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www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

Then you can tell people you’ve been to hell and back! 🤭

And, so, it begins.

I’ve been there! Took a slight detour going from Lansing to Ann Arbor once, to see who lived there. 🤭

Oh HELL no! 🥶

We'll find our heroes in unexpected places over the next four years. We need to recognize their bravery when we find them.
www.npr.org/2025/01/21/n...

Text of 14th Amendment to constitution, granting citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States.

On ending "birthright citizenship" via executive order:

I am sure the "originalists" on Supreme Court
will throw this out 9-0 the same day it arrives on their desk.

/s

Why do we keep accepting people like this????!!!

The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.

i think opponents of trump also have to resist the temptation of intellectualizing his outbursts or attributing them to some recognizable goal. the fact is that trump is obsessed with greenland because it is big on a map. he wants canada because it is also big on a map. that's it.

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman accused of sexual abuse by sister in lawsuit Tech entrepreneur and family say Ann Altman’s claims that abuse started in childhood are ‘utterly untrue’

"The lawsuit filed on 6 January in a US district court in the Eastern District of Missouri alleges that the abuse began when Ann Altman was three and Sam Altman was 12" and continued into his adulthood.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

MAGA now means “You know, the way it used to be, buying countries, invading them and just doing anything we want.” Because.

His base loves it. And he’s licking his chops.

Mark Zuckerberg: I built this platform to give the people a voice
Me: okay but actually you built it to rate how hot the woman at your school were

WTF with FB, which has outsourced content moderators all over the world, pretending they're all in California but going to Texas? I mean Republicans in power are stupid enough to believe this but why is anyone else?

Donald Trump's inaugural fund is getting almost $150 million. Here are some of its donors Tech giants and Wall Street leaders are writing million-dollar checks despite past conflicts with the president-elect

Donors to Trump's inaugural fund:

- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: $1M
- Amazon: $1M
- Meta: $1M
- Uber & its CEO Dara Khosrowshahi: $1M each
- Apple CEO Tim Cook: $1M

This is chump change to the tech oligarchs, but it sends a clear message that they will do Trump's bidding.

Trump's co-president is unhinged.

A true populist, a real man of the people, siding with financial behomeths over consumers. This is how oligarchy works.

The NYT.. how steep in decline?

Literally..

This guy is a poster boy for mental instability.

What IS it with these people? They have so many weird triggers about sex and gender, yet look at The Orange One’s history and, now, his nominees’ histories of sex abuse, misogyny, paid sex.. ah, these fine christian values….
They’re afraid of a trans woman. Someone needs to appoint a therapist.

Trump is a real working-class hero, right?

Full list of Democrats who voted for bill that gives Trump admin more power Dozens of Democrats voted in favor of a bill that would give the Treasury secretary power to designate nonprofits "terrorist supporting organizations."

HR 9495 provides no due process or oversight, creating a tool for political retaliation under the guise of "fighting terrorism."

Trump would abuse this power to retaliate against any org that challenges his agenda.

The 52 Dems who initially supported it must reverse course.

After the Election: Swimming in the Sea of Disinformation. “It really is nothing new, but you are watching it happen in your own time and not in a book.” Writers and thinkers on where the denial of reality can lead.

Re-upping from late last night:

What I Did in the Week After the Election — Or, what I learned in Dayton Ohio about the new era of disinformation. Featuring writers from Paul Lynch to Jimmy Carter.

By me; no paywall; Xitter --> Bsky reference at the end.

fallows.substack.com/p/after-the-...

Something something Make America Healthy Again

But don’t worry. Oklahoma is buying thousands of Bibles for their public schools.

Imagine taunting the democratically elected president of a nation that has been brutally invaded by Russia, which has bombed civilian sites killing thousands, occupied territory, and kidnapped children. Elon Musk, have you no decency?

Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...

-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut

Some populist, huh?

It truly pains me to see Musk successfully rebrand Grover Norquist's "I want to reduce government to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" as hip and edgy by giving it the name of a jokey cryptocurrency. Old wine, new meme-covered shit-posting bottles.