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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

"Pol Pot said the repercussions over the skull piles were severe. 'The Khmer Rouge is just becoming the whipping boy for everything,' he said. [48 paragraphs down]: "The Washington Post can report that Khmer Rouge, led by Pol Pot, was in fact responsible for the skull piles."

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

A little more Wu Tang, a little less Ku Klux

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

And in an unexpected twist, it turns out the most punk rock things of all are supporting public broadcasting and patronizing your local library and not cheating on your homework with AI

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

I am an Old and just realized my fingers must now be ENORMOUS. Like envied by the Mad King-sized.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

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 14 days ago • 53 comments

Same

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Harrowing just to read. My home was destroyed in the 2013 Boulder floods, but Helene was a different beast. Great reporting by @propublica.org

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"...white people, who make up about 7 percent of South Africa’s population, own more than 70 percent of the land and occupy most top management positions in the country." fleeing privilege to cosplay oppression is the whitest thing ever

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

You’re allowed to argue that black people and women are genetically inferior. But you’re NOT allowed to argue they are NOT inferior because that’s divisive. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/09/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 138 comments

I assume we'll be hearing about this from the New York Times for four weeks straight, right?

submitted 25 days ago • 38 comments

The cost of Grok: "I can't breathe at home, it smells like gas outside. How come I can't breathe at home and y'all get to breathe at home?"

submitted 25 days ago • 121 comments

You know what else reports a net loss every quarter? Every single police department in the country.

submitted 25 days ago • 66 comments

Ghouls

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV to replace wine and wafer with Malort and tavern-style pizza for communion.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

First Chicago-style Pope

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

On the 8-year anniversary of Colorado's costliest hailstorm on record, we find out that we won't be able to track billion-dollar disasters moving forward. This list doesn't mention climate change - it allows us to contextualize storms. Shameful.

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

And the dolls quote still gets me. “Nothing to worry about … just those greedy, vacuous little girls will only have 2 dolls.”

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Some Democrats—Booker, Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez, Weiser— have begun to model what real resistance to a fledgling dictatorship looks like. This is a welcome alternative to the shoulder-shrugging and rank complicity practiced by other Democrats, who appear to equate minority status with helplessness.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

They can do this to any of us. Falsify charges without evidence, brand with scary buzzwords, villainize to rationalize their evil acts. We need to understand that Trump and his crowd can NEVER BE WRONG in their own eyes. They’ll reverse engineer a way to be right, and their hordes will eat it up.

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

I just really fucking hate these people.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

submitted 51 days ago • 1605 comments

When you are one hundred percent committed to battling anti-semitism:

submitted 54 days ago • 93 comments