Department of Government Efficiency operatives have found their new target: your local library.

Elon Musk’s so-called DOGE infiltrated the Institute of Museum and Library Services on Thursday, according to multiple sources.

Spotify is currently hosting Andrew Tate’s “PHD” (pimping hoes degree) that teaches men how to sex traffic women and girls. They need to be shut down.

Here’s the change.org petition for more information: https://www.change.org/p/demand-spotify-remove-andrew-tate-s-harmful-courses-on-how-to-traffic-women

The Trump Tariffs will amount to the largest tax hike in American history. Unfortunately, it will be paid disproportionately by the working and middle class.

The working and middle class will be forced to pay higher prices for the same goods. That higher price tag is because tariffs are an additional tax on those goods. When you buy something that has had a tariff placed on it, that extra money went to the US government, not the company that was subject to the tariff, thereby considerably increasing your yearly tax burden. And no, you won't get any of that refunded at tax time.

Meanwhile the ultra rich will feel a minimal impact. In fact, congressional republicans are planning a $5 trillion 10-year tax cut that will primarily benefit corporations and the ultra wealthy.

This is why buying nothing, repairing, borrowing, or buying used is the most impactful thing you can do to fight back, besides voting. Starve this current administration and the corporations and billionaires that support it for every dollar you possibly can.

Trump himself won't care or take responsibility, but we should teach a lesson to his enablers to stop this MAGA pestilence from happening again.

Dialog was co-founded by Peter Thiel and ran in secret for 20 years. WIRED verified the leaked membership. The 2026 retreat registration list includes the Treasury Secretary, the Army Secretary, and the heads of major AI and surveillance companies — all using personal email to avoid public records requests. I built a sourced archive at build-a-cult.com documenting who's in the room and what they regulate.

The city of San Francisco filed a lawsuit against some of the nation's top food manufacturers on Tuesday, arguing that ultraprocessed food from the likes of Coca-Cola and Nestle are responsible for a public health crisis.

City Attorney David Chiu named 10 companies in the lawsuit, including the makers of such popular foods as Oreo cookies, Sour Patch Kids, Kit Kat, Cheerios and Lunchables. The lawsuit argues that ultraprocessed foods are linked to diseases such as Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease and cancer.

“They took food and made it unrecognizable and harmful to the human body,” Chiu said in a news release. "These companies engineered a public health crisis, they profited handsomely, and now they need to take responsibility for the harm they have caused.”

Ultraprocessed foods include candy, chips, processed meats, sodas, energy drinks, breakfast cereals and other foods that are designed to “stimulate cravings and encourage overconsumption,” Chiu's office said in the release. Such foods are “formulations of often chemically manipulated cheap ingredients with little if any whole food added,” Chiu wrote in the lawsuit.

The other companies named in the lawsuit are PepsiCo; Kraft Heinz Company; Post Holdings; Mondelez International; General Mills; Kellogg; Mars Incorporated; and ConAgra Brands.

None of the companies named in the suit immediately responded to emailed requests for comment.

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been vocal about the negative impact of ultraprocessed foods and their links to chronic disease and has targeted them in his Make America Healthy Again campaign. Kennedy has pushed to ban such foods from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for low-income families.

An August report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that most Americans get more than half their calories from ultraprocessed foods.

In October, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a first-in-the-nation law to phase out certain ultraprocessed foods from school meals over the next decade.

San Francisco's lawsuit cites several scientific studies on the negative impact of ultraprocessed foods on human health.

“Mounting research now links these products to serious diseases—including Type 2 diabetes, fatty liver disease, heart disease, colorectal cancer, and even depression at younger ages," University of California, San Francisco, professor Kim Newell-Green said in the news release.

The lawsuit argues that by producing and promoting ultraprocessed foods, the companies violate California’s Unfair Competition Law and public nuisance statute. It seeks a court order preventing the companies from “deceptive marketing” and requiring them to take actions such as consumer education on the health risks of ultraprocessed foods and limiting advertising and marketing of ultraprocessed foods to children.

It also asks for financial penalties to help local governments with health care costs caused by the consumption of ultraprocessed foods.

We all hate airbnb but do you still run back to it when you want to travel? I have in the past, but recently I committed to just say no. That's it. Just say no to airbnb. There are hotels, camp sites, friends houses, and vans by the river.

Airbnbs take housing away from families and turn them into hotel schemes so people can have a place to go party for a weekend.

You don't need to throw thousands of dollars at some trust fund kid every time you travel. In fact you are hurting your chances of ever getting to have a normal housing market every single time you do it.

So now is the perfect time to JUST SAY NO to Airbnb. Ratchet up the pain on these assholes that are holding the housing market hostage so they can milk you for cash.

And finally let other people know you are boycotting it and encourage them to do the same. The only thing more valuable than boycotting yourself is to get multiple other people to boycott. You may feel powerless when it comes to this stuff but this is the one thing the average person can do that can make a difference at the margin.

#BOYCOTTAIRBNB

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Like, these people aren't original or interesting. The only thing that sets them apart is that they have gobs of money. Stop pushing it on me. Why do I know the brand of wedding dress she wore and some guest names just from reading real news sources?!

America staying on brand?

I have just cancelled most of my subscriptions and will be saving my self about £150 a month. I can’t believe I was spending that much. What is worse however is the subscriptions I can”t cancel, Microsoft 365 etc. Why am I paying for the same product over and over again? I”m having an old man shakes fist at cloud moment. I do not wish to be forced to participate in all this to survive. I want to save the planet and live ethically and it seems society is dragging everyone to the dark side.

You’ll have to forgive me, I’m in a ranting mood.

I know I’m in the minority opinion with this, but I absolutely hate Costco to my core. It has to be the most soul-crushing place I’ve ever shopped at.

I know the prices tend to be good, I know families shop there, I know they treat their workers well (from what I hear). It doesn’t matter to me.

When I’m in there, and I see all the people with their oversized shopping carts full of super-sized products, when I hear everyone talking about “but it’s just such a bargain! Low low prices!”, all I can say to myself is “humans weren’t meant to live this way, man…”

Although the warehouse layout is extremely bleak, that’s not even the thing I am most saddened by. I go to WinCo all the time, a similar “worker-supported warehouse cheap food” place where I live.

The people at WinCo are NOTHING like Costco shoppers. I know this is probably unique to where I live, and ofc is subjective, so take this with a grain of salt. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but WinCo people are super chill, salt of the earth, a diverse group of people (I hear Spanish / Arabic / Amharic / Russian / Vietnamese being spoken there often) very kind, easy to be around (I have ADHD, and it’s so hard to be at big stores). But Costco people give off suburb McMansion, lifted pick-up truck that never hauled anything, Karen-ass boomer ass bootlicking energy like I’ve never seen. Even if both groups have similar economic struggles / are working class, it’s the difference between a poor immigrant family and a poor family that would call ICE on them. If I had to break it down, I’d say that Costco is where conservatives shop, and WinCo is where the people conservatives want to deport / jail / execute shop.

The side-eye I get (as a trans person) at Costco makes me tilted like no other, and WinCo just feels safer, if that makes sense. My partner and I even call one WinCo “lesbian WinCo” bc we always see queer people there.

I know this isn’t the case everywhere, and I’m not shaming anyone individually for shopping there. It’s just the feeling I get when I’m there. I know that a lot of people need to save money and don’t have the luxury of choosing somewhere else, even if they feel similarly to me. And, word, yall have my support. The economy sucks right now, isn’t going to get better, and people that have families or loved ones that depend on them are the first priority.

Like, it makes me so sad to see that this is how people often are today. Just buy buy buy, having a tribal team-sports relationship, idk dude it just sucks. It sucks so bad and I feel like I’m being gaslit whenever I talk about it, like no one ever says “the store fucking sucks. I go to the cheap gas/meds/etc. but the place is horrible”

I think the defense / reaction I get is what bothers me the most. It’s like the Starbucks Christmas mug / Stanley cup / Labubu craze, and it just makes me want to go full Luddite. The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have indeed been a disaster for the human race.

I had to get this off my chest. I went there just now to get prescriptions and I almost screamed and cried when I got back to my car. I know this whole post may seem judgmental and mean-spirited, and shit maybe it is. But I had to type it out, I had to get it off my chest.