Billionaire owner of Washington Post seizes control of opinion page. Will focus nearly exclusively to promote rightwing libertarianism. "Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others."

Democracy Docket will expand its pro-democracy opinion section. www.democracydocket.com

Dark Pence is back.

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/...

Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

A team from SpaceX is being brought in to overhaul FAA’s air traffic control system Staff shortages are about to get even worse.

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety.

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If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Chicago 1969: When Black Panthers aligned with Confederate-flag-wielding, working-class whites In this article from 2017, a look at the coordination of strategy between white and Black activists to fight systemic class oppression.

The Black Panthers also experimented with organizing across difference and it’s interesting to consider what might have been if the FBI’s cointelpro op hadn’t intervened in 1970s organizing. theconversation.com/chicago-1969...

Log in Sign up Bernie Sanders @SenSand... • In the Cayman Islands, there is a modest five-story building that is home to 18,857 companies. ... Either this is one very crowded building, or it is a phony address, used by 18,000-plus corporations for one purpose: to avoid paying taxes to the United States of America. 2.9K 17 22.2K • 100.3K

Elon Musk is calling for the CFPB's remaining account balance of $711,586,678 to be returned to the American taxpayers.

That you give everyone $2-$3.

But returning Elon Musk’s money to taxpayers would give everyone about $1,300 each.

Tesla Reported Zero Federal Income Tax on $2 Billion of U.S. Income in 2024 Tesla reported $2.3 billion of U.S. income in 2024 but paid zero federal income tax. Over the past three years, the Elon Musk-led company reports $10.8 billion of U.S. income on which its current fede...

OUTRAGEOUS: Tesla reported $2.3 billion in U.S. income for 2024 and paid ZERO federal income tax. Over the past three years, Elon Musk's company has paid just $48 million on $10.8 billion in profits—a tax rate of 0.4%.

This is a slap in the face to all of us. seiu.co/4jQjm7Y

Judge Orders White House to Unblock Funding for NIH, Others Read more.

NEW: A Rhode Island federal judge rules that the White House violated a previous court order blocking a funding freeze. He orders the Trump administration to restore federal program payments, warning that further non-compliance could be a crime.

We need to call out the blatant lie being pushed by the Trump administration—that Elon’s staffers have only “read-only” access. It has been confirmed across departments that they have “administrative” access to computer systems.

Mexico’s president played Trump like a fiddle 🤣….they already had 10K troops on the border

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

Eagle eyed viewers noted that the great seal behind the president, who spove remotely at the world ecominic forum, had been modified slightly.

The eagles head had been turned to face the arrows instead of the olive branch.

www.cnbc.com/2025/01/23/t...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_S...

Teaching racoons to play jazz.

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Ok, well, second. First it's a class war of the Billionaires vs everyone else, but THEN it's a war of the dipshits.

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” - Isaac Asimov

Trump administration fires members of cybersecurity review board in 'horribly shortsighted' decision | TechCrunch The Department of Homeland security told members of the Cyber Safety Review Board that their membership was terminated.

King of the Dipshits
As much as anything, it's a war of the dipshits.
Willfully ignorant people who choose anti-knowledge.

If you're interested in Open Source/publicly available AI models that youn can run on hardware *you* control (not online), hit me up.

They've shown that they can significantly reduce the requirements while still retaining 'very' high scores on benchmarks.
They also support 'reasoning' models, a multi-step iterative approach to answering queries, which results in big improvement over earlier 'one-shot' models.

deepseek-r1 DeepSeek's first generation reasoning models with comparable performance to OpenAI-o1.

Oh wow, ok. Deepseek R1 is *tight*.
It's a open source 'AI' model, part of their current focus is taking exiting large models (that require supercomputers) and distilling them to run on consumer hardware.

ollama.com/library/deep...

Trump Just Made Bribing Politicians Legal Again Donald Trump issued an executive order regarding receiving gifts from lobbyists.

#Trump #Musk #MAGA #ItsACult #Hitler #Dominionism #TheFourthReich #Project2025 #TechBros #Nationalism #AmericaFirstPolicyInstitute #Plutocracy #Kakistocracy #Godfather #Corruption #Populism

Trump just made bribing politicians legal again.

⏬ Bluesky article thread (3 min) with extra links 📖

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can'...
It Can't Happen Here is a 1935 dystopian political novel by the American author Sinclair Lewis. Set in a fictionalized version of the 1930s United States, it follows an American politician who quickly rises to power to become the country's first outright dictator.

Tony Shalhoub: 'It Happened Here 2024' is a cautionary tale Actors Tony Shalhoub and John Turturro join Morning Joe to discuss the new podcast 'It Happened Here 2024'.

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom.

Annie's Boobs stole Annie's pen.
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Fascists want you to snitch on fellow Americans for...not being a fascist?
I knew this was coming.