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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"

submitted 10 hours ago • 192 comments

Re-reading Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous speech on the dangerous discretion of federal prosecutors in light of the dubious indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. This section stood out. www.roberthjackson.org/speech-and-w...

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

submitted 5 days ago • 635 comments

This is Lola. She is one of the most skilled soccer dribblers we've ever seen, so it makes sense that she's already capturing footage for her documentary. 14/10

submitted 6 days ago • 437 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 6 days ago • 283 comments

Trump hates his new nickname TACO so out of respect we made this song! 🌮 🕺🎶

submitted 12 days ago • 54 comments

Repost if you agree

submitted 11 days ago • 306 comments

This is the real game: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 12 days ago • 85 comments

This is what happens when you put internet conspiracy theorists in charge of major government departments.

submitted 13 days ago • 126 comments

There's nothing holy about writing discrimination into the law.

submitted 16 days ago • 685 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

Me: I think my problem is one of situational awareness. Therapist: So you feel like you lack an accurate sense of what’s going on in the world around you? Me: No the problem is that I have a very keen awareness.

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

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Not sure why we don't hear more about this. U.S. population-347 million Canada population-47 million Let's ask any high school student why they think the U.S. buys more from Canada than Canada buys from the U.S. Bueller? Bueller?

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

submitted 44 days ago • 717 comments

D.C. Bar Rule of Prof'l Conduct 3.6: "A lawyer engaged in a case being tried...shall not make an extrajudicial statement that the lawyer knows...will be disseminated by means of mass public communication & will create a serious & imminent threat of material prejudice to the proceeding."

submitted 46 days ago • 33 comments

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

submitted 48 days ago • 1491 comments

This is a good one!🤣😂

submitted 51 days ago • 35 comments

Eliminating Head Start. Laying off all the CDC employs who work on lead poisoning. Discrediting childhood vaccines during a measles outbreak. Cutting funds for school lunches. A look at some of the under-the-radar ways the Trump administration is waging war on America's children: wapo.st/4jcUg2f

submitted 54 days ago • 43 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 57 days ago • 165 comments

MIT following Harvard's lead here

submitted 57 days ago • 591 comments

Red Sox Notebook: Three 25-year-old righthanders from Massachusetts all ended up with the White Sox this season. They'll be at Fenway Park next week: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/s...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Kurt Vonnegut. Gone 18 yrs. Dang.

submitted 61 days ago • 287 comments

Lawlessness. ...instructs agency leaders to move forward with a government-wide “review-and-repeal effort,” citing 10 recent Supreme Court rulings to assert that they can proceed much more quietly because many existing regulations have now been rendered illegal. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments