Calling them “retirements” when this administration has an entire agency dedicated to cutting hundreds of thousands of jobs; pressuring employees to take a Severance package, and firing the ones that don’t, despite their stellar performance reviews – It’s just cowardly and/or malicious. I wouldn’t expect any better from Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post. Considering him, it’s definitely malice.

and it’s Stephen Miller who’s the biggest proponent of this. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s been the one making up the lies Trump is regurgitating about Portland “burning to the ground”.

oooh~ so smart. No, I wasn’t going to vote for Trump. Nothing I said supported Trump. I specifically said I dislike this administration; yet Clearly backing Center-Right Biden and Kamala didn’t work, because it plunged us Back into fascism. Now, if you’d like to contribute something to how we could have avoided a Trump presidency, you can join me on what I’ve been spiraling on for the last year. Otherwise, keep it to yourself.

How can she be this tone deaf? No one wants to hear from you, Kamala. Not the time. We’re dealing with the fallout of your horrid campaign.

I regret my Kamala vote (moreso my faith in her leading up to the election) more every day, and I am in despair over this administration.

Absolutely. https://apnews.com/article/trump-ai-rfk-jr-health-tech-fa73703bd1fd557c787ef0b590e151f1 (second paragraph)

More than 60 companies, including major tech companies like Google, Amazon and Apple as well as health care giants like UnitedHealth Group and CVS Health, have agreed to share patient data in the system.

fully agreed, but I will note that “corrective” genital mutilation on intersex folks is still very much a thing.

female genital mutilation was practiced in the USA, and thankfully banned, for the same reasons male genital mutilation should be.

I’ve been trying to do what I can in this time, online and IRL. It is really disorienting living in this nation, not knowing what’s working or what’s not; or what the situation is going to look like in a week or two. So many assumptions that I had of basic protections and securities are just Gone. I genuinely do not recognize or understand the people or systems around me anymore.

At least if we’re doing something it’s changing the scenario. It’s not like things could get much worse. “rather live two days like a tiger, than two hundred years like a sheep” ~Tipu Sultan

Absolutely agree on refusing to stay ignorant. I do not ever want to forget this time or let myself slip into that willful naivety.

For me one moment that shocked me was the overturning of Roe v. Wade (USA abortion protections) by Dobbs. When that decision leaked early, I was nauseous, and kept checking the internet to see it debunked, only to see more proofs of authenticity. Then, watching as the protests stopped, energy trickled down, and life just… continued. Afterwards, I retreated into being a hikikomori for several years. That core right had been given, then taken away, and the people around me just moved on.

I’m just praying the anti-circumcision guys are gonna get their win. I’d be so happy for them… Marc, Steve, Matt… y’all always brighten my day when I see you on the street corner. (Seriously I’d like to see the USA stop its ritual genital mutilation though…)

oh, yeah, of course Musk’s companies go on there… and I saw a few things about Oracle’s surveillance efforts.

I’ll confess this was me and now is me. Trump got elected when I was middle school-aged. I really, really believed that was the low point, and for the rest of my life, the USA would get better. I believed the USA population was just ill-informed, and I did not expect this global rise of fascism and digital surveillance. I assumed people would never vote to strip away freedoms if they knew that was going to happen. I assumed the internet would always stay anonymous, and always be a free space.

Obviously there was an immense amount I did not know about. I had heard of the Trail of Tears and Slavery and the Civil War, but I didn’t grasp institutionalized racism beyond police brutality; didn’t realize the Left was losing the internet, didn’t recognize the danger of the manosphere; didn’t understand how wide-spread the propaganda campaigns were, didn’t grasp that billionaires and centi-millionaires would want fascism, and would enact it across the Western world.

When Kamala announced her campaign, I deemed her president. Every step of that campaign, as the Republicans careened more extremist-right I became more certain that even their party members would deem them insane. I knew people were struggling financially under Biden, but, that guy’s holding signs reading “MASS DEPORTATIONS”, has two moronic side-kicks (Musk and Vance), and his term was filled with economic hardship. Also, Jan 6th, 2021.

In hindsight I’m ashamed of my naive optimism. I’d beat myself up for it more, if I wasn’t living in the middle of my personalized hell.

Benny Johnson is a serious prolific MAGA influencer that has been invited out by the administration to cover Alligator Auschwitz in Florida. Benny’s podcast was also why Jimmy Kimmel’s show got suspended - a member of this Republican administration made a veiled threat about Kimmel on Benny’s podcast and that is why Disney took the show down.

What happened to “Don’t share your real identity online”? Oh… Social Media.

Well before the UK online ID laws, I saw some memes about people getting asked for ID as proof of age for NSFW servers, just to send to server admins. I figured it was a ID fraud scheme of some sort, but now I’d chalk it up to manic “protect the children” believers.

Have you seen the USA? UK? Russia? China? I really don’t want the government making any system to tie internet to any identity. I really don’t want any government having any role in the internet.

So if we ever take back this country, we’ve gotta destroy Palantir, Apple, Google, Meta, Disney, Microsoft, Amazon, CVS (working to compile a medical database on all USAmericans)… and every company that backed Trump’s Nazi campaign. Start making a list now. The corporations alone will be a life’s worth of work.

obvious troll above. For everyone else: Greta and the Flotilla team were illegally raided while providing life-saving food aid to the Palestinian victims of Israel’s starvation campaign. It’s far from “purely protest”

Those two go hand-in-hand.

“and himself, a true Democrat” uhh, Cuomo, you’re running as an independent after losing the Democratic primary. You’re opposing the Democrat Party. That’s the exact opposite of a Democrat.

ooh he means neoliberal corrupt corporate sellout. Got it.