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I’ve seen loads of them around. A depressingly large quantity when better, or at least equivalent options exist. Supercharger network and its low cost relative to eg EA is still, I’d imagine, a draw if you don’t care about Musk as a figure of democratic decline.

Tepid take: I am not going to give $20 a month to some guy with a newsletter to tell me what I want to hear and consider that journalism. When all that stands between a draft and an audience is a publish button, there is no accountability to truth, only to their wallet.

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

Had the same question! Both are so good

Trump's just giving us more reasons not to buy one!

Thanks Trump

Well thanks for nothing Bob Iger, what a waste of money Hulu is.

Wow. Hulu just ended the live stream. Rude. #Oscars

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be *legislators* right now. We need them to be *politicians.*

There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

Just want to say that some of us would rather not live through the collapse of western civilization or the Great American Famine of 2026-2028 thank you very much.

If you crave three lovely Brits talking about nearly nothing, but in a way so surreal, charming and funny listening to it is like giving your brain a warm bath (but without the feeling of drowning), look no further than @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social

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True, but what’s to stop them taking the bait that it’s because of the <insert current othered social/racial group here> that it will inevitably and depressingly be blamed on? There has to be a sort of reason to believe the truth, because it being in itself true no longer seems enough.

Is the problem that this sentence has so many ideas and absurdities in it people struggle to digest it? It’s not as simple as “brown people eating cats” and requires relinquishing already deeply held American ideals like “rich = smart” and “businessman = good at government”

An uninformed opinion: The strange thing is that he only has power because of the constitution. If he undermines the constitution, he undermines his own power.

It’s all just words on a page enforced by institutions, if the institutions crumble, so does the mechanism by which he has power.

Flip it on him. “Elon is using his social media platform to to threaten and attack anyone who acknowledges his crimes and the crimes of his sham government department that threatens to destabilize our country” if he wants to play the victim let’s play the bigger victim.

Rewatching the Theranos documentary - a good reminder that the startup model of making young and inexperienced people do things because the experienced and knowledgeable say it’s a bad idea or can’t be done ends in massive fraud and failure.

Does Social Security Recycle Identification Numbers? ​Since 2011, Social Security has used a randomizing number generator to give new users unique nine-digit identification numbers and never reassigns old ones.

Aren’t there about 900million possible SSNs? They issue about 5 million a year and I don’t think they have even got to 500million yet. So they might not be deduped but they are randomized…

Tesla Paid Zero Federal Income Tax in 2024, Despite $2.3 Billion in Income This brings Tesla’s average tax rate over the past three years to 0.4 percent.

Tesla earned $2.3 billion in the United States in 2024.

You'd think it paid a lot in taxes, right?

Well it paid precisely $0 in federal income taxes last year.

You want waste and fraud? Look at what some big corporations and the rich are getting away with.

Vittoria Elliott Leah Feiger Feb 7, 2025 2:47 PM A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’ An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

NEW: An internal email obtained by WIRED from a threat intelligence team monitoring US Treasury systems advised labeling DOGE operatives an "insider threat," adding that it recommended suspending their access "immediately."
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Just spitballing, but things that could happen today:
*Court injunction protecting USAID
*Dems demand hearings on Musk's role
*Someone introduce articles of impeachment
*Dem officeholders go to USAID offices with USAID workers
*Refuse to conduct any more Senate confirmations until this is resolved

1/ OK, Democratic members of Congress in the US Senate. It’s time for some tough love.

I am aware your pollsters and consultants tell you things like “the American people want us to work together” and “ focus on prescription drug prices in the economy.”

Compared with any other major country, the United States has been extremely fortunate in its two immediate neighbors, Canada and Mexico.

Now, incredibly, it is declaring economic war on both of them. This is a war no one can win, and from which tens of millions will lose.

This is insanity.

It’s a vile and devastating wound that took moments to create and will take decades to repair if we even have the opportunity to.

Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System

Appreciate that @wyden.senate.gov is asking important questions about access to the payments system. Journalists, please raise these up. I hope more actions will be taken ASAP.
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List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index

Can we community fund some servers to stand all this data up again? Is anyone doing that already? IA is great but maybe we should have all this data published on a site clearly indicating what Trump/Musk have removed and making this public data public again.

A reminder that the US government and its executive only exist because of the US Constitution. To paraphrase Thomas Paine, the Constitution is not an act of government, but an act of the People. Trump is accountable to us, We hold the power.

Literally the least they can do. And it would at least be something.