, people at immigration hearings, plus academics and visitors with valid visas.
So who do they plan to detain with >10x the budget?
The answer is: you.
We should all be disgusted by the flood of anti-Muslim remarks spewed in the aftermath of Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the NYC mayoral primary — some blatant, others latent.
Shame on the members of Congress who have engaged in such bigotry and anyone who doesn’t challenge it.
REPUBLICANS: “Here’s a bribe so Alaska will vote to screw the other 49 states.”
MURKOWSKI: “Oh, goody!”
PARLIAMENTARIAN: “Not so fast, sister . . .”
I know I only covered Congress for a few years, but I've never actually seen legislators "loudly" add something to a bill. It's always "quietly", because that makes it somehow more dramatic.
Instead of using sounds, we should say "in order to avoid accountability".
This is literally an ecological inference fallacy, and both Pew and NPR should be ashamed of doing this
Yes, this is exactly why as election results come in the percentage for each candidate remains the same and we can call the race based on the results from the first precinct
The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't real. What dystopian hellscape timeline is this.
So, as you might know, I have been in the process of tracking the activities of DOGE staff across the federal government. And now I've built an auto-updating website to browse the data
It's not done (lots more content to write), but news is moving fast, so here it is dogetrack.info
Enjoy!
President of CBS News quits rather than cave in to Trump extortion, which her former, cowardly bosses are plainly planning to do.
She has more integrity than the rest of them put together.
She also knows that extortionists don't stop when you cave. They demand more.
www.npr.org/2025/05/...
New, from me:
The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
This has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual - this really lays it out
A round sticker. In the center is a picture of a colorful bird with a cheeky expression. Around it is a black border with the text “I POOP ON BILLIONAIRES”
A+ sticker design
always the people and companies u suspect most
I'm not saying journalists should never interview admitted propagandists. There are journalistic reasons to do so. But if we do, we must be prepared to -- in fact it is our duty to -- challenge vociferously all unsubstantiated claims. Otherwise, we ourselves become propagandists.
