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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

A bunch of Trump’s most influential advisors are advocating for the US to leave NATO and the UN. Short-sighted, reactionary morons. You should really ask yourselves why anyone that has the US interests at heart would want us to leave the most powerful alliance in history.

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

The White House position is now that Russian state media breached the security of the Oval Office.

Andrew Feinberg & @AndrewF..•23m
UPDATE from a @WhiteHouse official:
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"TASS was not on the approved list of media for today's pool. As soon as it came to the attention of press office staff that he was in the Oval, he was escorted out by the@PressSec. He is not on the approved list for the press conference."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 27/02/2025

the ongoing new lavender scare has been hard for me to grapple with. if you are transgender do not get caught doing anything illegal and do not say anything anywhere that the state would want to prosecute you over. genuinely, be careful and prepare however you can

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The "in touch with the public" is exactly it. This is not simply a problem of bad communications strategy - it's a problem of shriveled capacity for feedback, and fear of the political disruption that remedying the problem would involve.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 26/02/2025

Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/02/2025

if this trend continues tesla stock and investors will be completely decimated. the protests, public pressure, selling off stock and vehicles seem to be working

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Tay @stellaefons.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

This is a sign that the capitalist billionaire class no longer cares about the consumer class, period. You will see more and more consumer focused brands liquidate as they pull their money in preparation for the genocide about to occur.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 26/02/2025

i think everyone needs to stop framing whats going on as “bending the knee” and what’s really happening which is “they’re finally feel free to do what they’ve always wanted to do”

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Tay @stellaefons.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

I genuinely think the billionaire class wants to industrialize human life itself. They want to treat us like actual cattle and breed, enslave, slaughter, and process us like animals. They will give us just enough to keep us alive and put us to work. When we die, we die.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/02/2025

she made the greatest posting mistake you can make, acknowledging a dunk on you like this

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

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onion person @junlper.beer · 20/02/2025

i find the concept of him passing away so fascinating

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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Musk is straight up threatening advertisers to stay on X. This is exactly what anyone who knows anything about him expected him to do when he got this power. Musk very clearly sees the US government as just another new arm of his business empire. And is using it all as any authoritarian would.

A lawyer at advertising conglomerate
Interpublic Group fielded a phone call in December from a lawyer at X. The message was clear, according to several people with knowledge of the conversation:
Get your clients to spend more on Elon Musk's social-media platform, or else.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino has made comments that seemed like similar warnings in conversations with Interpublic execu-tives, according to people with knowledge of those talks.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 20/02/2025

Trump FTC getting ready to go after social media companies (I'm sure it will skip ExTwitter, and possibly now Meta) for their First Amendment protected editorial discretion. www.regulations.gov/document/FTC...

Request for Public Comment Regarding Technology Platform Censorship
The Federal Trade Commission invites public comment to better understand how technology
platforms1 deny or degrade (such as by “demonetizing” and “shadow banning”) users’ access to
services based on the content of the users’ speech or their affiliations, including activities that
take place outside the platform.2 In doing so, technology platforms may employ opaque or
unpredictable internal procedures to restrict users’ access to services, often without any advance
notice, leaving affected users with little ability to mitigate the related harm. Users may also
receive little information about the alleged violations that led to their dismissal or downgrading
on the platform. Technology platforms may similarly deny their users a meaningful opportunity
to challenge or appeal the platforms’ decisions. Such actions by technology platforms may
violate their terms of service or other policies (collectively, “policies”) and flout users’
reasonable expectations based on the technology platforms’ public representations. Such policies
and practices, which may affect competition, may have resulted from a lack of competition or
may have been the product of anti-competitive conduct.
FTC staff is interested in understanding how consumers have been harmed—including by
potentially unfair or deceptive acts or practices, or potentially unfair methods of competition—
by technology platforms that limit users’ ability to share their ideas or affiliations freely and
openly. FTC staff encourages members of the public, including current and former employees of
technology platforms, to comment on any issues or concerns that are relevant to the FTC’s
consideration of this topic, including, but not limited to, the following questions:

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AlienGhostStory @chetubetchanews.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Even Kotaku wasn't buying his bullshit lmao

"It was like so much easier when you're broke, if you don't travel constantly," said MrBeast. "Life is so easy when you just wake up in your own bed and work 15 hours compared with all this fucking bullshit where I'm like, 'I don't know the time zone I'm in, I don't know what place on it'...some days I'm going to 10am, other days I'm going to 5pm."
I'm not sure life is easier when you are poor. It really just sounds like maybe MrBeast needs to take a vacation and travel a bit less.

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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Your regular reminder that §230 protects YOU, the person reading this post, from being sued for reposting things just as much as it protects "Big Tech" from things that still wouldn't be a viable cause of action because your problem is not with §230, it's with the first amendment

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

nyt: "fondness for injecting regal themes"

‘Long Live the King’: Trump Likens Himself to Royalty on Truth Social
Mr. Trump’s fondness for injecting regal themes into his presidency was apparent as he applauded his administration’s move to kill congestion pricing in New York.

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 18/02/2025

I see no actual evidence that the American and Russian negotiators are putting together a peace deal. It looks increasingly like America is negotiating its neutrality in the conflict in exchange for oil. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...

pravda.com.ua

Moscow reportedly offers Trump deal regarding natural resources

The Kremlin has offered Donald Trump’s team a deal on Russian natural resources.

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Tay @stellaefons.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

It's also because he's fucking them

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/02/2025

the elite oligarchy in america, through elon musk, are attempting to create a parallel establishment to usher in the destruction of the US government and the ascendency of a new technocracy

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onion person @junlper.beer · 17/02/2025

i download every single chinese app i can and keep them updated so their government can properly steal my data to plan the United States downfall with ease

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 18/02/2025

As someone who camps at Yosemite a few times every year... this is frustrating. And so pointless.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 15/02/2025

This clusterfuck gets even dumber.

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Jamal Greene @jamalgreene.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

There's an important point here that I'm not sure everyone is fully appreciating. People still in their probationary periods took their career positions because *they were committed to doing the work of keeping the government humming regardless of who won this or any other election.*

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/02/2025

trumps authoritarian government is trying to rewrite history and exclude trans people from all mentions of it. they will find out that we cannot truly be erased. the pendulum will swing back woker than ever

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Lizett @lizettms.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

You know, I recall my international relations classes talking about the instability of hegemony and the general idea was that the US would likely fall at some point. Just never realized it would be a) so soon, and b) from within.

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wiskunkle @wiskunkle.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Why the fuck am I getting a lecture on democracy from a South African?

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.” Recipient of two bronze stars and a Chief Justice Roberts clerk.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

When you hear “Make America Healthy Again” please remember who the Nazi’s targeted first. They wanted to make Germany healthy and “pure” The Aktion T4 program mass murdered people with disabilities. They tested the gas chambers on us. Please do not obey in advance. Speak out. Save lives.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

This also includes *veterans*, including, I am told, at least some fully qualified wildland firefighters with actual fire experience. Per a source with knowledge: “I want everyone to know that they are firing veterans, fully qualified and trying to serve their country again in civil service.”

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Angus Johnston @angus.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

One thing that I'm increasingly coming to believe is that stories are going to be central to what comes next. Stories of the harm done. Stories of the great things achieved by government in the past. Stories of valor kindness and quotidian simple resistance.

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Laura Knetzger @lauraknetzger.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Hey guys meta announced a new policy where they send a killer to get you so be sure to go to settings>my account > killer> disable killer to turn that off

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 13/02/2025

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

Some federal workers are ‘getting wealthy at taxpayer expense,’ says Elon Musk, whose companies have received at least $20 billion from the government

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🎃 scarecrowcialism 👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The Russians have lost most of an entire fleet to a nation that doesn't have a navy, what the fuck is hegseth talking about man

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

🚨🚨 This is not journalism. It is embarrassing.

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Sam Frantics @dsoart.com · 13/02/2025

As the internet gets shittier it’s gotten easier to be off it and read more books lately

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/02/2025

an interesting phenomena going on in rightwing spaces is that despite rightwingers controlling the entire government, their base still seems to critique “the government” without including trump or musk or anyone in their orbit, as if they’re completely seperate

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

this is literally the entire budget for Medicaid btw. this is a literal death sentence for millions of people

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 12/02/2025

the primary thing this seems likely to accomplish is encouraging practically every state and federal court in the country to treat the department of justice as a bad faith, hostile adversary and to engage with their lawyers accordingly

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

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Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 12/02/2025

The United States is now an open kleptocracy. The Constitution has been suspended to allow the wealthiest man in the world to loot and destroy the federal government.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

It is the darkest of all possible humor that Disney is publicly rolling back their DEI initiatives and removing content warnings from older, racially-insensitive work on the same week that they are releasing a new MCU movie with a Black man as Captain America.

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Tay @stellaefons.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I hope the asteroid gets us

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Yeah, this seems incredibly obvious to everyone except the politicians themselves.

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