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Same person I was on that other platform. Here to read, hopefully catch up with folks I enjoyed conversing with, maybe meet some new folks, too.
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> Roommate has known him for 40-plus years. He said Boelter didn't express a lot of strong political views, but held strong views on abortion it's fascinating how we have created an entire alternative language for right wingers that separates them from having strong political views mid-sentence

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

submitted 2 days ago • 709 comments

I told you we’d be back

submitted 2 days ago • 1592 comments

It's funny that the way chatgpt obsequiously fawns at the users no matter how delusional they are being, is *exactly* what billionaires consider normal human interaction. To a billionaire, chatgpt just sounds like every single person they speak to.

submitted 44 days ago • 3 comments

I think it's easier to understand the current media environment once you understand that a whole bunch of ambitious people are looking at our descent into authoritarian oligarchy and thinking it's a great opportunity to audition as a courtier.

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

Yall are more annoyed by Glenn Greenwald’s sex tape than his racism and my god that’s the perfect encapsulation of 2025 I don’t give a shit what he gets up to . I care that he spent the past ten years preventing others from doing the same based solely on his feelings and his enablers

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

“I don’t want the world to end. I just hate Democrats.” I got news for you pal. There’s already a party for people who hate Democrats but don’t want the world to end: the Democratic Party.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

the thing about RFK Jr. is that every time he speaks it looks like he’s spending most of his energy trying to fend off The Transformation

submitted 15 days ago • 26 comments

Sickness as a Service

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Even by the standards of this administration this is vile and reprehensible stuff.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This is an oh-so-worthwhile thread to read and consider. It’s been said before, probably to the point of inanity, but: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Now is the time to heal these wounds, to put away real and imagined grievances and unify.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

"xlookup provides a more efficient way of navigating worksheets than either vlookup or index(mat—" you bolt awake in your apartment in Nîmes. You are not an office drone. It is 1295. You are Amatino Manucci and you have changed your mind. The future must not come to pass. Accounting must burn.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.

submitted 22 days ago • 48 comments

A coworker asked me why we have to calculate something a certain way, to which I replied, “Because…math.” Then I said it again, but a bit more slowly, in a lower, sadder voice.

submitted 22 days ago • 2 comments

NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives. Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

submitted 23 days ago • 33 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 25 days ago • 350 comments