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been saying this for like 3 years now, the core constituency of the "manosphere" is not Gen Z or teenage boys, it is 35-55 year old dudes who wish they were still teenage boys

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This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

“Just having an enviable job, while not being a straight white man, is grounds for suspicion – especially if you have the audacity to champion lifting others up the ladder.”

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

you have to be so unbelievably insecure about your own masculinity to think something like this let alone say it out loud

submitted 9 days ago • 26 comments

if you've ever wondered why -the administration keeps passing laws abusive to children -generations of christians have embraced authoritarians so fulsomely -US policy towards Israel is so weird -and more, look no further than MY BOOK bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

submitted 43 days ago • 49 comments

"Perhaps that’s the first thing we need to acknowledge to ourselves: nothing will feel like enough because everything we know and love is at stake. No individual’s actions will be commensurate with the threats we face. But we can each endeavor to do the next right thing, whatever that means for us."

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 10 days ago • 167 comments

I think this is the message. The big bad federal government and some strangers you don’t know probably not even your neighbors want to tell you what you can and can’t do and what your kids can and can’t do. Sounds like a nanny state to me.

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"Understanding that the intention was to scare us, confuse us, and cause us to self-censor, my position [is a] commitment not to be scared. . . and not to self-censor. To avoid anticipatory compliance." -- Dilys Schoorman, Florida teacher educator interviewed by @csleeter.bsky.social #TeachTruth

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“Since at least the 1920s, policymakers have been making the argument that tax cuts will partially pay for themselves,” said historian Joseph Thorndike. “The argument that cuts pay for themselves is not supportable, either in the economic literature or the historical literature.” on.ft.com/3ZqYj3a

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

What’s important is that government is getting out of business’ way and just letting the free market work again

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I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 10 days ago • 80 comments

Who wants to do this with me?

submitted 15 days ago • 17 comments

Peggy Frank loves old research books, especially ones about history. But they aren't always available through her local library collection in suburban Naperville, Illinois, where she's lived for the past 45 years.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

It is genuinely so hard to fight against people who have no compunction or shame about lying. They just lie! And then the rest of us have to both debunk the lie AND make the counterargument. It's exhausting and stupid and also so effective, it makes me feel like I'm losing my M I N D

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

You see it right?!

submitted 16 days ago • 38 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Equal Rites “She knew a cutting, incisive, withering and above all a self-evident answer existed. It was just that, to her extreme annoyance, she couldn't quite bring it to mind.”

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

there are two big reasons behind the fact that all GOP policymaking is now through executive fiat one is that they're fascists who long for a king to rule them with an iron fist the other is that they suck absolute shit at legislating

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"The NEH’s entire budget is about $200 million — less than what the Department of Defense spends every six hours. And yet its reach touches towns that rarely see federal investment in education and culture."

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“This vote affirms that the State of Connecticut is no longer willing to be handcuffed by Big Publishing’s unfair pricing for digital content." --Ellen Paul, ED of the Connecticut Library Consortium WE LOVE TO SEE IT.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

submitted 17 days ago • 2325 comments

Please check in with your fed friends. It's kinda stressful here You’re fired You’re rehired You’re refired You’re staying but your team is fired Your team is staying but your funding’s cut You’re moving across the country, maybe Restraining order 🛑 Restraining order against the restraining order 🔙

submitted 17 days ago • 34 comments

NEW: A federal judge in Denver has rejected a delay in My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell's election denial defamation trial. Lindell's attorneys asked for more time as they face potential sanctions for submitting an AI-generated brief full of make-believe nonsense. #copolitics

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

how much of the DOGE-driven destruction of the nation’s research and development capacity is because these people are AI cultists who believe that we’re on the verge of creating a sentient general intelligence?

submitted 17 days ago • 312 comments

given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!

submitted 17 days ago • 196 comments

It remains unclear what exactly the administration means by “returning emergency management to the states” but the last time states were completely on their own with disasters was December 1802.

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

For 225 years, the Library of Congress has collected America’s stories and kept Congress informed. The American Library Association stands with America’s library.

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Everyday regular-folks Democrats totally get it. Why can't the electeds?

submitted 17 days ago • 21 comments

If you sat down a random panel of Americans and told them what Republicans are currently doing, my guess is that the vast majority simply wouldn't believe you. It comes off like you're describing a Bond villain. The reality sounds wildly different & more extreme than what they hear organically.

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

Drug fatalities in the U.S. fell by about 30,000 last year, the CDC reported, a drop of nearly 27%.

submitted 18 days ago • 187 comments

Portugal is taking online disinformation and fake news seriously. As part of a broader attempt to encourage media literacy, it’s offering 15-18 year olds a free digital subscription to a range of respected newspapers and magazines as well as online upstarts that don’t spread lies. (Monocle)

submitted 18 days ago • 123 comments

You will not be surprised that the fetus is not doing well. But antis want to prop up the myth that the woman is just a "vessel," so they ignore that a dying woman isn't in the position to bring forth another life.

submitted 18 days ago • 35 comments

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism. Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

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