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The idea that the progressive left used the internet to bully institutions into accepting unpopular, far-left positions is the exact opposite of what has actually happened. The alt-right used the internet for ideological capture and they are now in the White House bragging about it daily

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we need to increase immigration. we have not replaced enough white people yet

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I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

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Posting this 1967 Birmingham News editorial cartoon for all the people who don't realize that this is how MLK was viewed by a big chunk of white America.

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Discworld QOTD, from Thud!

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Protesters Urged Not To Give Trump Administration Pretext For What It Already Doing

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the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

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You’re a billionaire, why don’t you buy it and make it perfect for us, get some real Nazi thought leaders to make it a richer experience Who in their right mind feels like they “haven’t heard from the other side,” god forbid we don’t hear from them for 10 goddamn minutes

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Nuance is an often overlooked angel… not all civil rights protest were peaceful

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borders and states aren’t real, anybody who wants to stroll into the U.S. should be able to do so whenever they want, I don’t fuckin care

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

fyi, arguing that dems shouldn’t outwardly support trans folks because you don’t think it’s a popular message is an argument that is aligned with fascism, and that doesn’t change just because you voted for Harris also you’re a bad person

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

every day there's some fresh actual nazi shit that 99% of people were never taught is actual nazi shit

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

Some of y’all can’t handle 2 high agency males going at it and it really shows

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“They had things like the U.S. Digital Service and 18F, the internal consultancy ... . They had that expertise in house, and they sacked them all. You have to wonder why they’ve done that.” 🤔

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

🔨 shut 🔨 the 🔨 fuck 🔨 up 🔨 nerd 🔨

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Once again, Dez drops it.

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 6 days ago • 534 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

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"I think we have a bias as people coming from the tech industry where we worked at companies, you know, such as Google, Facebook, these companies that have plenty of money, are funded by investors and have lots of people kind of sitting around doing nothing." www.npr.org/2025/06/02/n...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

normalize consequences for being a horrible little shit, actually

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Centrist pundits want the Democrats to be a party that appeals not to distractions like the demonization of marginalized people, or the unlawful abrogation of habeas corpus to terrorize them, but rather to the concerns of "real Americans"—that is to say, of centrist pundits.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Every streaming service should have two categories for documentaries, “Documentaries” and “Okay, But, Like, Actual Documentaries”.

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

The Eagles are only getting a sixth for Huff, aren’t they?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

In a world of Sophie Cunningham’s, be an A’ja Wilson, Happy Pride Month!

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

submitted 12 days ago • 106 comments

I remain convinced that the entire country, including Trump, would be much happier if we just Truman Showed him

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

Would be good if reporters ask the administration why they let a man they knew was constantly using psychoactive drugs to take a hatchet to the federal government and cause uncountable death and immiseration

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As I've said before, what we're dealing with fundamentally here, and have been dealing with for some time, is evil. Our political norms and political media prohibit talking about a mainstream political faction this way. But it is the truth. It needs to be known and it needs to be said.

submitted 13 days ago • 71 comments

Yeah, I’m going to need to know the whole story here. Did anyone actually see him say no to being shot? Idk. He’d probably gone hiking lots of times before. Who’s to say she didn’t just misread things? He put himself in that position. His parents should have taught him better.

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Trump's parade of losses in court really drives home just how fucking embarrassing it is that major law firms, media companies, and universities—rule of law, free press & higher ed being pretty much the backbone of a thriving democracy—didn't align their messaging against this bullshit from Day 1.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

the mRNA vaccines are an absolute miracle of science that saved millions of lives and we're going to throw the entire technology out because they could not vaccinate society against putting the worst and most ignorant people alive in charge of our medical system

submitted 14 days ago • 46 comments

this guy is trying to do his woe is me tale, and getting all these sit downs and fawning press. He is in a total PR crisis and the Legacy Media is here to help him out

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

It's a reminder that the Philadelphia Eagles beat Tom Brady and the Patroits 41-33 in Superbowl 52, that's what that is.

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I know it’s helped the Phillies, but LOL that ump is terrible

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JKR has now funded an actual anti-trans organization. She is achieving her final form. Meanwhile, several commenters have noted that the application form has no email requirements and have done some sample applying. Just saying.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

So there you have it. Yet another "norm" the GOP convinced our geriatric caucus to support and defend for years knowing they'd have the sack to eliminate it in the future because Dems didn't.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

You can tell it's a Republican bill because if it was a Democratic bill the headline would highlight the $3.8 capital-T Trillion it is adding to the federal deficit in the most breathless terms imaginable, and the entire article would be devoted to wondering how it would ever be paid for.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

VICTORY

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