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“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?" That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security. Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.

submitted 18 hours ago • 567 comments

they are really going for it with mass detention and that means concentration camps, that means mass deaths, that means plenty of citizens rounded up too, especially political dissidents. if you still can’t see where this train is headed idk what to tell you anymore

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REPORTER?!

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submitted 17 hours ago • 130 comments

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is Robin Hood in reverse: it takes from the poor to give to the rich.SNAP (used to be Food Stamps…which Tabby and I used back in 1972) is gone. Medicare is going.

submitted 16 hours ago • 657 comments

i think it should be a bigger story that the president held a meeting with a foreign head of state where he ranted about the most gutter white supremacist propaganda you can find on the internet

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

The bad faith reporting during and since the pandemic is very much an attack on the public. It's like everyone forgot "best efforts" protocol is both automatic and standard in healthcare to make interim guidelines. "No science" is wrong, distancing to reduce respiratory outbreaks is known to work.

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Trump told us these people were so dangerous they couldn't afford due process to prove how dangerous they were. They had to go straight to the foreign concentration camp. Turns out at least one in five of them didn't even break US immigration law

submitted 1 day ago • 59 comments

We live in hell www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/s...

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One of the free state of Florida's biggest counties just blocked schoolkids from reading "The Handmaid‘s Tale," "Beloved" and "Anne Frank’s Diary" www.tampabay.com/news/educati...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

here's the full clip of RFK Jr losing his shit at Patty Murray today during a hearing so badly that Republican Sen. Capito had to step in and tell him to "hold back"

submitted 2 days ago • 506 comments

the moral and creative vacuousness of having AI generate this stuff is less surprising to me than the prevalence of people who use AI constantly without the slightest understanding of its limitations

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Good God, vaccine hesitancy has gone from 12% to 26% among Republican parents in the last four years. www.kff.org/health-infor...

submitted 3 days ago • 125 comments

“you should have a choice” means “we get to choose for you”

submitted 3 days ago • 694 comments

$5 million in public money to the family of Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Here's what was happening at the Capitol that day:

submitted 3 days ago • 46 comments

Stupid because the actual fight right now is the vast majority of Democratic voters against a few of their own senators who want to legalize crypto money laundering

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

I wonder how many lies it will take before the press stops giving official statements by Trump and his cronies the presumption of truth. Days of stories spreading their lies around before the real story emerges. This happens over and over and over again:

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Meanwhile, this treatment of law enforcement was pardoned

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Our tax money being stolen to be given to the criminals and traitors who tried to destroy the republic. They now see us as conquered territory and are sharing the spoils of war with the other looters.

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

that’s it i think he should drop out

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

In March, the U.S. ambassador to Gambia wrote to Gambia’s president with an “important request,” urging him to circumvent his country’s communications minister and “facilitate the necessary approvals for Starlink to commence operations.”

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

They're really going to try and pretend Elon did not personally ask for the change, despite Elon having been bombarded with people asking grok questions about south african white genocide and people ridiculing him that his own chat bot doesn't buy his bullshit for 48 hours prior to the change lol.

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

"A contrast-enhanced CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis was performed to evaluate for evidence of primary or metastatic malignancy. Regarding "white genocide,"

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

the fact that the grok change was made at 3:15am makes it incredibly high comedy

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

In response to Trump's executive orders, RAINN, the nation's largest anti-sexual-violence organization, has barred its crisis hotline staff from sharing resources specific to LGBTQ people, immigrants and other marginalized groups.

submitted 8 days ago • 27 comments

NEW: For years, the Education Department was the only agency that could ensure states would improve conditions for disabled children. Now, Trump’s cuts threaten to hamper its oversight. With @idahostatesman.com

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

I wrote about Trump's ostensible plan to tax the rich, and how the media bites on his propaganda.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

this is a profoundly misleading framing of what the article itself says! "Biden’s personal physician [...] privately warned the president’s team that if Biden had a bad fall in 2023 or 2024, “a wheelchair might be necessary for what could be a difficult recovery,” Tapper and Thompson report."

submitted 10 days ago • 36 comments

Imagine if Kamala Harris had won and excepted a $400 million dollar plane from a foreign monarchy. Seriously, just take a minute and imagine that.

submitted 11 days ago • 81 comments

there's literally nothing that the people running California won't try to solve the homeless problem except for the one thing that would actually work

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

guess we'll be taking a trip to canada this fall to get boosted

submitted 11 days ago • 200 comments

The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

submitted 11 days ago • 2744 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 11 days ago • 319 comments

Is this…efficiency? www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 49 comments

This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry. The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006. Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

submitted 14 days ago • 61 comments

During jury instructions, David Bloyed seemed quite amused when the judge repeatedly read his online handle “Schwetty Balls,” and Bloyed looked around the courtroom to find someone who shared his glee. About an hour later, he appeared stunned as the jury declared him “guilty.”

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

i will never get past this. the collapse of the global trade system because one guy does not understand what a trade deficit is.

submitted 15 days ago • 125 comments

"The president was unaware of Hegseth’s order... "An order freezing military support would normally be discussed intensively. It requires the coordination of multiple agencies.. "None of that coordination happened when Hegseth’s office canceled the scheduled flight" www.reuters.com/world/us/ord...

submitted 17 days ago • 41 comments

tariff otaku is now tariffing movies

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

A DOGE staffer involved in dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau holds as much as $365,000 worth of shares of companies that the CFPB can regulate. Ethics experts say his actions are a potential violation of federal ethics laws.

submitted 18 days ago • 108 comments

In poll after poll you see these same kind of numbers, and for whatever reason, the takeaway is that YOUNG men have a fascism problem when clearly OLDER men are more likely to be fascist according to every poll

submitted 18 days ago • 17 comments