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Everyone take a bow. You made a fully decentralized, unfunded, peaceful protest as protected by the First Amendment and foundational to our democracy. Don't ever let the fascists tell you otherwise 👊 #TeslaTakedown

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There's a whole lot of this throughout the entire Sun-Times Summer 2025 section, I can't find most of the people or publications referred to or quoted in any of this (some of the publications exist but i can't find the cited people in them)

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

I’m not upset that Andor is better than the rest of Star Wars. I am slightly upset that it’s better than V.

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Things come and go, and I don't begrudge romantasy its moment in the sun, not in the least because when people come into the bookstore for that romantasy book, they sometimes leave with additional books in tow. Any book that brings people into the store is a good one for the rest of them.

submitted 5 days ago • 56 comments

Luthen out there making Yoda look like a chump.

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Is Andor the best possible Star Wars or is it high concept 60/70s sci-fi having the last laugh on Lucas?

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Our government is going to hand back and forth one increasingly bugged jet a month with Qatar until they're eventually just exchanging a toilet with a giant microphone in it.

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

I've seen this before...

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Never forget, the amount of crime detected and the prosecution of it is not a natural substrate of how much crime is committed. It is fundamentally a political decision.

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Annual reminder that I'd be a multimillionaire if I hadn't sold my 2001 employee Apple stock to pay for $3,000 in dog surgery. Would do it again.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

““DHS flagging and detaining one of the U.S.’s largest left-wing voices for their political opinions while the Trump admin suggests they might suspend habeas corpus does not portend well for the future,” said lawyer and content creator Alex Peter.”

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

in addition to him repeating insane racist conspiracy theories, it occurs to me that the reason he has time to hold long press conferences everyday is that he doesn’t actually do anything

submitted 11 days ago • 445 comments

Nothing in my life is grossly overdue! I just want to revel in this moment like a dog rolling in a dead carcass.

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Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

submitted 12 days ago • 45 comments

BREAKING: The Episcopal Church has announced it will end its decades-old partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by the Trump admin. religionnews.com/2025/05/12/e...

submitted 11 days ago • 234 comments

This piece is brilliant.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

If you encounter what seems like an implausible survey finding, ask: 1. Were survey respondents selected randomly or was this an opt-in poll? 2. Could the results, especially for young adults, be driven by bogus respondents? Keep this post in mind: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

[Karoline Leavitt saying the Librarian of Congress was fired for having books in the library] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen refreshes feed [The mayor of Newark is being held at an unspecified facility] Wow that's the worst thing I've ever seen

submitted 14 days ago • 167 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 14 days ago • 632 comments

On February 16, 1793, a writer in the Philadelphia General Advertiser called the upcoming celebrations of President Washington’s Birthday in the Capitol, “degrading to the character of a free people." Why should we parrot a “monarchical farce” that harkens back to “the pageantry of royalty?”

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Wrote about just how insanely quickly the ODNI responded to this FOIA request from @freedom.press, contradicting Trump and their own boss, Gabbard.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

Two of Musk’s most strident goons manually, one-by-one, killed lifesaving programs even those Rubio wants credit for trying to save, on Musk’s orders.

submitted 16 days ago • 79 comments

Piers Morgan is a POS but man is this interview wild - based on the way her tone changes I don't think she realized the implications of what she said until after she said it. If you look closely you can see her realize she is absolutely cooked in real time.

submitted 16 days ago • 1290 comments

Nothing says blind optimism like backing kickstarters with December delivery dates.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Upping the kids’ screen time to get them excited for digital downloads at Christmas.

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Canceling xmas so you can cut taxes on the rich. Turns out the war on xmas was real all along! bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

Don't concede an inch to these people unless they have an actual warrant signed by an actual judge.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Thunderbolts was fun, but I honestly enjoyed Last Breath more and The Accountant 2 MUCH more. Think I'm growing old.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

fun fact: you know what is [supposed to start shipping] in ~6 weeks? Christmas decor. orders should have been placed last month (or no later than early this month), but apparently they just don't exist: www.reuters.com/world/has-tr...

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed raised the profile of the World Trade Center, but

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

This is two global elections in ONE WEEK where the conservative candidate trying to become prime minister not only led his party to a big loss but lost their own seat in parliament (!) in huge upsets. We are global pariahs unseen since the end of the Cold War and need stronger domestic opposition.

submitted 20 days ago • 216 comments

it turns out that when you elect the most personally unpleasant human beings in your community to the school board you usually come to regret it in short order

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

In goose meme form. What every Republican senator besides Mitch McConnell voted for.

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

We have a paladin triton in our game named Florian Dio. Yes, this three-year character is a holy diver pun.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

We did this video NINE DAYS AGO. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1v1...

submitted 22 days ago • 243 comments

On a physical level, I find RFK Jr the most frightening of Trump's appointees.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

🚨 Read this to see how extremists within the US State Dept have weaponized the government. They made a list of journos & researchers they personally don’t like, ideological keywords, and are searching for mentions. They plan to leak, Twitter Files style. www.technologyreview.com/2025/05/01/1...

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RFK: we're going to ban fluoride in drinking water Kenny Paxton (Texas AG): hold my beer thehill.com/homenews/sta...

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Trump appointee stepping into the fray.

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That time of year where it becomes clear I’m ready for summer even at in-person staff meetings.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

When folks can afford fewer things at higher prices, economists describe this as a decline in real income, and a widespread fall in real income is called a recession.

submitted 23 days ago • 77 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 23 days ago • 1972 comments

Real man of the people.

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Radicalizing my daughter by explaining tariffs via Switch 2 pricing.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

The Bouie thesis that a huge number of Trump voters simply project whatever they want onto him is basically a scientific law at this point.

submitted 25 days ago • 52 comments

Donald Trump’s “Vladimir, STOP!” post on Truth Social “put a fitting capstone on one of the least successful negotiations in recent memory,” Robert Kagan writes:

submitted 25 days ago • 12 comments

We're getting pizza and I'm obsessed with this slightly broken mural that used to be about eating with your hands but now it reads like Saruman's manifesto

submitted 25 days ago • 99 comments