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submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Republicans fight with the press, and the press rewards them with generous framing and fawning coverage. Democrats constantly court the press, and the press reacts with hypercriticism and endless new challenges.

submitted 16 hours ago • 20 comments

Or that Harriet Tubman was alive at the same time as Thomas Jefferson AND Ronald Reagan.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

Alright, @sarahebond.bsky.social in her cruelty has made me aware of this remarkably incompetent talk Malcolm Gladwell gave and so I am going to inflict it on all of you by going through all of the mistakes he makes here in the hope that none of you will ever take him seriously again. 1/

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

Another image from that beautiful morning at the Mont Saint Michel… To morrow I’m starting another photo tour in Tuscany, so probably I’ll get quiet here again… Don’t forget me 😆! Will be back soon enough ✌️

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

submitted 23 days ago • 1427 comments

“This is the equivalent of you going to a lender and them granting you a half million dollar builders loan (but) you get $300,000 into it and (they) say, ‘Oh yeah, we're only gonna give you $300,000,” Mississippi State Superintendent Dr. Lance Evans said. buff.ly/9TlP7HL

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

THEY WON'T PAY THEIR FAIR SHARE BUT THEY'LL BREAK TAXPAYER PRIVACY LAWS TO DEPORT THOSE WHO DO FUCKERS thirty six times thirty six times the Torah commands us to care for, protect, love, deal justly with, treat "as a citizen" the non-citizen/stranger in our midst. can't even theocracy right

submitted 32 days ago • 7 comments

Reminder that all the tech billionaires believe in (and want to usher in) the singularity - where humans merge with the machine super intelligence - and they think AI is going to be the way in. And they’re throwing all their money behind it. And yes this is 100% not a joke and yes it’s a cult.

submitted 37 days ago • 20 comments

"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. We may never see the end results, but that is the difference between the master builder and the worker.+

submitted 39 days ago • 8 comments

Nurturing something is key to staying friends with life. There are worthy things in this world that need your power and attention. You can't give it to all of them. But you can listen when something in you whispers, "this one."

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

submitted 41 days ago • 2158 comments

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.

submitted 43 days ago • 39 comments

It would be an illegal invasion and we should call it that.

submitted 45 days ago • 22 comments

My biggest frustration in terms of rising to this moment is: people obviously do not understand that there's a whole psyop strategy around DEMORALIZATION. I do not necessarily think that every doomcryer is insincere, but to steal hope is still to hand our enemies weapons.

submitted 45 days ago • 55 comments

*blink* *blink* Okay, it’s been awhile since I was studying this in any depth, but I was kinda under the impression that China and Japan were maybe not exactly close friends.

submitted 46 days ago • 50 comments

Hell yeah, Austin.

submitted 46 days ago • 215 comments

The only way anyone avoids being disabled is if they die very quickly in an accident. Everyone else WILL be disabled to some degree in their lifetime. (And if you wear glasses/contacts to walk around? You're disabled. You are. You have the very common accommodation our culture offers.)

submitted 47 days ago • 1 comment

Read this.

submitted 48 days ago • 162 comments

Marco Rubio just made the argument, bold faced, not a mistake an intentional statement, that at any time the US can revoke your visa and then you are instantly here illegally and they can arrest you, deport you, torture you, all without any due process. That means the United States is simply unsafe

submitted 50 days ago • 573 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

oh my god -- Comer thinks "editorial standards" literally refers to standards for editorials and is corrected by the NPR head

submitted 51 days ago • 1828 comments