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Loud laugher. Parent of a poorly trained dog and decently trained kids. Wife to one of the good ones. You’ll have to repeat that because I wasn’t listening.
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Rittenhousing.

submitted 4 hours ago • 28 comments

A father screams for his child from a tiny interview room within a basement waiting room inside LA federal building. The space is not a holding area. No food. No water. No diapers. Those initially detained include a 2-year-old US citizen and a woman with high-risk pregnancy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 83 comments

Imagine a British accent on NPR saying “On Friday, regime security forces fired riot suppression ordinance at nonviolent demonstrators protesting the detention of a prominent labor leader in a populous western region.”

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

NEW: Unbelievable. A seemingly endless line of tanks & other military vehicles arrive in DC ahead of next week's parade. They departed Texas 5 days ago. What a colossal waste of time, money & military resources. All for a President who has shown zero respect for service personnel. (🎥 DW)

submitted 14 hours ago • 1807 comments

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

submitted 17 hours ago • 2102 comments

NEW: Inside the Billion-Dollar Effort to Make Trump Feel Good About Himself Trump’s administration is marshaling vast public resources and more than $1 billion worth of taxpayer money to flatter the president. Full story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

This is fuckin art.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

submitted 2 days ago • 216 comments

why not decommission it the usual way: launching it into a million pieces over protected wetlands

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 2 days ago • 643 comments

🚨BIG STORY: Senators put a line into the crypto bill requiring bankrupt banks to prioritize remunerating crypto investors over depositors. The provision could require banks to take cash from your savings account & use it to pay senators' crypto donors. www.levernews.com/cryptos-new-...

submitted 2 days ago • 124 comments

i now see why ICE have been hiding their faces so much

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

In October, NHTSA announced an ODI into Tesla’s FSD after four crashes, including a fatality of a pedestrian in Arizona. Wait, what? What pedestrian? Why didn’t we know more about this? Thank you public records 🙌 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

submitted 4 days ago • 247 comments

WHERE is this being tested? I just saw 11 Waymo’s on my lunch run - where are the Teslas? If I can get turn by turn of my kid at ski school, Tesla can tell us where in Austin it has tested its cars (if they are actually road testing their cars and not doing closed laps at COTA).

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments