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If you’ve got a badge and a gun but think your actions are shameful enough to need a mask, you should quit.

submitted 2 hours ago • 698 comments

honestly this was very predictable if you could a) accurately recall the political consequences of the 2020 protests and b) take public opinion as it actually existed in 2025. impossible difficulty for a non-trivial portion of the professional political commentary class

submitted 3 hours ago • 58 comments

Oh yes - ASK ME HOW I FUCKING KNOW HOW MUCH TARIFFS FUCK WITH PRODUCT RELEASES.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The Donkey Kong + Pauline amiibo is $29.95AUD RRP. It's $30US RRP in America. ($46AUD). Tariff boy got em by the goodies.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Hugely important pushback against those people who said that Trump was going to get a boost from the LA unrest. No. The average member of the public seems to be able to distinguish between bad acts of individual rioters and the broader reasons for the unrest, which is Trump and ICE’s overreach.

submitted 8 hours ago • 35 comments

The conservative movement is lying about basically every empirical "debate" of our time, from climate change to voter fraud to vaccines. Why is it so impossible for reactionary centrists to contemplate the possibility they're lying about trans healthcare too?

submitted 12 hours ago • 77 comments

Are we so weak and cowardly that we can't allow people to enter the U.S. who might not share the same views as us? Talk about safe spaces...

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

Trump take Amiibo. No really - Amiibo are made in China, and the tariff otaku has been jorkin it to increase tariffs on China, specifically to the point where it's bounced between 55% and 145% Coincidentally, $29.99 is ABOUT 55% more than the ~$18 the TotK Amiibo shipped at So, Trump take Amiibo.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Dress it up in progressive language but you're cheating yourself by not doing the work. This is the worst thing about AI: millions of students refusing to learn, taking zero interest in the world around them, empty in mind and heart. Your punishment is the person you will become.

submitted 1 day ago • 185 comments

So, a Fox personality calls for ICE to go to Dodger Stadium and then it happens a couple of days later. Our leaders now just getting their marching orders from right wing media.

submitted 1 day ago • 340 comments

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

submitted 1 day ago • 1578 comments

Three weeks ago tomorrow. 🤡

submitted 1 day ago • 793 comments

Leftists complaining about USAID because “it made the global poor dependent”: you do realize you sound exactly like those MAGAs who firmly believe social support makes poor Americans into lazy bums dependent on the government?

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 119 comments

If an 11,000-word story has a major, factual error in the fifth graf, it probably should be seen for the biased, hit-piece it is.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

What were they actually gonna do here? Ask every brown-enough person for their papers to go to the fucking baseball game? This is the most slam-dunk, anti-American thing I can think of. You need a passport to go to a Major League Baseball game now? Malpractice not to make a huge deal out of this.

submitted 1 day ago • 212 comments

AOC played ball and did everything Pelosi told her and was rewarded by being passed over for a 75-year-old who died four months later. There have now been four House votes this year where Dems lost by the margin of members who died in office. No one has more right to say this than her

submitted 5 days ago • 42 comments

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

submitted 1 day ago • 83 comments

just found out. devastated.

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

submitted 1 day ago • 555 comments

Donkey Kong is the most relatable protagonist because “a pirate crocodile stole all your bananas” is a very real fear of mine.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

not the subject line i'd choose to sell alcohol, personally

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I was too young to be ware of the Iraq invasion debate but was it this degree of stupid? It can't have been this stupid.

submitted 2 days ago • 1687 comments

The NYT was cited in the Supreme Court ruling used to strip trans people of healthcare. This is EXACTLY WHY the “just asking questions” crowd of centrist edgelord journalists are dangerous. They launder transphobia through faux neutral “debate” and act like it’s intellectual curiosity

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

submitted 2 days ago • 173 comments

As infuriating as the conservative SCOTUS is, never forget that America’s genocide against its trans population is the child of “moderate” liberal outlets like the Atlantic and the New York Times, and especially Jesse Singal and Katie Herzog, who made healthy careers out of polishing bigotry.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The repression of trans people is not, by and large, a grassroots outpouring of hatred from the American people. It's something that's been carefully planted and tended over years by a handful of media people and their pet reporters.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Y'all notice they're rounding up most of these "freeloading" immigrants AT WORK???!!

submitted 3 days ago • 219 comments

Gonna level with you bro I think DHS needs to be dissolved after this. Regardless of what national security functions fall under its remit, it's clearly institutionally constructed in such a way allows it to be used as an unaccountable tool of executive power. Can't reform your way out of that.

submitted 2 days ago • 358 comments

Helicopters. Armed troops wearing masks. All for a freaking military-grade raid at a flea market that appears to have resulted in two measly arrests. DHS and ICE are out of control. ktla.com/news/local-n...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

Lmao

submitted 2 days ago • 92 comments

Plessy v. Ferguson for trans people

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Today is a real bad day for trans folks. Lots of us are already struggling under the constant mental and emotional strain of being the target of international hate campaigns for years now, and it ain't getting easier Support us, now more than ever. Emotionally, financially, politically. We need it

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Exactly the type of decision that makes John Roberts believe that John Roberts is a jurisprudential titan. Mealy mouthed sophistry in the pursuit of prespecified outcomes, at the expense of the most vulnerable.

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submitted 2 days ago • 531 comments

Senate passes landmark crypto regulation bill on a bipartisan vote, sending it to the House 68-30 vote to pass the GENIUS Act. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

This is an absolutely disgraceful act of corruption by both major parties. It will lead to an incredibly foreseeable set of disasters: best case, unlimited corruption and scamming, worst case a global financial crisis and inevitable federal bailout. Horrifying that 18 Democrats voted for it.

submitted 3 days ago • 66 comments

The anti-abortion movement and what it has wrought is more horrifying than any horror movie. It is a rejection of the dignity of life and a mockery of human wellbeing

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments

Having a bit of a hard time with the concept that if a guy in a police uniform who has a police vehicle shows up I should lock the doors and call 911, but if a guy in a ski mask with an hGH gut appears to be kidnapping my neighbor, I shouldn’t ask who he is if I don’t want federal charges.

submitted 3 days ago • 540 comments

Not an original point but worth saying again - there is not a single element in this picture that identifies any of these folks as law enforcement agents. No badges, no uniforms, no vests. Out of context it just looks like a bunch of random guys are kidnapping a mayoral candidate.

submitted 3 days ago • 739 comments

America is one of those countries where if you host a global sporting event, inclusive messages have to be censored to so as not to anger the central government. In this case the message is “racism is bad” www.nytimes.com/athletic/643...

submitted 3 days ago • 469 comments

As always with Republicans, untaxed inheritance for me, a lifetime of hard work & no benefits for thee

submitted 3 days ago • 85 comments

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

submitted 3 days ago • 554 comments