“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

Argentina is stripping the same rights and social safety nets here. They are passing a bill that allows:

- 12 hour work days,
- no holidays,
- no breaks,
- paying people in FOOD and LODGING or foreign currency

A white book with black letters: The Public Scholar: A practical handbook. It's in front of a red background with a megaphone in white outline.

"If you're a writer—any sort of a writer, really—in search of an audience, you will find so much that's invaluable in this candid, spirited, and openhearted handbook." - @bcdreyer.social on #ThePublicScholar.

Which you can pre-order here: www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

It seems nuts to me that CNN has partnered with an online gambling site (Kalshi) and hypes their betting lines as “news” to report.

WSJ reluctantly taking the "tax the rich" position only when it is the conservative alternative to "eat the rich," gaining a lot of popular support

France's 13,335 millionaires who pay no income tax In 2024, thousands of taxpayers with significant real estate wealth paid no income tax, according to a previously unpublished note from the Finance Ministry. These revelations have reignited the debat...

you can say it in french too:
www.lemonde.fr/en/politics/...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.

And you know why?

Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up

Dr. Michael T. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota, called the arrangement “a recipe for disaster.” Given the deep cuts at the C.D.C., he said, “I think the C.D.C. is one disaster away from being a disaster itself.”

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

This has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

Larry Summers is in the Epstein files complaining to Jeffrey Epstein that his kids love and “admire” Bernie Sanders’ politics too much for his liking.

Hate Bernard or love him, that’s hilarious lmaooooo

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible with insane billionaires like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, so it seems we're at an impasse.

Let's put it to a vote!

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

It definitely risks angering a certain president she recently kissed on the cheek

NASHVILLE REP. POWELL: “So many I’ve heard from are now wondering if NES stands for No Electricity Service because they’re not getting the service they need.” ⚡️

🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that

Just selling my three companies back and forth to each other. Much stocks. Very business.

sadly i think they were cynical and ruthless enough to not use it. class solidarity with the rich perverts above all else

A GDC poll has found that 31% of responding international developers have cancelled plans to attend the event this year, with a further 33% considering it, because people just don't feel safe travelling to the United States right now:

aftermath.site/i-do-not-feel-...

If you think they’re building more detention facilities, increasing mass surveillance, and growing the size of ICE just to deport undocumented immigrants, then you haven’t been paying attention.

Continuing to fund ICE is enabling what we all know is coming next.

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

SCOOP: 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, a tool Palantir made for ICE which brings up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

The full user guide here: