dani

The way NBC has framed this doesn’t quite convey what Johnson is threatening. The idea is not nuking the federal judicial branch en masse, but rather having Congress use its laser eyes to selectively destroy a district court or two for making a ruling the GOP doesn’t like so as to overawe the rest.

the Times informing its readers of benzos is like if High Times did an article called “Introducing the Bong”

USAID employees overseas are no longer able to access their government security app, which gives them this error code (images provided to me by USAID worker)

what kind of stock trades do you think your senator has lined up for tomorrow morning? is that what they're working on tonight instead of figuring out how to get those teenagers out of the servers at the treasury?

sure, whatever, seems totally legit, anyway, wired has their names

Thousands of U.S. Government Web Pages Have Been Taken Down Since Friday Federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.”

More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis found. The purges have removed information about vaccines, veterans’ care, hate crimes, scientific research and more.

“seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…”
Josh/TPM

i didn’t know they could get worse

Internal memo Homeland Security employees received today instructing them to send evidence of hidden DEI programs to “DEIAtruth@opm.gov”

Well this is quite an opener

The final paragraph too is quite strong.

If you Google "inauguration day," you're greeted with an animation of fireworks forming the shape of the American flag. Google has never done something like this for the inauguration, sources told me, out of fear of appearing partisan. But that's changed now, with Sergey and Sundar attending.

if we are all going to be forced to relive 2016, they should at the very least let us see mad max fury road in theaters again

Incredible how thoroughly Democrats got played here. Spent four years following through on a Trump executive order, pissed away any shot at building a real youth coalition for 2024 by alienating literally every teenager in America, lost the election, and now Trump gets to "save" TikTok. Clown shit.

horrible take

i mean obviously. go tell zuck that not us. or do something about it

Shout-out to all those hard-nosed, law-respecting, do-what-it-takes cops and prosecutors who didn't do a thing about it.

This is another example of why I'm radicalized against prostitution laws: they're only ever used to prosecute poor women and the victims of sex trafficking.

bunny cafe lore should be shared everywhere

if you’ve been on the internet for more than a day, this was fairly obvious imo

when Baby Grank was in the zeitgeist I thought we had another baby Yoda/Groot type situation on our hands not some pretend child of an NFL star. was very surprised when I learned different