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I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing settled, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

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GlobalX is a charter airline that operates more than half the ICE deportation flights. At the same time the company flies Duke and UConn basketball, other NCAA teams, and pro clubs like Inter Miami and Lionel Messi. Corporate greed is enabling ICE. www.nytimes.com/athletic/641...

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There's been a decision somewhere high up in both political parties that today's male voters don't see being a sexual harasser/assaulter/flat-out rapist as a deal-breaker, and they are now acting accordingly

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to “liberate” a state or city from its elected government.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Every Dem Senator: "What happened to Senator Padilla today was an unprecedented breach of constitutional government and demonstrates the scale of the threat to our republic." Also Every Dem Senator: [Goes back to business as usual] 18 Dem Senators: [Vote for Trump's crypto bill]

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Trump underwater in literally every single issue. 38% approval overall. 27% approval on his spending bill. 40% approval on deportations. Musk also at 30% approval. 38% approval for RFK Jr. 35% approval for JD Vance. Nobody fucking wants any of this. poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

submitted 3 days ago • 295 comments

Oklahoma receives about $3 billion more in federal spending than it pays in federal taxes. That's nearly $8,000 per Oklahoman--only 9 states have a higher per capita balance of payments. Subsidies from MA, NJ, WA, CA, and a few others are how OK remains a "low tax state."

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

I’ve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.

submitted 3 days ago • 100 comments

Fact: There is a direct precedent for a fair renegotiation of tournament prize money for MLS players. When changes to the CONCACAF Champions Cup significantly increased the prize money to over $5M for the champion, MLS and the MLSPA reached a fair agreement to equitably distribute the money.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

submitted 5 days ago • 39 comments

The federal government is telling you they cannot afford to house you, feed you, educate you or heal you — but that they do have enough resources and scale to criminalize, assault, deport and incarcerate your neighbors simply going to work or taking their kids to graduation.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

Repealing the ACA’s consumer protections & Medicaid subsidies would be bad, but it’s also true that Obamacare fortifying the power of insurance companies has been a disaster & none of the Abundance Guys who shit on the left for warning about this at the time have ever apologized.

submitted 6 days ago • 66 comments

No universal healthcare No universal childcare No tuition-free college Sub-living wage minimum wage Tariffs on basic necessities People putting groceries on layaway Meanwhile billionaires can write-off their private jets and yachts on their taxes. These are all deliberate policy choices.

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

submitted 10 days ago • 66 comments

The Onion does not use AI in any way. Our newspaper is proudly made by actual living people. AI makes bad, boring shit, and people make art. Subscribe to us instead: membership.theonion.com

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

"There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Failed states, where criminals contest the government’s hold on power. (2) Authoritarian states, where the government has total, unchecked power." www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

submitted 12 days ago • 53 comments

Nor must you forget that when men say popes, kings, and emperors built such and such buildings, it is a mere way of speaking. You look in your history-books…Did they? or, rather, men like you and me, handicraftsmen, who have left no names behind them, nothing but their work? -William Morris

submitted 12 days ago • 7 comments

"What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity." - William S. Burroughs

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

The latest wave of COVID revisionism is a transparent attack on the idea of expertise itself. It is not 'hubris' for public health professionals to issue guidance during public health emergencies!

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 15 days ago • 190 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

submitted 16 days ago • 56 comments

There’s a decent argument that Musk is the most destructive force the US government has seen in at least a century, but on the other hand he’s a bit sad, tough editorial decisions here

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

A researcher calculates that, without increased production, AI will consume up to 82 terrawatt-hours of electricity this year—around the same as the annual electricity consumption of Switzerland.

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

New York City votes for mayors like they believe Batman is real and want him to have someone to fight

submitted 571 days ago • 30 comments

"That’s not rebellion. That’s just entitlement with a persecution complex." 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

submitted 18 days ago • 723 comments

If we don’t let this thing no one wants ruin things people love then the thing no one wants will go away

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

Asking homeowners for permission would kill the break-in industry

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

Israeli airstrike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s 10 children, reports say

submitted 21 days ago • 54 comments

Trump is hosting a private dinner tonight for the people who spent the most money to bribe him through his meme coin, while Republicans push his budget that guts Medicare, Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires like him more tax breaks. Republicans call this “America First.”

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Instead of making the tipped and federal minimum wage a living wage, we’re ending taxes on tips so taxpayers can continue to subsidize hospitality employers who pay poverty wages. This is a handout to the hospitality industry and their lobbyists, not a tax break for workers.

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“Fiscally conservative Republican” is a myth made up by Republicans to justify harming the working class in order to transfer wealth upward to oligarchs. Their budget $5.2 trillion to the deficit.

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

I'm not afraid that AI can do my job, I'm afraid of the world where we agree that the pisspoor approximation of my job it ~can~ do is all we need

submitted 478 days ago • 17 comments

They're talking about "water based" cooking now. Cooking things in water instead of oils. It's soup. They're making soup.

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Douglas Adams

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“So what do you think Democrats can learn from somebody who, like you, targets the most vulnerable among us?” said Newsom theonion.com/gavin-n...

submitted 32 days ago • 44 comments

Chatbot proliferation is the perfect marriage of increased surveillance and corporate labor reduction. Which is basically like paying to make yourself poor, dumb, and subjugated.

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It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'

submitted 32 days ago • 120 comments

There was an old tweet that stuck with me: "If you can easily walk to the coffee shop but your barista has a one hour commute, you don't live in a walkable 15 minute city; you live in a theme park"

submitted 33 days ago • 49 comments

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 35 days ago • 117 comments

The last on-duty homicide of a detention and deportation officer was 1949. The last time there was even a non-COVID death on duty was 2016, when an officer had a heart attack during a foot pursuit. Before that, a training accident in 2003, then a fall down an elevator shaft at a jail in 1975.

submitted 35 days ago • 144 comments

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. For example, studying the impact of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is really helpful (and vital) toward understanding how ICE is operating now.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 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 36 days ago • 631 comments

So that's what Big Balls did with the terabytes of data he stole from the National Labor Relations Board a few weeks ago.

submitted 39 days ago • 56 comments

Reminder that wellness grifters like Trump’s new Surgeon General Casey Means spread misinformation about vaccines and health because it is extremely profitable for them to do so. (Chart by @epidemiologistkat.bsky.social)

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Any cocktail can be made with Malort if you're brave enough

submitted 37 days ago • 55 comments

These people are operating under a fundamental belief in eugenics and regard poor people as “surplus” population. The fact they can consistently say as much to a receptive media which reports their ideological declarations as inevitable truths demonstrates the hegemony of their belief.

submitted 263 days ago • 24 comments