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Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

submitted 4 days ago • 253 comments

One of the more amusing aspects of smart fridge discourse is how far the damn things contain dual-use components that can be weaponised for military purposes

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Twitter: this is how men with huge balls fight. This is what masculinity looks like Bluesky: this is the first messy breakup of pride month

submitted 10 days ago • 225 comments

Three men sit in a cell in El Salvador. The first asks the second why he has been imprisoned. He replies, "Because I criticized Elon Musk." The first man responds, "But I am here for praising Musk!" They ask the third man who has been sitting quietly in the back. He answers, "I AM Elon Musk".

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

Something I picked up from Joe Boyd's book on international folk musics was that one reason for the finer racial classes in the Creole Caribbean was that, while that reigon's slaveholders were just as likely to assault their female slaves, they were less willing to treat the resulting kin similarly

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t think it’s a particularly hot take to say the person who posted a timelapse of themself playing GTA V on the interstate in their Cybertruck should be in prison

submitted 21 days ago • 48 comments

So, where I would slightly finesse this is the thing about 'midterm unpopularity' is: it is important to ask yourself 'why are you unpopular, and why will it be better at the end of the parliament?' It's very rare that a government is well-positioned to be popular in midterm and at the end.

submitted 30 days ago • 7 comments

never saw a guy getting caught accepting a bribe turn around and say, "what'd u expect me to do? pay for it?!"

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

the tariffs have been great for me specifically in that I get to watch every stodgy business media publication start posting like 2017 resistlibs

submitted 52 days ago • 23 comments

At this rate, he might be giving Al Sharpton a call, too.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

Almost every region has its -tucky. Pennsyltucky, Fontucky (Inland Empire, CA)

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

The USA is in fact becoming a nation - which would be a fine thing, except that the checks and balances of the Constitution were premised on it being more like the European Union than a single nation.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

It’s even breached the Germanic/Scandinavian Upper Midwest. It’s sad to see how parts of rural Wisconsin have become indistinguishable from Missouri or even Texas. Unimaginable when I was a kid.

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah! You see confederate flags in rural areas of WASHINGTON STATE, it's insane and ludicrous

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

My eyes nearly popped out of my head the first time I saw a confederate flag on the back of a truck in Massachusetts

submitted 57 days ago • 16 comments

You see this in rural Canada now. It's upsetting on so many levels. Not least of which is we have our own racist past -- you don't need to appropriate one and put up a Confederate flag.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Van Hollen is, curiously, one of very few electeds acting the way the founders envisioned—using the opportunity of one of the branches overreaching to further his own career. It’s a good thing, but passing strange we don’t see more of it.

submitted 56 days ago • 67 comments

Q: "How do you respond to Governor Newsom?" Sen. Van Hollen: "I think Americans are tired of elected officials or politicians who are all finger to the wind...Anybody who can't stand up for the Constitution and the right of due process doesn't deserve to lead."

submitted 56 days ago • 1222 comments

“frankly, he has not won an election since before I was born” Lmaooooo

submitted 58 days ago • 330 comments

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

submitted 59 days ago • 74 comments

Times leader today says 'university is not for everyone'. Except their own readers no doubt. If we actually radically cut down numbers parents would rip the country apart until the policy was reversed within 24hrs. So what's the point of raising it? Stupid stuff. www.thetimes.com/comment/the-...

submitted 63 days ago • 10 comments

I think the Trumpians likely fold when cornered for now, but the way things are going one day they simply won't, they'll just say 'okay judges, arrest us'. That will be the key moment.

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

All he had to do was nothing but pure fascism and he’d have probably been good for at least a year two, but he decided to set the entire world on fire instead

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

They would literally have him executed

submitted 74 days ago • 10 comments

You all have the benefit here of watching, in real time, an experienced savvy judge close down slowly and methodically every avenue of escape for the US government. This is an outstanding forensic exercise. They are becoming cornered. Keep watching.

submitted 87 days ago • 17 comments

Just spent day reading about the collapse of the British car industry. The lack of vision, the managerial incompetence, the strategic insularity, the complacent reliance on ‘world-class’ marques, the constant short-termism, bad labour relations. And I thought: yup, there go our universities too.

submitted 96 days ago • 32 comments

To me this is a root cause of the crisis. We've continuously failed to prosecute people who are powerful. Inevitably the law breaking just escalates. It's true of both Trump and Musk. Their shameless criminals. And it's true of many who've given them significant financial support.

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

A communist revolution in the US and EU today would not bring back mid-20th century manufacturing, and would treat industrial workers roughly the way Soviet communism treated farmers. State resources would be going to machine learning, green energy, drones, and biotech.

submitted 161 days ago • 2 comments