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The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

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WATCH: “He was cutting grass.” Soboroff & Wallace on the sickening beating of the father of 3 Marines, and how @joerogan says he wouldn’t have signed up if he had know it would be like this, “tearing the fabric of the community”. (But he should have known)

submitted 23 hours ago • 403 comments

What is CREC? The Christian nationalist group has a vision for America − and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s support

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Verizon thinks I’m in Mexico, but I’m obviously not past the wall.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

ICE is literally beating and kidnapping Americans in the streets and disappearing them to gulags in other countries but yeah, let's instead demonize the Iranian American and American Muslim communities with good old "sleeper cell" fear mongering to distract from Trump's illegal war with Iran.

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

Plants and protests for Sunday afternoon.

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Twenty seconds of zen

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I think I’m tired today. I just very nearly poured my coffee on my contact lens instead of the contact lens solution. Guess I need to make sure not to set those next to each other!

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

man evangelicals are gonna be SO mad when this doesn’t trigger the rapture

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 144 comments

This. Seriously, this. Read it and weep.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Congratulations to the New York Times for once again helping a Republican president drag us into an illegal war based on bullshit propaganda!! Truly spectacular record!

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Democratic Congressman from Illinois on US attacks on Islamic Republic of Iran nuclear sites. Via Fox News.

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

In lighter news…I spotted a rare toaster oven in the wild.

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Of course it’s unconstitutional, it all is.

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

Sabino Canyon is NOT FOR SALE! Tell AZ-06 Rep #Ciscomani to demand Sen Mike Lee of Utah, take this out of the Senate Bill. @captmarkkelly.bsky.social

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It never ceases to amaze me why Capitalism thinks it can either buy its way out of this, or wish it away.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

BREAKING: In a unanimous decision, a federal court of appeals has ruled that Louisiana's law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all public school classrooms is unconstitutional. We’ll keep saying it: Public schools are not Sunday schools.

submitted 4 days ago • 1156 comments

Cloudy sunset

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Powell: Increases in tariffs this year are likely to push up prices and weigh on economic activity

submitted 6 days ago • 512 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 5 days ago • 557 comments

I'm fascinated by the evolution from the 90s era of "corporations" being the ultimate progressive boogeyman, to the current reality when corporations like Honda seem stable and responsible compared to the capriciousness and insane agendas of our current tech oligarchy

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Had another beach day today, but it ended with my daughter getting stung by a jellyfish, unfortunately. Was a lovely day though, until that happened!

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

This isn't about protecting children. It's about policing a gender system that puts everyone in a pink box or a blue one, that gives people higher social value if they're pinker or bluer than their box-mates, and that puts the whole pink box below the blue.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Totally. The G7 seemed to hard, and he didn’t want to share attention with 6 other nations. More fun to threaten war and put up special flagpoles!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

my goodness. someone on new york ave was killed by a driver hauling a tank post-army parade. a woman literally died for this useless excess.

submitted 6 days ago • 43 comments

My dad hasn't been receptive when I try to argue with him, but "damn that's just straight up cruel" used to scare the shit out of him because he is not emotionally capable of assessing a response like that. (I say used to because i have no idea if he's grown because, well, we don't talk).

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Whatever happens in the coming days/weeks, just remember that these sociopaths claimed up and down they’d never drag America into another war.

submitted 7 days ago • 136 comments

I was a kid then, and they fooled me at the time. But I’m not falling for that again.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

An Afghan man who worked as a translator for the U.S. military during the war was detained by ICE after showing up for a hearing inside of a federal courthouse in San Diego, his attorney says. He fears that if he returns to Afghanistan, he would be tortured or even killed, @nbcsandiego.com reports.

submitted 7 days ago • 858 comments

Gift link because it’s a good article. But this paragraph was the thing that stood out to me most: "Honestly, I think he seemed kind of stunned to be confronted directly with what he'd done," Smith said of their exchange, noting that he didn't say much in response.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments