Authoritarians know this and they use it to create a police state.

Pregnant USAID official files affidavit in lawsuit describing disruption of medical care as a result of agency's dismantling. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Marko Elez, an Elon Musk staffer with access to the Treasury Department’s sensitive payments system, has quit after racist and pro-eugenics posts surfaced, including one stating, ‘Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.’

Trump Would Send Incarcerated US Citizens to El Salvador “In a Heartbeat” if It Were Legal, He Says Sending US citizens who are incarcerated to other countries’ prison systems would be illegal, experts say.

“If we had the legal right to do it, I would do it in a heartbeat,” Trump told reporters of the idea of sending incarcerated people — including U.S. citizens — to a “megaprison” in El Salvador. His choice of words appeared to be an admission that the deal wouldn’t be legal.

It's like Kremlin christmas, every day now.

Half of the folks willing to go to the ballot. That’s a small portion of the country, unfortunately.

Well, at least Pete Hegseth is cured of his alcoholism.

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people brawling with police inside the Capitol rotunda

This is what the room where Donald Trump is being inaugurated looked like on January 6, 2021.

I miss the way we were before social media. In a lot of ways but I guess not all… can we just keep the good parts.

Those winds were so intense earlier.

What to Read When the Odds Are Against You Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted.

Literature is full of reminders that long odds can sometimes be surmounted, Vanessa Armstrong writes. Here are seven books to read when you feel like an underdog:

I should have picked a different major .. I graduated in 2005.

I bet they thought this was a flex.. like since they are so beloved by those they take care of, they really really are actually valuable. 🙄