@Nonya_Bidniss month

"DOGE is expanding, and its lawless actions are being institutionalized as a second phase of action begins. DOGE and Project 2025’s own armies of democratic destruction will work together under Office of Management and Budget director Russ Vought’s guide. Some say DOGE was a failure; I say it has been all too successful.

History shows that once a vanguard of rogues and lawless individuals gets a hold on government, it is difficult to eject them. Rather, the changes in government applied with force by this vanguard become normalized. And that is what is happening here." #coup #corruption https://lucid.substack.com/p/the-whole-government-is-doge-now

Those who do not learn from history…

@Nonya_Bidniss I think I pay like 5 for popular information and 10 for pro publica. Their are "general" news, but they're both excellent and are usually the ones breaking the stories repeated by the big oligarch owned ones.

@billyjoebowers be nice if he has some shenanigan receipts and is dumb enough to rage post them.

@TheNovemberMan <3

Centrist pundits claim activist "groups" push Dems into unpopular lefty immigration stances, like supporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return — and hurt them in the polls. But on Abrego Garcia, Trump is the one who lost support, not Dems. New data-driven piece:

Media coverage of Kilmar Abreg...

What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld

If anyone asks you to travel for work, tell them to go fuck themselves.

Just got covid for the first time. Goddammit.

Don't travel for work. Even if you wear a mask and use profi, it'll ruin your perfect 0 covid record.

🇺🇦 Zelensky: Kherson. The building of the regional state administration. Russian forces have completely destroyed it.

Force is needed to make them stop destroying and killing. Everyone in the world clearly sees who exactly has such force, yet still isn’t using it for the sake of peace. Unfortunately, isn’t using it.

@aapis Ah, there it is. Feel that stank breeze of self-righteous asshole.

Lobbying by Russia is also intensifying in Europe. The culture sector is a prime target because it relies heavily on investment. Film school students have their projects financed with messages such as: 'War is bad', 'All soldiers are human, no matter which side', and 'Russia is not the enemy'.

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/putin-s-oligarch-allies-spend-millions-on-1748529389.html

@aapis That's uhhh..not my experience, actually. In person or online.

The real threat of AI to education isn’t just that students cheat but instead that students never learn anything because they no longer have to think critically or understand topics to graduate with good grades.

This is a problem we’ll face in earnest as the freshmen who’ve used ChatGPT throughout college begin to graduate.

The intellectual regression we’ve seen in modern life will only accelerate.

https://www.newcartographies.com/p/the-myth-of-automated-learning

Nothing to see here...
Just Elon Musk giving innocent babies AIDS.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-05-30-go-elon-never-darken-our-doors-again/

OK, so here is purportedly ICE doing a raid ... and the news media quietly accepts, from "agents" who displayed no proof that they were actually Federal agents, much less their identity.

How can we know that these masked men (most of 'em are men) are actually who they claim to be?

https://www.kpbs.org/news/border-immigration/2025/05/30/ice-arrests-several-workers-from-south-park-restaurant

@intransitivelie Stephen Miller, a white nationalist who was eagerly and voluntarily cucked by dominant white nationalist elon musk...

Stephen Miller is a white nationalist. You can preface anything he says with that fact and it'll tell you exactly how much credence to give anything he says.

For example, "Stephen Miller is a white nationalist who says that left-wing terrorism is on the rise." Or, "Stephen Miller, a white nationalist, says that leftists are inciting violence against law enforcement." How about, "Stephen Miller, who is a white nationalist, can leap headlong up his own ass at the first opportunity and lay his toxic eggs in his own colon."

Ok, maybe that last one is just rank speculation, but you get the idea.