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Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 17 hours ago • 245 comments

very cool that for ten years people at the heights of political commentary insisted to the point of rage that the paramount threat to free speech was “censorious” college students

submitted 19 hours ago • 235 comments

Missed the worst skeet (30 Seconds to Mars, easily) Best: 1. Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, Granada Theater 2024 I think 2. Chance the Rapper at ACL Fest, 2017-ish (lol) 3. Slothrust in Bend, Anaheim, DC, and basically anywhere else I’ve seen them 4. Naked Giants both times 5. Gungor (????)

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

"cost-cutting team" is a lot more letters than DOGE. it's also simply inaccurate.

submitted 21 hours ago • 30 comments

I know he's younger than the previous pontiff, but even so, this is pretty impressive stuff given the limited time he'll have had in nets recently.

submitted 22 hours ago • 69 comments

House Rs had a cushion & could have passed this bill even w/o D deaths, but the larger point & the other two instances? accurate. we're in a race between authoritarian consolidation & next-gen opposition candidates & non-fighting older Ds need to get out of the way. Check out @runforsomething.net

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

8 YEAR OLD, EATING LUNCH WHILE THE PAT MCAFEE SHOW IS ON A TV NEARBY: Is that Gordon Ramsay?

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

The Trump administration is building a central online marketplace for the Intelligence Community to buy private information about individuals from unregulated data brokers — coming soon to www.icdata.gov theintercept.com/2025/05/22/i...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

Gotta get my ass to Walgreens for my meds because I ran out last night and I am not ok

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

jesus fucking christ. burn the new york times to the ground

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

We 👏🏾 need 👏🏾a 👏🏾Jordon 👏🏾 Hudson 👏🏾 for 👏🏾 the 👏🏾 left! 🏈💰

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Something every Dem in Congress and those who care about it (and our democracy) should be pondering today.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

bro it’s okay that you need ai to help you write an email. anubis has weighed your soul against the feather of fate and found you unworthy. prepare to be devoured

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

rfk in his position given to him in exchange for dropping out of the race, thinking to himself every day "finally I can stop people from being protected against illness!" truly, this country sucks

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

When I wake up in the morning and discover computer bought plane tickets to England for 500 five-year-olds I will just have to remind myself computer knows best

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I am just choosing to hear the people saying they let AI do their research for them as an admission that they’ve never done research that prompted them to have one new thought

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I've been wondering when all the people who screamed about a few emails from the Biden admin turning Meta and Twitter into state actors would realize that Musk and Trump in the government mean that their social media sites... might actually be state actors? Someone has sued, but it's a bad lawsuit

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

planning a child's birthday party for next saturday? this man's never done an ounce of domestic labor in his life and is already dreaming of how to outsource it

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

This is my favorite kind of AI take: phrased as a dunk but immediately grants the central complaint that most people are actually making about LLMs, which is that they do not and cannot do the thing they’re widely marketed to do

submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

16 senate democrats voting for the "sir, wait a second, i don't think your gun has enough bullets in it" act

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

@ossoff.bsky.social your team needs to stop texting me for fundraising. All you do is enable this shit. What is wrong with you.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

the DOJ is literally arresting Democratic members of Congress and Senate Democrats are voting to pass Republican legislation

submitted 3 days ago • 131 comments

yes, there's the version of sex positivity that's like "sex can be cool but also not cool, let's talk about it like it's a normal thing" and that's not what happened

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I cannot believe he's going to wind up being better than George Pickens

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Stupid because the actual fight right now is the vast majority of Democratic voters against a few of their own senators who want to legalize crypto money laundering

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Out: -Take him seriously, not literally -It's not fascism, stop being hysterical -Resistlibs are so cringe In: -Orange Man Bad -They are fascists and segregationists -You can predict them by just listening to what they will say they will do

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey? guard: [looking away] fine wife: did something happen? guard: [tearing up] no wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

submitted 4 days ago • 71 comments

“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Nuggets are not having fun out there

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

at this point I am tapping the "absolutely none of this has ever been about protecting American Jews" sign roughly five times a day

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

In what might be the logical endpoint of American Zionism, the Heritage Foundation has declared that pro-Palestinian activism is not just antisemitic, but is in fact a shadowy global conspiracy … led by Jews. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

>We’re putting a 27% tariff on your exports >No wait we’re just doing 10% >No wait we’re gonna give you a letter with your new tariff >Letter says 27% Okay what’re we even DOING here

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

They want him to be Hitler. That’s not an exaggeration or quip. That’s literally what they want, a complete evaporation of rights ceded to the state’s whims over who is a person.

submitted 6 days ago • 41 comments

real gutting background to the most lunatic anti-science government in American history: an endless stream of staggering medical innovations

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

the 86 thing is a fun little litmus test for has this person ever had a service industry job and I for one am shocked shocked that the party of the downtrodden white working class is unfamiliar with working in the back of the house

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

Whether Pete Rose ultimately makes the Hall of Fame is not really the issue. What's happening here is the further colonization of everything in our world by the diseased mind of America's foremost malignant bozo.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

there is no conspiracy these people won’t slop up and embrace. they have completely abdicated their duty to exercise judgment and discretion

submitted 7 days ago • 44 comments