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🔗 linkblog: Bannon’s Salute at CPAC Sparks Outcry, Even on French Right'
If Jordan Bardella thinks it was a Nazi salute… gift link
🔗 linkblog: DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards'
DOGE continues to insist on the dumbest way to carry out its dumb goals.
🔗 linkblog: Trump State Department official has called for mass sterilization of ‘low-IQ trash’'
It’s all bad right now, but it’s still important to call out the particularly bad stuff.
🔗 linkblog: Trump firings cause chaos at agency responsible for America's nuclear weapons'
One more thing right out of the Twitter playbook from DOGE: Firing people without understanding how important they are.
🔗 linkblog: Trump Is Just Threatening to Do Something Stupid as a Terrible Negotiation Tactic'
Bookmarking this in case I need to show it to a family member.
🔗 linkblog: Normalizing Indian Hate Makes Me a Good Father and Husband'
McSweeney’s pulls no punches, but Vance has earned no mercy.
🔗 linkblog: [Article] Zuckerberg donations – Alex'
Love this framing of using Meta as “making donations to Mark Zuckerberg.” It nicely describes the idea of digital labor that’s been on my mind for a couple of years now.
🔗 linkblog: How close is Elon Musk to controlling a nuclear weapon?'
The headline is a little provocative, but it’s scary that we live in a world where it makes some sense.
More broadly, though, I found that the first Trump administration converted me to nuclear disarmament—yes, this president is scary, but that any president has access to that much destructive power is scarier still. I expect I’ll go further in that direction this time around.
🔗 linkblog: Staffer with Elon Musk's DOGE amplified white supremacists online'
Starting to sense a pattern.
🔗 linkblog: Trump’s FBI Pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock From Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein'
The rules seem to be that it’s okay to do whatever in the GOP, but no Democrat can even seem to be in a sticky situation. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: First Cracks Appear: Some Conservatives Admit We’re In A Constitutional Crisis'
As usual, lots to like in this post from Mike Masnick.
🔗 linkblog: AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library'
I get a lot of reading done through hoopla, but this kind of story is starting to sour me on the platform.
🔗 linkblog: Can anyone stop President Musk?'
I’m teaching a social media research methods class this semester, and I’m pretty sure I need to bring this article up in this week’s class.
🔗 linkblog: A 25-Year-Old With Elon Musk Ties Has Direct Access to the Federal Payment System'
Resubscribed to WIRED because despite my efforts to focus more on tech news than political news, THEY HAVE BECOME ONE AND THE SAME IN REALLY WORRYING WAYS.
🔗 linkblog: The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government'
More good writing from Masnick on scary stuff coming out of DC.
🔗 linkblog: The NTSB chooses Elon Musk’s X to update the press on plane crashes'
Lots of bad things are happening right now, but this one stands out. There’s no good reason for this except to make Musk happy.
🔗 linkblog: I Don’t Have Words'
I always appreciate Sam’s writing and especially here. I’m waiting to see what—if anything—my current church has to say about the current mess, but I have a deep fondness for the church I grew up in, and it’s deeply disappointing for a rich church that is willing to throw those resources behind its interests to decide that combatting the present cruelty is not one of those interests.
🔗 linkblog: Trump To Victims’ Families: ‘I’m Doing Everything Possible To Resegregate Flight Schools’'
I’m grateful for The Onion right now.
🔗 linkblog: Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams'
Bookmarking this because with the sheer quantity of nonsense that’s happened in just the last couple of weeks, I feel like I will eventually need reminders of just how dumb some of it has been.
🔗 linkblog: FCC demands CBS provide unedited transcript of Kamala Harris interview'
Government overreach is scary, but it can also be really, really petty.
🔗 linkblog: Exclusive: Musk aides lock government workers out of computer systems at US agency, sources say'
Oh, he really is doing this like he did Twitter. That was a nightmare by itself.
🔗 linkblog: Treasury official retires after clash with DOGE over access to payment system'
Anyone who hasn’t should read one of two excellent books—Extremely Hardcore or Character Limit—on Musk’s takeover of Twitter, because I’m getting similar vibes here. Remember when Musk just refused to pay money Twitter owed because he didn’t feel like it?