Conservatives built an economy that requires two incomes to do what one did and then blamed women for going to work

People who characterize DOGE as having failed in its mission startle me.

Of course, that mission wasn't what the thoroughly and repeatedly documented straight-faced liars said it was, so I suppose there's room for some naïve folks to think that.

The mission -- "destroy one of the most successful governments in the history of the world as much as possible as quickly as possible while creating maximum chaos and taking a profit" -- was a stunning success.

"Online age verification"?

You need to know this.

https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/

tl,dr: ALL of the online age verification bills being presented in multiple states right now were written by Meta, which spent huge amounts of money to get them before legislatures, and they create a pervasive #surveillance layer within the operating system which allows anything running on your computer to query the age bracket of whoever is using the computer at any time, for any reason.

Compare this to what the EU built. The EU Digital Identity Wallet under eIDAS 2.0 is open-source, self-hostable, and uses zero-knowledge proofs. You can prove you're over 18 without revealing your birth date, your name, or anything else. No per-check fees, no proprietary SDKs, no data going to a vendor's cloud. The EU's Digital Services Act puts age verification obligations on Very Large Online Platforms (45M+ monthly users), not on operating systems. FOSS projects that don't act as intermediary services are explicitly outside scope. Micro and small enterprises get additional exemptions.

imagine not listening to Superman and Wonder Woman and Batman and still thinking you’re the good guys

Okay I've seen enough Epstein Files. Now show me the Epstein Trials.

Trumpenomics has brought a 17 year high in LAYOFFS to us. Another proud (sarcasm) moment for Trump. 💩
https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-layoffs-january-2026?utm_source=Common+Dreams&utm_campaign=d824cc66d3-Top+News+%7C+Thu.+1%2F8%2F26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-c56d0ea580-601459777

Does anyone believe the powerful people in the Epstein files have stopped abusing women and girls after Epstein's operation was shut down? Was it shut down? Who is doing the trafficking now?

#Epstein #abuse #EatTheRich

“We do not need to cover our eyes and pretend not to see what this logic leads to. It is not an accident that Republicans have over and over again blocked laws against child marriage. It is not an accident that Republicans made it their mission for decades to ban abortion.

A core plank of Republican politics is that women exist to bear children for men.”

4/4

https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

#GOPWarOnWomen #Epstein #Trump #Evangelicals #ChristianNationalism #Abortion #Women

I'm struggling to support my high school students and I need some help.

I've been going through food and supplies very quickly because a lot of my students and their parents are afraid to leave the house unless it's absolutely necessary due to ICE swarming.

I'm including my wishlist for my classroom, but there are other ways to help my students listed in my profile.

Thank you so much for your help! https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/PRZBAFA50CYE?ref_=wl_share

so moltbook and clawedbot are having a meltdown because it only took ten days for someone to realize it was a pietri dish for malware and packed the skills store full of backdoored malicious bullshit and they had no plan to deal with that inevitability? because this was a guarantee. it was GOING to happen. if we go save them, we are letting them fuck around, but not find out. they NEED to find out.

do not help

you are OBLIGATED to watch it burn

RE: https://nomenloony.com/@nomenloony/116019280517956996

Notes for Americans:

1. Until 1992 you had to wire your own plugs onto new electrical appliances in the UK (they were sold without pre-molded plugs).

2. Mains voltage is 230VAC, not 110VAC. It'll kill ya.

3. If you follow ChatGPT's advice *YOU WILL DIE*.

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/

I have just received the most pathetically amateurish fake PayPal payment notification #scam I have ever seen. Regard it and laugh hilariously.

Should you see such in your own mailbox, point, jeer, and please, please, do not neglect to fart in its general direction. Its mother was a hamster, and its father smells of elderberries.

"Greene’s admission matters because it pierces the myth from inside the tent. But it also exposes something more uncomfortable: she knew. Her newfound honesty coincided precisely with MAGA’s decision to discard her. She spoke only after Trump turned his political ire toward her and her family. Truth, in this case, followed exile—not conscience."

Marjorie Taylor Greene Admits MAGA Was a Lie—and the Truth Is Worse Than We Thought

https://egberto.substack.com/p/marjorie-taylor-greene-admits-maga

This is a coup in the making.

Senator Mark Warner of The Senate Intelligence Committee explains how the Trump regime is systematically dismantling the guardrails that protect US elections, and how Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has been hiding wistleblower information, hiding the affidavit related to the illegal search in Georgia, and inserted herself into an FBI operation where she does not belong — all in an effort to destroy American democracy.

https://www.youtube.com/live/BxYFcxJE8TQ?si=QBjhIqtFSoNujNi7

So you know, this is a really powerful fantasy for me as someone who as always felt like she's not allowed to take up space.

The new world order is about oil.
Same as the old one.

It's just that some of the people involved with the old one lost their stomach for oil, and so they were replaced with more willing participants in climate suicide.

#Politics

Why do we have such a gender imbalance at #fosdem & in tech in general?

A real conversation.

Marty: Maria, what do you think about ABC?
Peter: I don't want to speak for Maria, but... (keeps talking for a few minutes).
Anna: Thank you for sharing your perspective, Peter, but I would love to hear Maria's perspective.

If you observe someone dominating a discussion and answering questions that aren't directed at them, please be an ally and moderate the conversation in an inclusive way🧡
#dei #deib

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