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Evil.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

It is bracing to reread the Framers’ bone-deep fears about foreign corruption of the presidency and realize Trump is exactly what they were trying to prevent. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 27 days ago • 64 comments

What on earth, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia?

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Cory Booker will break the record for longest Senate floor speech at 7:19 PM EDT. Fewer than 2 hours from now. The record is held by Strom Thurmond, who was arguing for segregation. GO CORY, GO!

submitted 68 days ago • 531 comments

Um, I have questions about how Ted Kennedy is being remembered.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 74 days ago • 1902 comments

Moscow, I believe.

submitted 77 days ago • 0 comments

Pokes North Carolina with a stick

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Five years ago today, the NCAA Tournament was canceled. One of the true dark (and necessary) days in modern sports history. A few days later, I wrote this tick-tock story on how it happened. If you don't want to transport back in time and read, I understand, but it is fascinating to reflect on.

submitted 88 days ago • 10 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 99 days ago • 3276 comments

Just a reminder that even while being Putin’s petulant stooge and shaming our country Trump is also inevitably a liar.

submitted 100 days ago • 32 comments

These are things that aspiring dictators say

submitted 103 days ago • 12 comments

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 109 days ago • 101 comments

Fentanyl cannot get into your system unless you ingest it. “Fentanyl exposure” is not a thing. If the police don’t know basic chemistry or physics then they probably should stop cosplaying as experts on toxicology

submitted 115 days ago • 54 comments

Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency

submitted 116 days ago • 35 comments

Very disturbing.

submitted 117 days ago • 0 comments

Absurd ignorance of the constitution and basic humanity.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

Total coincidence that the NYT, NPR, and NBC are all being forced out of the Pentagon and replaced with right-wing outlets. I’m sure those names were just picked out of a hat randomly!

submitted 128 days ago • 147 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 129 days ago • 852 comments

Open-air corruption. They’re just flaunting it.

submitted 130 days ago • 324 comments

Barry Sanders.

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Sergeant Gonell @sergeantaqgo.bsky.social sent me this picture. This is his call log. Each call is an automated Dept of "Justice" notification saying "The defendant you testified against is being released from the dept of corrections." Each defendant assaulted him.

submitted 138 days ago • 1901 comments

I don't know how to get across to people that you cannot stop these fires once they get going with 80+ mph winds behind them. it can't be done. this is not solvable.

submitted 148 days ago • 113 comments

It’s true. Also a pretty big fan of calling Sankey “dear leader.” www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

There are enough people who allow their phones to make noise in public (game sound effects, convos on speakerphone, playing your music on the bus) that I have to suspect there’s some culture or subculture where this behavior is not considered rude. Someone’s gotta be teaching them this is OK.

submitted 161 days ago • 12 comments

For the record we should not count "4OT" and further in the shootout format. It's stolen overtime valor. Just call it all 3OT.

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Doug responded. It didn’t go well for him.

submitted 174 days ago • 4 comments

The move to a 12-team College Football Playoff was an absolute success. More regular season games had more stakes. New faces like Boise State, SMU, Arizona State and Indiana made the field. Home games are going to be electric. Field looks wide open. Can't wait.

submitted 182 days ago • 8 comments

I'm not sure how Nagy could be more wrong here. He's arguing against playing any games at all.

submitted 182 days ago • 0 comments

But how will they remember their heritage?

submitted 183 days ago • 199 comments

if you feel disoriented about a Big Ten Championship game without Michigan consult your local Ohio State fan, who has considerably more recent experience in this department

submitted 183 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating.

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

Dang, three games tonight, and three blowouts. (Still gonna watch)

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments

It’s weird to think Musk owning X and other billionaires owning whatever newspapers and cable networks is a problem but not think China running TikTok is a problem

submitted 184 days ago • 49 comments

Elon Musk’s comment that Matt Gaetz was the “Judge Dredd America needs” is part of an alarming pattern, writes Adam Serwer:

submitted 185 days ago • 44 comments