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Once again, Teen Vogue is doing the journalism needs to be done. Thanks for your hard work just telling the truth while other news outlets orchestrate a baseless moral panic.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It feels like we skipped over the bit where someone explains - what we were trying to achieve in our 20-year Afghan War - why it was such a disastrous fuckup - why we continued even though we knew it was doomed by the mid-2000s - who was responsible, and - what negative consequences they faced.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

It was all in Project 2025.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

I’m sure FIRE will be all over this. apnews.com/article/orla...

submitted 12 days ago • 27 comments

The US & Chinese trade negotiators have negotiated a handshake agreement to seek signoff to agree that a previously-agreed agreement is still their agreed upon agreement. (That agreement is not an agreement but a framework for seeking future agreements.) www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

“Will the NYTimes ever stop blaming the victims? Experts differ on who the victims are”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

the feigned outrage as always is cynical and calculating and completely forgotten a week later as stuff like the comey news cycle ended and a new feigned outrage gets promoted

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

I know I'm kind of a broken record with this right now, but: For all the horror, the political situation looks SIGNIFICANTLY better right now than it did a week or even a few days ago. Military occupation of blue cities is a travesty but it was a travesty we already EXPECTED of these fascists.

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

A few years ago I re-read a right-leaning book about "the university" and how it had gone wrong. The authors cited four courses at Stanford that were supposedly representative of a new spirit of left-wing groupthink (what would later be termed "wokeness"). (1/5)

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

It’s not just that it’s clearly intentional, it’s that it’s clearly intentional knowing that he’s being recorded. They know they can do whatever they want with complete impunity.

submitted 13 days ago • 230 comments

Alternatively “The spiritual heirs of Edmund Burke.”

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

LAPD when they think no one’s looking

submitted 13 days ago • 778 comments

Taking potshots at the freedom of the press in the midst of going after the right of the people peaceably to assemble.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

submitted 13 days ago • 1152 comments

American cops are, without a doubt, undertrained. That's also, to a fair extent, irrelevant to what we're seeing here. An officer deliberately aiming a firearm at a reporter and pulling the trigger isn't a matter of training. It's a matter of "the cops want to shoot reporters"

submitted 13 days ago • 28 comments

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our phones

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I blame the non-voters and the mainstream media (tied for first). Second, the white male voters really need to get their sh!t together. Guys, stop falling for the misogyny & racism.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The lads did at least feel sort of honour bound to kind of half-apologise for fucking up over the Iraq War, and the lesson they learned is: never apologise, every second you spend addressing the reality of what you’ve done is time you spend losing, change the subject and attack attack attack.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 13 days ago • 264 comments

“A 2010 study that analyzed 40 years of protest coverage in five major newspapers, including The New York Times and The Washington Post, found that the papers depicted protests — even peaceful ones — as nuisances rather than as necessary functions of democracy.”

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

I mourn for the loss of Jewish Europe, yes, but probably even more for the loss of Jewish Cairo and Jewish Baghdad. Most people don’t know that the largest demographic group of Jews in Israel are Jews descended from Iraqi, Egyptian, Libyan Jews.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 15 days ago • 329 comments

Supreme Court lets incompetent, teenage racists who submit to a ketamine-addicted billionaire white supremacist gobble up all our data to be shared with companies like Palantir and others. Awesome.

submitted 15 days ago • 47 comments

not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 15 days ago • 336 comments

To put it in context, Ben Nevis is the highest mountain in Scotland. It is about 1300 m high. If you climb Ben Nevis 5X in a row you get to Everest base camp

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Roses are red Litter will clump

submitted 16 days ago • 14 comments

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

submitted 17 days ago • 155 comments

Pretty sure Rahm Emanuel and James Carville have rung up Melon Skum and offered to be intermediaries. For a fee.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Any Dem politician or strategist who "sees an opening to get closer to Musk" or suggests that Dems do so should be launched into the sun (but not using SpaceX, they will never get there).

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

ICE Agents: “I never thought the Leopards would eat my face… pass the anti malarial drugs”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Zeit für Popcorn. 🍿🍿🍿

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments