I think it’s one of the paradoxes of tech because for so long it’s been an industry where you could get a middle class life kind of easily, but the salaries and perks are something that capital and management kind of loathe. They’ve always wanted to break the relative power ordinary devs have.

also theres a classic class conflict between tech capital and tech labor where bosses are trying the reassert dominance over workplaces and discipline workers

im sure youre familiar with ganz's marxist takes so heres frank miroslav's anarchist take:
wedontagree.net/technically-...

big tech's combination of centralized platforms, gameable recommendation algorithms, and monetized attention-grabbing helped create the conditions and incentives for the rightwing echo-chamber-gonzo-grifter industrial complex

Hard to separate this iteration of fascism/authoritarianism from Big Tech. Big Tech has funded it; Big Tech's guiding ethos "move fast and break things" and "overconfidence in technocracy" informs how it governs; Big Tech's constant rent-seeking took over the federal government.

Business card with the text: Know your rights! Interacting with Isaac Chotiner? - "Am I being profiled?" - "I exercise my right to be silent" - Refuse to sign any statements. - Do not offer express invitation to investigate further.

Every American should have this in their wallet:

Mark Kelly knows exactly what political violence looks like. The fact that the Pentagon is investigating him for urging troops to refuse illegal orders, even as Trump calls for political enemies to be punished, shows how dangerous this administration has become.

It's the same with their attack on the academic study of Palestine. They want to ensure people don't have the analytical tools to understand what they're seeing:

bsky.app/profile/dana...

I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)

"Sir, we just need you to go out and pardon the turkeys and not be a dick."

"Got it."

"So...no being a dick, right? Just a nice, unifying pardoning."

"You bet."

**pardons turkeys while being a total dick**

"Sir, we said don't be a..."

"NAILED IT!"

Most scholars look to the Constitution to explain the relationship between the president and the federal workforce. But the Constitution is largely silent. This Article instead analyzes the statutory authority Congress has delegated to the president to shape personnel policy. 2/12

Photograph of a printed guidance memo stating that the U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. Key points include: USG funds should not be used for related events, personnel should refrain from public promotion via social media or other channels, and CDC and other USG staff may attend local events but cannot speak or promote attendance. The memo notes this guidance supersedes previous blanket approval and may require adjustments to planned activities.

1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.

What’s going on with Trump’s gold ‘Oval Office’ sign? We asked design experts to read the writing on the White House wall and tell us what they see.

It might look like he's creating the 3rd most garish steak house in the DC metro area but the signage suggests he just can't remember where his desk is

www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Look, we all agree this is amazing. But we used to live comfortable in the understanding that you had to invite Chotiner in, like a vampire.

Now we know that Chotiner might strike at any time, like a velociraptor.

The Gaza protests not only “provoked intense political conflict.” Liberal and Dem leaders are still calling them antisemites for caring about liberal principles like human rights and international law…and they expect these same kids to come defend liberal democracy!

Successful democracy movements in the modern era basically require student movements to be successful. Liberal institutions like universities and newspapers, as well as the Dem Party itself, have to learn from this

Consider the experiences of the last few years. The racial justice movement that peaked in 2020 ended in disappointment and backlash. The Gaza protests provoked intense conflict without delivering clear political or policy victories for their organizers. Maybe most important, Mr. Trump himself is back in the White House, suggesting a futility to opposition and activism among young people who have only ever known him as the central figure in our politics. He first took the oath of office when today's first-year college students were in elementary school. The electoral choices offered to young people are not much better. Given the realities of our dysfunctional two-party system, the only alternative to a Trump-dominated G.O.P. is the Democratic Party, which is dominated by a decadent gerontocracy whose elites were more likely to attend a wedding in the Hamptons than a No Kings protest on the same day.

@brendannyhan.bsky.social is right: young people are reluctant to come to the defense of institutions that have excluded them, ignored them, and crushed their movements

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/o...

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.

this is just anecdotal but among my social circle like 90% of regularly scheduled in-person hangouts simply imploded over COVID and never returned. it's way, way harder to start these things than end them.

inflation was the most visible symptom, outside of vaccines and lingering use of masks, that anything had happened.

like most unprocessed traumas, it hit right when we as a society were trying to get back to 'normal' only to discover 2019 was gone, which was obviously the incumbent's fault

whether the median voter thought they'd suffered a trauma or not, they had

brain-boiling from lockdown and such is absolutely part of it but I'm mostly referring to the sheer weight of unprocessed grief bsky.app/profile/docs...

it's the COVID psychic damage

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Viola Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre, has died. She was 111.

"I have lived through the massacre every day. Our country may forget this history, but I cannot," she told Congress in 2021.

Geoff Bennett has more.

The way Bluesky works is that everyone is from the country they say they are but all the accounts are operated by versatile actor Jeffrey Combs

Exactly. The formal entity may be dismantled*, but their across-the-government destruction absolutely continues.

*or they may just be lying.

Also, Ehikian was outed as DOGE personnel in articles published before that Townhall, but he was so arrogant and adamant, practically shouted that lie. 😒

DOGE isn’t gone.
Ask any Fed who had a position affected by them.

They’re embedded, in positions where they cannot be fired.

@altssa.altgov.info
@altcdc.altgov.info
@altdoi.altgov.info
@altnih4science.bsky.social
@altfda.altgov.info

And anyone I forgot.
Feel free to chime in for Anna.

Clue is obviously the best game-into-a-movie adaptation