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Intravenous Bartender in Rural NYS. Gotta stay up to speed on all the followings. American Prospect, The Lever, Inthesetimes. Wired etc. Just a cheerleader for my wife who’s kicking ass. “Together we can eat the whale”
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I mean, how else can they set this guy up to run for Senate and then run the entire NRSC?

submitted 5 hours ago • 15 comments

“We are literally exporting our dwindling water supply.”

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Exclusive: Morning Consult finds that due to trade policy, global favorability of China is rising, while America is falling

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Bookmark:

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New from 404 Media: a cop in Texas performed a nationwide search of license plate reading cameras for a woman who got an abortion, according to multiple sets of data we've reviewed. Included cameras where abortion is legal, like Washington and Illinois www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

This Right Here

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 9 days ago • 374 comments

NYT, page one: The “$1.5 billion golf complex” and “Trump skyscraper .. are the Trump family’s first projects in Vietnam — part of a global moneymaking enterprise that no family of a sitting American president has ever attempted on this scale.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/w...

submitted 9 days ago • 198 comments

“Their radical anti-American ideology is centered on the empowerment of girls and women,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio theonion.com/state-d...

submitted 14 days ago • 95 comments

No one voted for this shit, and the information environment is so broken that most people don't know it's happening & probably won't know it happened afterward, and if they do find out, won't know who's responsible.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

The Plot to Enslave America

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

“it would also mark the first time in the history of SNAP that the federal government would no longer ensure children in every state have access to food benefits” www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/s...

submitted 12 days ago • 49 comments

The fundamental assumption of Republicans who pass bills like this is that many voters will never hear about it or connect it with the bad things that happen to them, and well, so far they're not wrong

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

When I interviewed KKK leaders in Arkansas, this is what they said too. “We don’t hate anyone. We just love our own people.” Then they burned a cross.

submitted 12 days ago • 130 comments

1. Major corporations — including AT&T, T-Mobile, United, Uber, and Comcast — have spent years touting their commitment to combating hunger in America. Now these same corporations are publicly supporting a $300 BILLION CUT TO FOOD AID.

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

gotta say I did not anticipate ICE goons going after the whitest possible immigrants with American families, jobs, and in good standing legally. a freaking Danish-born welder in Mississippi with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife. just omnidirectional hate

submitted 12 days ago • 762 comments

Pretty dystopian shit

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

No idea why Luigi is so popular: www.cnbc.com/2025/05/21/u...

submitted 13 days ago • 0 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 13 days ago • 351 comments

If you don't want to be compared to the Gestapo, one neat trick is to not engage in a campaign of terror around the country wherein you kidnap people off the streets to slave dungeons in accommodation of an autocratic fascist and his nationalist movement's desire for racial purity.

submitted 15 days ago • 144 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 15 days ago • 57 comments

The fate of millions in the hand of a weirdo eugenicist freak who pulled a knife on a minor and threatened to gut her

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Could we get Qatar to gift us $400 million worth of cancer research

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

WOW: Absolute RESPECT to Cecilia Culver for delivering a courageous, and kickass, commencement speech that calls out her university's complicity with genocide www.youtube.com/watch?v=oE6w...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

All together, friends: 👉It's Always The FBI👈

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment