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Everyone is focusing on “Catch this, fascist”, and Ciao Bella being an anti-fascist song and reading that as literal. But these are both used in the video game Helldivers2 - which is a parody of authoritarianism. “Catch this, fascist” is satirical anti-fascism. 1/

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so far going anti-woke leads to less money and planes falling out of the sky

Agree but torn cuz comparisons to 9-year-olds are disrespectful of 9-year-olds.

DOGE's Latest Target is Seen as a Gift to the CCP - The Wire China The National Endowment for Democracy has long been a thorn in the CCP's side. On Tuesday, its funding was frozen.

A document NED shared with fund recipients today says it has “no clarity on how long this might last.”

“While not technically suspended…the NED has exhausted funds for grantmaking on hand, and we do not know when we will have access to additional funds.”
www.thewirechina.com/2025/02/12/d...

Jewish people say NO to ethnic cleansing

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

For more—and to sign— go to

saynotoethniccleansing.org

DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big Twitter Ad The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.

Dozens of CFPB Workers Fired in After-Hours Blitz Some affected employees of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau were notified with an email that addressed them as [EmployeeFirstName][EmployeeLastName], [Job Title], [Division].

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people.

wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

Again, this idea has been floating out there for ages, and many other governments around the globe use the concept of shadow cabinets. Why haven't the Dems actually done this?

A seagull drinks from a container marked “DOGS ONLY, NO SEAGULLS.”

every day we see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos

Sources tell me there’s a frantic meeting happening at NCMEC right now to discuss the fact that this news was outed and how to move forward.

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

Court: we take very seriously these grave findings by Congress and two successive presidents

Congress and two successive presidents: honk honk toot toot weeeee oh no!

“As SM continues to grapple with content mod. challenges, it’d be nice if leaders like Zuckerberg were actually transparent about the real pressures they face, rather than fueling misleading narratives,” Mike writes. Right, and nice if they were actually leaders, not followers or cavers.

Yup. I was there too. Then this happened: www.netfamilynews.org/where-did-my...

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Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

Is this a “boys will be boys,” oligarchs-will-be-oligarchs thing?

Xiaohongshu Scrambles to Hire Content Moderators Who Can Speak English Job listings posted in China this week indicate that Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, is struggling to handle an influx of new users joining the platform from TikTok.

Scoop: we identified 3 outsourcing companies that are urgently hiring English-speaking content moderators to work for Xiaohongshu / REDNote, a sign that the platform is scrambling to grow its censorship capacity as thousands of TikTok refugees come in. www.wired.com/story/xiaoho...

I wonder if the Ukrainians are coaching the Panamanians

Nah. Couldn’t begin to compare.

Stands to reason. (Glad yer safe)

Love it when bookshops or libraries arrange their books appropriately...

Yeah when I was in elementary school, I’d come home and have a tough choice of whether to watch The 3 Stooges or The Micky Mouse Club. The 3 Stooges usually won.

Also I've come to the conclusion that literally everyone I ever followed (or enjoyed seeing) on the former Twitter has migrated off the service; I'd say about 75% are primarily posting here and 25% are primarily on threads (and most are on both in some way). The replacement is entirely complete.

Rolling Stone gets it. #DepartmentOfGreedAndExcess
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Me: it’s finally vacation and we can all sleep in.
My brain: hello! I have some notes about mistakes you’ve been making. Let’s begin in the second grade.

Yes, cuz, his favorite thing is to dismiss and toy with other human beings

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