Instagram alternative Flashes publicly launched its Bluesky-based photo-sharing app on the App Store this week, gaining nearly 30,000 downloads in its first 24 hours. The app offers a classic Instagram-like experience, allowing users to upload up to four photos and videos of up to a minute in length. Built by Berlin-based developer Sebastian Vogelsang, Flashes […]
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The Department of Education is teaming up with the far-right Hitler-admiring group Moms for Liberty, launching a portal yesterday where parents can submit tips to the department to investigate as part of the crusade to end diversity and inclusion efforts in schools. Kids, I think you all know what to do! Via Salon:
In a press release, the department announced it was launching the portal so that anyone can “submit reports of discrimination based on race or sex in publicly-funded K-12 schools,” which the department would then use as a guide “to identify potential areas for investigation.”
The press release included a statement from Tiffany Justice, a co-founder of Moms for Liberty and Heritage Foundation employee. Justice claimed that “parents have been begging schools to focus on teaching their kids practical skills like reading, writing, and math, instead of pushing critical theory, rogue sex education and divisive ideologies — but their concerns have been brushed off, mocked, or shut down entirely.”
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Figure is planning to bring its humanoids into the home sooner than expected. CEO Brett Adcock confirmed on Thursday that the Bay Area robotics startup will begin “alpha testing” its Figure 02 robot in the home setting, starting later in 2025. The executive says the accelerated timeline is a product of the company’s “generalist” Vision-Language-Action […]
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During a discussion on Wednesday's The Source with Kaitlan Collins, GOP House Speaker Mike Johnson sparred with Collins over the budget resolution which just passed in the House this Tuesday, which lays the framework for massive cuts to our social safety nets while boosting defense spending and extending Trump's tax cuts for the rich.
Johnson, of course, tried to lie that the bill they passed wasn't going to slash Medicaid funding, even though, as Collins repeatedly tried to point out, they aren't going to ever get to the numbers they're giving without doing exactly that.
Collins asked Johnson about the blowback Trump and Musk and their Republican enablers have been getting at these town halls, where angry constituents have been turning out to give them a piece of their minds over what's been happening with the DOGE slash and burn mayhem, and Johnson blew it off as just a bunch of "paid protesters" or Democrats showing up early.
Fox's Dr. Marc Siegel needs to hold a mirror up to his own network if he's upset that people in the United States no longer want to get vaccinated.
As the Independent noted, Siegel failed to mention Fox's part in creating that problem:
Fox News medical contributor Marc Siegel sounded the alarm on Tuesday that the measles outbreak impacting the southwest United States “is not going to be stopped without the vaccine,” all while lamenting that “vaccine confidence is at an all-time low.”
Siegel suggested that vaccine mandates during the coronavirus had led to lower vaccination rates, while conveniently leaving out his own network’s role in peddling anti-vaccine rhetoric to its conservative viewers that contributed towards plummeting confidence among Republicans.
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Speaker Mike Johnson claimed Elon Musk instantly has broken the codes to government agency data with his algorithms which will comb through the data, deciding who lives and dies in the federal government.
This is beyond disgusting and despicable.
Turning the entire federal government and all their agencies, which include thousands upon thousands of employees into the hands of the richest man in the world who doesn't understand how government works is criminal. To allow him access into the heart of the government's computer systems with his personal algorithms is treasonous to the public at large.
Notice how Johnson claims there is some global cabal conspiracy that has all the codes to unlock the deep state.
The problem is for decades, as we know, we haven't been able to do that job well. Because even though we requested the data and requested the insight, it was hidden.
How many of you know that bureaucracy was not forthcoming, right?
They're not transparent. That's the whole point. That's the problem.
That's the deep state we talk about.
So they were hiding from Congress.
We didn't know that USAID was funding drag shows in Peru or whatever, you know, transgender operas in Columbia or whatever, you know.
I mean, it's madness, but Elon has cracked the code. He is now inside the agencies.
He's created these algorithms that are constantly crawling through the data, and as he told me in his office, the data doesn't lie.
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Music streamer SoundCloud announced a partnership with Ticketmaster and Universe, owned by Live Nation, to let artists list events on their profile in a customized way. The company said it would create more promotion opportunities for artists in the future in partnership with Ticketmaster through a new promotion program but didn’t give any more details. […]
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NBC host Kristen Welker clashed with Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) after billionaire Elon Musk convinced President Donald Trump's government to slash thousands of jobs.
During a Sunday interview on Meet the Press, Welker confronted Mullin with news from his state.
"Here are some recent headlines in your home state of Oklahoma, quote, federal layoffs felt across indigenous communities in Oklahoma," the NBC host said. "Oklahoma University president says the National Institutes of Health funding cut would severely impact university research."
"Thousands of Oklahoma veterans and caregivers struggle amid cuts to VA," she continued. "This comes as there have been town halls all across the country, including in Oklahoma, protesting these cuts."
"What is your message to the people of Oklahoma who say they are being hurt by these cuts by President Trump and Elon Musk?"
Mullin insisted Democrats were "manufacturing these protests."
"But what about the headlines in your state?" Welker pressed.
"There has to be a reset. It has been abused," Mullin replied. "So if you want to start talking about actual cuts, what Oklahomans want is to make sure that we rid or we get rid of the waste and fraud inside the federal government. And that's exactly what the president's done."
On a cool morning last November, 800 people gathered before sunrise in a South Burlington hangar to witness the maiden flight of Beta Technologies’ first electric aircraft to be built on its new scaled production line. Kyle Clark, Beta’s enigmatic founder and CEO, piloted the Alia CX300 — one of the startup’s two aircraft models […]
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Jonathan Pie with his acerbic and foul-mouthed take on Trump selling out Ukraine to Putin. And interestingly, although he manages to call the UK's Nigel Farage a c*cksucker at least a half dozen times and a shitstain on the face of humanity, Pie deems Trump much, much worse.
The criminal trial against fintech startup founder Charlie Javice began on Friday, with lawyers laying out their opening arguments, Reuters reported. Lawyers reiterated their original claims and defenses from the lawsuit filed by JPMorgan Chase against Javice in December of 2022. The financial services giant alleges that Javice had helped “fake millions of customers in […]
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Former Republican lawmaker Joe Walsh told CNN that Trump acts like a Russian asset.
Where's the lie?
Trump has been acting like a flat-out Kremlin plant, doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin in every way, especially when it comes to the war against Ukraine.
Jim Sciutto, the CNN host, lightly pushed back against the idea that Trump is a Russian asset by saying there is no evidence to prove that. Really?
Hey Jim, actions speak louder than words.
The panel discussion was on a different topic, but Walsh returned to Trump acting like Putin's puppet.
WALSH: The American president right now could be a plant, could be a Russian asset.
I mean, think about that. Here I am. I know it's early in the morning to say something like that, but think about that.
And if the American people don't care about that, that Putin might have something on Trump, that he's an asset, that he's a plant, that he's doing the bidding of Vladimir Putin, if the American people don't care about that.
Well, the thing is, listen.
I'm sorry to get us off the topic.
SCIUTTO: We don't have evidence of that. I mean, the point about their positions being aligned is a different one.
WALSH: Everything he's done, everything he's said for eight or nine years is exactly what Vladimir Putin would say and want him to do.
Walsh is absolutely correct when he describes Demented Donald's actions that are in sync with Vladimir Putin.
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Thursday that it will launch a public inquiry into “censorship by tech platforms,” soliciting comments from people who feel they have been demonetized, banned, or otherwise censored due to their speech or affiliations. “Tech firms should not be bullying their users,” said FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson in a statement. […]
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Mark Zuckerberg’s charity has eliminated its DEI programs and efforts just weeks after assuring staff it would continue supporting DEI efforts, the Guardian reports. The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), co-founded by Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, will end internal DEI programs and no longer provide “social advocacy funding,” which provided grants for racial equity and […]
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For decades, couples going through in vitro fertilization have had to spend tens of thousands of dollars on the procedures with no guarantee of success. It’s not only an emotionally draining process, but a financially exhausting one as well. San Francisco-based startup Future Family wants to help ease some of that burden for couples with […]
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Trump's border Czar, Tom "General" Zod Homan, offhandedly dismissed a report by The Washington Post which says the Trump administration has wrongly branded several men as Tren de Aragua gang members who were sent to Gitmo.
Trump and his highly flammable Secretary of Defense claimed they were only sending the worst of the worst to Guantanamo Bay. Still, reports are out showing they're just picking random people up and shipping them out to concentration camps.
How did that work in the United States in the past?
VARNEY: The administration said the worst of the worst over the people. They were the people are going to be held in Gitmo, but there's an article in the Washington Post this morning says that some family members of those detained say they're being falsely branded as members of Tren de Aragua. What's your response to that, Tom?
HOMAN: That's the Washington Post. I mean, look, President Trump has just been clear. We'll put the worst of the worst at Gitmo. I've said it before, I'll say it again. No one's off the table. If you're in this country illegally, it's not okay.
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Social media is often about scale, but Nextdoor bet long ago on something different: that it could grow a big business off smaller, local communities. For years, the plan worked. The 15-year-old company has long been a dominant platform for neighborhood-based conversations, connecting users for everything from lost pet alerts to local business recommendations. Then […]
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Donald Trump told the press there's no need to study the effects his tariffs would have on the US economy because "there's nothing to study."
What, me worry?
With 330 million people in this country voting against Kamala Harris because of inflation, Trump refuses to do a minimal amount of preparation and data gathering before imposing harsh tariffs that will raise the prices of all goods and services.
REPORTER: Would you also direct agencies to study the impact they would have on prices in the U.S.?
TRUMP: No, there's nothing to study.
There's nothing to study.
It's going to go well. The United States is going to become a very, very strong economic, economically country.
The MAGA cult cannot have any scrutiny, transparency, or research directed at their plans because then they would be exposed as being complete failures.
Trump can't afford studies on his tariffs because, as the WSJ admitted early on, they will be a nightmare in the US economy.
REPORTER: Would you direct agencies to study the impact tariffs would have on prices in the US?
TRUMP: No. There's nothing to study. It's gonna go well. pic.twitter.com/R3whUTAN0T
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Five people have been charged in New York with murder after police say they tortured and killed a 24-year-old transgender man from Minnesota. According to the authorities, Sam Norquist's body was found in a field in Yates County after enduring months of torture.
In a GoFundMe, Sam's sister, Kayla, noted that he traveled to New York in late September to meet his online girlfriend. The last time the family heard from Sam was on Jan. 1. Since the launch of the donation page, Sam Norquist's body was found.
According to troopers, Patty’s Lodge Motel was the last location where Nordquist was known to be staying, and that's where they located the people involved with his alleged torture and murder. They are charged with second-degree murder.
News 10 reports:
At a news conference on Friday, Captain Kelly Swift of the NYSP Bureau of Criminal Investigations said Nordquist endured “prolonged physical and physiological abuse” starting in December.
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Broadcom and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) are separately exploring deals to take over parts of Intel, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Broadcom is reportedly considering an acquisition of Intel’s chip-design and marketing business, and would want a partner for the company’s manufacturing business, while TSMC is reportedly looking at controlling […]
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Super genius Elon Musk, the unelected dipshit, who is all in our business, is a goddamned fucking idiot, and his idiocy leaves us all at risk, considering the insufferable narcissistic fool has access to our data. What's weird is that the recently launched DOGE site is a .gov site; even though he wasn't elected, Donald is letting him run roughshod over the federal government. And it's easy to hack. Like, really easy.
Fortune reports:
Hackers wasted no time in infiltrating the Department of Government Efficiency’s website.
After its hasty launch this week, at least two pages of the site have been defaced by critics who seemingly have accessed a database the page draws from. Two messages appeared on two separate pages of the site, reading, “This is a joke of a .gov site” and “THESE ‘EXPERTS’ LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN.”
The hacked pages, though still accessible as of 10:00 a.m. ET on Friday morning, no longer appear to people who navigate to the DOGE website in traditional methods.
404 Media, which first discovered the hacked pages, quoted anonymous experts who said the DOGE page does not appear to be hosted on government servers and was pulling data from a database that can be accessed by third parties. That opened the doors for the embarrassing criticism.
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Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI plans to continue using 15 gas turbines to power its “Colossus” supercomputer in Memphis, Tennessee, according to an operating permit with the Shelby County Health Department for non-stop turbine use from June 2025 to June 2030. Why does it matter? The Commercial Appeal, a news outlet that obtained the documents, […]
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At 8:01 AM Pacific Time, former AUSA Barbara McQuade posted a notice on BlueSky that the entire Public Integrity section of the DOJ challenged, Survivor style, to decide which one of them would drop the serious charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams.
Harry Litman confirmed:
Meta is forming a new team within its Reality Labs hardware division to build robots that can assist with physical tasks, Bloomberg reported. The team will be responsible for developing humanoid robotics hardware, potentially including hardware that can perform household chores. Meta’s new robotics group, which will be led by Marc Whitten, driverless car startup […]
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A group led by Elon Musk's x.AI wants to buy OpenAI. Read five key takeaways from its offer letter.
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Watch out, FIFA. Researchers at Google DeepMind published a demonstration of miniature humanoid robots playing a one-on-one game of soccer. Training Robotis OP3, the researchers found they were able to learn movement skills like walking, kicking, and being able to recover from a fall. According to the report, the robots were also able to develop […]
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On Monday, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, offered to buy the nonprofit that effectively governs OpenAI for $97.4 billion. The unsolicited buyout would be financed by Musk’s AI company, xAI, and a consortium of outside investors, per a letter sent to California and Delaware’s attorneys general. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman quickly dismissed Musk’s bid, […]
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Leon Musk's teenage DOGE boy, Edward Coristine, who refers to himself online as "Big Balls," has taken on new roles as a senior adviser at the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security, the latter of which is headed by Deportation Barbie. I'm unsure of how a teenager becomes a senior advisor, but this is what happens when you have an unelected narcissistic dipshit billionaire acting as President.
On topic: We're being "governed" by middle school boys:
As Ellen reported this month, Edward Coristine (the balls kid) was fired from an internship after boasting how he had accessed “every single machine” and was suspected of leaking propriety information to a competitor. Marvelous.
OpenAI says it has spoken to government officials about its ongoing investigation into DeepSeek. The ChatGPT-maker previously claimed to have evidence that DeepSeek trained its AI models using improperly obtained data from OpenAI’s API. During a Bloomberg TV interview on Monday, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, Chris Lehane, said the company has talked with government […]
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A number of things Trump is doing--or should we say President Elon is doing--are threatening us in ways so dangerous, they could end our nearly 250 year republic.
Some we see now, some only in the future. Let's talk about on that is both: USAID, or Trump's devastating worldwide dumbassery. The shocking impact of TrumpMusk's global foreign aid cuts & complicity of GOP allies, includes not just an attack on humanity, but also self interest: Not having a global economic meltdown like 2008, another 9/11 or pandemic like, COVID, but maybe more deadly. Then there's mass migration b/c of these. I thought Trump was against it!? (He is..but too stupid to stop stepping on his own d*ck).
We show how decades of humanitarian efforts have been crippled with this move, and some may be impossible to restore. Also, how myths--or we might say, flat-out, rat-arsed, Republican lies--about aid spending have shaped public opinion, perhaps leading to catastrophic consequences.
With TikTok’s fate in the U.S. uncertain — its ban in the country has been paused, but only temporarily, thanks to an executive order from President Donald Trump — the ByteDance-owned company is now encouraging Android device owners to sideload its video app onto their phones and tablets. The company announced in a Friday X […]
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Unknown attackers may have exploited a zero-day bug to access data on locked phones, according to Apple.
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We'll have an open thread later in the day for the football game. In the meantime, sit back, get a hot beverage, and hang out here at C&L,
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President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the company formerly known as Twitter appears to be over. Trump sued the social media platform for banning him in the aftermath of January 6, 2021, when Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. While a federal judge dismissed the suit in 2022, the then-former president’s lawyers continued to appeal. Soon […]
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Earlier this week, Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) and Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA) pushed their way into Speaker Jebus Johnson's office in the hopes to confront Johnson and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent over what President Elmo and his posse of Fortnite rejects was doing with the personal information of everybody in the country. She took a minute to discuss why on CNN:
But the reality is, is that my phones are blowing up here in Washington, D.C. and in my district office, and all I've been able to say to people is that I don't know when they ask, not, you know, something that you didn't necessarily mention. Why do these people have access to my Social Security number, to my bank account, in addition to all of the things that you brought forth before?
Because I'm on the Ways and Means Committee, and under Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code, it is criminal to access someone's Social Security information without authorization. And what we saw was Elon Musk marching in with his group of young people, pushing away the federal employees demanding that they leave, putting them on leave, and having these young people stick their thumb drives in the computer, people with skills as engineers to be able to create back doors to the $6 trillion budget.
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Last month, Apple offered up more insight into its consumer robotics work via a research paper that argues that traits like expressive movements are key to optimizing human-robot interaction. “Like most animals,” starts the report, “humans are highly sensitive to motion and subtle changes in movement.” To illustrate its point, Apple pays homage to Pixar, […]
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A judge has temporarily blocked Yambo from placing 2,200 workers at the USAID on paid leave, hours before it was due to happen. Via BBC.com:
Judge Carl Nichols said he would issue a "very limited" temporary restraining order, in response to a lawsuit filed by two unions trying to stop Trump's plan to dismantle the aid agency.
Nearly all of USAID's 10,000 staff – except 611 employees – were due to be put on administrative leave from midnight on Friday under Trump's plan.
But the lawsuit, representing 2,200 of the employees, argued Trump was violating the US Constitution.
The judge sided with the unions, although it is unclear what will happen to the remaining staff's jobs. The organisations who sued told the BBC they were waiting for the text of the court order to find out how all employees would be affected.
A coalition of organizations and individuals have signed an open letter expressing concern at the U.K. government’s decision to appoint a former Amazon executive as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). The group, which includes U.S. tech outfits such as Yelp, DuckDuckGo, and Mozilla, says that the CMA must be “free from political […]
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An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold medalist in solving geometry problems in an international mathematics competition. The system, called AlphaGeometry2, is an improved version of a system, AlphaGeometry, that DeepMind released last January. In a newly published study, the DeepMind researchers behind […]
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At 11:55 AM on January 7, 2025, I was finishing up a Zoom call when there was a loud knock at my door.
I put the call on hold and answered the door. A worried neighbor asked me if I was starting to pack.
I didn't know what she was alluding to, since I was busy working on some articles before the Zoom call.
I stepped outside and saw smoke billowing in the distance, a sight I'd never seen in Tahitian Terrace. In that instant, my life and the lives of my friends and neighbors changed.
It didn't take long for the hellfire to ravage the Terrace and upend the lives of all those who lived there. I can't believe a month went by. Some days are a blur, and others are vivid.
I haven't discussed this event except in one interview and a few quick social media posts, but I will in the coming weeks.
I'm so grateful to the C&L community for your support and the C&L team that keeps C&L humming daily.
Dojo is Tesla’s custom-built supercomputer that’s designed to train its “Full Self-Driving” neural networks.
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson's defense of co-president Elon Musk and Donald Trump's unconscionable actions is to attack the media for reporting on it.
During a press gaggle, Fox News reporter Chad Pegram asked the right question about Article 1, the powers of the Executive branch and the unelected official known as Elon Musk that is causing havoc.
PEGRAM: By Republicans, on one hand, where we've been for years now, oh, we want to not have unelected bureaucrats in charge of things downtown, and yet ceding Article I powers to the executive branch under Elon Musk.
Is there not an inconsistency about calling for the elimination of the Department of Education? And yet we've heard from some of your colleagues here this morning, you know, we don't want women to be playing sports with men.
And aren't you ceding back that power, then, as it pertains to education, if you eliminate the Department of Education?
JOHNSON: No, look, I've got to challenge the premise of the question, Chad.
You know me. I'm a fierce advocate and defender of Article I. I mean, look, we are the legislative branch.
There's a reason the Founding Fathers put the Congress, the legislative branch, as the first article in the Constitution, and we're going to vigorously defend that.
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In a bid to boost its subscription service and attract more paying users, Snapchat is rolling out additional features for Snapchat+ subscribers, including allowing Snapchat+ subscribers to create AI-generated stickers in chats. The social media company and is also adding the option to send self-destructing Snaps. Snapchat+ subscribers in the U.S. can now create and […]
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On Tuesday, the CIA offered buyouts to its entire workforce. The agency told its employees they could quit their jobs and receive around eight months of pay and benefits. Every single employee at the agency received the offer.
So much chaos created by 47 and Elon right now can make your head spin. Donald has targeted the FAA and the FBI and now wants to gut the CIA. Meanwhile, Donald wants the U.S. to own GAZA, while Elon has gained access to the Treasury. And that's just the shortlist.
CNN reports:
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday became the first major national security agency to offer so-called buyouts to its entire workforce, a CIA spokesperson and two other sources familiar with the offer said, part of President Donald Trump's broad effort to shrink the federal government and shape it to his agenda.
The offer — which tells federal employees that they can quit their jobs and receive roughly eight months of pay and benefits — had up until Tuesday not been made available to most national security roles in an apparent cognizance of their critical function to the security of the nation.
CIA Director John Ratcliffe personally decided he also wanted the CIA to be involved, one of the sources said.
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Ransomware payments fell by more than one-third in 2024 as an increasing number of victims refused to negotiate with hackers. In a report published Wednesday, crypto forensics firm Chainalysis said that while ransomware gang leak sites posted more victims than in previous years during 2024, fewer victims gave in to the hackers’ demands. Chainalysis reported […]
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Donald Trump pretended Elon Musk is an expert at foreign and domestic government spending in the US to support his attack on the offices of USAID.
Trump's moronic response also tried to assure everyone that his administration knows what they are doing.
They are as fucking clueless as they were a few days ago when they sent out a memo halting all funding that almost crashed the country.
Oh, and Demented Donald lied about the phony $50 million condom purchase for Gaza because that's all the idiot knows how to do.
During a press gaggle, a haggard-looking Trump (only on the job for 12 days) was asked about Musk's raid on USAID.
Q: Why is it important for young people to have access to the payment systems at Treasury?
TRUMP: Well, he's got access only to letting people go that he thinks are no good, if we agree with him. And it's only if we agree with him.
He's a very talented guy from the standpoint of management and costs.
And we put him in charge of seeing what he can do with certain groups and certain numbers.
The numbers, some of the numbers are horrible, what he's found 100, think of it $100 million on condoms to Hamas, condoms to Hamas, and many other things that are frankly, even more ridiculous.
Hating a country (Musk hates too many to count) that is receiving aid is not finding waste.
Disgraced asshole Alex Jones told his sycophants that Trump has already given him sensitive information without asking for it.
Jones also claims that Trump and Elon Musk are going to get revenge on his, Jones's, behalf.
JONES: But let's just say the Trump administration released something to us that we just got yesterday.
I don't think our enemies are going to be too happy, but see, that news is minor. So it just goes over here on the side for now.
Woo, baby, because none of us that have been persecuted by this evil system are going to have any problems anymore once this is completed and there's no turning it back now.
So yeah, I feel like a trillion pounds have been lifted off of me.
Thank you, God.
Jones was rightly prosecuted because he was a scumbag that promoted lies and conspiracies that hurt American families. Trump is pissing on the Sandy Hook families who suffered from this creep and won a huge settlement against Jones.
JONES: And then Trump's going to start releasing all the secret intelligence agency and FBI investigations that have gone on against the American people, including me. We've already been given the first tranche of information.
That's fast, I didn't expect 12 days, that's yesterday, into this we're 13 now. I didn't even call, ask for anything, nothing. I said, let him move to the big stuff first, secure the Republic.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday to create a U.S. sovereign wealth fund and suggested that it could be used to purchase TikTok. The fund is expected to be created in the next 12 months by the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments, though it’s not immediately clear how. Trump has said previously […]
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He's such a rake-stepper. The Fucking News reports:
"[Mexico's President Claudia] Sheinbaum said she and Trump had come to a deal to push back the threatened tariffs by a month, during which her negotiators will try to come to terms with Trump’s crack diplomatic team of Fox hosts and Wall Street billionaires....And, by the way, just on Friday, Trump claimed he wasn’t looking for Mexico to do anything. “We’re not looking for a concession,” he said, as TFN pointed out this weekend. Which means accepting a concession is actually him backing down."
OF COURSE IT IS.
One colleague suggested that this tariff nonsense was a ruse to distract the news media from Elon Musk's taking over the Social Security Payment infrastructure, but I don't give Trump that much credit.
He's a con man who acts out a drama script to make himself look good for the rubes on Fox. If anything, this was a distraction from his incompetence, killing scores of American citizens in airline collisions.
It's all performative bullshit. And it's a shitty thing to do to our neighbors and allies.
But it crashed the stock market, so Trump's got THAT going for him.
India has expanded its Aadhaar authentication service to let businesses such as those in e-commerce, hospitality, and healthcare use the biometrics of individuals to authenticate their identity.
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OpenAI is announcing a new AI “agent” designed to help people conduct in-depth, complex research using ChatGPT, the company’s AI-powered chatbot platform. Appropriately enough, it’s called deep research. OpenAI said in a blog post published Sunday that these this new capability was designed for “people who do intensive knowledge work in areas like finance, science, […]
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Broadcaster Jim Acosta's a hero. Instead of accepting some ridiculous new time slot in a made up hour in the middle of the night, instead of lying down and accepting his corporate-media station's acquiescence to a wannabe dictator...Acosta quit on live tv, telling Americans not to bow down to "tyrant" Donald Trump.
He rightfully ripped CNN, his employer for years, in the very same sentence he trashed Trumpolini. When he said that "it's never a good time to bow down to a tyrant," he obviously made it clear he thought *someone* or some station, was doing exactly that. I wonder who?
Look, CNN's total garbage, with one arse after another coming in to run the original 24-hour news channel into the ground. Trying to attract MAGA mooks who'll NEVER WATCH. Ever. Their cult leader told them CNN's an "enemy of the people" and who are they to do any critical thinking, question their very own Kim Jong Un, but with a slightly worse hair...thing.
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Rep Eric Swalwell is doing exactly what the Democrats need to be doing more of: Posting videos on social media, dropping curse words (appropriately) and tearing Trump up for all of his non-stop bullshit.
From the DC plane crash to blaming DEI to Trump's overall stupidity about (waves hands around) EVERYTHING.
I mean, Trump can't do anything right. He can't comfort people. He is a clown. Instead of doing his job of leading the country, he spent his time trying to blame people because of race or gender. He is just a terrible person who can't rise to the occasion.
More of this, Democrats.
