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seriously, I know this is a crazy radical idea in these extremely normal times but what if democrats stopped voting for trump nominees

submitted 1 hour ago • 12 comments

Part of the bubble they're in is they have real contempt for voters, the consequence of decades of chronically uncompetitive elections. They think people don't notice this stuff. Meanwhile they're blithely dismissive and do zero introspection about why congressional Dems poll about as well as ebola.

submitted 48 minutes ago • 4 comments

it is darkly amusing that it seems to cross relatively few minds that "our most high-info and high-engagement voters know we are deliberately spineless frauds and hate voting for us" might eventually do damage with people other than those voters

submitted 41 minutes ago • 9 comments

The news-watchers among us are already aware, but last Sunday, Ukraine bombed the SHIT out of 4 Russian airbases in a coordinated drone attack. Ukraine claims they took out a third of active Russian bombers; extremely conservative commentators say it can be as low as 12 craft. But it's still huge.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Johnathan Joss died a hero. He was murdered for being gay, he went out protecting his trans husband from being executed. They burned down their home and killed their pets and then they murdered Joss while trying to murder his husband. The New York times can barely muster "fatally shot." I hate this.

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

It's a valuable window into fascist bullyboy psychology - all the US Cavalry bullshit they buy online is just visible symbols of status and power, they don't actually know how it's supposed to work or what its practical function is meant to be

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

If anything here is in bad faith, it was the Times casting its own contributors as “activists” when we had the temerity to raise our own objections to such reporting. (And as far as I can tell, not only were we ignored, the Times has doubled-down with the new podcast.) That letter: nytletter.com

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

The war in Ukraine is a test kitchen for the future of warfare to be sure. Wild to think that billion-dollar aircraft now provably need to figure out protection against Radio Shack trash with a grenade strapped to it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump has so paralyzed the federal agencies responsible for protecting civil servants’ rights that federal employees may now be able to win relief directly from courts instead, the 4th Circuit rules. A very good decision for the independent civil service. knightcolumbia.org/documents/9m...

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

Pride Month so far: Jonathan Joss is murdered in a disgusting hate crime and the Navy intentionally announces they are changing the name of the USNS HARVEY MILK. America... now more than ever... David Lynch's words ring loudly. "Fix your hearts or die." This cannot be our normal.

submitted 5 hours ago • 107 comments

This seems common to the rollout of AI tools basically everywhere right now. They do an impressive demo for the bosses and then when they actually put them in the field the workers who actually have to use it discover that there's a lot of basic shit the AI can't do correctly.

submitted 5 hours ago • 20 comments

an important thing to remember in the "is this what they voted for" discourse is that the average voter is so fucking dumb that it would bend your understanding of the human mind

submitted 5 hours ago • 57 comments

If you go to that FBI/trans care tweet half the replies are people begging them to stop school shooters instead of targeting trans kids and the other half are people begging them to release the Epstein tapes instead of targeting trans kids and idk coalitions are a funny thing

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

It’s often a refrain where we say, “I don’t like generative AI and wish it would stick to scientific or medical tasks,” but then we must ask if it’s any good at those, either. Aaaaaaaaaand, well…

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

A lot of the frenzied response from groups like the ADL to college protests results from the fact that many fewer people view Israel positively today than even a decade ago, and that is at least in part the result of Israel's actions, and there is no policy response in the US that can change that.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

teslas are a danger to society (i just saw a cyber truck with a neon green wrap and it was so startlingly ugly that i gasped, choked on my gum, and almost crashed my car)

submitted 5 hours ago • 29 comments

Did you know there are liberals on this site that still can't figure out the police are not your friend? Some of them got mad at someone saying "no cops at pride". Which to me reveals how much the neoliberal project has sanitized many civil rights movements and figures after the blood has dried.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

A party of oblivious theater kids and viral marketing sociopaths smirking their way through flash mobs and focus groups as the country descends into fascism

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

there’s a valuable lesson here for democrats in that voters want politicians to be bold and clearly stand FOR SOMETHING but i have a feeling democrats will continue opening TACO trucks in front of the white house or begging for war with iran instead sadly

submitted 5 hours ago • 45 comments

Groups like the ADL are, at least in part, upset that many fewer young Americans see Israel as a liberal democracy today than saw it that way 10 or 20 years ago, so their solution is to associate the state of Israel with creeping illiberalism in the US, too, which will surely solve the problem.

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

"FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens" translation: you're on your own, bitch

submitted 5 hours ago • 59 comments

I asked Rand Paul about Elon Musk’s tweet and he said “uhh, I haven’t seen it” even though he quote tweeted it

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

Earlier when I went looking for Ballerina reviews one of the first sites listed was AI textslop with several fake movie stills of Keanu and Ana

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free-to-download poster for printing sajan.itch.io/wizard-poster

submitted 5 hours ago • 8 comments

"It's about getting under Trump's skin! It's about upsetting him and throwing him off his game!" Donald Trump has, generously, a memory that can be measured in minutes, no amount of lib memes are ever going to get under his skin in a way that matters

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Speaking as someone who was living in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit: you don't want this. Trust me.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Covered Katrina, can confirm

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

it must just be a huge coincidence that the EXACT three states which recently kicked out their western colonizers and began nationalizing their industries are suddenly the "epicenter of terrorism on the globe"

submitted 4 hours ago • 15 comments

what it feels like to google something

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

"Do you think Andrew Cuomo brought unmatched executive experience and a proven ability to finish big projects when he sexually harassed 11 women while in office?"

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

love is love is love is love

submitted 4 hours ago • 11 comments

man

submitted 4 hours ago • 139 comments

During his tenure as Governor, Andrew Cuomo non-consensually hugged more curves than a Formula 1 driver and filled meat trucks with the elderly through sheer ineptitude. He had a bridge renamed (at taxpayer expense!) after his father, and everybody still just calls it the old name. Fuck him.

submitted 4 hours ago • 13 comments

Following up: while Jonathan Joss complained about years of homophobic abuse from his neighbors and his husband wrote that the murderer was screaming homophobic epithets, the San Antonio police says there’s “no evidence” of a hate crime. This is why so many queer folks don’t like cops at Pride.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

it’s not just Yglesias because in some ways I fall into this trap too: there’s a way that “all that matters is the material conditions when the election happens” goes too far where you don’t give proper weight to things like very noteworthy, unpopular corruption

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'

submitted 10 hours ago • 149 comments

The wise man bowed his head and solemnly spoke: "the rich guy did dumb things because he is a super genius. you imbecile. you fucking moron"

submitted 9 hours ago • 4 comments

A chilling effect on em dashes is the stupidest thing

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

JUST IN: Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues interim US Attorney Alina Habba for "false arrest and malicious prosecution." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 9 hours ago • 671 comments

so tired of seeing elon musk’s clammy face on here, if ai was so good why can’t i mute faces yet

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

The thing is, his "vision" is dumb too, the one he will "tell anyone who will listen." Ask actual people in those fields. The fact that he has a vision like this does not, by its very existence, make him brilliant or praiseworthy, especially when put in the context of his actions.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Since a Lib decided to pick at the DNC 2024 scab; The reason they didnt allow a Palestinian speaker is 100% optic protection. Not b/c they dont want to be seen WITH any Palestinians; but b/c they KNOW that audience would have been the ghastly pack of Zionists fucks smiling and plugging their ears.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Neighbor: "The two of them had been repeatedly harassed bc they were gay and that their home was burned down after years of threats from neighbors" Cops: “Despite online claims… the investigation has found no evidence to indicate that the Mr. Joss’s murder was related to his sexual orientation”

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

It is safe to assume that elon is blowing a few million right now to get so many outlets to simultaneously rehabilitate his drug nazi persona.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

No shit. And over at the NYT he's getting a sweet image boost. While thousands are dying from his criminal ransacking of vital services. Goooood times.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments