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Kinda wild that we all get to pay taxes to fund a civil war against us

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It is extraordinary, but grimly inevitable, that the people most responsible for hobbling the UK have become the loudest & whiniest critics of the consequences of their own actions. A big part of the process lies in people like ‘Lord’ Hannan actually being rewarded for their ignorant delinquency.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

i don't know why i find the title so funny

submitted 6 hours ago • 56 comments

forever thankful to my dad for teaching me the foundational lesson of my entire life: how to troubleshoot

submitted 5 hours ago • 14 comments

There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.

submitted 6 hours ago • 113 comments

My review of @sgj.bsky.social's 'The Buffalo Hunter Hunter,' is up at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. It confronts the haunting specter of American genocide through the vampire tale, charting the depths of trauma & vengeance in the wake of the Marias Massacre. lareviewofbooks.org/article/how-...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

A lot of blue mayors and governors know the "don't give an order you don't expect to be obeyed" leadership maxim but interpret it as "I guess I can't order the cops to do anything" rather than as a crisis of insubordination.

submitted 14 hours ago • 23 comments

It is really really sinking in for me the degree to which LLMs are the ultimate expression of right wing anti-intellectualism. Its proponents are literally mocking the idea that anyone would ever want to learn anything, know anything, develop any actual skill, or have a thought of their own.

submitted 15 hours ago • 88 comments

This rundown of the factors leading to political violence "from all stripes" is one of the worst paragraphs I have ever read.

submitted 12 hours ago • 66 comments

It's wild too that the press wholly ignores Senators just straight up lying to their constituents. We know exactly who this guy was and that Moreno is just making shit up. Bad enough they don't cover the protests honestly, they can't even report on Congress! That used to be an actual job!

submitted 12 hours ago • 27 comments

I can genuinely recommend marrying a nerd. Part of my husband's Father's Day present is that we've deliberately taken a route on our day trip that includes a bend on the A1 he loves to hate and he's allowed to give his lecture on it uninterrupted.

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

i think everyone on the left should more or less aggressively grab on to the legacy of FDR's war liberalism and shove it down the throat of every fascist until they cannot breath

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I was going to write an ironic post about human shields but Netanyahu daring to try to take a moral high road when it comes to killing civilians is too absurd on its own already.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

To be clear: a guy named Arturo Gamboa pulled out a rifle and charged the crowd, and Arthur Folasa Ah Loo was accidentally shot by volunteers trying to bring down Gamboa. Gamboa has been booked on murder charges. There were also multiple MAGA truck attacks on protesters yesterday.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

J.J. Spaun, you magnificent son of a gun!

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Man it sucks that every american city is occupied by a heavily armed gang of criminals who can do anything they want with complete legal impunity. Not the way I'd have organized society tbqh

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the John Wick universe is what you get if someone explained everything about Vampire: the Masquerade except that the characters are vampires

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

The Minnesota assassin appears to be a hate-filled right winger. So can we stop walking on eggshells about MAGA's legitimization of political violence? Yes, Republicans have also been the target of inexcusable violence, but this isn't a "both sides" issue. 1/ A🧵on the danger.

submitted 12 hours ago • 300 comments

🤦🏼‍♀️

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Jesus. The juxtaposition of these two posts back to back is just...

submitted 1 day ago • 491 comments

law enforcement officials say they made a proactive check at Rep. Hortman's home after a lawmaker who lived nearby was shot and found a "police vehicle in the driveway with emergency lights and what appeared to be a police officer at the door coming out of the house." He was actually the gunman.

submitted 1 day ago • 1173 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 14 hours ago • 246 comments

Making a big show of arguing with my gf when she says the dog needs a bath so he doesn't realize I'm controlled opposition

submitted 16 hours ago • 11 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 19 hours ago • 142 comments

In other news, Saudi Arabia, which has done as much as anyone to ensure the financial success of Club World Cup for FIFA, has executed a journalist, who was tried in secret, and sentenced to death over what activists say were tweets critical of the regime.

submitted 12 hours ago • 20 comments

Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.

submitted 19 hours ago • 712 comments

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

submitted 1 day ago • 223 comments

Lifelong antenna TV weirdo here. There's a new over-the-air broadcast TV standard that adds a lot of nice modern features like support for codecs that are newer than MPEG2, HDR, and expanded range. BUT! Guess what else it comes with? They added DRM to free over-the-air broadcast TV.

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

feel like the smarmy posts from bluesky devs about who is and isn’t allowed on here are harder to pull off when you let store brand qanon cook boomers brains

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

My roommate saw me put more cheese onto a frozen pizza & it was like I unlocked something in him. I saw the wheels turning as he realized we don't have to settle for the default amount of cheese the pizza overlords offer us. What goes onto the frozen pizza is in our control. We have the power.

submitted 14 hours ago • 298 comments

I think a lot of journalists did learn from the 2020 protests on how to properly cover police escalation. It is nice to see mainstream outlets apportioning blame properly

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Before the cops in LA started escalating things for no reason it was funny how my main takeaway was how much people were looking out for each other in really helpful ways. I’ve never seen so many people with carts giving away free water, sunscreen, snacks, and masks to total strangers.

submitted 1 day ago • 326 comments

Newly discovered banh mi place is incredible, life is looking up

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Just paid 40% fees to sell something on eBay. The future rocks

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“Special thanks to our sponsor: Coinbase”

submitted 1 day ago • 514 comments

this is what police are training to do at Cop City — screenshot from their promotional video about “crowd control”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

submitted 1 day ago • 672 comments

We have entered the "The police is saying that if the police is at your door you are not safe call the police immediately" stage of making America great again

submitted 1 day ago • 231 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

submitted 1 day ago • 521 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 1 day ago • 384 comments

Made the mistake of ordering a Lyft instead of biking. Never again

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just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

submitted 1 day ago • 591 comments

🚨The kids in larchmont are doing rage songs🚨

submitted 2 days ago • 231 comments