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It’s fun to watch Tesla’s combination of declining sales, bad press, and tumbling stock price. Given the organic nature of the disdain for Musk in multiple countries, a brand so interconnected with its founder, and whose existing customer base are so...
by thoughtfulquestioning
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on Tue Mar 25, 2025 at 09:28 AM PDT
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Open Thread groups are great places for new kosaks to ask questions and pick up DK etiquette. Some groups are friendly in different ways than others, e.g., energy level. Most OTGs meet daily, and the list begins with those, by order of usual...
by mettle fatigue
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on Wed Mar 19, 2025 at 05:52 PM PDT
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An insider from Meta, the parent company of Facebook, wrote a book, Careless People, that is apparently not complimentary about Facebook, its culture, several of its big name leaders, its actions, and, based on the incoherent rage Meta is displaying...
by angryea
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 05:55 AM PDT
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I don’t really have too much to say as I’ve just woken up, but I wanted to make sure this story gets promoted. This is exactly how fascism starts (don’t worry, I am aware that it is already fully underway prior to this event). www.huffpost.com/...
by junxiondj4
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on Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 03:33 AM PDT
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When Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as president, he was surrounded by his billionaire benefactors : Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg—all of whom either contributed to ...
by Alex Samuels
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on Wed Mar 12, 2025 at 06:00 AM PDT
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After the 2024 presidential election, news stories proliferated about Donald Trump winning over the young male vote. On the surface, many said this was due in part to a genius move by his son Barron to get Trump on podcasts hosted by Joe Rogan and Theo...
by Alix Breeden
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on Mon Feb 24, 2025 at 05:01 PM PST
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As if last year’s debacle by Democratic politicians — piling onto the bandwagon to ban TikTok — wasn’t stupid enough, Dick Durbin says “Hold my beer.” Already having alienated a generation of young voters, in a mind-blowing act of political idiocy, our...
by Krotor
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on Sat Feb 22, 2025 at 06:20 AM PST
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Sometimes I wonder what the world would have been like if President Lincoln would have let the Confederacy secede. We would have had the free North and the slave South. The South, like North Korea, or communist East Germany would have had to have built...
by HappyDestiny
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on Fri Feb 21, 2025 at 02:10 AM PST
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DailyKos has at least 2500 groups of all kinds, active & otherwise. After 12+ years, the original larger edition of this local-etc groups index is no longer reviseable, due to time&tech-changes and the sheer mass of links. So, this edition is a copy of...
by mettle fatigue
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on Sat Mar 08, 2025 at 03:00 PM PST
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If you guessed that it was for Twitter shutting down Trump's Twitter account, you guessed correctly. We should have probably known that Trump had filed a lawsuit against Twitter. Banning him from Twitter after the January 6th insurrection left Trump no...
by Bill Addis
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on Tue Feb 18, 2025 at 07:32 AM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and ...
by side pocket
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on Mon Feb 10, 2025 at 09:02 PM PST
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Caribbean Matters � is a weekly series from Daily Kos. Hope you’ll join us here every Saturday. If you are unfamiliar with the region, check out Caribbean Matters: Getting to know the countries of ...
by Denise Oliver Velez
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on Sat Feb 15, 2025 at 06:00 AM PST
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Ultimate Fighting Championship head honcho Dana White revealed that he’s already made changes to Meta since taking a seat on its board of directors last month. In an interview with Tucker Carlson, White said that he has already “had some situations”...
by Alix Breeden
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on Fri Feb 07, 2025 at 04:00 PM PST
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump fans find out they're not immune from his deportation plans The latest installment of “Leopards Ate My Face.” Trump’s sweeping funding...
by Daily Kos Staff
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on Thu Jan 30, 2025 at 01:27 PM PST
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Meta has agreed to pay $25 million to settle a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed for suspending his Facebook and Instagram accounts following the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.
First reported by ...
by Alex Samuels
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on Thu Jan 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM PST
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I am here a lot less often than I used to be. Since Donald Trump is back in office, I would really like to be here with like-minded Democrats and others who are in the Pro-democracy movement. Right now, we have a huge problem. 1. Five of the world's...
by Dem
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on Wed Jan 22, 2025 at 05:33 AM PST
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As Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg rubbed elbows with fellow front-row billionaires during Donald Trump’s inauguration Monday, Instagram ...
by Alix Breeden
119 comments
on Wed Jan 22, 2025 at 06:45 AM PST
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“America’s government teacher” has had her annual MLK video blocked by Meta. She says this has never happened to any of her MLK content before. Not sure what the “rationale” will be, but thought folks on here might want to know. www.instagram.com/...
by August
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on Mon Jan 20, 2025 at 12:17 PM PST
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When I first joined nine years ago it was fun. I met some very cool people and enjoyed seeing their posts. I eventually discovered trolls. And watched as my blocked list grew from a dozen to a hundred. A thousand. A few thousand. I stopped keeping...
by A Pagan in Arizona
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on Sat Jan 18, 2025 at 07:52 AM PST
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TECH CRUNCH More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same...
by cbastian
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on Wed Jan 15, 2025 at 08:44 PM PST
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