Why on earth are you guys trying to save the GOP’s bacon in an election year? They control everything! Let them figure it out! Just fucking criticize them!
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Why on earth are you guys trying to save the GOP’s bacon in an election year? They control everything! Let them figure it out! Just fucking criticize them!
A new whistleblower report alleges that a former DOGE engineer told co-workers at his new job that that he “previously had unrestricted ‘God-level’ access to the SSA’s systems” & that he possessed copies of SSA’s “Numident” & “Master Death” files, which he planned to use at his new job. 3/10/26…1/
Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.
Remember the mystery a few weeks ago, about how and why xAI was spitting out people's government names, even people who have only *ever* used a pseudonym professionally?
These depositions are my new favorite show. I cannot stop watching them.
I actually can get on board the anti-cookie train, so we will have to use that as our foundational common ground. And we both like you! Although probably not in the same way, but it still counts.
Going to have to process my feelings on this one
Are you… are you…. anti-mushrite?!
This was awesome. You are an excellent reporter!!
Zzzzzzing!
Answer us, Renfer!!!
Excellent thread by Randy (who is emphatically a real reporter doing real reporting) with good context and many humorous DOJ facepalm moments:
He allegedly said "he needed help transferring data from a thumb drive “to his personal computer so that he could ‘sanitize’ the data before using it at [the company.] ... [and] that he expected to receive a presidential pardon ... ." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Buried bodies near a NM ranch? New evidence that Epstein may have been murdered? The bolstering of Trump's teen-sex accuser? The Epstein Files have gone wild, and there's one thing we can say for sure
Federal authorities are tied to a massive coverup
My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.
It’s not like mining will change the amount of traffic through Hormuz, which will go from zero to zero, but it immediately makes the fallout global and irreversible, by ensuring that traffic remains zero for the foreseeable future. Which is why it’s odd it’s getting only moderate press attention
I heard the audio. He said it.
Lord. What have y'all done.
‘Hey’ came before ‘hi,’ and ‘hi' came before ‘hello.’
‘Hi’ is most likely a variant of ‘hey.’
‘Hello’ is not related to either.
Goodbye.
‘This guy is going to destroy civilization as we know it, and the earth, and all because of these people who don't have any idea why they're alive.’
- Michael Shannon in 2016 predicting the hell we’re in now
www.rogerebert.com/interviews/y...
Historian of French Revolution here to say that in periods like this, squeamish compromisers do as much to drive radicalization as do ideologues. If you keep making excuses for the unfit king, eventually folks come for you and him.
Hypothesis: on US government servers there's thousands of Anthropic wargaming outputs and a bunch of them (based on scraped analyses from experts) basically say all this would happen, and the Trump admin can't figure out how to just delete them all, hence rushing to rip the whole system out.
To destroy each government agency, Musk would install his people (covert DOGE) in top agency roles, then send in a non-covert DOGE team to "consult"
Together they would announce "DOGE and the agency have agreed to massive cuts"
But that's no agreement, it's just DOGE on both sides of the deal
In his "autobiography" (more a loosely edited diary), John Adams on Sep 9, 1776 noted without comment—in one sentence—that Congress had officially adopted the name "United States."
He then spent over 500 words recounting an argument w/ Ben Franklin about whether to close bedroom windows at night.
Good question here. I wish the strategic ambiguity of DOGE had been more widely reported, because that was the source of its power.
Now that DOGE bros are showing up in court, we'll see that intentional ambiguity stripped away and we'll find out who gets left holding the bag.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
🚨 That "Progressive Values" PAC, up the thread? The one backing Robin Kelly and Raja in the Illinois Senate race?
It's funded by a crypto guy who's all-in with Trump; Trump's SEC dropped a lawsuit, & he then bought heavy into Trump's memecoin
democrats.org/news/corrupt...
bsky.app/profile/fran...
Thread. There are a lot of Super PACs with non-descript, even pleasant sounding names, that are throwing millions into Democratic primary elections in order to boost the crappiest Dem candidates (like the one, below)
As with Prince Andrew, an elite club taking aggressive action against an Epstein associate *now* suggests that additional damning information will soon come to light. Somebody at FBI tipped off somebody at Harvard and AEA. We’ve just seen the tip of the iceberg.
He’ll do it but only for a blue check.
Next time this culture of casual massacre Republicans have created and forced us all to live in ricochets back to hurt one of their own every media outlet will start wringing their hands about political violence as if this guy hasn’t been out here saying loathsome shit like this all along.
