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Absolutely fucking not.

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“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

submitted 13 days ago • 87 comments

A Montana court has struck down the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors, finding that it violates the rights to privacy, equal protection, and free expression guaranteed by the Montana Constitution. lambdalegal.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 15 days ago • 57 comments

My friends are losing grant money they were already told they would receive.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Press releases wnd statements of intent. Believe that it's what he wants to do, but don't cede any power or authority to him by complying.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

A meditation on the language in the Lumon-esque new website the San Francisco Symphony management has made, what it might mean to actually listen to patrons' voices during a time of crisis, and a cameo from Seth Milchick 🙏 songofthelarkblog.com/2025/04/29/c...

submitted 29 days ago • 11 comments

Pretty clear admission that the NYT killed a story about the implausibility of the lab leak because editors believed bad-faith Trump Admin sources over actual scientists. donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/how-i-learne...

submitted 31 days ago • 44 comments

It’s not called deportation when the expelled are citizens.

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 31 days ago • 1383 comments

Elon Musk's DOGE has access to 19 sensitive systems at HHS. In at least one instance, it appears that access was granted without the proper security training. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

submitted 36 days ago • 22 comments

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 37 days ago • 1242 comments

Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

submitted 37 days ago • 59 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 39 days ago • 107 comments

If you'd like to see how ProPublica measures success, check out our brand new annual report which chronicles the impact of our work in 2024. Always a thrill to see what words can do when applied in good faith for the public good: www.propublica.org/atpropublica...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

I just spoke with Principal Cook about today's protest, having Tom Homan living in the community, and maintaining hope that her students who ICE stole will be returned. Story to come on The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/subscribe

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

I asked the one high ranking policeman I saw on 5th Ave why there were so few police. He said “We did not expect anything like this. Don’t tell anyone but I’ve only got 44 officers out here — and it’s a great crowd, great event, no incidents.”

submitted 53 days ago • 607 comments

BREAKING: A federal court ordered Mahmoud Khalil's lawsuit should proceed in New Jersey instead of Louisiana, 1,500 miles from his family. This is an important step towards justice.

submitted 57 days ago • 67 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 57 days ago • 194 comments

Hey this thing is still less than 1k comments, please add a comment if you can!!! Its quick and easy, and can be as simple as "Trans healthcare saves lives, do not remove it from ACA coverage". You can even copy paste that. Do it now!!!

submitted 68 days ago • 11 comments

Just me chucking Emmy statues at the cast and crew of #severance after screaming in confusion and glee and shock and awe at my laptop for a solid hour

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

A Fulbright scholar flees the county after ICE came looking for her - per NYT her social media activity was liking pro-Palestine posts. We are in deep, folks. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/n...

submitted 74 days ago • 139 comments

Corey Doctorow: "Even by Amazon standards, this is extraordinarily sleazy: starting March 28, each Amazon Echo device will cease processing audio on-device and instead upload all the audio it captures to Amazon's cloud for processing, even if you have previously opted out of cloud-based processing"

submitted 75 days ago • 13 comments

how to use civility to stop the borg

submitted 76 days ago • 30 comments

There's honestly no trusting a guy like Newsom, whose pure self-interest is so insultingly obvious.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

submitted 89 days ago • 19 comments

Breaking news: A federal judge in Maryland on Friday temporarily blocked key portions of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the federal government and corporate America.

submitted 96 days ago • 27 comments

“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

submitted 96 days ago • 252 comments

Quite an exchange here between Judge Reyes and DOJ attorney on how "pronoun usage" affects military readiness.

submitted 100 days ago • 616 comments

how far down the rabbithole the corporate erasure of trans-people goes: Clearly, Amazon Prime uses GPT for movie summaries,but someone has recently CHANGED THE GUIDELINES TO NEVER MENTION TRANSGENDER PLOTS OR CHARACTERS in summaries.The bank robbery was to pay for his lover's sex change operation.

submitted 100 days ago • 12 comments

👀 "If no lawyer within earshot of the President is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." -- AUSA Hagan Scotten, SDNY.

submitted 104 days ago • 506 comments

If you need a feel-good story today, here's how Pasadena Unified's facilities manager (who could pass Natl Guard checkpoints) helped ensure the safety of class pets within the blocked-off zone.

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments