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I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out."

submitted 182 days ago • 31 comments

There was a good turnout at the Portland #teslatakedown rally. Here are some photos. @niedermeyer.online was interviewed by the local TV station KATU 6.

submitted 82 days ago • 11 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 97 days ago • 492 comments

Siri iOS 18.2: I don't know that shit. Here's what Google says. Siri iOS 18.3: I don't know that shit. Here's what ChatGPT says.

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

During my former life, I accepted being shot at, dodging IEDs and the occasional rocket…Let me tell you, waking up to yet another Fork in the Road email knowing it originated from a 19-y/o incel at the behest of an oligarch has me enraged like never before.

submitted 107 days ago • 800 comments

Again, this isn't funny & it would have immediately ended any previous presidency in the post-WWII era. It's a direct violation of our NATO & UN obligations & obscene in a moment where 🇷🇺 is occupying 20% of 🇺🇦 & denying the sovereignty of another country. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 108 days ago • 97 comments

it's hard to read the chart in the screenshot but what this moron is actually complaining about isn't "DEI" staff, it's special education teachers. these ghouls are coming for people with disabilities and they aren't even shy about it.

submitted 112 days ago • 274 comments

Meta is renewing its threats against employees, telling them today that they will hunt for leakers and tolerate zero leaks. Want to know how that is going? Three Meta employees who I’ve never spoken to before just cold messaged/emailed me offering me to be sources.

submitted 112 days ago • 1098 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 112 days ago • 2277 comments

Senator Adam Schiff torched Kash Patel: "Mr. Patel may be, I don't know, but he may be the first nominee for FBI Director in history who felt it necessary to plead the 5th." BOOM! 🔥

submitted 112 days ago • 707 comments

Me, during the election: the democrats are spending way too much time talking about project 2025 and saying noting about their actual plans. 💀

submitted 113 days ago • 3 comments

Hi. Jewish person here. These are concentration camps and should be called that by everyone.

submitted 113 days ago • 96 comments

if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 114 days ago • 925 comments

One earlier right wing synonym for the vacuous handwaving boogeyman “wokeness” was literally “secular humanism.” Atheists making common cause with Christian nationalism against “the religion of wokeness” should remember that we’re on the list of undesirables

submitted 115 days ago • 7 comments

this is severe, untreatable, terminal lawyer brain. so many legal academics act like the constitution is not a vessel intended to secure actual human rights and dignity, but a mere matter of intellectual curiosity, meant to be batted around like a cat with a toy

submitted 118 days ago • 87 comments

For the love of pistachio ice cream, how many times must I ask people not to go all “but… BUT JESUS” in my mentions every time I criticize authoritarian Christians? You don’t get to negate their Christianity OR its connection to Jesus. Christian =/= good Fucking deal with it (not in my mentions)

submitted 118 days ago • 17 comments

Not just unusual. It’s unprecedented. It’s a seismic reordering of American government and an actual instance of the “weaponization” of the DOJ that the Republicans were heretofore so fond of complaining about (when it wasn’t happening).

submitted 118 days ago • 95 comments

Counterpoint: “We must assume all arguments advanced by members of my profession are made in good faith” is an elitist, self-serving, and ruinously stupid fake principle.

submitted 118 days ago • 16 comments

"considerable flak" = "people accurately noted that these guys are segregationists and biological racists"

submitted 118 days ago • 63 comments

To be clear, our most historically trusted media outlets carried a tremendous amount of water & shattered their credibility for an administration that will now make it state policy to see them ousted from their jobs if they show even bare minimum backbone. They were warned of this for many years.

submitted 120 days ago • 18 comments

She called for kindness and mercy.

submitted 120 days ago • 220 comments

The GOP is literally telling you that their main policy goal is to ethnically cleanse the country.

submitted 120 days ago • 27 comments

This is not some disgruntled ex-employee speaking off the record. This is David Maraniss, a Pulitzer-winning reporter and author who’s now an associate editor at the Washington Post, where he’s been affiliated for more than 40 years.

submitted 120 days ago • 69 comments

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

submitted 120 days ago • 727 comments

AOC: "I want folks at home to look at what members of Congress are invested in private prisons companies, and look at the votes on this bill. It is atrocious that people are lining their pockets with private prison profits in the name of a horrific tragedy."

submitted 120 days ago • 625 comments

Some fascinating things happening on Reddit. 22,000 upvotes on the subreddit dedicated to posting pictures of houses that are over 100 years old.

submitted 120 days ago • 284 comments

Trump: "I won youth by 36 points." (This is a ridiculous lie -- Trump lost the youth vote.)

submitted 120 days ago • 353 comments

The fuck we didn't, Cory.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

The road to fascism is paved with centrists screaming “he can’t do that because of the law”

submitted 120 days ago • 45 comments

This is, though, another opportunity not to ask "How do we help her message reach the broader public?" but to ask "Why doesn't my member of Congress talk like this?"

submitted 120 days ago • 55 comments

The goldfish brain of the Speaker of the House, via @fritschner.bsky.social:

submitted 120 days ago • 34 comments

Propaganda vs. News

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

Who could have guessed?

submitted 135 days ago • 14 comments

all art is made from spite or horniness, and a computer cannot be spiteful or horny, so a computer should never make art

submitted 135 days ago • 279 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 135 days ago • 665 comments

For the record, any assertions that current concerns are just for the “next four years” are fully misguided. We are on a path to permanently breaking existing systems; any fixes will come in building new ones. Prepare for that work, which will take the rest of your life.

submitted 135 days ago • 13 comments

north carolina republicans about to make “democrats cannot legally win elections that might deprive of us of power” a principle of state constitutional law

submitted 135 days ago • 85 comments

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

submitted 135 days ago • 110 comments

there is obviously tough competition by cannon is really gunning for “most insanely corrupt person on the federal bench”

submitted 135 days ago • 179 comments

Why and How to Hold John Roberts Accountable www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/08/w...

submitted 135 days ago • 35 comments

They want you to think Community Notes has all the integrity of Wikipedia, but with none of the governance structures that make Wikipedia what it is. To mangle a reference, if they wanted Wikipedia, they would have invented Wikipedia.

submitted 135 days ago • 59 comments

I've been on the Mark-Zuckerberg-is-a-right-wing-stooge beat for years. www.mediamatters.org/facebook/mar...

submitted 135 days ago • 172 comments

Please stop saying "rolled back diversity goals" and start saying "the company capitulated to a segregationist movement." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 136 days ago • 676 comments

terrible beatboxing noises “My name is Mark Z and I’m here to say that i’m letting people use slurs in a different way!”

submitted 135 days ago • 1139 comments

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

submitted 138 days ago • 404 comments