Nicole

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

I just accidentally sent My plans for the Apocalypse to an editor at The Atlantic.

The crisis is less “is Elon Musk the president” — whatever — than the reality that the United States functionally has no one in the role.

Trump heads a syndicate of plunderers inside the institutional remnants of the U.S. government — but has in no sense carried out the duties of his office.

Trump on “Truth Social”: “All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

Trump tonight: “I brought back free speech in America. It’s back.”

Trump this morning:

ALL of the Republicans are standing up and cheering for DOGE, Elon Musk, and Trump’s “policies.”

Remember that when you’re unemployed and can’t afford your basic necessities because of Trump’s tariffs.

DOGE "...which is headed by Elon Musk," the president declared to Congress while DOJ swears to judges that's not true.

Omg. In a shocking moment, Nancy Bolan, a fired USAID worker and tonight’s guest of Rep. Ritchie Torres — reveals that Donald Trump has pulled the U.S. from the global polio eradication initiative — which threatens its spread to the U.S. Every single American should see this.

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'A riot is the language of the unheard,' Martin Luther King Jr. explained 53 years ago The latest Speed Read,/speed-reads,,speed-reads, breaking news, comment, reviews and features from the experts at The Week

Y'all love to fetishize the peaceful Dr. King and insist that protests conform to his morality. But in 1967 Dr. King let y'all know how he felt about property damage. He understood that it was sometimes called for!

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Black and white college students went to MISSISSIPPI in 1964 to register people to vote. They got shot at, bombed, beaten and killed. These pampered fucks need to take accountability and act.

this @schatz.bsky.social quote in TIME >>>

I don’t believe those who went into this past election taking pride in the unemployment numbers understood that the near-record low unemployment figures — the figure was a mere 4.2 percent in November — counted homeless people doing occasional work as “employed.” But the implications are powerful. If you filter the statistic to include as unemployed people who can’t find anything but part-time work or who make a poverty wage (roughly $25,000), the percentage is actually 23.7 percent. In other words, nearly one of every four workers is functionally unemployed in America today — hardly something to celebrate.

Liberals need to understand if you're making $25,000 a year or less and your rent is $1700 a month that's $20,000 going towards having a roof your head. Leaving $104 per week to spend on everything else else you need like food.

Making 1/4 functionally poor
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Google maps screenshot of the Drake passage between South America and Antarctica

If we’re renaming bodies of water based on petty grievances, I propose that this be renamed the Kendrick Lamar passage.

A screen shot of a map showing the name of Gulf of Mexico as gulf of America with a report an issue screen

What if millions of people report an issue to Apple that they got the name of the Gulf of Mexico wrong…

Whether it's Hillary Clinton sharing risotto tips on a private email server or Elon Musk giving full access to all government information to a nineteen-year old named Big Balls with ties to a child pornography collective known for its extortion techniques, both sides have played loose with security.

Peter Goldsmith • 1st Professor, University of Illinois at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 3h • G Today is a dark day when once there were so many winners. SIL, the Soybean Innovation Lab, will shutter its doors as of 4/15/25 as all USAID funding has ceased. Today I had to let go of a staff of 30. These individuals are not only unique experts in the field of tropical soybean, but also close colleagues and friends who are now unexpectedly out of work. The land grant system now loses 19 crown jewel Innovation Labs, across 17 states, that delivered high and measurable impact on very little investment. U.S. soybean farmers lose one of their best tools to expand their markets and U.S. standards globally. Local economies in emerging markets lose soybean as an incomparable engine growing wealth, prosperity, and economic development. International security is a loser, as local populations now fall back into poverty, unrest, and migration, due to greater food insecurity. U.S. influence loses as Innovation Labs operate on the ground in direct collaboration with hundreds of local businesses, organizations, and governments building strong and lasting friendships. Today we all lose. It is a shame. Innovation Labs like SIL are an investment for good on so many levels. You and 53 others 17 comments

The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

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“Why do I need NOAA? I’ve got a weather app.”

Is equivalent to asking

“Why do I need farms? I can go to the supermarket.”

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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.

The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.

It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

Sure feels like we’re heading this way…

it really is appropriate to view this as potentially the biggest privacy and cybersecurity scandal in American history

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

Somehow we got to the point where millions of American Republicans love Vladimir Putin and hate Canada.

Straight-up Orwellian.

This is grossly irresponsible reporting by the AP. What’s being offered is not a buyout. The deal is if you agree to resign in September you can continue working remotely until then. There is no buyout or severance.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Sometimes you can find them at Costco, we’ve also found them in smaller jars at our local grocery (Cub), but we’ve also had to order them online! “Had to” - clearly a food staple 😂

I could live on these.