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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

It's baffling to me because, to me, the absolute best part of becoming very very rich would be never having to care what anyone else thinks of you ever again! But the social instinct to Impress The Older Boys is very strong in the former-nerd rich kid demographic our billionaire class is drawn from

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

There it is. Good.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"There's so much fraud, waste, and abuse." "Can you give us an example?" "Oh ho ... trust us, there's so much fraud, waste and abuse, you wouldn't believe it." "Try me! Just one." "Sorry, there's too much fraud, waste, and abuse. I can't pick out just one instance of fraud, waste, and abuse."

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

Jeffries: "Let me be clear -- House Democrats will not provide a single vote to this reckless Republican budget. Not one. Not one."

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

You know what type of people a $5 million "Gold Card" for US citizenship will attract? Successful criminals and state-sponsored spies. Well done, Donald, after years of accusing Democrats of using immigration to bring unsavory people to the US, you prove that you were, once again, just projecting.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/02/2025

Pritzker: "We're talking about the death of a constitutional republic. That's what happened in Germany in 1933, 1934. And we're seeing today that we've got an administration in Washington that's ignoring court orders."

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

NEW: Google used to warn you when you were seeing low-quality search results. Then, in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, the company quietly turned that warning off www.platformer.news/google-data-...

The researchers collected their first data in October 2023 and March 2024. Initially, they were struck by how inconsistently Google showed its warnings. A deep learning model they built to analyze the queries suggested that the warnings should have appeared between 29 and 58 times as often as they did in practice. For motivated conspiracy peddlers, they were easy to evade: just adding quotation marks or a single letter to a query was typically enough to make the banner disappear.

The researchers were beginning to collect additional data last September when they discovered something unexpected: Google had stopped showing low-quality banners entirely, weeks before early voting began, without disclosing it.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

"We all know it intuitively." COME ON.

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Gary Legum @glegum.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I wrote a bit about this yesterday for Wonkette, because it's driving me nuts. If there's so much gov't fraud - not just Medicaid, but everywhere - it should be trivially easy to give examples. Instead they just keep repeating this as if saying it will make it true. bsky.app/profile/kevi...

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Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 26/02/2025

It's wild that one of the things that was intended to radicalize people towards the right was years of reporting on a manufactured shoplifting epidemic only for us to be where we are now, witnessing the biggest and most materially deadly smash and grab in US history.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

When Musk’s role in govt or in FAA oversight was under consideration, perhaps it was fair to say “raising concerns about conflicts.” When he announced SpaceX would redesign the ATC system, that was at least a clear conflict. Now they’re buying SpaceX products to do it, it is just plain corruption.

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Imagine being on vacay in Mexico and getting a call informing you that while you were out of town your asshole bosses wrote your name in as the head of their Doing Crimes Department.

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

lol

Weijia Jiang: “A White House official confirms the acting @DOGE administrator is Amy Gleason. Earlier today, Gleason told my colleague @mkaplantv that she was in Mexico when he reached her by phone.”

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Pretty much every DOGE employee and Trump cabinet member has committed worse crimes than just about anyone currently incarcerated.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 26/02/2025

The deranged DOGE rats have fired Yosemite National Park’s *locksmith*. www.instagram.com/p/DGLxMKbyKw...

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natevince Heartbroken and Confused! I was terminated on Valentines Day from my dream job.
48 weeks ago I started my permanent NPS position as Yosemite's new Locksmith. y I apprenticed under the previous locksmith the 4 years before his retirement. He had a wonderful carrier of 23 years with NPS. He said, "This is a good job Nate, the park can't run without a locksmith, do your job well and your'll always have job."
Well now 3 weeks short of my probationary period l've been fired. I've had exemplary performance and am essential for park operations.
The people that fired me don't know who I am, or what I do.
They simply don't understand this park and how big and complex it is.

I need to immediately move out of housing, I have lost my career and I have NO PLAN. This was my dream! All of my eggs were in this basket and I planned to stay till retirement. I had an appointment to meet a realtor today, but canceled, everything has been flipped upside down. I'm scared I?????????????????????!!!!!!??????????????????] I was terminated at 1:15pm 2/14/2025 via email.
Yosemite National Park the size of Rhode Island and has more locks than a small city, and without a locksmith I'm deeply concerned for the safety and security of the park and people in it. This is not right!
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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 26/02/2025

Secretary of Defense Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Pete Hegseth on FOX NEWS with headline chyron that reads: Tracking Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The language, as described, is superfluous. It is already constitutional and federal statutory law that the administration must spend the money that Congress appropriates. Congress’s power of the purse fundamental to our system of government. And yet, it’s a red line for Republicans to include it.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025

Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

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State Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.

Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

feel like one problem of Trump is that describing him objectively sounds like you're insulting him

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I think about this a lot

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm convinced this is a genuine problem. The reality of Trump is so cartoonishly, comically awful that an absolutely neutral description sounds like a hit piece, even to me. So if you're at all predisposed to think of press as biased, factual reporting looks like some relentless vendetta.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'd wager a nontrivial cause of declining trust in press is precisely that people are accustomed to an era of politics where objective coverage generally sounded somewhat even-handed. And suddenly one party is constantly talked about like inept comic book supervillains.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

And this is, of course, because one party has been taken over by a buffoonish comic book supervillain. But because this seems incredible to people—surely the American public wouldn't elect someone THAT terrible—they instead decide press are getting more biased.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/02/2025

Quite the message from the guy running our government

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Legit, I think a large reason why were here is that we somehow got psyoped into thinking feeling shame automatically means you’re the victim because you’re uncomfortable.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

also Mad Max is NOT a warlord! that is a HUGE part of his character! he is a consumate loner who MURDERS WARLORDS

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 28/02/2025

"Liberalism’s devotion to fairness and belief in the honor system has made it incapable of taking its own side against those who would replace it with fascism."

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The Washington Post and Autocracy’s Asymmetric Advantage

Liberalism is afraid to take its own side.

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Erin Vanderhoof @vanderhoofy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Where I grew up (New Mexico), they literally renamed Medicaid so that more doctors would accept it!!!! People don’t know, and in an ideal world, that would make sense. But still, it’s so bad when there is no good class-based organizing

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SJ Worrier @sjworrier.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Bears repeating that social security is incredibly INCREDIBLY efficient to run. Its overhead costs are basically zero when you consider the size of the undertaking and the genuine benefits delivered. If anyone was interested in improving govt efficiency, the SSA would be their model not their target

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Not only is SSA historically efficient, they keep getting better and more efficient! www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/a...

Partial table of administrative expenses year after year showing long term declines in annual costs from 2%+ to around 0.5%; full table at link

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The state has been captured and is being stripped for parts, folks. www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/b...

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Dr. Larissa @rissarwx.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Every day we all log on and see which vital Jenga piece some rapist nazi has pulled out of the infrastructure of human civilization while giggling deep in a k-hole.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 28/02/2025

That fact even Ron DeSantis and Dave Portnoy are repulsed by the Trump administration’s effort to free the Tate brothers means this is a useful thing we can exploit to get normal people to turn on the regime. “Trump and Musk are importing rapists to rape your American daughters” is *true*.

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Possible Cabbage 🟢 @possiblecabbage.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I mean, women and girls face significantly more at risk in public restrooms from the Tate brothers than from every transgender person combined.

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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I love having to root for the America that I know as a neoliberal market-driven hell hole over the America that I know as a fascist militaristic ethnostate.

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Caroline Casey @cacasey.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I am way less interested in "believed lies that would benefit them" than I am in "didn't care who else got hurt"

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

There is no explicit Constitutional prohibition against human trafficking, so it's hard for me to see why liberals dislike the Tate brothers so much. by Jonathan Turley

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

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brie “Stupid Twink” monger @stupidtwink.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

i like how the prank of rickrolling was just making somebody listen to a popular and generally well liked song. like, haha, made you listen to one of the 80’s best pop hits, you loser

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Micah @rincewind.run · 28/02/2025

there is really going to be no option but to prosecute these people the second they are out of power if we ever want a chance to fix this country

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

there is no better future for this country in which we don't become the Land of A Thousand Nurembergs

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

…rubella (MMR) vaccine, which is safe and effective. Vaccines are an essential tool to keeping children and adults safe and healthy. There are currently at least two confirmed measles outbreaks in the United States — in West Texas and New Mexico. In the last 24 hours in Texas, a child died…

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

…hearing loss, blindness, and death. Survivors of measles remain at risk. There is a possibility of developing a degenerative brain and nervous system disease known as subacute sclerosing panencephalitis. The potentially deadly disease of measles can be prevented with the measles, mumps and…

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

…most contagious viruses in the world. Prevention of the disease is essential to preserving health, and even survival. A measles infection can have a number of particularly devastating complications for pregnant women and young children, including pneumonia, severe neurological impairment…

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