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  • Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not

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  • ... for dinner? Where's the rest of the sentence?

  • “On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists.”

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  • I mean, tools are tools. Their value, good or bad, is in how they're used. If you do something like hit your own hand with a hammer, it's really not the hammer's fault. LLMs are 95% gizmos, with a few actually useful cases accounting for the other 5%, at least while they're still priced way under cost anyway.

  • Resurfaced clip shows Epstein pleading the Fifth when asked if he was with Trump around underage girls

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  • Dear God, I keep expecting this to run out of gas and it just won't quit!

  • 'Veterans on Patrol': Inside MAGA's new assault on reality and bizarre conspiracy theory

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  • You might just be on to something there.

  • Elon Musk announces plan to make 'America Party'

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  • 5.5 billion? Is that all?

  • Elon Musk says he has formed a new U.S. political party, the 'America Party'

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  • give them a minute. The LP has been swinging right to try and court embarrassed republicans. I know this because I aligned with them enough to vote Jorgensen in 20.

  • GOP Congressman Deletes Post Celebrating ’18 Million Kids’ Losing School Meals: ‘Was an Error’

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  • It wouldn't change anything, might even make it worse because then he could shit talk about "see? I survived!" Folks like this by default see themselves as the exception rather than the rule.

  • Supreme Court OKs Trump 'Third Country' Deportation of Men Held in Desert Shipping Container

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  • let me be clear that I say this with absolutely no foreshadowing, this will never come back to haunt me in particular

    -the conservative justices

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • but of course.

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • It's not all their fault, but by God it'd be nice to see them fight the republicans at least as hard as they fight the leftists in their own party.

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • We're a looooong way from perfect, I'm asking for the bare minimum to achieve meaningful success.

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • Well, it's especially difficult to organize if you don't try organizing. I've got a mind to start doing so myself if I don't see anyone organizing at the next one.

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  • Sure, maybe, probably, but even if that is 100% true, I don't think it's the whole story. I think that the interests of the Russian Federation and the interests of our ultra-wealthy sort of accidentally aligned insofar as they both believe they'd be better off with the US federal government deligitimized and destroyed. Whether it works out the way they'd hoped, well, we'll see. History is kind of a funny thing.

  • ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

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  • "He's giving a message to criminals where our federal officers are," Bondi said. "...we are looking at it, we are looking at him, and he better watch out, because that's not a protected speech. That is threatening the lives of our law enforcement officers throughout this country."'

    Actually, I believe it is protected speech. There are apps that let people know where speed traps are. You mean it's not constitutionally protected to say to someone "hey, did you see the cop down on the corner?" Ridiculous. Of course, what she means to say is that the constitution doesn't matter and laws are made up now, and they're just going to do whatever the fuck they want. They're just not quuuuuite ready to go through the trouble of literally setting the constitution on fire yet.

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • Boomers in about six months:

    "But why would Obama do this?"

  • Republicans Are Cutting Medicare. Not Only Medicaid, Medicare. Passage of the Big Beautiful Bill will force mandatory sequestration that will mean half a trillion dollars in Medicare cuts.

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  • 50501 needs to start getting people organized. I went to No King's Day; it was great, really, genuinely great, except that there was absolutely zero organizing to try and get people to push towards achievable goals. It was literally just "hey, let's all stand around with signs, that'll show Donald". If we want to make a difference, we need to get organized so we can start directing people and their resources and energy towards attainable goals and start demonstrating that we can get shit done.

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  • I never ever want to hear another conservative whine at me about the budget as long as I live. FiScAl ReSpOnSiBiLiTy my ass.

    TBH, I'm increasingly convinced that this is yet another in a series of moves overtly intended to destroy the federal government's legitimacy.

  • California husband says he will continue to support MAGA movement after wife taken into federal custody

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  • I don't remember biblical antichrist being stopped by courts, I seem to remember that he ultimately gets yeeted into hell.

  • Military leaders aghast as Meta founder Zuckerberg crashes classified Oval Office meeting on fighter jets: report

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  • I mean, let's just drop allllll the pretenses here and call a spade a spade. We're speedrunning both imperial decline and final act of the death of the republic. That means that what's happening now isn't so much the end of things taking shape; that dye was cast arguably as far back as neoconservatism and the death of the Soviet Union. No, what's being shaped now is what comes next, and so far, it's looking like a freak hybrid between neo-feudalism and neo-mercantilism, leaning more towards mercantilism imo, with a whole new nobility class formed purely off the basis of who holds the money and the assets right now. I mean, this should and would never be allowable under the republic, but the republic is dead and they're just doing a little puppeteering with the corpse at the moment, while it's handy to do so.

    Let me be totally unambiguous here: the republic is dead, there is no going back. Even if we have elections again (lol, lmao) and even if they swing super hard left and even if we get a bunch of Democrats who are serious and result-oriented, and even if those Democrats actually do want to surrender the tools of fascism (unlike their predecessors), it's going to take decades to walk back the damage. Before anyone will be able to feel the results of the course reversal, people are just going to get pissed and vote the next batch of right wing assholes in who'll finish the job. The wounds are too deep, too grievous, and our political establishment is too captured and lacking in vision and intestinal fortitude. The republic is already gone in all but name, and what's coming next will ensure that the people who sponsored it death are enshrined at the center.

    If that's not the world you want to live in, then you need to start networking at a local level, working with likeminded people across your local and state, and probably start working on secession movements. We're going to have a very narrow window between the death of the empire and the birth of the monarchy to determine what kind of world our children inherit, don't let it slip past. Get out there, go to city council and county supervisor meetings, join secession initiatives, get active and start seeking people out and networking. If we work together, we can at least forge a better tomorrow than what Zuck and Bezos have planned for us.