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Thinking of a hero I knew and admired.

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worst case musk spends a bunch of money and makes himself look ridiculous. best case he gets 5 or 6 percent of the vote and effectively destroys the gop as an electoral force. hard to see a downside.

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

blue states generate 80% of the country's revenue in other words, red states are welfare queens

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

submitted 11 hours ago • 803 comments

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There is no news cycle, really. What's real are the decisions newsrooms make, and the way they get talked about. The "news cycle" is something the producers of news taught regular people to say in order to sound like world weary insiders. And what could be more inside than: "it's a two-day story?"

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Guardian - University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaz

submitted 14 hours ago • 47 comments

Your bill is going to cut coverage for 11 million Americans and it’ll still cost more than universal healthcare. Healthcare is a human right, you absolute ghouls.

submitted 12 hours ago • 488 comments

Apologies for the radical pinko commie talk, but I too think everyone in the world deserves health care.

submitted 23 hours ago • 111 comments

💯 this

submitted 20 hours ago • 459 comments

🤣🤣

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

I agree 💯.

submitted 1 day ago • 747 comments

Next to Trump and Musk, Shatner and I look like adoring newlyweds.

submitted 1 day ago • 625 comments

Doesn't matter who is president: It's clear that the US Government cannot entrust its space and satellite programs to a thin-skinned, drug-addled meglomaniac.

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

It is absolutely true. Exhibit A:

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NEW: In Djibouti, conditions are brutal for both detainees and ICE officers, ICE tells Judge Murphy. Impossible to read this without thinking the govt should just bring the detainees back to the US for due process! storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

After ICE showed up at PDX immigration court yesterday, many families missed court today- terrified of family separation, months of imprisonment in inhumane conditions, &deportation. Sadly missing court often = deportation order. Damned if you do comply with your legal process, damned if you don't.

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 1 day ago • 279 comments

"They're breaking the law." "What law?" "You know, vibes and shit."

submitted 1 day ago • 766 comments

A very very lucrative trade would be to buy a lot of Tesla stock right before some announcement of a rapprochement. If, yk, you happened to have advance knowledge of one.

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

You can now officially stop doom-scrolling because er, yeah, we're doomed. No doubt about it now. Might as well go on vacation permanently, do everything you ever wanted to do (within reason), and hug your loved ones (if any).

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Carl Sagan in 1986 on the problems with media and science literacy.

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Look beyond Trump and Musk's public blowout to the bigger problem: the infiltration of Big Money in our politics. It has corrupted our democracy — creating a vicious cycle that funnels wealth and power to those at the top while drowning out the needs of regular Americans. ~ Robert Reich

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Look at all these lawless immigrants, dutifully showing up for check-ins with federal authorities when asked

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When someone repeats a lie, even if they are refuting it, the lie still does some of what it intended to do. That's the strategy of liars.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

South Korea is just stunting on the United State now

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

that's right

submitted 2 days ago • 51 comments

I'm with Tim, excuse, Mr. Tim Onion on this one.

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Not knowing about things doesn’t mean they’re not happening.

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#TrumpsTrillionsTransfer

submitted 2 days ago • 211 comments

New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.

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From the Desk of CA Sen Adam Schiff (D): Tulsi Gabbard has been doing an awful job as Director of National Intelligence. Her poor judgment and crass partisanship makes all of us less safe. Today, I want to talk about that... open.substack.com/pub/schiffno...

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BREAKING: Chief Judge James Boasberg finds that those people sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act on March 15-16 had their due process rights violates and certifies them as a class. He orders that the government "facilitate" the ability for them to seek habeas relief.

submitted 2 days ago • 385 comments

AI is Getting Worse, but It's Getting Worse

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newrepublic.com/post/196121/... Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, the architect behind trump’s chaotic tariff policy, admitted in a Senate hearing Wednesday that there’s no real logic in how the trade talks are being conducted...

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I don't especially enjoy handing it to Chuck Schumer. But this is a good line.

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POCAN: How many federal dollars go to funding illegal aliens getting Medicaid? VOUGHT: Because of the money launderi-- POCAN: How many federal dollars go to illegal aliens for Medicaid? Simple question. VOUGHT: It's not a simple question

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