ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @ ReallyActuallyFrankenstein @lemmynsfw.com

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I was having a hard time imagining a worse reality than this one, thank you.

Sounds inefficient, but if your goal is to create deep fear and trauma, it's pretty darn efficient!

Careful, we can't complain or they'll replace them with someone even more incompetent!

Oracle is a surprising one. Larry Ellison is the Ur-right-wing techbro. I wish there was more about this.

Gee, it's almost like bad things happen when you don't give people a hearing, due process, or investigate allegations.

Trump, Miller, Noem and the ICE bootlickers are so drunk with unchecked power. They have qualified immunity to civil liability but they are not immune to criminal violations. And they are in fact acting criminally by unlawfully restraining people including US citizens, and refusing to recognize established constitutional rights.

So what is left to do? Arrest the ICE members is what needs to happen. Normally, the DOJ would punish those who violate criminal and constitutional laws, but Bondi does not and has never intended to defend the Constitution or prosecute ICE. The US Attorneys are nearly all replaced. Local law enforcement has the same authoritarian sympathies and have almost universally ended up helping ICE. I suppose the last line of defense is citizen's arrest. But Bondi will certainly make examples of regular people if they try to arrest ICE members.

Realistically, what's left?

The attorneys in it for the money dropped off at the time of his impeachments. Those that are left? They are gambling for access to power.

Pam Bondi and Alina Habba were Trump's personal lawyers. Stupefyingly incompetent conspiracy theorists and utterly uninterested in a payday (along with justice or truth). Their only qualifications were that they drank Trump's Kool-aid and were pushing it on the public. They are now the Attorney General and US Attorney for the District of New Jersey, respectively.

Also, Musk is notoriously overconfident that he can learn anything better than experts. No doubt in my mind he's decided how much ketamine and other drugs he "needs," and has pliant doctors to agree.

Education, healthcare, social safety nets, school lunches...It's pretty much conservatives punching children while saying "stop punching yourself," the whole way down.

Oh look, the worst people in the world have thought about things and have some exciting new ideas.

TPM was known to be a DRM Trojan horse in 2004. Then everyone forgot about that fact.

Sure, pushing Linux is just a new angle, but don't think for a second that TPM has any purpose other than making your own computer trust a cabal of corporations over you, the owner. And if there is a critical mass of TPM standardized hardware, such that a "trusted" environment is the standard, it will lock you out of major use cases on all "untrusted" systems, including Linux.

And that deserves a lot of outrage.

I mean, you're not wrong - hard to pick a favorite.

Ahh, good idea. I think I have the excerpt from our handy guide on how to be friends with rich people:

Step 1

Be rich.

"Inside you are two weird d----," posted Bluesky user April Wolfe. "This is about Katie Miller."

Ok, calling it. That might be the most efficient roast of three people ever.

Tech execs when the shortage hits: I just had a brilliant idea! Let's just give untrained junior vibe-coding engineers the power of senior engineers, and even more AI tools. Problem solved forever, bonus please!

Nope, you're good.

HuffPost puts out a lot of filler articles, but this isn't one of them.

Even though the writer pulls a few punches in the name of professional responsibility (yes, we know Trump isn't your patient, but let's just agree, he meets all the criteria of a narcissist), Trump's use of narcissistic abuser tactics is the single most important observation we need to collectively make to recover as a country. I've been banging this drum for a long time - we are trapped in a compulsory relationship with Trump.

Mass media allows Trump to personally abuse us to ensure we keep giving him attention and acceding our power. There's no difference between us and another domestic psychological abuse victim, except that we're multiplied by 350 million and Trump has unprecedented power to make our lives miserable to get what he wants.

Until we call this what it is - narcissistic abuse - we're never going to break out of it.

Putin, who has maintained the same “tight team” of top diplomats around him for the past 25 years, dispatched his Stanford-educated economic adviser Kirill Dmitriev, former ambassador to Washington Yuri Ushakov, and Sergei Lavrov, his comic villain foreign minister, to recent talks in Saudi Arabia.

“These guys are really skilled diplomats. They all speak absolutely excellent English,” said Hill. “They can talk the hind leg off a donkey. They can turn you around in circles. They’ve got an answer for everything.”

Batting for the US are Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, Mike Waltz, Mr Trump’s erstwhile national security adviser, and his special envoy Steve Witkoff, a former real estate dealer. Between them, they have less than a year’s-worth of cabinet-level experience.

So, what does the dancing Russian bear make of these three cotillion debutantes? “They’re eating the neophytes on the US side for dinner,” said Hill.

I saw Hill's testimony and she is extremely credible and intelligent. This is her bottom line, and it is that we are fighting global information and geopolitical warfare against a merciless and shrewd veteran with a clown car circus act.

That's a hell of an act. What do you call it?

Yeah, a sarcastic GIF but you are technically correct (the best kind).

The only states it's lower than are:

• New York