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Novelty Car Horn Playing ‘La Cucaracha’ Sends Stephen Miller Into Dissociative Fugue State theonion.com/novelty...

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This sounds like the kind of story told breathlessly by a six-year-old holding action figures.

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A Shattered Nation Longs To Care About Stupid Bullshit Again theonion.com/a-shatt...

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Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

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The astonishing size of black holes. Credit: NASA Goddard

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In these dark times, it’s great to come together and find something we can all take joy in.

submitted 20 days ago • 658 comments

In 1989 Voyager 2 capture this image as it passed Neptune. Traveling ~34,400 mph, Neptune is the last planet it will see for hundreds of thousands of years assuming it ever ‘encounters’ one again. In fact, it could travel for hundreds of billions of years and never encounter anything. Ever.

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U.S. Military Bans Men With Girl Names From Combat

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Q: Why are fish poorly educated? A: All the schools are below C level. Now that you've sat through that, please watch this video on animal collective names.

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

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Powell: "If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they are likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth, and an increase in unemployment."

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New from 404 Media: the Signal clone the Trump administration uses was just hacked. TeleMessage makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, Waltz used it. A hacker got some users' messages, group chats. Hugely significant breach www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

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A bunch of tech CEOs are talking about being “AI-first”, the latest in a series of CEO fads like “return to office”, “founder mode” and “pivot to full fascism”. This one’s weird, though, because it only makes sense if… none of their workers are great at their jobs. anildash.com/2025/04/19/a...

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Why is it up to @rollingstone.com to write the most honest and direct headlines? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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This is Linda Martin. A few years ago, the FBI seized her life savings: $40,200. The kicker: She was never charged with a crime—and the government couldn’t tell her why it took her money. Martin is far from the first. But she is trying to make sure she is the last. A thread.

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the reason why these people believe in “the woke mind virus” and think of others as “NPCs” is because they have literally fried their brains in private group chats with people who share the same half dozen opinions

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PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

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

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Before I go into today's dystopian nightmare, let's take a minute to bring down your blood pressure. Here is one of my favorite creatures, the #RedPanda. Enjoy. #nature #animals

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Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

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I can't believe I'm saying it, but I'll say it: way to go, Harvard! CHECK OUT THEIR NEW WEBSITE: www.harvard.edu. Stand up, science! Show our value! Links directly to the fantastic letter written by the president of Harvard. Good discussion of their tactics in this screenshot

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The way Bukele was treated in the oval vs. Zelenskyy is all you need to know.

submitted 52 days ago • 133 comments

I try to teach my kids that no one is inherently “bad” or “good,” that we all make choices and are capable of doing good things and bad things. That said, Stephen Miller is evil. Straight-up evil.

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anyway i guess a country that has successfully gotten people back from the moon can't get them back from central america

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Yesterday’s visit to Billy Earl Dade Middle School reminded me why I fight so hard. These kids deserve the world—and I’ll keep showing up to make sure they get it.

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We traded Europe for a guy that builds concentration camps for profit.

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Lawsuit agst Dept of Energy for illegal research grant terminations includes, Brown, CalTech, Cornell, Univ Illinois, MIT, U Mich and Mich state, Princeton and Rochester. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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A helpful guide to the current state of US trade policy:

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Don’t look up. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

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[Bracket City] April 8, 2025 www.theatlantic.com/games/bracke... Rank: 👮 (Chief of Police) ❌ Wrong guesses: 14 Total Score: 72.0 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

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If the Supreme Court decides that the government can "erroneously" disappear you off the street to a foreign torture prison, and that federal courts have no power to do anything about it, that is, in a meaningful way, Pretty Much It www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

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The goods news is that Peter Navarro has literally never been right about a single thing ever in his lifetime.

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