Fucking nailed it! TFW you got sold out to scumbags.#uspol https://weird.autos/@Mark/113947148628391530

"But while #Musk ignores the Constitution's clear-cut law giving the power of the purse to Congress, he does have another group of people he thinks should have discretion over how the U.S. government spends its money: The ugly assortment of incels, white nationalists and other such far-right scum he's assembled as a cheerleading squad on X (formerly Twitter)." https://www.salon.com/2025/02/04/hitler-actually-had-some-good-ideas-musks-covert-coup-is-guided-by-internet/#USPol

#Napa #CAWx #Flooding #StHelenaFrom: @iembot_mtrhttps://masto.globaleas.org/@iembot_mtr/113949065982896380

A Government By White Men, For White Men https://buff.ly/4hJyLF9

Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websiteshttps://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Posted into 404 Media @404-media-404media

Elon Musk’s Power Grab Is Lawless, Dangerous, and—Yes—a Coup. What do we call it when the president is too lazy to gut the government himself, and gives away his power to a zealous and unaccountable friend? https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/elon-musk-power-grab-trump-coup.html

@emenel @madopal @evacide @mattblaze Lordy lordy, this cannot be real. Please tell me this isn't real. It's the Seek in DeepSeek which seems like it could be somewhat problematic. Something needs to be commited.

Where does the censorship end? Do we really want to find out?https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/04/scientific-censorship-is-here/

AI-generated slop books are now in public libraries and librarians who are already stretched very thin, underfunded, and are under attack are struggling to deal with the onslaughthttps://www.404media.co/ai-generated-slop-is-already-in-your-public-library-3/

@QasimRashid From a marketing perspective, where your article is strong is that it has a simple, quick call to action.Where it is weak is that you never outline what possible benefit sending this email (or 10,000 versions of it), is likely to have.You lowered the barrier to action, but didn't specify why people should take it. You said why Musk is bad, but not why your suggested action is good.I love this article, but would love to see it made more effective. ️

This Month in Redox OS - January 2025https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-250131/

Monster black holes make immensely powerful shock waves that heat up dust clouds for light-years around them.The Universe is a damned weird place.https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/dusty-jets-around-distant-monster-black-holes

Imagine if George Soros has seized the federal government data and payment systems. MAGAs might have a different reaction.You’d think more of them might wonder about “latecomer” Elon Musk having used their movement for his own nefarious purposes since it is their data and payments seized too.

The Internet Is Unusable, by @stephenmoore (@uxdesigncchttps://archive.fo/PbkAY

"Among the claims in the complaint, the students state that the university violated its own policies during the disciplinary process, that the university targeted the students for their views, and that it violated New York’s landlord tenant laws when it evicted the students from university housing." https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/columbia-students-sue-university-palestine-activism

"I have made clear to House Republican leadership," he wrote, that "any effort to steal taxpayer money from the American people ... must be choked off in the upcoming government funding bill, if not sooner."Hakeem Jeffries lays out 10-part war plan for Democrats to take on Trumphttps://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/hakeem-jeffries-house-democrats-donald-trump> Jeffries previewed plans to use the government funding process as leverage to reverse some of Trump's moves.

"The government, AliKhan wrote, had "offered no rational explanation for why they needed to freeze all federal financial assistance.""Trump's spending freeze order paused again by federal judgehttps://www.axios.com/2025/02/03/white-house-federal-spending-freeze-federal-judge-dc> The White House's "temporary pause" on federal funding prompted confusion and backlash.

"Federal employee unions the AFGE and SEIU are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to stop the Treasury from sharing confidential data with the Elon Musk-run Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)."Trump admin sued over Musk-run DOGE's access to Treasury's sensitive datahttps://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/treasury-sued-doge-sensitive-information-musk-trump> Federal employees unions allege the Treasury secretary let DOGE reps access sensitive data in an "intrusion" that's "unprecedented."

"The judge’s order came in response to a multi-party lawsuit filed by Democracy Forward on behalf of several organizations including SAGE, a national organization advocating for LGBTQ+ elders."LGBTQ+ org convinces judge to block Trump's "freeze" on federal DEI funds - LGBTQ Nationhttps://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/02/lgbtq-org-convinces-judge-to-block-trumps-freeze-on-federal-dei-funds/> Finally! Some good news about LGBTQ+ groups successfully fighting Trump's illegal anti-LGBTQ+ executive orders.

""That's not a thing. No one f***ing cares about that," the lawmaker said. "People want us to be doing more aggressive actions.""Resistance 2.0: Furious Democrats flood the zone with acts of anti-Trump resistancehttps://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/democrats-trump-house-senate-resistance> "We can't be like, 'Oh let's let the long arc of a congressional session happen,'" said one senior House Democrat.