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What will the Democrats do with one fewer paid flack in their ranks? How will the party survive this loss?

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I don't doubt McMahon is an ignoramus. But the real point isn't that she doesn't know fuck-all about history, it's that she's been hired to wreck any non-fascist education in the US

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So this is normal now. Our oligarchic overlords have surrendered and their propaganda outlet wants us all to know it's our fault if we suffer

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Some right-wing nerd sending me these questions about my job is going to be summoned to catch these hands. How are these clowns being portrayed as martyrs for harassing university staff?

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

To be clear, deciding to yoink tenure from faculty an entire year after they've begun an arduous review process governed by university rules is like deciding to not feed your child. For this Trustee to compare faculty disgruntlement over a welshed deal to a tantrum is obscene

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Drawing college freshmen to Worcester is a headwind, but this is the university that hosted Sigmund Freud's first lectures in the US (and where I watched from the bench as my team competed in Central Mass's premier high school basketball tournament). It's a goddamn shame this is happening.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

please focus on the health care thing and dont obsess over the debt/deficit (nobody cares about it)

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Geert Wilders cynically claims to be the best friend to the Dutch LGBTQ communities, protecting them from "real homophobia" which he says comes from Muslims. If you can reject this cynical weaponization of homophobia without saying homophobia itself is false, you can do the same with antisemitism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

It amazes me how these people will call Elon a visionary for raising concerns over the Earth being swallowed by the Sun in 7.5 billion years but climate change making our planet inhospitable in 100 years is too far out to care.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Huh. I've been told by everyone in a position of authority that the police were defunded and let protesters run amok without any response and that's why Trump's back. Huh. Were those people all lying to me?

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Every day someone wakes up and says the exact same thing like it is a new idea they just came up with and about half the time someone else rewards them with a big bag of money for saying the same thing again like it’s new. Wonder why that isn’t working.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

We could nationalize youth sports and ban private coaching, impose training time limits by age, and discourage travel tournaments beyond a 25-mile radius to make kids' sports "fair" but since those things would diminish the advantages of wealth, we freak out about a handful of trans girls instead

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

There's a pretty explicit test case of a center left party abandoning trans people and immigrants. Labour in the UK have done just that and their political support has imploded while legitimizing the fascist Reform party. Dem consultants seem content to follow this strategy.

submitted 11 hours ago • 55 comments

"Balance in journalism doesn’t mean giving equal weight to truth and lies, it means giving weight proportional to credibility... If one doctor out of a hundred dissents from the consensus, that’s not a “side” deserving 50% of the story. The era of false equivalence needs to end."

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

I know he had that one Medicaid op ed but can we remember what a smarmy weasel Hawley is please?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 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

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I always wonder if it is worth it to these people to go down in history as shitheads

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Yeah, it’s fine folks, we have exceptionalism to save us

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I must be old because Bluesky consensus is this is schwag. We would have been happy to have it back in the day….

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What a great opportunity Trump is giving to the MSM to, at long last, produce some “governing is important, actually,” content, after decades of consensus that seeking to cut public goods and services is a worthy and virtuous goal and that those who seek to do it should be celebrated as serious.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

One third of FEMA staff have been fired or left since Trump took office. They are not planning for hurricane season, and either this guy was joking about it or is truly as dumb as his actions suggest.

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Ava Kofman, the real name for “human biodiversity” is racism and it’s not a “fringe” belief system, it’s the same shit as it ever was trying to cover itself with fake genetics

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again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 2 days ago • 548 comments

This is how newspapers should react when the government asks them to carry its water.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

I’d be telling my wife to find bail money and a lawyer for me

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Bars are public places with codes of behavior that help make them nicer for customers and staff. Yes, bully Gen Z bar-goers about wasting bartenders’ time with closing tabs. For chrissakes, splitting tabs is what Venmo is made for

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“The group estimated that reducing the operating budget by $900 million, as the Trump administration wants to do, would require closing 350 of the 433 parks, monuments, historic sites and other locations overseen by the Park Service… we would be witnessing the dismantling of a century-old system”

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Loser-ass shit

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Our task in this time of crisis is to create a societal consensus across America that we’re done indulging these wealthy pampered babies’ every desire, and begin the serious reforms necessary to put an end to this crisis. https://trib.al/Hc9Fqec

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submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

This thing right here. The demographic cliff is here and international students are a way for the United States to maintain its tremendous advantages in research and science without busting the treasury, using higher education as an effective 'export good.' Or we could burn it down because woke. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

No no no! These university leaders don’t get it. If you negotiate one on one you don’t buy peace; you just expose the whole sector and yourselves to more shakedowns. See law firms. The only response is to unite in collective action and fight the Admin’s illegality. www.cnn.com/2025/05/31/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 83 comments