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Why sheriff Taylor doesn't carry a gun. Clip from 'The Andy Griffith Show', season 5, episode 23. Broadcast on March 1st, 1965.

submitted 17 hours ago • 89 comments

You know what I see? I see a community reacting to gangs of armed masked men who look like nativist vigilantes, not legitimate, accountable law enforcement.

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

submitted 20 hours ago • 136 comments

MERZ: Tomorrow is the D Day anniversary, when the Americans ended a war in Europe TRUMP: That was not a pleasant day for you? This is not a great day MERZ: This was the liberation of my country from Nazi dictatorship

submitted 3 days ago • 1459 comments

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

submitted 3 days ago • 3023 comments

In retrospect, maybe the excitement in mainstream news media over the supposed ascendancy of Curtis Yarvin was a sign that the Silicon Valley Führerkult bubble was about to burst Yarvin as the pets.com of the techfash boom

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Audacious Ukrainian drone attack on Russian bomber bases. Several Tu-95 strategic and Tu-22 regional bombers destroyed or damaged. Both types are dual-capable and have been used to bomb Ukraine for years. Illustrates extraordinary vulnerability of bombers. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I’m old enough to remember when Republicans said, “We want immigrants to come, we just want them to do it the right way.”

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 354 comments

The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 238 comments

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options. I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

submitted 15 days ago • 92 comments

25 May 1929 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Edit Spitzer, was born. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

Literally thousands of people died in the Soviet Gulags sincerely believing that if only Comrade Stalin knew of the “mistakes”, they’d be let out

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

The pilot of a small private plane that crashed in a residential neighborhood of San Diego earlier this week faced fog as he attempted to land, while runway lights and a weather alert system at the airport were not working, investigators said.

submitted 15 days ago • 180 comments

Insane. Slight young woman traveling with mom to see U.S soldier husband. Strip-searched twice. Disappeared in the afternoon into the next day. No calls. Given no food. Finally, before being put on a plane, had 3 min. call w/husband who cried inconsolably. Husband has decided to leave the Army.

submitted 15 days ago • 58 comments

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 16 days ago • 315 comments

Again, in any sane country with minimally functioning political institutions, this immediately ends the chief executive's tenure. And again, this shameful nonsense didn't happen when the supposedly incapacitated old Democrat was in office. I'm sure Tapper & Klein will cover this in detail tomorrow.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

submitted 18 days ago • 747 comments

McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

submitted 18 days ago • 59 comments

People don't want a liberal Joe Rogan, they want a liberal Democratic leadership.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Missile defense doesn't work, but at least it's stupidly expensive, has no appreciable spillover into other research, and in fact the pursuit of it actively makes nuclear war more likely.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 18 days ago • 166 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 18 days ago • 350 comments

Rosen to Rubio: "I'm not even mad anymore about your complicity in this administration's destruction of US global leadership. I'm simply disappointed. And I wonder if your proud of yourself in this moment when you go home to your family ... I know you know this in your heart."

submitted 19 days ago • 792 comments

Public comments matter and matter disproportionately because of how few people usually make them. Removing access to all COVID vaccines to people under 65 without an “approved” “preexisting condition” is eugenics, conspiracist, & will increase COVID morbidity. 👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments