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You know what? I really disagree with this. Not on purpose? that is amazingly naive. Also- tv doesn’t operate under the same rules so false equivalency Meta and all big tech must be held accountable. Regulation and deterrence must happen.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 9h ago

Yes, it sucks that the No Kings insta was suspended (though I still think it was likely an automated tripwire, rather than deliberate). But falling back into "well we have to politically punish media execs to get better results" doesn't fix anything.

This is one of the big undercovered stories of this time. Elected Dems almost uniformly refused to join the Tesla Takedown, organizer @evansutton.bsky.social told me. They continue to act as if Musk isn’t a partisan, though he’s the most consequential Republican besides Trump.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d ago

What can Dems actually do about DOGE? A Democratic Congress has a real opportunity to engage in the type of oversight that DOGE has avoided thus far. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/blockers-a...

Here is a tangible short-run action to hold DOGE accountable. Lets assume Democrats gain control of Congress in November. There is an existing DOGE subcommittee in the House. Reconfigure it with staff and members able to make it do the job it has failed to do thus far: provide real oversight of DOGE. Run hearings that puts former DOGE members under oath. Call whistleblowers the DOJ has ignored. Call the “blockers” Lewis wrote about and other witnesses to abuse. Create public salience and a record that will lay the groundwork for criminal investigations in 2029. Establish credible signals that they won’t get away with it.

The reason the anti-abortion conservatives needed (and I mean NEEDED) to get rid of the "risk to life and health" exception to anti-abortion laws was that EVERY PREGNANCY risks life and health. Every. One.

Three little kids and a teacher were shot and killed at their school today in Bend, Oregon. Two more were injured. Our hearts are broken and we’re angry. It’s disgraceful that extremists keep blocking critical, lifesaving laws while kids die in their classrooms. America can do better. It must.

Kinda wild that there have been wild protests going on in Albania for months set off by a corrupt Kushner luxury resort project and there has been barely coverage of it here 🇺🇸 and Trump never gets asked about it.

To be clear, I have no doubt that the MAGA regime instructed Nazi Musk to shut off Starlink in Ukraine so that Putin’s Russia could attack Ukraine and murder civilians and both are trying to blame one another to distract the public. That’s call war crimes, that’s called treason.

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AOC: "When no one was watching, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed was getting glasses for kids ... but when no one was looking, Mike Rogers was taking checks from pharmaceutical interests. When no one was watching, he went to go work for them in the revolving door after he left Congress."

NC STATE STUDENTS ARE DEMANDING JUSTICE FOR NOLAN WELLS AND THE LIBERATION OF BLACK AMERICA! From Mississippi to Raleigh, the Nolan Wells case strikes a chord at the very heart of the seemingly never-ending war on Black Americans in the United States.

The White House's decision to limit Starlink is what should worry Europe most. A single private network with its uptime decided in Washington is the dependency Kyiv has to design around, and Brussels should be funding a satcom backup now, not after the next cutoff.

The anitdote is similarly obvious: solidarity. Fight together and keep our freedom or fight alone and be enslaved. It's frustrating how many people in power seem to not understand this and say we can just sacrifice part of our coalition in order to save the rest of us. It doesn't work like that!

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev stunned Brussels on Thursday morning by backing the controversial diesel supply deal agreed between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in defiance of Western sanctions. Read our live blog: https://l.euronews.com/zq1z

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The median American voter position on almost every key issue is that it should be taken care of so they don't have to worry about it anymore, & whatever policy does that is the policy they support. Their crude gauge for this, no matter its relevance, is the money in their pocket.

🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃@golikehellmachine.com · 3d ago

“if they follow the rules they should be allowed to stay” is like the median american voter position and the median american voter has no idea what the rules actually are and also doesn’t really care

A look at 3 Zuckerberg and Ellison data center projects in Doña Ana and El Paso: When fully built out, the three data centers, each with its own power plant, will emit millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions, equivalent to the planet-warming emissions released by more than 2mn cars in a year.

Data centers in Texas and New Mexico may upend climate goals - The Texas Tribune

El Paso and New Mexico planned to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Neither plan considered how three new data centers could upend their climate goals.

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1/ Russian warbloggers are applauding the Trump Administration for the apparent crippling of Starlink in Ukraine. Terminals now reportedly no longer work at speeds of higher than 60-70 km/h (37 to 44 mph), effectively disabling many Ukrainian drones. ⬇️

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Last night, Starlink was reportedly restricted in Ukraine due to a political decision made in Washington. Europeans should be aware that it is dangerous to depend on a partly hostile government for your security, as they could blackmail you at any time. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...

Ukrainian soldiers in combat have access to Starlink satellite internet restricted

Outage of system managed by Elon Musk’s SpaceX comes as Russia launches ballistic missiles at Ukraine without any advance warning from US

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