FWIW … WTF?!  ✊🏿🏴🥄🍉

So very important to make clear to folks that the damage being done will be much harder to fix than it was to produce. Trust in government and standing in the world could take generations to repair, if ever.

Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

That was “Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup,’” by @makenakelly.bsky.social, @davidgilbert.bsky.social, @telliotter.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, @dell.bsky.social, @timmarchman.bsky.social, @leahfeiger.bsky.social, and @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

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A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

“We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians. Athens, the capital of a democratic country, fully respects its visitors and upholds the right of its citizens to free expression. As the city’s municipal authority, we have proven our active opposition to violence and racism,” Doukas said. “We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians and children waiting in line for food aid, from those who lead dozens of people to death every day in Gaza, through bombs, hunger, and thirst,” he added. Furthermore, the mayor criticized the ambassador’s focus on graffiti. “It is appalling that the Ambassador focuses solely on graffiti (which, obviously, is being removed) at a time when an unprecedented genocide is taking place in Gaza,” he said, adding that Golden Visas granted to Israeli citizens have increased by over 90%. Ambassador Katz had criticized Athens municipal authorities in an interview published in Kathimerini’s Sunday edition, accusing them of failing to respond effectively to antisemitic graffiti that makes Israelis in Athens uncomfortable.

Israel's Greek Ambassador accused Athens of allowing antisemitic graffiti.

Mayor's reply:

"We do not accept lessons in democracy from those who kill civilians…the Amb. focuses solely on graffiti (which, obviously, is being removed) at a time when an unprecedented genocide is taking place in Gaza."

‘Monumental’: 90,000 halt city with march for Gaza across Sydney Harbour Bridge At least 90,000 pro-Palestine protesters walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge and into history through the pelting rain,

People care.

‘Monumental’: 90,000 halt city with march for Gaza across Sydney Harbour Bridge
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Canada's Parliament overwhelming voted to end weapons shipments to Israel. Prime Minister Carney must follow through on this promise. We cannot be complicit in the genocide of a people.

Zionist propaganda.

An opportunity like that comes once in a lifetime. The copy editor waited her whole career to write that headline and can now retire and die in peace and utter contentment.

Why is everybody wang chung tonight?

What do you wanna bet the first federal employee who exclaims “Allahu Akbhar!” in the workplace gets immediately renditioned to some dark site from which they will never be seen or heard from again?

Interwebs, do your thing. Make him (in)famous.

Expect these negative trends to accelerate in coming months. Just don’t expect the admin to tell you about it, accept it, or do anything to correct it. The cruelty is the point. Nihilism as policy.

No criticism here. My subskeet was just trying to crystallize this issue for folks who’ve been sleeping. 💤

Epstein didn’t “take” Giuffre. Maxwell did. She was not an accomplice. She was/is a ringleader.

If the whole affair was investigated with appropriate candor, rigor, and vigor, we might learn that Maxwell led this ring on behalf of Israeli foreign intelligence services as a means of controlling/extorting powerful men to provide unquestioning and unqualified support for Israel. If so, it worked!

If the whole affair was investigated with appropriate candor, rigor, and vigor, we might learn that Maxwell led this ring on behalf of Israeli foreign intelligence services as a means of controlling/extorting powerful men to provide unquestioning and unqualified support for Israel. If so, it worked!

In the fight between pluralism/egalitarianism and fascism/authoritarianism there can be no middle ground. None whatsoever. In a political environment where one side does not accept the rules apply to them, rule followers can only expect annihilation. Fight authoritarianism without limits.

Schumer is a tool. He and the rest of the Democratic Party leadership need to go. Any midterm advances in House races will be squandered under their leadership making 2028 an inevitable catastrophe.

RFK Jr. warned about giving the government your data. Now he wants it. The Health and Human Services secretary's pivot on wearables is a case study in how conspiracy extremists rebrand themselves once in positions of power.

RFK Jr. used to warn about a government takeover of our data. He said wearables and their tech were part of a plot to surveil us, enabled tyranny, caused cancer, and turned users into “permanent consumers” to Big Tech.

Now, he'd like your data, please.
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I wish we could get more white people to recognize and accept the same dynamic in their own lives. My black friends and mentors have made me who I am. To a greater extent than any of my white friends (and much of my family), they have been firm but funny, courageous *and* caring, wholesome and wise.

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

BDS actions, protests, disruptions of commerce and transportation, administrative sabotage, lawfare, malicious compliance, and ultimately general strike are all legitimate responses to the evil being perpetrated daily by political and corporate leaders. No one will save us but ourselves. 2/2

Go ahead and play dumb. (Or don’t if it’s not an act.) We are past the point where we can count on elites or our institutions to save us. People need to take actions outside the voting booth to hold the powerful to account. 1/2

If?! You cannot lose a fight you won’t even join. The GOP may be my enemy, but the Democrats are dead to me.

These are the good ol’ days MAGA wants to bring back.

The SCOTUS majority will endorse the ultimate Originalist tautology by ruling the application of the 14th and 15th Amendments unconstitutionally infringes upon the 14th and 15th Amendments. Equal justice under law for the powerful; fealty and involuntary servitude for the rest of us.

An architectural atrocity. Any design professional who participates in this abomination should be shamed and shunned for life.

Many years ago I worked at a fish & chip shop that a senior National MP frequented - my first job as a teenager.

I got their order wrong once & they rang the owner to harangue them about it, so loudly I could hear them across the room.

The owner had tears in their eyes as they put the phone down.🧵

A man who knew what he wanted.

No, the world very much is a disappointment. In fact, it’s a shitshow, a dumpster fire, a bottomless pit of despair. But at least we have cheese. And each other.