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The Scale of Billionaires’ Campaign Donations is Overwhelming U.S. Politics

The New York Times published an extraordinary study of the role of billionaires in politics earlier this week, that naturally got lost in everything that is going on, including in Iran.
Here is a gift link to the article, and a few select quotes:
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

I'm sure Palantir employees will send some very anguished Slack messages about this

Clowns

Noooooooooo 😭

whoa *what*?! like...how is that enough of a high value item to do that with.

“Christianity is when Greek-speaking Romans become Judaism Weebs” is reductive, but not exactly wrong.

prayers for your liver 😂

we are approaching what the great social theorist Adams called "the Shoe Event Horizon"

I cannot help but wonder if it's to cover for using ChatGPT and not proofing any of the output

If/when a deMAGAfication of US ever occurs it must begin with the Roberts Court without which none of this would be possible

Ikr 😭

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?"

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Wtf is this horseshit

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

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I have a bundle of signed books available in the Lit for Queer Liberation virtual auction up until March 14! Raising money for queer and trans people in Texas and beyond.

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this is such a lesson in how local policies can completely fuck up situations. what a *ride* goddamn

I don't understand how they're made in the slightest, but double and triple cooked fries are *amazing*

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.

AI cameras are everywhere — and people are paying the price for their mistakes Flock Safety's license plate readers are used by police in thousands of communities. When the cameras make mistakes, the consequences can be severe.

“In a dozen instances, misreads by Flock's automated license plate readers, or a lack of verification by officers, resulted in people who hadn't committed crimes being stopped at gunpoint, sent to jail, or mauled by a police dog, among other outcomes.”

"I use AI for researching my historical novels, but I'm pro human writing because look at the nifty Human Authored label I'm promoting" is the "some of my best friends are Black" of AI activism.

The words coming out of Trump's mouth are 100% reactive, a reflection of what he believes will impress/pressure/deceive the people he's talking to. Again, the most useful comparison is an LLM trying to complete the prompt. He's doing autocomplete all the time, independent of truth or reality.

Mid air fueling

Picture of planes historians will call just friends

Mike Richardson Out as CEO of Dark Horse Entertainment After 40 Years Embracer, the video game holding company that bought Dark Horse in 2022, is installing a gaming exec as interim CEO.

This story about Mike Richardson getting fired is full of words about how Dark Horse's new CEO will "expand IP" & "leverage brands" & whatnot, but there's really not a fuck of a lot there about telling good, weird stories that people really love & engage with. Seems real fucken bad new bears, y'all.

really the one part I didn’t like! Also, the dlc is totally worth it.

“the fouling of an entire region in an act of mass ecological terrorism”

- Statement by White House Press Secretary, Nov. 6 1991, describing the burning of oil fields in Kuwait

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

Truth!

if you want to understand the future of the US, look at the bootlicking Indian media and how no one is holding Modi accountable for his passive complicity

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