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The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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Time to touch grass . . . (touch trees?)

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Very low numbers for how Americans under 30 view their lives, their government and their president, in the new Harvard Youth poll:

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Good night 😴 “No borders, just horizons-only freedom.” Amelia Earhart

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

I sat on the floor yesterday to clean the bottom shelves of my fridge, and this is what I looked like trying to get up. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8jSpCEP/

submitted 31 days ago • 9 comments

Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

submitted 35 days ago • 318 comments

it feels really ridiculous everyone is being dragged into a recession for the second time in five years because millions of Americans voted in favor of racism

submitted 35 days ago • 10 comments

it’s weird that we’re staring down the second unprecedented economic catastrophe in five years and instead of a novel coronavirus that will go on to kill millions of people this one is just “no one was willing to tell him no”

submitted 36 days ago • 231 comments

It’s weird* that the president can just decide to put a huge tax on American businesses without congress even being a little bit involved. * very unconstitutional

submitted 38 days ago • 1529 comments

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 53 days ago • 2813 comments

Little man just stole my heart! 😂💙

submitted 59 days ago • 342 comments

Tokyo-based French architect and artist Emmanuelle Moureaux, ‘I am here’ comprises the silhouettes of 18,000 women in different colours #WomensArt

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Canada’s next prime minister, Mark Carney, used his leadership victory speech to warn Canadians that the U.S. “president” wants to “destroy our way of life.” “America is not Canada. And Canada never, ever, will be part of America in any way, shape or form,” Carney said in his victory…

submitted 64 days ago • 230 comments

A couple of golf outings could pay for over 300 federal jobs for an entire year.

submitted 65 days ago • 725 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 67 days ago • 812 comments

Correct.

submitted 68 days ago • 226 comments

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

submitted 68 days ago • 1287 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 69 days ago • 1739 comments

cutting pediatric cancer research… www.cnn.com/2025/02/25/h...

submitted 69 days ago • 322 comments

Have say i have the same gut instinct about this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-hate...

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Texas Democratic Rep. Al Green brought protest and persistent pushback to Trump’s joint address to Congress. Rep. Green wants America to know “that there are some people who are going to stand up [to Trump].” As “a person of conscience," Green believes Trump has done things that…

submitted 69 days ago • 102 comments

Rep. Jasmine Crockett: "This is not America. This is a terrible nightmare. Somebody slap me and wake me the f*ck up because I'm ready to get on with it." Jasmine is all of us.

submitted 69 days ago • 125 comments

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

submitted 70 days ago • 1188 comments

This.

submitted 69 days ago • 634 comments

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 70 days ago • 335 comments

Yes

submitted 73 days ago • 2229 comments

Nicolle Wallace calls it what it is: "An Oval-Office ambush of an American ally that will reverberate all around the world and stain America's image for years to come.... Donald Trump and JD Vance clearly on an errand for Putin." @nicollewallace.bsky.social

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

There was a President in the Oval Office today. His name is Zelensky. He had to fend off two impotent barking dogs sent by Putin. They are named Trump and Vance.

submitted 73 days ago • 213 comments

President Trump’s simpering fealty to Vladimir Putin and Russia is embarrassing and dangerous. Illinois stands with Ukraine, and so should the White House.

submitted 73 days ago • 668 comments

John Bolton on BBC just now: "I think we are in danger not just of losing the NATO alliance [...] but practically every alliance around the world as our friends and allies look at this performance and wonder if there's anybody in this administration who understands what's at stake here."

submitted 73 days ago • 147 comments

Can we make it to Friday?

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We are in trouble.

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Breaking News: Scientists from the University of the Basque Country have discovered a groundbreaking molecule, WIN55.212-2, that reverses early cognitive damage caused by Alzheimer’s disease.

submitted 78 days ago • 602 comments

You do realize we've never had presidents threaten to wipe blue OR red states off the map, and if you support a president who does whether their politics line up with yours or not—you're kind of a sh*tty human being and a lousy American, right?

submitted 77 days ago • 280 comments

(CNBC) - The Trump administration’s purge of federal workers may ultimately amount to the biggest job cut in U.S. history, which is likely to have ramifications for the economy, especially at the local level, according to economists. www.cnbc.com/2025/02/23/h...

submitted 78 days ago • 165 comments

Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

submitted 79 days ago • 446 comments

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not a dictator. He is a champion of democracy, freedom and truth.

submitted 82 days ago • 3229 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 82 days ago • 2222 comments

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submitted 84 days ago • 2023 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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Canadians are super, super mad about the idea of being annexed

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