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Nostalgia in politics can work for more than one thing, it doesn't only have to be a guy saying "Don't you miss being racist" it could be a different guy saying "Remember when people had pensions"

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

i haven’t seen technology this forced on all of us in my life time. they’re trying to make it so we have no choice to use this shit

submitted 7 days ago • 243 comments

The cement king of Sioux City who drives a brand new F-350 and has two vacation houses in Florida isn't an elite but a grad student with $200,000 in debt and a nose ring is, that's how this works.

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 28 days ago • 116 comments

"Your health records will be on the block chain." "Everyone will live in the Metaverse." "All art will be NFTs." "Generative AI will replace the need for humans." We need to reckon with the reality that the tech industry no longer creates things that anyone wants.

submitted 29 days ago • 76 comments

"Why aren't young people protesting?" Consider—because they all got their shit rocked by police and prosecutors last year trying to stop a genocide, and you abandoned them.

submitted 30 days ago • 165 comments

“Mr. Prada’s disappearance has created concerns that more immigrants have been deported to El Salvador than previously known. It also raises the question of whether some deportees may have been sent to other countries with no record of it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

submitted 35 days ago • 43 comments

America has generally been insulated from the worst effects of economic downturns, even ones of our own making, because investors assumed that at the end of the day the country was run by grown-ups. No more.

submitted 35 days ago • 7 comments

It certainly looks like Elon Musk’s henchmen stole all the data from the agency which protects workers rights, tried to cover it up, and then threatened to kill the guy who blew the whistle on it.

submitted 42 days ago • 83 comments

Not Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Firebombing a Jewish governor‘s house during Passover - Doing a Sieg Hitler salute - Eating dinner with neo-Nazis Antisemitism (according to MAGA): - Saying Israelis and Palestinians deserve rights and dignity - Using freedom of speech on campus

submitted 44 days ago • 41 comments

this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...

submitted 50 days ago • 285 comments

I mean, true, but not by changing statutory rates...

submitted 51 days ago • 102 comments

"Modes of production"? Is Marco an Althusserian?!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is basically pressing all the “do not touch” buttons simultaneously: mass layoffs, increasing prices, undermining consumer and international confidence. Not sure what else he could be doing to trigger a recession, let alone longer term US decline

submitted 55 days ago • 79 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 62 days ago • 1907 comments

NEW: Minnesota Republican state Senator Justin Eichorn, co-author of the "Trump Derangement Syndrome" bill that just made headlines, was arrested yesterday in Bloomington for allegedly soliciting sex with a 16-year-old girl. minnesotareformer.com/2025/03/18/g...

submitted 70 days ago • 373 comments

why does everyone hate my car | patreon.com/lubchansky

submitted 71 days ago • 11 comments

Oh and one more thing... This man's cronies take power and suddenly there's an egg shortage? Sus if you ask me

submitted 73 days ago • 53 comments

I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”

submitted 85 days ago • 39 comments

Pete Hegseth isn't just a Christian nationalist, he's FAR to the theological right of anybody even close to national power in modern history. Ted Cruz is Ned Flanders next to Hegseth. I've been reporting on the Christian Right for 20+ years. This isn't just "another one"; this is new & worse.

submitted 134 days ago • 35 comments