In addition to scrubbing mentions of trans people from government websites, the Trump administration is blocking changes to gender markers on federal documents. Here's what you can change right now, and what you can't.
Apparently everyone else's memory is just as bad as mine, because the @wired.com Uncanny Valley podcast is the first time I heard anyone mention that the TikTok ban/sale thing is precedented: Grindr used to be owned by a Chinese company and had to be sold in 2020
techcrunch.com/2020/03/06/g...
If only they were some kind of obvious and direct analogy to an event in history committed by an authoritarian regime that later committed atrocities on a mass scale.
The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS
NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
The Treasury Department right now. People are turning out against Musk and DOGE staging a takeover of the Treasury’s payment system. This crowd is big. The whole block is packed. “Lock him up,” everyone yells.
Just note the Democrats could do everything in their power and still fail to stop the fascist administrative coup. I'd still like them to actually DO THAT, though.
The richest man in the world--who is an extremely annoying asshole--is bragging about personally overruling democratically-enacted laws. You can't dream up something better and easier to campaign against
How are y'all dealing with the cognitive dissonance of much of your daily life continuing as normal right now even as really really really bad shit is happening in government (that will certainly have ripple effects that will reach us all)? Because I'm honestly feeling a little insane right now.
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The American people spoke, and they wanted Elon Musk to be able to share Americans’ personal information from government databases to whatever 19 year old gamers he’s trying to impress on Discord
if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all
imagine listening to Oblivion in 2012 and being told that this person is gonna divorce a South African man so hard that he steals your social security info just to feel something
Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down
Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
The “Canada please save us” posts and the ones from Canadian libs are fun but they’re mostly the same as us culturally and are probably about to have a massive rightward shift too once Trudeau is gone.
Tim Walz privately arguing for Democrats to “be more visible on television presenting an alternate vision of governing — not just complaining about what Mr. Trump is doing.”
Honestly, seeing Musk’s massive head being projected through the Net to a hold court over a far-right rally in Germany makes me question the producers’ decision to hire @greatdismal.bsky.social to script this part of the 21st century.
Someone in a stolen car fled a PPB stop and drove the car into a streetcar stop at NW 10th & Glisan this morning. No one was badly hurt and driver was arrested.
I got dashcam footage from a witness. 😲🤯😢
Seriously what is going on w people and their cars??!!
Musk's seizure last night of the federal payment system must be understood as a coup. Even if Musk/Trump don't abuse this staggering power, they now possess it. There may be legal ways to attempt to restore it to nonpartisan function. There may not be, in the near future, actual means to do so.
What do takes like this actually achieve? Pointing out the party didn't do a great job is valid criticism, especially given the fact they lost to the worst guy ever not once but twice. It's abundantly clear that "vote Democrat, we're less worse" isn't working and it's time for some introspection.
I may have been unfairly snarky to the poor dude working the register in that section, but he was trying to defend it like, "thieves don't care! they walk out right past the security guards with carts full of unpaid stuff!"
My dude, how does this stop that? Why wouldn't thieves walk right past you?
Except, you enter that section with your cart/etc from the rest of the store, so if you wanted to smuggle things out of that section it would be simple?
Also, now when you check out of the rest of the store you have odd items you've already paid for?
My local grocery store is really trying their hardest to make you buy things online instead 🤔
Their newest gimmick is that there are now three aisles that are in the middle of the store, walled off from the rest, where you have to buy things from that section before leaving that section.