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SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.
26.03.2025 20:45 — 👍 24928 🔁 8701 💬 1036 📌 1189
me reading national security secrets bc i've been accidentally added to a group chat
24.03.2025 19:26 — 👍 32415 🔁 4159 💬 323 📌 160Well caring deeply about politics turned out to be a mistake. Time to instead become emotionally invested in a field where I’ll never be let down: sports
11.03.2025 13:01 — 👍 8454 🔁 687 💬 280 📌 74Russia’s leaders have said nothing about peace. They have made a list of demands on the US, the fulfillment of which allows them to broaden the war against Ukraine. And the US simply fulfills all of these Russian demands without question. That is only a peace process in the Orwellian sense.
06.03.2025 15:24 — 👍 3695 🔁 1226 💬 98 📌 39
Some DOGE staffers are getting paid six-figure salaries from the very agencies they're slashing and burning
killer scoop from @knibbs.bsky.social !!!!
www.wired.com/story/doge-g...
Image of text in a book that reads: For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes. But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. "Blessed are the merciful" in a courtroom? "Blessed are the peacemakers" in the Pentagon? Give me a break.
Kurt Vonnegut writing about the hypocrisy of so-called Christians.
#Vonnegut #Writing
The TL is bleak but Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, donated her Tesla to @npr
01.03.2025 15:43 — 👍 36097 🔁 5627 💬 426 📌 316
Musk called DOGE “maximally transparent,” but it has refused to release info about its spending and operations — including the names of its employees.
ProPublica has identified 46 of them, including 12 new names we've just added.
I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.
www.pbs.org/wnet/america...
Just learned from NPR that the federal government is the largest employer in the great Kansas City area, for example. I found it helpful to be reminded that, of course, this isn’t just about people who work and live in DC. Federal employees are in all of our communities.
08.02.2025 17:41 — 👍 10481 🔁 2162 💬 257 📌 134
the dog house on fire with an i voted sticker saying “they can’t do this it’s illegal”
02.02.2025 19:38 — 👍 13661 🔁 2865 💬 84 📌 187Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.
20.01.2025 20:00 — 👍 57348 🔁 10460 💬 512 📌 195It’s ok to feel sick over the state of things.
08.01.2025 15:06 — 👍 42784 🔁 4037 💬 1047 📌 211The guidebook writer Rick Steves believes in the transformative power of travel. “I want to go home a little bit different, a little less afraid, a little more thankful, a little better citizen of the planet.” Read or listen to more on The Interview. nyti.ms/3ZApmZi
15.12.2024 01:48 — 👍 1343 🔁 148 💬 28 📌 45
What can Americans learn from Yoon Suk Yeol's less-than-a-day dictatorship?
snyder.substack.com/p/dictators-...
ProPublica consistently produces news apps that help the public understand the natural/built environment and attendant hazards, stepping up to provide an essential service one might think the gov't might provide. grim but grateful!
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A love of books and storytelling is being lost in part because of educational policy, Katherine Marsh wrote last year: theatln.tc/WeNrQP2x
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David Lynch describes going to to Bob’s Big Boy to drink vast sums of coffee and chocolate milkshakes
Picked up this little book of writers’ writing rituals, & I think most of em are liars — “up at dawn, 6 hours at my desk, followed by calisthenics, liquor, & reading edifying works.” But David Lynch delivers the goods.
24.11.2024 18:57 — 👍 15738 🔁 1854 💬 327 📌 177
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading Orlando by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, holding The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading A Room Of Ones Own by Virginia Wolfe.
Prairie Dawn, a tiny hot pink Muppet with blonde hair and a blue dress, reading The Bell Jar.
Did you know The Bell Jar, The Handmaid's Tale, The Feminine Mystique, and more all appeared on Sesame Street in the 90s?
The @muppetwiki.bsky.social team finally created a page for my favorite little-known running gag: Prairie Dawn's Feminist Literature collection muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Prairie...
first skeet! braved midtown in the rain to pick up Timothy Snyder’s new book (a little late to the party but catching up!)
22.11.2024 01:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Matt Gaetz is pictured from the side wearing a dark suit and red tie. Headline reads: "Federal Inquiry Traced Matt Gaetz’s Venmo Payments to Women." Photo credit: Kenny Holston/The New York Times.
Breaking News: Federal investigators established a trail of payments from Matt Gaetz to women, including some who testified he hired them for sex, according to a document obtained by The New York Times and a lawyer representing some of the women. nyti.ms/3YXR0ij
20.11.2024 23:47 — 👍 2316 🔁 598 💬 128 📌 97
Governments and powerful figures threatening journalists and media outlets with costly legal battles and bankruptcy is a common tactic against press freedom in repressive countries.
The press freedom fire is at our door step now.
www.cjr.org/the_trump_re...
