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this is a sith lightsaber, from the war. I keep it on a shelf right next to my stormtrooper armor and imperial officer’s uniform. I’ve even got a verified chunk of the death star from yavin. I’m just a collector. I just think the history is interesting. no, I don’t have any rebel stuff

submitted 15 hours ago • 98 comments

The only reason Republicans have a reputation as "fiscal hawks" is that the press refuses to tell the public basic facts about what they do when they are in office.

submitted 6 hours ago • 146 comments

Again, arguably the most effective and damaging lie of the past half century is that republicans are the “good at economy” party

submitted 5 hours ago • 12 comments

For reference.

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Outrageous: ICE agents arrested a former U.S. Army interpreter who risked his life aiding American troops in Afghanistan, right after his asylum hearing in San Diego. The interpreter legally entered the U.S. after the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan.

submitted 14 hours ago • 285 comments

vaxxed?

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Both how little pull & how little understanding of his profession. JD Vance literally does not know how to do politics. He knows how to shitpost (badly), so he shitposts.

submitted 19 hours ago • 4 comments

just so everyone knows, literally at the exact same time JD Vance started trolling on here the NSC was having a meeting on Iran he's angry that he got sidelined to the kiddy table and decided to lash out genuinely pathetic stuff

submitted 19 hours ago • 14 comments

This guy is so irrelevant to the admin hes in that he's out shitposting at teenagers while they assemble in the situation room, there is no reason he should be relevant to you

submitted 18 hours ago • 6 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 22 hours ago • 255 comments

"hey 35 to 50 year old newsreading liberals what was the run-up to the iraq war like" is the most precision crafted bait possible on this website

submitted 1 day ago • 160 comments

Trump Stagflation

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extremely common congestion pricing W

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I know a staggering number of people who now no longer have careers that were directly focused on helping people survive disasters and war. Vast swaths of my network have had their essential global work callously vaporized by Musk and Trump. (Unfortunately, my career also has been lit on fire).

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Really fun bit of trivia I like sharing is that Laos was the foreign policy issue that dominated the transition between Ike and JFK

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I’ve had a thesis for a while that the sudden increase in the cost of debt is one of the main drivers behind people believing the economy sucks, and my God:

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Sources report that Noem accidentally touched a copy of the US Constitution

submitted 1 day ago • 54 comments

this image is a nightmare

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

One month apart.

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

If I did it, by Tucker Carlson

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

260,000 favs and 107,000 forwards on Instagram. Normie libs assuming command.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

as someone prone to directly confronting people for stuff they say online, that from lee is the face of someone who did not expect to be confronted for something he said online

submitted 2 days ago • 585 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 2 days ago • 141 comments

i don't know why i find the title so funny

submitted 3 days ago • 81 comments

An underappreciated upside of bikeshare & bike lanes: They enhance resilience by helping people travel when other modes go down. Case in point: Montreal -- perhaps North America's greatest cycling city -- set new records for biking/bikeshare during a recent transit strike.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

This is what I wrote 10 years ago today about Donald Trump's first campaign announcement. www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix...

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

"Give money to the media you want to see more of. Cancel subscriptions to outlets that aren’t meeting the moment." www.liberalcurrents.com/no-kings-sho...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Happy pride

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Stephen Miller is posting again. He's scared, and he's also the only person in this administration directing strategy. No Miller, and this administration eats its own tail.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

Minnesota Sen. John Hoffman's wife shares update after shooting: "We are incredibly lucky to be alive"

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

Small but underrated part of restoring healthier civ-mil norms would be retreating from the fucking OPERATOR TACTICAL aesthetic of service members to more traditional dress uniforms, etc. in terms of public presentation, etc. People that have desk jobs should wear the desk job uniforms, for example

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

i have weirdly intellectual memes

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments