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in a sane world a response like this would raise a shitload of questions instead it is just considered an acceptable answer and the world just moves on to something else

submitted 2 days ago • 153 comments

i feel like you could put a percent ticker labeled “wokeness in government” and have it going down to zero and trick these people into think that’s a real measured metric

submitted 8 hours ago • 288 comments

Virginia Democratic Party Chair’s response to to my reporting warning that Gerry Connolly was terminally ill back in December

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

The Packers just proposed a new rule that makes it illegal for Zack Baun to intercept passes thrown directly into his belly by Jordan Love.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

This should be the end of Noem’s career in public life. It almost certainly won’t be, however, which is itself damning.

submitted 2 days ago • 776 comments

Stanislav Petrov, the man who saved the world, died on this day in 2017. If you don’t know the story, just read this www.theguardian.com/world/2017/s...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

lol yes

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

No idea if any of this is true, but like all patriotic Americans I am sharing this with full confidence I am right and anyone saying I am wrong will only convince me of how correct I am.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It's even worse than this! "No one can be deprived of liberty without due process of law" goes back to Runnymede, far predating the United States. (and further: the barons who wrote the Magna Carta also believed they were merely enshrining in writing rules that already existed since time immemorial)

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

The same people losing it over "8647" are all peachy with Roger Stone saying Mark Kelly should be executed.

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There’s no dumb right wing shit that this stupid newspaper won’t take at face value

submitted 6 days ago • 314 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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i'm not sure the ideological diversity free speech on campus dudes defending racist celebrities were, in hindsight, 100% committed to ideological diversity free speech on campus

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

Kid at NYU just lost his diploma for speech you can overhear by tuning into the UN security council.

submitted 7 days ago • 46 comments

My latest for @theappeal.org: James Carver spent 36 years in prison after he was convicted of setting one of the deadliest fires in #Massachusetts history. But after reviewing new scientific evidence, a judge set him free. “They took my life away for nothing,” Carver said.

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

The lesson of cases like this is that under our system convictions are more of a sacrament than a matter of reason. Lies, junk science, garbage witnesses — none of that matters. You have to finish the sacral process, and denying it is like denying Christ.

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

I'm embarrassed for the New York Times that they published this piece on Ms. Rachel, in which they cite a ridiculous anonymous righwing website Stopantisemitism while indulging the mad, mad claim she may be funded by Hamas (!). This isn't journalism:

submitted 7 days ago • 143 comments

Never forget that, at their core, our political news media class is extremely fucking lazy

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submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

Literally why does anyone respect Pete rose.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

not sure how i can be expected to focus on anything else today now that i've seen the promo photo from the Madden movie with Christian Bale as Al Davis and Nicolas Cage as John Madden

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oh is that right is that right IS THAT RIGHT???? IS THAT RIGHT????

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

The Knicks

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Honestly until I heard Nicolas cage I wasn’t that excited

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

twitter is so openly nazi these days that you saying that a guy singing kanye wests new “Hil Htler” song is nazi propaganda isn’t actually nazi propaganda

submitted 11 days ago • 160 comments

It never fails to crack me up how these fucking clowns roll out with more gear to arrest one unarmed civilian than a Ukrainian assault trooper gets to charge a machine gun nest in hill under artillery and mortar fire

submitted 12 days ago • 66 comments

In hindsight they were right. This is exactly what Republicans are now.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

It’s just that easy

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

what would they say if it was biden? trump is senile and the press covers it up because they like him and want to help him

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

Pretty sure I’m nailing this job interview

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

An embarrassingly large segment of the American right:

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

It’s really awesome that UNC has to release a new PR statement around belicheks girlfriend every 20 minutes. Definitely shouldn’t have let him go a month ago.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

There is no fucking "invasion" and even a Trump judge says so. These dumb fascists are beyond parody.

submitted 13 days ago • 136 comments

lol

submitted 13 days ago • 97 comments

A hill I’ll keep dying on: Whatever your politics, the fact that so many U.S. leaders do not understand basic constitutional law—or willfully distort it—reflects extremely poorly on our country.