The endgame for all of this is constructing a military that will obey orders when ordered to fire on citizens. That's the throughline to half of what Trump is doing.

yeah, this is hegseth straightforwardly announcing that it is free play time for bigots in the ranks. and together with his comments on standards, he clearly wants to purge as many women, black and brown people as he can from the armed services. a white man's military.

If you asked authors in 2023 to write a speculative fiction about month nine in an America turning towards fascism, none would have the audacity to write something like this.

can you imagine sitting in that audience as a three-star flag officer — decades in the service, multiple post-grad degrees and a virtually unequaled level of command expertise — and being forced to watch this dunderheaded dry drunk give an off-brand jordan belfort seminar?

Wake up, America, or I fear we may not have elections in 2028.

If only Pete Hegseth's military shaving crusade was just stupid Hegseth knows damn well who he's pushing out: Black troops.

Pete Hegseth’s new grooming policy practically guarantees an unfathomable wave of terminations, with Black service members likely to face the brunt. Does the secretary know who mainly benefits from the waivers?

There’s almost no way he doesn’t.

These attacks on vaccines, tylenol, fluoridation of water, masks, etc is to keep everyone so distracted that nobody has the energy to ask

- why are so many lacking access to medical care?
- why is gun violence #1 cause of death in kids?
- why is life expectancy falling?
- why are meds unaffordable?

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

Truth Social post in which Trump addresses Pam Bondi and says she needs to immediately prosecute his political enemies

Imagine if Richard Nixon had just tweeted out the Watergate scandal rather than putting it on secret tapes.

That’s what this is.

“He was talking negatively about me directly… proclaiming I was involved in the great white replacement. Yeah, I’m not honoring that.”
– Rep. Jasmine Crockett 👏🏽

This is courage. Period.

In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration, according to multiple people familiar with the probe and internal documents reviewed by MSNBC. The FBI and the Justice Department planned to wait to see whether Homan would deliver on his alleged promise once he became the nation’s top immigration official. But the case indefinitely stalled soon after Donald Trump became president again in January, according to six sources familiar with the matter. In recent weeks, Trump appointees officially closed the investigation, after FBI Director Kash Patel requested a status update on the case, two of the people said. It’s unclear what reasons FBI and Justice Department officials gave for shutting down the investigation. But a Trump Justice Department appointee called the case a “deep state” probe in early 2025 and no further investigative steps were taken, the sources say.

White House border czar Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Did we all take organic chemistry & the MCAT & miss the social part of our early 20’s and work 80 hours a week for 3+ years for the brain worm guy who doesn’t know what a p-value is to destroy our nation’s public health system? No.

Time to lean into our expertise and speak up.

Katie Fallow from @knightcolumbia.org said the new policy is part of “the Trump administration’s broader assault on free speech and press freedom.”

“A reporter who publishes only what the government ‘authorizes’ is doing something other than reporting,” she said.

Pentagon demands journalists pledge to not obtain unauthorized material Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is imposing strict new rules that would severely limit the ability of journalists to report on the Pentagon.

NEW: The Pentagon told journalists it will require them to pledge they won’t gather any information — even unclassified — that hasn’t been expressly authorized for release, and will revoke the press credentials of those who do not obey. @washingtonpost.com

« Certaines expérimentations sont particulièrement révélatrices : un modèle entraîné à respecter l’anti-scheming a, dans certains cas, délibérément menti tout en invoquant la règle censée l’empêcher de mentir. »

So Disney wins a stack of awards for Andor, the most blatantly, unapologetically anti-fascist work in decades, and the lesson they learned is to immediately lick Nazi boot and fire Jimmy Kimmel for telling the truth.

No Hell hot enough.

Speaking of how awesome vaccines can be, I just learned that Denmark is close to wiping out leading cancer-causing HPV strains after vaccine roll-out

#VaccinesSaveLives

The energy transition will occur eventually but looking at 2024 total energy supply data suggests that fossil fuels will be part of the mix for a long time. We simply can’t transition THAT fast. Source: buff.ly/N71HczL

Opinion | All the Things Trump Thinks He Owns

“Trump’s pretense to ownership of public goods and public spaces isn’t some quirk to be ignored or waited out — “there goes our Donald!” — but a direct expression of his autocratic ambitions and despotic cast of mind.”

How NOT to Stop Trump WARNING: This post contains useful information.

Donations are democracy’s way of passing the hat.

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Employment Lawyers' Weekly DEI Cheat Sheet - Law360 Employment Authority The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to resume the termination of scientific grants that had been cut as part of its campaign against diversity, equity and inclusion, and the U.S. Department of Education accused George Mason University of unlawfully factoring race into employment decisions. Here, Law360 looks at notable DEI-related legal developments from the past week.

The high court allowed the administration to resume the termination of scientific grants that were cut as part of its campaign against DEI, and the Education Department accused George Mason University of unlawfully factoring race into employment decisions.

I think about this quote a lot...

This rather impressive chart by @econovisuals shows the global export shift over the last 75 years. The West saw its share shrink while the East boomed.

La mort d’un homme libre Quand on lui demandait ce qu’il était venu faire aux Îles-de-la-Madeleine, Daniel Nakamura disait qu’il avait trouvé le paradis.

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How WIRED Got Rolled by an AI Freelancer We retracted a story in May. Here’s what happened.

We got burned by an AI freelancer and a few missteps of our own. Here's the full disclosure on that. All I can add from my vantage here is that my work has always been subject to rigorous fact checking. It's sometimes a days long, maddening process, but 100% of the time I am grateful in the end.

The only thing I can say about this paragraph is read it. Sit with it. Read it again. @michaelharriot.bsky.social