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Lurching from one tech oligarch’s playground to another. Grizzled old UX/product designer who’s worked in telephony, ed tech, and now network security. NYC resident.

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Every interview with this guy comes off like he's *hoping* to be beaten to death by an angry mob.

12.03.2026 21:34 👍 1602 🔁 441 💬 115 📌 26

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

06.03.2026 19:47 👍 30375 🔁 7531 💬 223 📌 238

While the McDonald’s CEO gets roasted for his awkward burger taste test...

McDonald’s is among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps.

And McDonald's CEO recently raked in $18.2M — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay.

That should leave a bad taste in your mouth.

04.03.2026 00:04 👍 12363 🔁 3721 💬 403 📌 138

I think undoing Citizen's United would be very culturally normal.

24.02.2026 00:43 👍 72 🔁 10 💬 2 📌 1
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A new lawsuit alleges DHS illegally tracked and intimidated observers Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

23.02.2026 19:27 👍 2412 🔁 844 💬 52 📌 28
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Discord and Persona end partnership after shady UK age test sparks outcry Persona confirmed all age check data from Discord's UK test was deleted.
20.02.2026 22:41 👍 98 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 5

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

18.02.2026 16:45 👍 2755 🔁 552 💬 24 📌 23
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".

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

18.02.2026 16:23 👍 40988 🔁 10916 💬 309 📌 338

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

15.02.2026 15:20 👍 1839 🔁 729 💬 30 📌 20
"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

13.02.2026 05:44 👍 12539 🔁 6206 💬 443 📌 783

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

12.02.2026 02:26 👍 15823 🔁 7765 💬 519 📌 299
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Lieu plays Bondi the infamous clip of Trump & Epstein partying together & asks her if there were underaged girls at any party the two attended

"This is so ridiculous," Bondi says. "There's no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime"

"I believe you just lied under oath," Lieu replies

11.02.2026 16:57 👍 10428 🔁 3249 💬 401 📌 322
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 👍 40528 🔁 13799 💬 1370 📌 892
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NADLER: “How many of Epstein’s co-conspirators have you indicted? ZERO.”

@repcohen.bsky.social : “ICE is running rampant you are not investigating them. Pretti & Good were executions.”

Bondi crashing out in Congress is always a treat.

11.02.2026 17:10 👍 1950 🔁 553 💬 134 📌 37

Worked so hard to get this money... yet another thing to get canceled and erased

09.02.2026 03:12 👍 296 🔁 104 💬 3 📌 0
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Multiple measles exposures in DC: Check sites and dates DC Health said Saturday it was notified of multiple people with confirmed cases of measles visited a variety of locations in the District. Officials did not specify exactly how many infected people th...

So, the March for Life appears to have brought Measles to DC.

www.nbcwashington.com/news/health/...

07.02.2026 23:56 👍 1098 🔁 500 💬 40 📌 143
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance.

But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain.

He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again.

He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

07.02.2026 17:54 👍 17904 🔁 9171 💬 492 📌 700

This is a great idea and we should expand it to cover *all* of the justices of the Supreme Court, and then we could see who did unethical stuff like "attended the Grammys" or "bankrolled by a billionaire white supremacist donor who collects Nazi memorabilia" or "married to a January 6th plotter" or

06.02.2026 13:56 👍 881 🔁 217 💬 22 📌 1

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

04.02.2026 19:41 👍 12981 🔁 3442 💬 235 📌 242

turns out when Bezos suggested "democracy dies in darkness" it was a goal, not a slogan

04.02.2026 15:27 👍 1051 🔁 294 💬 20 📌 15
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Netflix CEO Clashes With MAGA Senator in Fiery Hearing “Almost half of your content for children promotes a transgender ideology agenda,” Sen. Josh Hawley claimed to Ted Sarandos on Tuesday.

If you're writing about this story it should not take you until the 10th paragraph to inform your readers the GOP is engaged in theater to ensure that right wing billionaire Larry Ellison can buy Warner Brothers and CNN

04.02.2026 12:56 👍 403 🔁 106 💬 9 📌 5
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FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations.

What utter assholes. "At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations." rewirenewsgroup.com/2026/02/02/c...

03.02.2026 18:33 👍 473 🔁 144 💬 20 📌 16

74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.

03.02.2026 22:36 👍 6340 🔁 1431 💬 108 📌 81

My favorite part of the dawn of the Internet was how they had to keep coming around, breaking into our houses, and hiding modems in our homes because no one actually wanted it.

03.02.2026 21:29 👍 73 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

Trump’s deployments of the National Guard and Marines into American cities have cost over $500 million.

Continuing deployments will cost $93 million monthly.

Our military budget is not a slush fund for Trump’s political stunts. He must answer for this waste of taxpayer dollars.

02.02.2026 17:54 👍 209 🔁 61 💬 10 📌 0

They left an elderly US citizen on her way to pay her rent with a torn rotator cuff and a concussion. This was in Salem, Oregon. Absolutely no one should vote to fund these lawless thugs.

01.02.2026 18:28 👍 782 🔁 385 💬 11 📌 13
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ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.

Video shows ICE leaving behind an infant and broken glass after arresting a man with no criminal history.
“There was a car seat in the back... There were broken glass shards all over it... There was just this tiny peanut of a baby. He was crying.”
My latest: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/28/i...

29.01.2026 18:05 👍 5254 🔁 3189 💬 131 📌 307

Democrats are losing touch with their populist base of surveillance tech billionaires & lobbyists

29.01.2026 19:57 👍 47 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 0
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More authoritarianism and intimidation. This is not about 2020. That’s the smokescreen. This is about the midterms and 2028. There will be a lot more of this in the coming months.

28.01.2026 17:45 👍 4861 🔁 1814 💬 345 📌 120

The newspaper of Marriott breakfast buffet readers speaks.

28.01.2026 02:40 👍 139 🔁 6 💬 7 📌 0