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I feel this way when walking around. A total and complete inability for lots of ppl to put their phones away for five fucking seconds to navigate to where theyre going.

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An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up." boltsmag.org/compuls...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

We should organize a letter-writing campaign where elementary school students can write Secretary Real World and tell him how they learned to ride the bus or subway all by themselves, and maybe one day he can too

submitted 22 hours ago • 23 comments

just took the subway like a big brave boy and was not scared one bit or even murdered once can i be secretary of transportation

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

The Trump administration attitude is that if you receive any taxpayer dollars, you are an employee of Trump Enterprises

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Alright time to cast aspersions: Congress could have stopped the IEEPA tariffs whenever they wanted by revoking the national emergencies that enabled the tariffs but they didn't because they're not an independent branch anymore. That fundamental problem is still with us.

submitted 19 hours ago • 18 comments

Jesus christ these people have the worst takes imaginable

submitted 1 day ago • 211 comments

A student said to me at an event today, ‘I’d love to speak out and say stuff but I can’t because I’m on a visa.’ What has happened to America? Trump and Rubio and MAGA have killed free speech and the First Amendment in this country.

submitted 23 hours ago • 145 comments

"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard." This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

You are personally ordering the deportation of people because of things they’ve said and op-eds they’ve written. You don’t give a fuck about free speech.

submitted 1 day ago • 340 comments

The government is literally trying to murder us all.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

Louis Brandeis said that we can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both. In 1933. He said it in 1933.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

When she says electricians and plumbers what she means is peasants

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

Yes, she says, we need more tradespeople - but not her. She means the plebs, you see. She went to St. Anselm's College (softball scholarship) and majored in communications and minored in poli sci.

submitted 1 day ago • 148 comments

Casablanca The Philadelphia Story Notorious (yes, two Ingrid Bergman, fight me) Dr Strangelove The Clock (1945)

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Sad but true.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

We live in a world where mainstream journalists are apologizing to members of the Trump family. Kill. Me. Now.

submitted 1 day ago • 221 comments

I can't wait to see this bastard flame out of a presidential run

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The DOGE mindset, perfectly encapsulated in one tweet. Destroy incredible public assets for a short term sugar high that would not come remotely close to ending the national debt

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

There's an easy fix for this. Start a nationwide project using AI to identify the people snarling in the background of all those old civil rights photos. Problem solved.

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

We are gonna lose most of the fights against Trump's judicial nominees. But it's very important that we fight them if only just to make the point that this is not fucking okay.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Because free speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 1613 comments

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

He ABSOLUTELY should run again.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

CONCENTRATING them. Into CAMPS.

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 2 days ago • 223 comments

👇🎯 Quite literally, our most world-beating export industry, & it’s not close.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

There have been young douchebros around my entire life. It’s just that until recently there wasn’t an industry telling them that they were entitled to be douchebros without anyone calling them douchebros.

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

Writing this op-ed in the US can get you jailed and deported

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

They pretend that the USA was founded as a Christian nation. Then they pretend and insist they’re Christians. Then they govern like the motherfucking antichrist.

submitted 3 days ago • 647 comments

Welcome to Trump's America, where you can bribe the president in exchange for legal immunity. The United States was founded on the principle that everyone is subject equally to the law. MAGA is converting us into a mafia state, a haven for obscene criminality.

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

the plan to make america great again is to make us an impoverished garrison state dominated by trump and his oligarch buddies

submitted 2 days ago • 140 comments

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

submitted 3 days ago • 111 comments

Yes, the maniac who tried to overthrow American democracy and is actively destroying the rule of law, the economy, and the scientific establishment while weekly promoting white supremacist conspiracy theories may live rent-free in my head, but I'm just a lib.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

NYC friends: Turn out, and rank deliberately. Only you can beat Cuomo.

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It’s helpful to think of the Maga movement as a payday of last resort for every has-been lowbrow entertainer, what the county fair circuit used to be to seventies rock bands with horn sections.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Do you still follow someone because you’re angry at them and want to track the things they do? I invite you to start your summer by unfollowing them so you don’t devote energy to something that makes you sad

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Fifty years after he was graduated from Princeton University, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered the baccalaureate address at his alma mater. This is how he ended the speech:

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I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

I mean, most of these people spent 2020-2024 advising Democrats to ignore Trump accountability in favor of a strategy of small-bore kitchen-table policies (“popular things”) that literally could not have flopped harder. It’s literally a list of people responsible for where we are

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Is “sidestepping laws” the same thing as committing crimes? Seems like it is, right?

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