ClockworkCanary

Every time someone gets on this website and says "lol they voted for it" about a state that has been slowly bleeding out since they gutted the VRA and signed off on doing All The Overt Racism Again?

Those were the times you should have been fighting this ongoing fight.

Start now, please!

People act like I'm naïve when I say I don't think they're going to cancel elections, and like no. I'm not?

I'm grimly pragmatic about how hard they have been making it to vote this whole time. They are *so good* at voter suppression, a lot of folks have just had the luxury of ignoring it.

Also, I would just like to point out (again):

They are already doing this.

They called in BOMB THREATS to majority Black precincts in Georgia in 2024.

This is not new, they're just talking about doing it out loud now, and more directly in more places. Pay attention to folks already fighting it!

whoever figures out a way to bundle independent journalism subscriptions will be a hero

its time for bigotry against billionaires to have its moment.

all the things they say about blacks, latinos, asian, women, lgbtqi etc -- all the smears, innuendo, etc -- we need to say it about them.

cover of The Washington Post on Wednesday Feb 4, 2026. Headline on bottom, right: Musk wanted to hook users; his chatbot got more sexual

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

One of the main arguments against the Bill of Rights back in 1787-88 was that enumerating specific rights would lead future generations to conclude those were the only ones that existed

Supporters pointed to the 9th Amendment as the fix

And we still somehow ended up where opponents said we'd be 🤦‍♂️

Fluffy gray tabby on the back of a gray couch - the sun is shining in over his shoulder, illuminating his big gold eyes and terrific whiskers.

Holy smokes, the sun came out 😎

"I was told you're a monster," the hero said.

"So they say," said the monster.

"But you're beautiful!"

"Thank you."

"Have you always been a monster?"

"Heh. I was a young maiden. But I did something forbidden."

"And became a monster?"

"Got named a monster."

"What did you do?"

"I hit back."

For every year from 1994 to 2023, immigrants in the US paid more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government. Check out the latest study from Cato’s David Bier.

Immigrants saved US government at all levels $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023 because the taxes they paid cut budget deficits by nearly one-third in real terms, a new Cato Institute study reports. Learn more from David Bier.

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worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Why Elon Musk’s Latest Mega Merger Is Little More than Vaporware The tech mogul and would-be space pioneer is mashing up his properties once more in a deal that's unlikely to achieve escape velocity .

#Musk keeps his “whirligig moving” by “tapping the same close circle of venture capitalists, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds, and political patrons.” His latest corporate contortions will likely postpone his eventual “day of reckoning.”
@jacobsilverman.com www.thenation.com/article/econ...

For reference every person who's only seen Les Mis but not read Les Miserables should understand that book!Marius is, quite literally, a Bonapartist enraptured by the military pageantry and vaguely protofascist vibes.

He sort of uncomfortably drops out of the club when his friends call him on it.

Les Mis is the Verhoeven's Starship Troopers of Les Miserables.

reposting with alt text bc i love this

RFK, jr. is the worst person you ever met at a party in california, patel is the worst guy you ever encountered at the gym, bondi is the worst person you ever met at church, bessent is the worst person you have ever met at a conference, all these people are the worst versions of every stereotype

noem is the worst person you ever met at a keg party in a field, duffy is the worst person you ever met at a casting call, lutnick is the worst person you ever met at the country club, hegseth is the worst person you ever met at the hotel bar

A series of four images of a man putting on clown makeup. The text This new hobby is the best! I've never liked anything this much before! I cant imagine ever getting tired of this! Let's go buy all the best and most expensive supplies!

This meme just punched me in the face and stole my wallet

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.

Facts that bear repeating.

Yeah, part of what's weird here is as recently as fall 2021 Bezos was funding the expansion of the Post by *40* editors, which is nearly unheard-of for a mature news org. Read this memo -- and note that every single person who signed it was gone by end of 2025 www.washingtonpost.com/pr/2021/09/2...

A square marble tile with a shiny metal ball on it next to some papers and a coffee mug.

I'm buying a kitchen and they sent a sample of the marble counter top with a metal ball showing what the sink will be like. Now my desk looks like a 90s 3D rendering tool demo image.

things are very bad and I feel deeply sad all the time, but I will say it has been wonderful to see so many of my colleagues in the kid, comics and romance lit spaces step the fuck up in this moment.

it is nice to know you work alongside good people who give a damn. it's wonderful, actually.

I keep saying to people in my life that the problem with writing in these days is that you sound absolutely off your nut for simply saying what is happening.

Washington Post reporter laid off while freezing in a war zone by one of the world’s richest people.

since I re-upped my blocks on one and don't know who the other guy even is, please know I'm saying this 100% with zero context of the details of this situation...

but god is this a pattern I have seen a lot over the years, and have been thinking about even more over the past couple weeks.

It's true! I did ONE (1) In-Person meetup to provide whistles to someone who requested them through the linktree email. She told me about an upcoming protest to protect trans kids access to their hormones/treatments. It was down the street so I went. I met leaders in 3 other organizations.

This is my thing, yes criticize Dems and call them. But run your Republican Congress critters ragged right now. Make it impossible for them to have a moment of peace.

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated.

www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

Oh, here’s another example of the tech industry being a pseudoscience industry. Even the largest tech companies (Meta in this case) employ industrial practices that are a long-falsified business management pseudoscience dressed up as data-driven Taylorism.