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Trump Showers Health Care Crooks With Love His extensive pardons to health care executives convicted of various crimes show that his ‘war on fraud’ in blue states has nothing to do with fraud.

A new report shows that Trump appears to support medical fraud, as long as corporate executives and other elites are the ones committing it. buff.ly/cn3eT0r

lol. lmao.

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new toon!
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

https://www.theonion.info/

Book Cover image of The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are funding an app to attack journalists.

Getting smeared by "Objection AI" will become a badge of honor for reporters.

I'm glad to see them deepening their relationship just in time for my book, which exposes that very subject.

"The Nerd Reich" drops 8/18/26.

What Regulators Should Do About The AI Industry's Hidden Financial Loop Antitrust enforcers should be asking how a self-referential financial circuit is manufacturing the demand that justifies investments, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

The financial structure underwriting the global AI race deserves as much scrutiny as the technology itself, Hera Hyeonseo Lee writes.

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NIH grantmaking plummeting under Trump

How many people will die from diseases that would otherwise have been preventable

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

Meta threw a party for a right-wing influencer who wants to “save the West” The celebration offers a cocktail-fueled look at the tech behemoth's rightward pivot.

NEW: Meta co-sponsored a celebration with the Daily Wire for podcaster Isabel Brown, who often foments about Islam and wants to "save the West," which is an interesting, cocktail-party-level look at the company's rightward pivot www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Not for nothing, but the GSA has a “prohibited vendor list” to prevent companies that “pose a national security threat” from being listed in a government marketplace—I can imagine this kind of mechanism could be expanded by legislation to include companies that facilitate human rights violations…

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media

Fucking hell. Fake maga influencers flooding social media. I guess cuz so many of the real ones are jumping ship? (gift article)

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This reminds me I should do more #CoffeePosting

"We have investigated ourselves and cleared us of all wrongdoing."

Screenshot of a video from another platform, from Lance Hedrick. White text on dark (black?) background says: "Just started my bluesky a little over a week ago Terminated today because I'm impersonating... Lance Hedrick That went well. Lol"

Dammit Bsky!

A frenzied crowd chants in the distance: TREE LAW! TREE LAW!!!

You look towards the sound and on the other side of a hill you see the gleam of torches coming together, coming closer...

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

The Robert Johnson recording in question. It’s so clear I feel like I time-traveled.

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

PURE

"A federal judge ruled in late March that the detention center must give free access to, as the AP summarized the order, 'timely, confidential, unmonitored, unrecorded outgoing legal calls.' Days later, guards cut off the phones entirely....After the phones were cut off, 'the beatings began.'"👇

"SpaceX bought 1,279 Cybertrucks in Q4 2025, representing over 18% of Tesla’s total US sales during the quarter. That’s not fleet expansion—that’s a bailout wearing corporate camouflage"

www.gadgetreview.com/spacex-bough...

Not everything that breaks is technically the fault of vibe coding but the kind of culture that would foster vibe coding is the kind that produces a lot of shit that breaks.

AI star symbol.

It's funny (not funny) how this ubiquitous symbol screams 'beware, incoming trash!' I have an instant reaction of revulsion whenever it pops up.

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