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if you're feeling isolated and helpless today i recommend eating a big, heavy lunch. you'll still feel isolated and helpless but the sleepiness will at least override the panic center of your brain

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

submitted 1 day ago • 495 comments

Mr. Antiwar President has us inches away from a Civil War at home and a nuclear war abroad in defense of an ally that is starting random hot regional wars to detract from its ongoing genocide. I’m sure all of this will just naturally cool off.

submitted 2 days ago • 706 comments

Oh, you're doomscrolling current events? That's baby shit. I'm doomscrolling the events of 536. A volcano just erupted in Iceland. Snow just fell during the summer in China. Crops are failing. All of the crops are failing.

submitted 5 days ago • 117 comments

NEW FROM CBO: brutal distributional analysis of House GOP "Big Beautiful Bill" On avg the bottom 30% of households get poorer under the GOP bill Avg gets little - and are worse off if you include tariffs This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 6 days ago • 61 comments

dude this party is such an echo chamber. it's just friends hanging out and chilling and having a good time. you need to invite some people over who want to kill you with hammers

submitted 7 days ago • 392 comments

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

submitted 7 days ago • 292 comments

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 8 days ago • 504 comments

I'm so scared of cities. All those buildings so close to each other. You can go to the movie theater and a restaurant and the park while walking, in defiance of God. There are people you haven't met before. Sometimes there's a dog in a jacket

submitted 8 days ago • 154 comments

Adonis is smart but orange in a very interesting way where he definitely has one brain cell but they took it from a mountain lion

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

After repeatedly failing fact-checks year after year after year, the Toronto Sun is copy-pasting this 3 paragraph disclaimer to the end of their annual Tax Freedom Day write-ups acknowledging all of the Fraser Institute's numbers they just reported might be "incorrect and misleading":

submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Oh, honey . . . You can’t even get your wife back.

submitted 10 days ago • 1063 comments

Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denounced the war his successor, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been waging in Gaza. In a piece for Haaretz, Olmert referred to the current government as a “criminal gang” led by Netanyahu. As a proud American Jew, I agree. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 13 days ago • 532 comments

With this awful terror attack in Colorado, Congress needs to ask how many federal resources have been pulled from counterterrorism to deport Hispanics?

submitted 16 days ago • 443 comments

Rin the Blue Demon about to spin the block on the birds

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

submitted 15 days ago • 405 comments

American Climate Scientists Have a New Canadian Hero #Canada #USA #ClimateScientists How McGill professor Juan Serpa created SUSAN, the online forum helping U.S. researchers protect their data from Trump macleans.ca/society/amer...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

My new hero is the person who sharpied "BITCH NAZI" on this bearcat.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

This no-kill animal shelter is in desperate need of kitten food, kitten milk replacement, and other supplies. If you post a screenshot in my replies showing that you donated at least $10 (even as a Chewy gift card), I'll answer a style-related question for you. Donation info in their thread.

submitted 17 days ago • 364 comments

@amiberger.bsky.social What if you just picked them up from preschool?

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 19 days ago • 464 comments

since its #Caturday and all, I want you to know that yes: Lucy got her morning walk, and afterward I snuck up behind my husband to take this pic while he was tickling her (which she looooves)

submitted 18 days ago • 18 comments

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 18 days ago • 66 comments

This is his only biography now

submitted 19 days ago • 15 comments

polycruel

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

my most Gen X coded belief is that cities and the culture at large suffer profoundly for the near-complete death of alt-weeklies

submitted 22 days ago • 78 comments

I still think the best idea for progressive donors is to just revive every alt-weekly in the country and staff them with 10 reporters each.

submitted 22 days ago • 227 comments

We cannot force a corpse to donate organs, but we can force a dead woman to be an incubator against her family’s wishes. The precedent this is setting is terrifying.

submitted 32 days ago • 202 comments

Opinion | Wearing masks in public should be illegal. Unless you are wearing that mask to conceal your identity while you carry out a kidnapping.

submitted 33 days ago • 28 comments

Time to prepare, beloveds. If you are considering stocking up, remember that these pills do expire eventually, and do not discuss your actions online or via unencrypted communication. Take no shit, and leave no trace. www.plancpills.org

submitted 35 days ago • 23 comments

Me explaining how Alexander Skarsgard is hot: Okay you know how cheetahs LOOK like lean, terrifying animals but then you find out they have anxiety and it makes them so cute?

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

I try so hard, but sometimes, it all just makes me feel sad. Hug the people you love!

submitted 35 days ago • 761 comments

Damn! The legal term for this motion to dismiss is "badass". 1/

submitted 35 days ago • 112 comments

Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement

submitted 36 days ago • 513 comments

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing children with cancer i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

submitted 52 days ago • 38 comments

Dear Canada: tomorrow is Election Day. This is Mark Carney. Hint, hint.

submitted 52 days ago • 374 comments

It's funny that Pierre Poilievre did such a great job courting the male chauvinist and incel vote for the last two years that he's had to drag his wife and child around in his campaign to try and convince women that they would be safe to be around him

submitted 52 days ago • 31 comments

Everyone who called me a doomer for saying politically motivated arrests would begin within three months can earn my forgiveness by sending me $100 today

submitted 52 days ago • 35 comments

COURAGE. STRENGTH. INSPIRATION. Joseph Peters has autism and lives independently in Hackensack, New Jersey. He lives in his own apartment, assisted by an aide. Medicaid is absolutely vital to Joseph. Cuts of any kind would be utterly devastating to Joseph’s quality of life, and to the…

submitted 52 days ago • 103 comments

This line is going to stick with me for a very long time. “One of them is a 4-year-old with Stage 4 cancer who was deported without medication or the ability to contact their doctors…”

submitted 53 days ago • 313 comments

It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids. Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...

submitted 56 days ago • 84 comments

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

submitted 56 days ago • 822 comments

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim. We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

submitted 58 days ago • 56 comments

Jumpscared by former PM

submitted 59 days ago • 19 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 59 days ago • 1012 comments