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I write about basketball and take lots of pictures of cats. [Temporary spooky Halloween name.]
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“The average person is charged with zero bank robberies, but my client has been charged with several of them. This is clear discrimination against my client, Clyde Barrow.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

We are now risking lives and actively letting people die because they can't afford inhalers. Why? Because insurance companies are emboldened to not cover them under Trump. Cole Schmidtknecht died because of price-gouging — and he didn't have to.

submitted 15 hours ago • 64 comments

fact check on the spot. that's how you do journalism‼️

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

🚨 Trump’s Bedminster golf club flagged for 18 health violations in latest inspection—earned lowest grade in county (32/100) Among the violations: 🤢 Expired milk 🤢 Raw meat stored above cheese 🤢 A hand-washing station without soap me, for @forbes.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 184 comments

McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 23 hours ago • 72 comments

you see, his completely bad faith criticism of antisemitism is "complicated" by the fact he's a white supremacist fascist

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

He and his husband were terrorized by homophobes who murdered him, in case you didn't know, which you very understandably might not given the headlines.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

“i hope this helps”

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

"The official also said that the timing of the announcement—during Pride month—was intentional." I'm about as cis-straight as they come & Harvey Milk is one of my heroes; if he wasn't already one of yours, this petty shit is good indication that he should be. May his memory always be a revolution.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 1 day ago • 319 comments

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 1 day ago • 1541 comments

New: TIME reporters were able to use Google’s AI video tool to make convincing videos of Muslims setting fire to a Hindu temple; Chinese researchers handling a bat in a wet lab; and elections worker shredding ballots. After TIME contacted Google, it began adding a visible watermark to Veo 3 clips

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

(Reuters) - FEMA staff left baffled after the disaster agency’s head said during a briefing that he hadn’t been aware the US has a hurricane season. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fema-staff-confused-after-head-said-he-was-unaware-us-hurricane-season-sources-2025-06-02/

submitted 2 days ago • 275 comments

“Shame! Shame! Shame!” Crowd forms in response to San Diego deportation effort.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

They killed the DOG . The lit their HOUSE on fire They were targeting these men for TWO YEARS There’s no big tent for this . They want the power to do this and their willing to KILL for it

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

Apologies for her statement that We're all going to die at a cemetery.. what the hell.. its De-Crypt-ed.. 'What the hell?' MSNBC host pinpoints cause of 'strangest politics ever seen' www.rawstory.com/joni-ernst-2...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

From Ming Li Hui, currently in a Missouri jail: "My daughter, she’s seven years old. And she said, 'Mom, please come home, please. I miss you...nobody tells me bedtime story no more. Mom, give me a hug and kiss. Mom, I miss you. I need you.' I just want my kids to not be scared."

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

tbf I'm beginning to think there is a mind virus, it's just 'US paranoid far right poaster-itis' and it seems to mostly infected columnists

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The MAHA Report’s AI fingerprints, annotated www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Happy pride month ❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

submitted 3 days ago • 548 comments

Similarities between ICE & the Gestapo

submitted 3 days ago • 320 comments

Former Trump supporter refuses and returns pardon: “How could you sleep at night taking a pardon when you know you were guilty? You know that everybody there was guilty. I couldn't live with myself. I have to be right with me. And with God” Just filed: www.cbsnews.com/news/pamela-...

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Unbelievably horrified by this attack in Boulder. We don’t know the full story of the attacker, but no matter what it is, let me be clear: Senseless, antisemitic attacks do not help Palestinians, Jews, or Israelis. Committing terror attacks against people standing for hostages is disgusting.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment