Mauricio Linhares

"Fascism says what you and I experience as facts or what reporters experience as facts are irrelevant. All that matters are impressions and emotions and myths."
–Timothy Snyder

Democratic front-runners for 2026 nomination are racing to be the first to claim “Bitches, am I right, lol” as a campaign slogan while WaPo and NYT nod approvingly.

But that’s what evangelicals believe.

It was precisely Watergate that set off a multi-decade effort on the right to protect Republicans from ever again facing real accountability. The experience of facing consequences for their actions was deeply traumatic for them.

She was aiming for a grifter job on the right wing and it didn’t pan out so now she has to find something else to do.

A lot of life success is learning how to say “That’s an interesting idea” when you’re really thinking “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”

Net neutrality advocates won’t appeal loss, say they don’t trust Supreme Court Advocates say Supreme Court shows “hostility toward sound legal reasoning.”…

Some groups have started giving up on taking cases to the Supreme Court because it now shows "hostility toward sound legal reasoning."

This is the conclusion of net neutrality advocates after telecom groups successfully won a case challenging net neutrality rules that were reinstated under Biden.

Time black and yellow 🤣

O Brasil representa 40% da receita total da Netflix em TODA A AMÉRICA LATINA, mas querem que você acredite que 6% de Condecine fará a empresa abandonar um mercado de quase 2 bilhões de dólares.

Não dá pra viver sem 🤣

appropriate that the calvinists are now moving toward a vision of god as tyrannical leader of a cult of personality

Multiple times this year I’ve had coffee with fellow immigrants who grew up in corrupt third world countries and the shared sentiment has been that Americans don’t understand how bad things are going to get.

The British pediatrician D. W. Winnicott once wrote, “There’s no such thing as a baby. There is a baby and someone.”

Thread 🧵

Eu quero morrer 🤡🤡🤡

“Ain mas eu acho importante ser advogado do diabo nas discursões” não bicho, você só é chato mesmo.

Hora de postar no LinkedIn como isso demonstra sua capacidade de liderança e lidar com acontecimentos inesperados.

Eu não consigo entender como a pessoa consegue criar um relacionamento assim com uma coisa que ela sabe que não existe. Não entra na minha cabeça como acontece uma coisa dessas.

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

www.tiktok.com/@jessewelles...

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. Brian Merchant’s new book, “Blood in the Machine,” argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

Today, the word “Luddite” is used as an insult to anyone resistant to technological innovation. But a recent book argues that Luddism stood not against technology per se but for the rights of workers in the face of automation.

We are a tweet away from Cuomo switching to the Republican Party and saying Mamdani made him do it 🤣

I still don’t get why it’s OK to be a CEO or board member of multiple companies but everyone freaks out if a regular tech worker does the same.

is this number too low? yes

is it barely lower than the number of people who know that the earth goes around the sun every year? also yes

a lot of people just don't know shit, is the thing

Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.

Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.

Why I left The Washington Post “Democracy Dies in Darkness” — but what if the lights are going out from within?

Holy crap. “That quest earned me a one-hour meeting in April 2024 with Will Lewis, the then-new publisher of The Post. During our discussion, he asked me: ‘What should The Post do to appeal more to Fox News viewers?’ glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

When people ask what it’s like working at a big tech company, I point to my shirt.

“Medium income” 🤡

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O cara que é simpático e não tem cara de acidente em rodovia tá pegando. Quem não tá pegando é porque tem uns red flags que você percebe só de bater a vista.