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Shoutout to Daniel Bice of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, who’s been on the Judge Dugan story all week. You can catch up on his coverage here www.jsonline.com/staff/264800...

submitted 22 days ago • 48 comments

If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:

submitted 23 days ago • 90 comments

When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 25 days ago • 268 comments

The National Park Service quietly edited its website about the Underground Railroad to remove key references and quotes from Harriet Tubman and soften its language about slavery

submitted 41 days ago • 36 comments

1) This is the first time someone has explained why so many campaigns send those spammy “donate by midnight!” messages 2) I donated $5 because it’s what I can spare and I believe it will be put to good use

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Just donated to a campaign for the first time in my life, I hope you'll watch this and donate too.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

I keep seeing comments like these and it's making me emo (in a good way!) I hope we see a lot more candidates who inspire people to donate or volunteer for the first time <3

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

All through US history classes in school, I thought Marbury v. Madison sounded like SCOTUS judging themselves to be in charge of what the Constitution means. And every time, my teachers would insist that wasn't what the case, SCOTUS was just following the law, this wasn't them taking over.

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

"I had a Canadian passport, lawyers, resources, media attention, friends, family and even politicians advocating for me. Yet, I was still detained for nearly two weeks. Imagine what this system is like for every other person in there." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 59 days ago • 10 comments

They're abducting people for the suspected views of their spouses in the middle of fucking Georgetown

submitted 59 days ago • 4 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 68 days ago • 612 comments

@katmabu.bsky.social made this point, but it really needs to be underlined and repeated to yourself: If progressive ideas weren't popular, billionaires wouldn't be spending all that money to crush them

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

RIP George Lowe, the voice of Space Ghost, a show that emitted a specially tuned frequency to my 12-year-old self. "I'm driving down Highway 40 in my big ol' pickup truck, Katie," in a Tom Brokaw impression still rattles around in my head all of the time for no reason.

submitted 74 days ago • 31 comments

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submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

Really loved this piece by @nicksylvester.bsky.social about the necessity of inefficiency—in governance and art—and what happens when it’s sacrificed in both worlds. I’m biased but I think his substack (mostly about music) is terrific + everyone should subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/smartdum...

submitted 88 days ago • 38 comments

The quiet part out loud. But what Watters isn’t saying—and what is most critical to understand—is that the right’s entire model is top-down. It’s funded by and totally in service of capital. The conservative movement is a corporate counterrevolution, funded by the biggest money in America.

submitted 89 days ago • 22 comments

LOL Stancil was right again.

submitted 92 days ago • 48 comments

Hey NYTimes — now you’re lighting the beacons? NOW?!? After months of “Sauron: Avatar Of Evil… Or Extreme Uniter?” thumbsucker reporting you’re screaming what we’ve known since 2015? Fuck all the way off.

submitted 97 days ago • 3168 comments

they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever

submitted 97 days ago • 1033 comments

Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 97 days ago • 562 comments

This is it. This is the take.

submitted 99 days ago • 50 comments

I mean... it doesn't get better than @elienyc.bsky.social Have kids? MUST READ Don't have kids? STILL MUST READ Wake up to the future, Ladies and Gents

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

submitted 99 days ago • 926 comments

I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)

submitted 103 days ago • 92 comments

I can't believe this is a message that Democrats don't already know... but I'm reposting because it's a message Democrats don't already know. :(

submitted 103 days ago • 60 comments

If you happen to renew your passport successfully and manage to change your gender marker, please for the love of god don't post about it online.

submitted 116 days ago • 79 comments

If you are a visa holder/temp resident in the U.S., and your child was born here and doesn't have a passport, GET A PASSPORT FOR THEM IMMEDIATELY. Like, make the appointment this week. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/u...

submitted 115 days ago • 1 comment

If you're like me (read: queer, an immigrant, not white, etc) and sitting there wondering why your civil rights are disappearing, you should probably watch this immediately.

submitted 117 days ago • 6 comments

People getting more pleasure out of being mad online as opposed to celebrating with friends is kinda why waves hands around things aren’t great, period

submitted 118 days ago • 24 comments

Got yer dinner 😘

submitted 126 days ago • 4 comments

Been working on thirst traps with food over here (be gentle, it’s our first time 🥺)

submitted 126 days ago • 0 comments

hey all, conservative commentator here and just a heads up…if you followed me for my expertise on vaccines, inflation or the ukraine war, gonna pivot to being an expert on firefighting and forest management for awhile

submitted 126 days ago • 16 comments

This right here is very much the problem. We're in "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" grinder. And it's not really like we can just tell the truth faster because truth needs to be based on facts that are not always immediately available.

submitted 128 days ago • 10 comments