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we live in one of the most painfully funny moments of an industry bungling a large scale product rollout

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

My kid rode the subway for the first time when he was like four. Secretary Road Rules is just a dork.

submitted 27 minutes ago • 0 comments

Oh he mad mad

submitted 41 minutes ago • 0 comments

On a related note, it's hilarious how we got the Cult of the Operator in charge of military policy in the US and they hate possibly the single best legit capital-O Operator in the history of the United States. The tankies and the white supremacist far right are in complete agreement on this one.

submitted 52 minutes ago • 1 comment

If this was Veep this line would've slapped. Unfortunately, its in real life

submitted 51 minutes ago • 0 comments

in fairness to Lakshya this is misleadingly framed; Lakshya has been consistent in making the point of that last sentence as a rejoinder to people who think Democratic candidate recruitment needs to focus on white men. I disagree with Lakshya's outlook but on this the NYT is misrepresenting him.

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social, did you see this? More evidence of cognitive deterioration. If you know anyone who's done a lot of research on this topic, pass it along.

submitted 1 hour ago • 28 comments

The kernel of all this is that Tom Suozzi does do this, but the north shore of Nassau County is unlike almost anywhere else in the United States so what actually is "real" or "important" to a lot of the people there does not translate to the rest of the electorate.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

This works out to 1 out of every 26 people between the ages of 25 and 54 in this country, or one out of every 22 in that age range currently in the labor force. Just laughable stuff. *LUTNICK: US WILL TRAIN 5 MILLION US WORKERS FOR CHIP FACTORIES

submitted 2 hours ago • 38 comments

Basically, Biden did what he promised, which was increase the audit rate on the rich, which is where the most consequential tax evasion occurs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

I think the world has generally gotten the response to Trump right tbh. "No fuck you" is generally the smartest response to bullies who don't actually have the cards, and Trump very clearly is now desperate to make deals.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

talking to a friend the other night whose federal agency has a political appointee whose two resume items are the Trump campaign and the campus dining hall. the insulting nature of this is real deliberate

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

Hey everyone, I have a new story out showing how the sausage got made in the new NYT podcast on youth gender-affirming care. It's pretty ugly - my source refused to participate in the podcast so reporters used audio of her captured in public against her will.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

This was the inevitable endpoint. The average American is too tied up in $800/mo truck payments to afford a fake assistant in the computer that also fails 50% of their tasks

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

We put too much blame on conservative media, to the exclusion of conservative churches, for our current nightmare. It took no more than two generations of ultra-politicized religion to destroy the basic political compromises that kept the Republic secure.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

It's Politico rage bait, and they only cite 3 Dems saying this - Ro Khanna (D-Silicon Valley, so of course), Richie Torres (a usual suspect for this kind of weak crap) and Liam Kerr, the dork Machin-fanboy running the "WelcomeFest" scam

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 5 hours ago • 216 comments

Letting terrorists and pedos skate to catch immigrants feeding their families, the Republican Party in 2025.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

yeah it’s insane quotas all the way down

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

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submitted 7 hours ago • 19 comments

"Western birth rates are declining! It's white genocide" What they usually neglect to mention is that the most significant drop is in teenage pregnancies, due to proper sex education, access to birth control and reproductive healthcare. But Dav's chart helpfully shows that very clearly.

submitted 6 hours ago • 10 comments

No the fuck we shouldn't, fuck this guy

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Joe Walsh in, Karine Jean-Pierre out, shit's weird

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

I think a lot of hard left accounts on here don’t fully realize the extent to which the center-left genuinely believes they made a good faith effort to reach out which was met with rejection, betrayal, and libel. You may not think it accurate or fair, but the belief is sincerely held.

submitted 22 hours ago • 363 comments

Biden failed at many things but he made a major break with Clintonite free trade and especially Obama's pint-sized stimulus policy and got basically no credit for it. Not Great for the prospects of future full employment

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

trans kids are not “a wedge issue” they are children jfc

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Yeah, the primary aim of the political left was advancing left-leaning policy, and so they felt compelled to defend a president passing progressive laws. The primary aim of the pop left was building audience share, and so they felt compelled to attack an unpopular president.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

"The Groups", ie the most reliable parts of the Democratic coalition

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

stuff like this and "Helen Keller wasn't real" is a byproduct of the conspiratorial mindset: you are taught this person was heroic, and so it must be a lie THEY want you to believe. Grimly familiar to me from a lot of even expat Russians, in particular.

submitted 15 hours ago • 18 comments

there is not a single fast-casual chain bread that surpasses the cheddar bay biscuit. the cheddar bay biscuit is one of the greatest foodstuffs this country has ever produced. if you went back in time and gave a cheddar bay biscuit to george washington, the intensity of flavor would kill him

submitted 17 hours ago • 278 comments

Too obscure to make it into my story, but a very weird/typical DC thing about WelcomeFest: A right-wing group that wants a constitutional amendment to lock SCOTUS at nine seats came with 20 people and would not stop distributing lit to confused attendees. www.keepnineonthesupremecourt.org/home

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

I'm sure this isn't going to phase South Florida Cubans one iota, because lolnothingmatters (in Florida anyway)

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

here's the clip

submitted 17 hours ago • 51 comments

i see the wise man is closing his eyes again

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

this story is just a great illustration of NIMBY nihilism. at core, these people have no vision for anything. they simply oppose change for the sake of opposition. (i also think there is an element of death denial here — if i can prevent all physical changes i can deny the reality of my mortality)

submitted 1 day ago • 128 comments

I would strongly suggest not listening to Matty.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I’m not putting anyone on a pedestal but at every opportunity to be a shithead who throws marginalized people under a bus this man chooses the opposite and he’s wildly popular because of it and I don’t understand what about that isn’t clicking for other dems

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Put it in rice

submitted 1 day ago • 55 comments

20 days from the election — Cuomo is beatable, and with your contribution you can help the Working Families Party remind NYC of all he did to worsen public education, defund the subways and buses, and make the city less affordable.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This is sort of true but there’s a bit of nuance The AI crowd fully believe science (by which they mean drug discovery) can be automated by LLMs The CS-heavy rationalists led by Yarvin have an emotional wound over not being scientists that is manifesting in revenge The reactionaries are, well

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments