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The Economist now Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

The Economist @TheEconomist Vladimir Lenin died #OnThisDay 1924. He dismissed our newspaper as "a journal which speaks for British millionaires" econ.st/2mMWyu2 "One cannot live in society and be free from society."

Why is there all this mobile phone and bodycam footage of policemen murdering citizens all of a sudden? It can’t be that video is now ubiquitous and the cops were always violent and racist as a matter of course, it must be that malignant troublemakers are trying to start a race revolution.

This one really is useful because you won’t see a more clear demonstration of one of the most damaging political phenomena of the era: the reactionary professional mind rejecting unacceptable reality, only able to process and comprehend it via something close to conspiracy theory.

Look at the Trumpers, particularly the Nazis amongst them. They correctly understand they are besieged by fancy-gendered commie traitors who think racism is bad and common decency is good. They are very well aware they’ve got this window to destroy as much as they can, and then they are finished.

Have I really worked my whole life just so a bunch of insolent, upstart kids can tell everyone me and my mates were racist war criminals and bastards to be reviled? And I’m afraid the answer is: Yes, lads. You can burn the grass but you can never hold back spring.

DOGE investigations and prosecutions are already overdue

we told you with extreme specificity what would happen if you did brexit and you did not believe us and did it anyway and then it all came true and now youre going to elect nigel farage?? same guy who made the whole country poor once already? sorry but youre just a good punchline rn

Anyone calling for a return to normalcy without consequence needs to have their career ended immediately so we can get people in office willing to do what is needed, which is to build a new and better normal, having disarmed and defunded the corporatist fascist occupation of our government.

Nobody should be running for public office without calls for swift and aggressive investigation, prosecution, trial, conviction, and appropriate sentencing for DOGE, ICE, the Trump administration, the Republican Congress, state level Republican, and their staffs, partners, funders, and associates.

This is the funniest planned economy ever

Can't wait for RFK Jr. to get criminally charged for mass manslaughter, then.

these people basically just take luxury government jets and go to fancy events like make a wish kids while their minions flashbang your elderly neighbors

i said this back in the height of doge's power but the real issue with these people is their own jobs are meaningless and bullshit. elon tweets all day. these people just have makework email jobs so they just assume that everyone else also does no work. no idea what it's like e.g., to carry mail

this goes without saying but these hamfisted HR tactics musk uses everywhere -- email blast saying it's time to sleep in the office or take a buyout; print out all of your code and explain it to me; send me a list of what you do around here -- are so lazy and braindead. the dumbest most useless guy

it's funny to me when a dog is really sleepy. oh are you all burnt out from lying around all day? did you think too much with your primitive and underdeveloped brain? yeah I can see why you can barely keep your eyes open

X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.

at the end of the day I just feel like, if I was *going* to have learned what felching was from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, that the context around that lesson should have been entirely different

A quieter, more dispersed version of DOGE began to emerge, its members plugging away at fairly specific policy areas with whatever authority and resources they had left. Forty-five DOGE employees remain as of October, a White House shutdown plan revealed, plus dozens more who have transitioned to working for an agency full-time. Atop the GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, Gruenbaum is striking deals with tech companies for the widespread implementation of AI throughout the federal government. Gruenbaum, who declined to comment on his role, also contributed to the so-called “Compact for Academic Excellence in Education” that most universities have resisted signing and is now in Israel implementing the administration’s Gaza peace plan.

DOGE is down to about 45 employees, but others have burrowed their way into government agencies as full time employees. Some are helping Vought's efforts to downsize the government. Others are implementing private AI across government.

(Whispers: It is!)

I use Claude (an AI) to scan my posts for spelling and grammar errors. On the most recent post (about the East Wing, link below), I got a really amazing addendum.
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Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
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tough competition, but Patel might be the most pathetic guy in the admin. hes got sad, scared eyes. lonely eyes. the face of a guy who thinks getting picked on means ppl like him. i bet he swims with his shirt on.

a trans girl in college committed suicide days ago amid discrimination against her easily tied to this administration’s policies. npr and other media should cover that too

Family will seek 'voluntary departure' for Everett boy detained by ICE The family of the 13-year-old Everett boy detained by ICE earlier this month is pursuing the legal option to return him to their home country of Brazil.

A sad update to the story of the 13-year-old Massachusetts boy who was abducted by ICE: He is choosing to self-deport to Brazil because even if he were to win his asylum case, his lawyer says it's possible he could still remain incarcerated.

It's kind of wild that almost every grocery store chain is run by insane reactionaries, and that they're all taking a serious cut because of this.

Notable that the people carrying Trumpism don't act like they believe they're carrying out the will of the public, they act like dictators terrified of a spontaneous uprising so swift and massive it overwhelms their protective services before assistance can arrive.

/Watching a gleaming, high-contrast, seven-fingered Orson Welles absolutely nail every line of the Paul Masson champagne commercial as written while people phase in and out of each others' bodies behind him "Thanks, I love it."

Abolish the Police

One thing that made me a lot more comfortable around people not speaking English is not being a little dumb baby who thinks the whole world revolves around catering to their insecurities.

Kristi Noem shot a dog to death