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submitted 14 hours ago • 345 comments

Today, in the care and feeding of your pet cracker...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

You know who needs a little trip to el salvador?

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

So he told us not to take his medical advice and now he’s… firing the people who give medical advice?

submitted 14 hours ago • 13 comments

What is that, a Hyundai Tucson?

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Jennifer Lyell, a former executive at a Southern Baptist publishing house who became an early whistle-blower against sexual abuse in her denomination, died on Saturday in Nashville.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Purity politics means bullying someone on behalf of a 3rd party that may or may not want to have anything to do with you. But that's not the problem. As I see it, there are three problems

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

I'm seeing a lot of lefties do what lefties do best: a circular firing squad. In this case, blaming the Harper's letter for the return of trump. It's a false equivalence, of course. Rightwing tribalism thrives on that kind of authoritarianism, but it's toxic to leftwing coalition politics.

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Absolute fucking 🔥. "Over eight hours...people throwing back tear gas...throwing anything that they could to defend themselves...Border Patrol retreated. “And the hundreds of workers in the factories were able to escape. If any community was going to fight back without apology, it was this one."

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Simone Biles isn't threatened by cheating males in her sport, because men lack the flexibility to compete in women's gymnastics. The male advantage does, however, translate to women's swimming, which is why William kept his kick rate down. #sandbagging www.outkick.com/sports/simon...

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

One thing I get from these increasingly outlandish outbursts that Miller is increasingly scared and frustrated by the battle he's fighting and is desperately trying to find a completely different one to fight. He's also heavily baiting California leadership.

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

Tommy Robinson is in the Bahamas spending all that money that idiots gave him for his 'legal fees' when he plead Guilty and didn't have a trial.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

'One very good reason for the Democrats to retreat from their unpopular, maximalist Joe Biden–era positions on this issue is that they could then oppose the Trump administration’s overtly cruel decisions. ' Exactly.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Gen Eric Shinseki was fired for saying the U.S. would need several hundred thousand troops to control Iraq. 1:50 was the troop to citizen ratio, put the bill over 300,000. The U.S. tried to do it with 145K, peaked at 170K. There are 10,000,000 Americans in LA County. 1:50 = 200,000 troops.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Or learn math

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A top official within the Nashville area’s Department of Justice offices has resigned after the Trump administration charged Kilmar Abrego Garcia with human trafficking. The charges against him should be “regarded with a very hefty dose of skepticism,” said Sen. Blumenthal.

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Good news

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Decoupling

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BREAKING: RFK Jr. fires ACIP, the panel responsible for advising on vaccines. This breaks a promise to Sen. Bill Cassidy, who voted to advance Kennedy as HHS secretary on the condition that he would, among other things, keep ACIP in place. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

British photographer Nick Stern has undergone surgery on his left after being shot with a plastic bullet whilst photographing protests in Los Angeles. Stern had press ID and a large camera plus video camera. www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

This story is horrifying. Scammers got people to pay thousands of dollars to hire a fake lawyer. To keep the scam going and keep the money flowing, the scammers also set up fake USCIS appointments, fake ICE check-ins, and fake court hearings. Worse, they told one guy to skip his real court hearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

I ran an experiment, simultaneously posting articles on Bluesky and X, and then testing to see how many people actually clicked and read them. The numbers on Bluesky are higher, both because the X algorithm downranks journalism, and because Bluesky attracts readers, not just shitposters.

submitted 1 day ago • 920 comments

(This was a core finding of the Kerner Commission report almost 57 years ago -- that almost all incidences of urban unrest were triggered by police actions)

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

100%

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Except for calling her a "girl," yes: this is spot on.

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I wrote about the recent spate of anti-Zionist violence against American Jews and how such assaults just make Zionism's argument for it. "The unwitting agents of Zionism throughout history have been those unwilling to tolerate Jews in their own countries." Gift link to the full piece:

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

This is still one of the best ways to limit deportations. Stop collaborations between ICE, local police departments, sheriffs, and county jails.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

More desperate financial engineering to try to cover up Zaslav's incompetence, this time likely torching the company that he ascended to power in, with all the jobs locked inside.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments