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So... according to Greenblatt, Elon doing the Nazi salute wasn't so bad. But students protesting... What a fucking disaster the ADL is. What a joke.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Resistance to tyranny and kakistocracy is our patriotic duty, not resigning. It’s using our privilege to stand up for what’s right. Watch Miami weatherman John Morales use his stage to educate and warn about Trump and Republican attacks on science.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

“Proponents of the House bill often claim that these Medicaid cuts can be achieved simply by imposing work reporting requirements on healthy, working-age adults. But healthy, working-age adults are by definition not heavy consumers of health spending…”

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 5 days ago • 1185 comments

Has Mr. Free Speech Absolutist commented on the State Department using social media (xitter) posts to block foreign nationals entry into the use for criticizing Israel?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

"In investigating the case, agents believe the person may have been involved in sending these letters, claiming to be from Reyes, in an attempt to have Reyes deported before the case could go to trial, sources said."

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

Asset tests should not be reinstated. They are a predictably ineffective and cruel administrative burden that make it impossible for the very poor to have basic dignity. From @pamherd.bsky.social and I in the @aeajournals.bsky.social‬ Journal of Economic Perspectives www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

Democrats remain vulnerable to the right's framing on an endless series of ginned-up moral panics. Dems' instinct is always to meet the right halfway on whatever bullshit they've cooked up. This is a result of not have their own policy platform beyond diet fascism and slightly less corruption.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

Wikipedia labors to stay up as tens of millions of dudes look up the U.S. Court of International Trade in order to explain it

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

“Strobel was using the bathroom that many conservative lawmakers and anti-trans pundits want to force him to use—and he got arrested anyway…”

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The updated total is that TACO Trump has now pardoned NINE former Republican members of Congress convicted of crimes.

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

The secretary of transportation literally goes on tv every day to talk about how pants-pissing terrified he is of public transportation

submitted 10 days ago • 289 comments

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

submitted 11 days ago • 299 comments

100 years ago today a Tennessee grand jury indicted science teacher John Scopes for violating the state’s law making it a crime “to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”

submitted 14 days ago • 240 comments

Glad this is finally getting attention from mainstream outlets. I wrote about it over a month ago on my Substack open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

lol mtg is fighting with a computer about god

submitted 15 days ago • 1224 comments