If you think Elon did nothing offensive, perhaps try it yourself at work or at school or in Germany or Austria and see how that goes for you.

DOJ here is acceding to a direct order from the White House not to pursue specific ongoing criminal cases. It’s been a multistep process aided by last summer’s Supreme Court decision in Trump v US, but this is the concrete end of the DOJ’s independence.

Starting to get it?

No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.

Wishing everyone everywhere peace and inspiration. Come what may, let us stand strong for all that is right and just. Let us defend those who are being mistreated, and live with kindness and respect as Martin Luther King hoped we would . Our task is clear. ❤️

EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Day One Executive Order on ‘Male and Female’ The White House strikes out at gender ideology and pronouns. Also: ends housing of biological men in women’s prisons; self-ID on passports; and more.

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Attention Pennsylvania Attorney General.

Beautiful

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TikTok is back up. This is all such performative nonsense by the kleptocrats and hypocrites who run DC. And we look like idiots to the CCP. Bluff called and we are flaccid.

A reminder Monday that there will be an avalanche of executive orders.

Mass deportations will start.

Meanwhile, the House and Senate will try to ram through a bunch of bad bills.

Do not get lost in a sea of despair.

That is what they want.

Prepare yourselves now.

To those who are so upset about the TikTok ban, a reminder that it was the orange convicted felon that signed the executive order back in 2020 to eventually ban the platform. If he does bring it back, it’ll be to take credit for something he intentionally wanted to fuck up.

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What’s the difference between a gov controlling an algorithm, silently eliminating reach for things it doesn’t like, vs the same gov using its power, to demand that the platform remove the things it doesn’t like.?

In China they are overt. With TikTok in the US, they control silently

Has always been the plan

Elon Musk—who's in charge of hiring and firing in the federal executive branch, America's largest employer—just proposed an aptitude test for all employees

Failing the test would result in termination

Keep in mind that Musk doesn't believe tests can be biased—so you can be _sure_ this one would be

Séamas O'Reilly: The world is an objectively worse place because of tech-bro oligarchs As Zuckerberg pontificates about masculinity and traditional values, he does so in soundbites as lifeless as his former paeans to gender and racial equality

Oh sweet baby jeebus all of this:

"If I had to summarise the central poison at the heart of all our lives, I think I’d probably start with the effect these people have had on everything they touch."

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Mark Zuckerberg spent millions bribing politicians and judges to make this happen.

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Okay let’s see how videos do on Bluesky. I’m curious, and also this is one of my favorite bookish videos to share. 😊 #booksky

Love this app.

We have a lot of work to do.

East of Eden, Steinbeck

THIS!
100% this…

Meeeeow!

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

The opening of a Walmart Supercenter leads to an increase in local poverty rates.

This increase in poverty rates persists for 10 years following the Supercenter’s entry.

Increases in poverty are particularly strong for younger, less-educated, and lower income adults.

The Far-Right Extremist Pronatalism of Elon Musk Could Destroy Humanity in Decades Musk’s mind is a haunted house of farcical ideas whose dangers he can’t understand or (worse) understands fine—from Nrx and Yarvinism to TESCREALism and techno-optimism. Pronatalism is a launch point.

It’s so bad. My friends...it’s so bad.

What these men—we know their names—have planned for us is a nightmare come to life. As ever, I have recorded its known contours with exhaustive sourcing.

The simple version is that Musk says he wants to save humanity, but he’s plunging us into utter darkness.

We now know UnitedHealth—under Brian Thompson—illegally overcharged cancer patients for meds by more than 1000%.

What we don't know is how many cancer patients died or were financially ruined as a result?

What we demand to know is why that act isn't deemed corporate murder & where are the arrests?