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Given the chance, Trump would have "solved" the Civil War with a Confederate victory.

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Nightmare in Minnesota: A gunman shot State Senator John Hoffman & State Rep. Melissa Hortman. Political violence is a lethal threat to our freedom & democracy. Let’s keep the nonviolent movements of American history close in our hearts today & pray for these public servants.

submitted 7 days ago • 193 comments

ABC News has cut ties with its senior national correspondent Terry Moran after he posted that Stephen Miller is a “world-class hater” who “eats his hate.” Kudos to Moran for having the courage to speak the truth — and screw ABC News for not standing behind him and backing his right to free speech.

submitted 11 days ago • 1651 comments

The Overton Window has shifted all the way to ban all non-white people from coming to America. It was never about illegal immigration.

submitted 11 days ago • 183 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 11 days ago • 424 comments

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submitted 11 days ago • 546 comments

So wait…was the breakup a diversion to distract from the tariffs and travel bans, or vice versa? I can’t keep track.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Like any breakup during Pride, things have gotten out of control VERY quickly

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

Omg

submitted 16 days ago • 236 comments

No one ever talks about how the Titanic successfully crossed 80% of the Atlantic

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

Michael “Mike” Nedd, a 30-year veteran of Bureau of Land Management who serves as deputy director for administration and programs, was removed Tuesday. He had reportedly told career employees to ignore a memo from an appointee of the U.S. DOGE Service.

submitted 24 days ago • 33 comments

Never easy to watch a marriage fail

submitted 26 days ago • 279 comments

Not many people know this, but the song 8675309 is actually threatening people who live in the zip code 75309

submitted 35 days ago • 766 comments

500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

submitted 36 days ago • 1935 comments

It is so weird that he's just discovering the word "groceries" like it's something out of Shakespeare.

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

never let anybody tell u that evil does not exist

submitted 36 days ago • 209 comments

Just got word that Secretary Noem is asking for an addition to her budget - a new private Gulfstream 5 jet for her personal national photo op tour. She's already got a private plane but wants a tricked out new one. All while she supports kicking 13 million people off Medicaid.

submitted 37 days ago • 1425 comments

😳

submitted 40 days ago • 1 comment

The latest in the series, "See? It's not so bad after all!"

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

And after an abundant waste of time and money . . .

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

True leadership would require all of them, from the Tiny Toasted One on down, to begin by telling us what they are going to sacrifice for this future “better life.”

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Face-Eating Leopard: "I am a face-eating leopard." Media: "He's obviously not a REAL face-eating leopard." F-E L: "I really am a face-eating leopard. Here are my plans to eat all the faces." Media: "To be clear, those plans come from the think tank Americans for Eating Faces, not the leopard."

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Huge shoutout to everyone this is what a global boycott looks like. Tesla just reported a staggering 71% drop in profits compared to Q1 of 2024. It’s working. Keep the pressure on.

submitted 59 days ago • 658 comments

I'm fine with getting rid of the dyes and additives (at least some). But all sugar? Seriously? I'm assuming he is referring to sucrose, but even that will be a hard sell. And bottom line, if he wants to help people out, let's support vaccines for measles instead of ranting about sugar.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

not many people know this but originally it was an ethnography of USPS called "sender trouble" but Butler's research assistant mis-transcribed and they just ran with it

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

That’s one hell of an exit line.

submitted 61 days ago • 22 comments

Can we take a look back to remind ourselves of which members of Congress voted to confirm this guy? They are also culpable.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

He already ruined a neighborhood in my hometown by razing four beautiful old houses to "preserve his privacy." Now he has moved on to another feast.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.

submitted 63 days ago • 26 comments

Universities must indeed all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

I'm going to scream if I hear one more person exclaim "Is that who we are?" Yes. Yes, it is. That is who we are. Conversation done.

submitted 67 days ago • 9 comments

When authoritarianism comes knocking, be Harvard, not Columbia. “No govt — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private univs can teach, whom they can admit & hire, & which areas of study & inquiry they can pursue.” Alan Garber, Harvard’s pres www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

Space spectacle of the day. "If the flight proves anything, it is that women are now free to enjoy capitalism’s most decadent spoils alongside the world’s wealthiest men."

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Bessent just now saying that 'now we have certainty' I don't think that word means what he thinks it means.

submitted 73 days ago • 192 comments

Renting out a gorgeous, stylish room in my apartment, very spacious and gets great light during the day. Only catch is you gotta peel up a bunch of yellow wallpaper to free a woman. Utilities included.

submitted 73 days ago • 16 comments

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

submitted 73 days ago • 266 comments

So the Supreme Court’s strategy seems pretty clearly to be forestall admitting we have a constitutional crisis by giving Trump huge victories on narrow procedural grounds. This is akin to having engineers move the Rubicon River closer and closer to Rome to avoid Caesar crossing it.

submitted 74 days ago • 32 comments

And to be clear, the government's argument in the Abrego Garcia case would apply even if it sent someone, including a U.S. citizen, to a foreign prison intentionally and with full knowledge that it was violating the law in doing so.

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Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

submitted 76 days ago • 268 comments

Gov Walz with another zinger 🙂👍👏

submitted 77 days ago • 52 comments

Count me uncomfortable.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Gullible little beasts, those penguins. You can never be too careful.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

New career paths for the next generation . . .

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."

submitted 76 days ago • 5980 comments