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This is on all the Senators who turned a blind eye and voted to confirm. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/h...

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If you're a Marine or other service member being mobilized to Los Angeles and you'd like to apply for conscientious objector status, call the GI Rights Hotline to get some guidance on your options: 1-877-447-4487

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Apple’s new Liquid Glass interface seems to expose how ridiculously powerful Apple Silicon is and the amount of computing resources there are available to throw away at just making UI elements look cool.

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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 2 days ago • 891 comments

Apple has got to be aware that they’re going to have an uphill battle to get American owners of older Apple Watches with pulse oximetry to upgrade to newer models that don’t have that, right? #Apple

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Story Idea Pitch: An updated version of the classic Twilight Zone episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” where the AIs provide us false info in our search engine results which reinforce our confirmation biases until we lose all faith in facts and truth and ultimately destroy ourselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

1) Install an utter incompetent to head Homeland Security, inviting… 2) … a scary terrorist attack. 3) Invoke Emergency Power 4) Be President for Life

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Try to live your life in such a way that you deserve this kind of birthday greeting from Wonder Woman.

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4 out of 5 dentists agree that sometimes it is unwise to turn the tap on to brush your teeth.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Something life-affirming would not go amiss right about now.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Government spending is good for our country and good for the economy and we should do more of it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Jesus had particular things to say about sanctimonious grandstanding. To say nothing about our obligation to care for the sick, the poor, and the stranger.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

104 years ago today, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, also known as Black Wall Street, burned to its ground after a mob of angry white people torched Black businesses leaving as many as 300 dead and 800 wounded. We have a long history of right-wing white supremacist political violence.

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Just wanted to note that exactly one year ago Donald Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts related to falsifying business records in a hush money case involving Stormy Daniels. It seems like a notable thing, and it hasn’t crossed my newsfeed as something worth recalling, so… yeah.

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Given the fact that Trump's core initiatives are patently illegal and keep getting pushed back on by the courts, I fully expect him to be contrite and comply with the Constitution from now on. Because, really, what's the alternative? /s

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I'm loving Andor, but is it just me or does Diego Luna resemble a former Beatle?

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1) Enough wealth already exists to power a post-scarcity society in which everyone has their needs more than met. 2) Gross inequality of late-stage capitalism keeps much of that wealth in a few hands. 3) Those with the wealth are desperate to destroy democracy before everyone realizes 1 & 2.

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Let's be crystal clear about what Musk did: ✅gave unqualified tech bros access to sensitive govt systems ✅fired thousands of hard working Americans ✅eviscerated critical agencies like the National Weather Service & Social Security ✅grabbed fat contracts for himself apnews.com/article/elon...

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I'm loving Andor, but is it just me or does Diego Luna resemble a former Beatle?

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Jane Borden's "Cults Like Us: Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America" develops a simple thesis: The Pilgrims were essentially a doomsday cult who passed on seven key elements of belief that have shaped America ever since. My author interview: 1/13 www.salon.com/2025/05/26/h...

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

After devastating USAID, is there any reason why whenever mentioning him, we shouldn’t always refer to him as “Mass murderer Elon Musk”?

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brb going back to 2020 to kick the tires of the morgue trucks that had bodies stacked up in the goddamn street

submitted 18 days ago • 33 comments

“Even a stopped clock…”

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