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Democrats frantically scrambling to figure out the most appropriate food truck to roll out for this situation

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

How do you create a quality learning environment, which requires trust, when the students on campus do this in order to become famous?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

There's a pretty explicit test case of a center left party abandoning trans people and immigrants. Labour in the UK have done just that and their political support has imploded while legitimizing the fascist Reform party. Dem consultants seem content to follow this strategy.

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

Okay on the bright side, we’ve been living in “unprecedented times” for long enough that they are now firmly precedented.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 4 days ago • 143 comments

Not funny, exactly, but notable that "Israel has a right to exist as a state with equal rights" is characterized as a political line (a dodge, a talking point, empty, meaningless) while the assertion that Israel should have a right to exist as a Jewish state is apparently just stating natural law

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

submitted 5 days ago • 46 comments

My calendar is also organized around 9/11s.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

family avocados, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1905

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happy pride bsky

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

On the Political Roots of Academic Freedom open.substack.com/pub/digressi...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

A visit to the Elephant Graveyard of West Bloomfield, Michigan: unsold Cybertrucks piling up in the parking lot of a closed Bed, Bath, & Beyond about a mile south of the Tesla dealer. May 30, 2025. #Tesla #Michigan #cybertruck

submitted 8 days ago • 220 comments

oedipal victory stunted billionaire primitive accumulation monster daddy hugging himself as he rocks back and forth to self soothe during an oval office presser because one of his numberless primal horde, a scion named after his favorite brand, supposedly went for his eye: a mood

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

grudgingly have to admit David Brooks is cooking with this one www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 16 comments

Missile defense doesn't work, but at least it's stupidly expensive, has no appreciable spillover into other research, and in fact the pursuit of it actively makes nuclear war more likely.

submitted 18 days ago • 44 comments

the reporter who asked trump about "TACO" did the right thing but also probably caused a global economic depression

submitted 10 days ago • 45 comments

According to the fed govt’s own accounting, U.S. culture industries doubled in the 21st C a tenfold increase in global trade surplus. We export film tv music lit fashion games, AND higher ed, contributing more than $800B/yr to the economy, more than mining construction ag warehousing transportation.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

All politics is Sokal.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments