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In the next civil war, "the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon, but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition, and ignorance on the other." - Ulysses S. Grant, 1875

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So uhhhh we’re just gonna stop governing?

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There's perhaps a metaphor here. Perhaps. futurism.com/atari-beats-...

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Reports and video show flash-bangs thrown into piles of debris just before a car caught fire, strongly suggesting it was law enforcement, not protesters, who sparked it. More details are coming. Don’t let them control the narrative. Thank you to everyone sharing footage, always record everything.

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

TRUMP IN THE FILES IS NOT A BOMB

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Ffs who did this? 😂

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

Hey this is really good. “We're cosplaying as the 2000s, when these things meant something and were built for the occasion, even though literally everything around us--the economy, the industry, the platforms and ways we learn about and experience games--has changed radically.”

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The acting head of FEMA, a Trump appointee, told staff today he didn’t know the U.S. has a hurricane season. FEMA is dangerously unprepared this year.

submitted 11 days ago • 211 comments

WTF❗️

submitted 12 days ago • 110 comments

Maybe the best show ever filmed

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While many Americans were still asleep, Republicans in the House of Representatives passed Trump’s huge, horrible mega-bill. It might be the worst, most damaging piece of legislation I’ve seen in my nearly 60 years in politics.

submitted 23 days ago • 105 comments

I love video games so much, dude

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

Watching the Jose Andres chefs table and getting goosebumps of DMV pride

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HONESTLY PRETTY CLOSE

submitted 37 days ago • 7 comments

So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

submitted 37 days ago • 453 comments

Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’

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It’s a good time to remind people that Star Wars is bad. On the whole, it is a series with far, far more bad entries than good and is owned by an evil mega corp.

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Every. Time.

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#moodboard

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“I asked ChatGPT why LinkedIn sucks so much.” It’s never been more over

submitted 53 days ago • 2 comments

Death Struggle, by Edvard Munch, 1915, 📸 via @molly_morrison

submitted 52 days ago • 8 comments

A bald man is POWERFUL and FREE. To regret the inner strength is gives is akin to cowardice.

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Kamala Harris: “he’s a fascist” Gen. Milley: “he’s a fascist” John Kelly: “he’s a fascist” Historians of fascism: “he’s a fascist” The NY/DC political media: “how did we all fail to see that Donald Trump was a fascist?”

submitted 55 days ago • 65 comments

Democratic Governor Tony Evers has successfully increased school funding for the next 400 YEARS in Wisconsin by crossing out a few numbers in a bill to change it from “2024–25” to “2425.” The state Supreme Court just upheld his right to do so.

submitted 56 days ago • 370 comments

💯 this!!!

submitted 56 days ago • 362 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 56 days ago • 183 comments

🎯🎯🎯

submitted 58 days ago • 517 comments

The possibility of abduction by a sovereign and imprisonment abroad is one criterion that separates democracies from dictatorships. The Declaration of Independence called the British king tyrannical for transporting Americans, “beyond Seas to be tried for pretended Offenses.”

submitted 59 days ago • 377 comments

#Savage #UFC314

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Jean Silva submits Bryce Mitchell via ninja choke in the second round!!! #UFC314

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Trump's EPA just moved to reverse state and local bans on toxic "forever chemicals" that can lead to birth defects and cancer. So much for "Make America Healthy Again." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/apr/05/trump-pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals

submitted 63 days ago • 292 comments

Info on its energy gobbling should be in every news story about AI. It is newsworthy. It is inseparable from the tech itself.

submitted 63 days ago • 24 comments