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Carl Sagan on how humanity can create its purpose and make its existence meaningful.

submitted 5 days ago • 60 comments

Brooklyn bus stop ads being replaced with guerilla public service announcements.

submitted 5 days ago • 170 comments

"In 2020, [Portland, OR] approved building [middle housing] on lots zoned for single family homes... A new report from the City says, it's working. 1,400 new units built in just a few years and each one is $300,000 less expensive than a typical single family home." @nbcnews.com

submitted 7 days ago • 48 comments

crazy that an influx of dense infill housing can lower prices and make homeownership more attainable

submitted 7 days ago • 157 comments

Congrats everyone — we are at the point where The Onion and real life are indistinguishable from one another. 😳🇺🇸 theonion.com/ice-agents-w...

submitted 7 days ago • 428 comments

If I told you how long I've dreamed of an animated newswire on theonion.com, you'd probably believe me but we'd both be embarrassed to have discussed it.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

submitted 9 days ago • 182 comments

Honored to receive @dc37nyc.bsky.social’s endorsement — our city's largest municipal union. As Mayor, I’ll fight every day for the hardworking New Yorkers that power our great city 💪🏾

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

This, to me, is the most obvious messaging opportunity ever for Democrats. Chuck Schumer should be on the ground in Arkansas within 24 hours and Democrats in both houses of Congress should be filing measures to provide federal funds to assist in recovery efforts. Force Republicans to say no.

submitted 17 days ago • 61 comments

If you're gonna break a public writing hiatus, get your money's worth! This is a fantastic piece.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

“We are, each of us, largely responsible for what gets put into our brains, for what, as adults, we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain, we can change ourselves.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

This seems quite obviously unconstitutional?

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

Really good, useful report from NBC — but I wish it included the precise times that these events occurred! When exactly did the buses turn around? www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

submitted 19 days ago • 107 comments

How about going to Louisiana to visit Khalil, Khan Suri and Ozturk?

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

That would be a perfect opportunity for the Democratic Party in the role of a shadow government to re-create the previous COVID website and to direct its voters there.

submitted 21 days ago • 18 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 25 days ago • 1324 comments

Tried to cap it at the moment Kelly O'Donnell processes how thirsty this question is.

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

submitted 28 days ago • 144 comments

If I were Judge Xinis, I would order the government to produce, in her courtroom, officials who were in a position to answer her questions and to do so under oath. Letting DOJ continue to prevaricate and deflect responsibility in written submissions seems ... insufficient at this point.

submitted 28 days ago • 638 comments

Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 28 days ago • 187 comments

Are we not paying El Salvador for this prison? They’re not just doing for shits and giggles, right? If we are compensating them, then surely the government can effectuate the return of someone.

submitted 29 days ago • 74 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 29 days ago • 481 comments

So basically all trade between the US and China is dead due to a 104% tariff one way and an 84% tariff the other way AND THE S&P 500 IS STILL GREEN

submitted 30 days ago • 12 comments

The Dem position should be "absolutely not." If Trump wants to keep his tariffs then helping farmers means restoring USAID, restoring all the food assistance grants/contracts killed by DOGE, and expanding programs like SNAP. We're not going to hand out money to watch food rot.

submitted 30 days ago • 43 comments

A universal 10% rate, 25% rate for Mexico and Canada, and 125% for China is still an insane inflationary tax hike on the American people.

submitted 30 days ago • 28 comments

Good morning. Today is the 80th day that the U.S. President is running a backdoor bribery scheme in which any CEO or foreign oligarch can send him money secretly through his crypto coin scam in exchange for favors. It's the biggest scandal in the history of the Presidency.

submitted 30 days ago • 2260 comments

This is what they're doing to Dr. Badar Khan Suri. This is not my America, and the world is aghast.

submitted 31 days ago • 170 comments

Trump wants to go back to the golden age of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory is a more accurate characaterization - again based on his own repeated statements - than whatever wishcasting others are doing.

submitted 31 days ago • 183 comments

I do not understand why Dems don’t start a daily press conference. What’s stopping them?

submitted 32 days ago • 440 comments

The fate of the entire global economy now hinges on one question: will a man who has bankrupted businesses repeatedly for decades listen to the counsel of knowledgeable advisors or continue on his current course of action?

submitted 32 days ago • 351 comments

Pretty sure that this is the first time a “One First” post has been cited in a judicial opinion—here, in Judge Thacker’s concurrence in the Fourth Circuit’s denial of the government’s stay request in Abrego García: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 32 days ago • 62 comments

I very much recommend people watch this series of clips. I suggest doing so because I've noticed a lot of 2024 election analyses seem to 1) misrepresent what Harris said/did & 2) project upon Harris things she did not say/did not do.

submitted 33 days ago • 13 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 33 days ago • 846 comments

"threatening" anything is bullshit. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 35 days ago • 345 comments

In WI yesterday, Schimel got 232k more votes than Dan Kelly, the 2023 GOP-backed nominee for the court. That was in line with what Rs wanted. In 2023, it would have been a win. It wasn’t bc Dems added 265k votes.

submitted 37 days ago • 29 comments

Andrew Cuomo was governor for a decade — and in that decade, NYC got more expensive and the cost of housing went up. He had a decade to fix the housing crisis and he failed. It's time for a new generation of leadership.

submitted 38 days ago • 15 comments

It's over - Crawford wins. Dems HOLD Wisconsin supreme court.

submitted 38 days ago • 17 comments

We had to ask him to stop tbh

submitted 38 days ago • 45 comments

Astonishing display of patriotism from the good senator from the great state of New Jersey

submitted 38 days ago • 76 comments

This is so on the mark. Does Booker see an opening here for himself? Absolutely. You want people like that.

submitted 38 days ago • 42 comments

submitted 38 days ago • 11 comments

Others have pointed this out already but the Booker's "stunt" is him literally Doing the Job - impassioned speechmaking is supposedly the main reason for Senators to exist and the only reason any of them from before the United States was established are remembered by name

submitted 38 days ago • 108 comments

Cory Booker has just broken Strom Thurmond's record for longest Senate filibuster ever, which stood for 68 years. Thurmond set it objecting to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Booker set it arguing against authoritarianism. May Strom's name be forgotten and his memory erased.

submitted 38 days ago • 168 comments

Meet the new WH press corps! From Friday: OAN REPORTER: What has made you and your team so effective in finding, locating, apprehending, and deporting these violent illegal migrants? TRUMP: I love this guy. I wish more people would ask questions like that.

submitted 39 days ago • 98 comments

very important and I've been hearing the same

submitted 40 days ago • 59 comments