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“Let’s make sure that Venice is not remembered as a postcard venue where Bezos had his wedding but as the city that did not bend to oligarchs,” said Na Haby Stella Faye, another protester. “We have a chance to disrupt a ten million dollar wedding — let’s do it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/w...

Palantir’s selection as a chief vendor for the project was driven by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to government officials. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” of tax and spending cuts passed the House, causing Treasury yields to leap, much like when, in the aftermath of “Liberation Day”, investors dumped US Treasury paper until Trump backed down and suspended his tariffs. unherd.com/newsroom/us-...

Love this. It should not be limited to this term. But it’s a great step forward. Now @khanna.house.gov and other house members need to make the media tour , including Fox News, to talk about it @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

This is what the H-1B Visa push is about. Meta Platforms must face a lawsuit alleging it prefers hiring foreign workers over American candidates to reduce labor costs. m.economictimes.com/nri/work/met...

Patrimonialism is distinguished by running the state as if it were the leader’s personal property or family business. It can be found in many countries, but its main contemporary exponent—at least until January 20, 2025—has been Vladimir Putin. Courtesy, The Atlantic

More petty revenge, his scorched earth policy against anyone calling him out. Jhttps://nypost.com/2025/02/08/us-news/trump-stripping-the-security-clearances-from-a-new-hit-list-of-antagonists-including-ny-ag-letitia-james-da-alvin-bragg/

Can the DNC get its "mojo" back? " The Democratic Party, at least in theory, is an organization dedicated to winning political power through elected office, though this might seem hard to believe on the evidence provided by its official proceedings. " www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

among the many crazy things about this statement is that “the diversity of america’s fighting force is how it has triumphed over its enemies” has been a part of american military propaganda since at least the civil war

Don't know the origin. Would love to know the prompt and which engine?

Get ready for a new addition to the Trump administration typo hall of fame.

A pivotal time. There will becwinners and losers. fortune.com/2025/01/24/m...

When everything is a lie, nothing can be true. That's the intent of their constant lying. Don't give into it. Don't give up.

In Oct., @fastlerner.bsky.social & @andykroll.bsky.social reported on how the Heritage Foundation flooded federal agencies with thousands of information requests, focusing on phrases like “Trump,” “climate change” and “DEI” in government workers' emails, texts, Slack and Microsoft Teams messages.

Yes scientists and doctors can get it right !

"I have been on the bench for over four decades," said Judge Coughenour (USDC, W.A. Wash), who was nominated to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. "I can't remember another case where the question presented is as clear as it is here. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order."

It's delightful to hear maga freaking out at a Bishop preaching a purely religious message in a church. Delightful because it reveals them for who they are, for all to see.

i said a few times here and there before the election that we’ll see what the mass deportation plan looks like when it’s ICE agents dragging grandmothers out of churches and, well, here we are

Tim Kaine to Elise Stefanik: "The notion that Democratic senators are for open borders and allowing illegal aliens to vote is a fantasy."

Welcome, new Bluesky users! You will love it here! Here are some media accounts to follow so you can get the news here as easily as you have elsewhere.

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Drain the swamp? What do you call a filthy, mucky, infested body bigger than a swamp? www.defenseone.com/threats/2025...

huh...

The physical embodiment of Biden’s warning of the"tech oligarchy."

One would love to hear the planning, rehearsing and discussion that went into it. Everyone should hear it - "freedom of speech," "DOGE" and all that.

Andreesen's pompous arrogance reeks from him. But far more chilling is his self-servingly false name-calling of "censorship, " when what he really wants is exponential, algorithmic promotion of provably false misinformation and conspiracies to uneducated "low information"maga base who eat it up.