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It’s another banger weekend for “I want to live in a high trust society but do not want that society to exercise any social sanctions on antisocial behavior” thought

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

MAGA will absolutely commit genocide and mass murder if allowed to or instructed to.

submitted 3 days ago • 124 comments

On behalf of the hundreds of thousands of children he killed?

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

He’s right and he says it well, but also,

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

whole op-ed by david brooks is very good but this bit in particular I think is spot on. Or to summarize it even further: there are a lot of people who are patriots and a lot of people who are nationalists, and I think too often folks get those two confused. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/o...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

He looks 100% well

submitted 4 days ago • 169 comments

Republicans can only lose 3 Senate votes on Trump's Big Ugly Bill — and these senators are the most vulnerable in 2026: -Collins (ME) -Tillis (NC) -Sullivan (AK) -Husted (OH) -Moody (FL) -Cornyn (TX) -Ernst (IA) If they represent you, tell them to vote NO. (202) 224-3121

submitted 5 days ago • 213 comments

WATCH: @repmoskowitz.bsky.social calls out the astounding nearly $1 BILLION (!!) for ICE employees in bonuses alone in the Republican budget. Masked anti-constitutional vigilantism pays well these days. 🇺🇸

submitted 5 days ago • 413 comments

EVERCORE: “.. Does this mean the Trump 2.0 trade wars are over? Far from it. We expect the Administration will pivot quickly with a three-part strategy to reimpose many of the same tariffs .. steps can likely be done in a matter of days to weeks.”

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 10 days ago • 197 comments

Oh, so now we care about what people post on social media? Wild how student visas are getting paused for a vibe check, but some of y’all have been posting red flags for years and still got a security clearance. Make it make sense.

submitted 6 days ago • 188 comments

it is a truth of this website that no matter what position you hold on any topic, one of the most terminally online people on earth whose full time job appears to be getting angry on the internet will appear to declare that you are a centrist

submitted 7 days ago • 90 comments

I do not think people are actually seriously calibrated for how rabidly anti-university the MAGA right is and how core that is to their policy goals. It is probably the #2 issue after immigration for them, and for some of them it’s higher.

submitted 7 days ago • 108 comments

Absolute insanity *CDC STOPS RECOMMENDING COVID VACCINE FOR KIDS, PREGNANT WOMEN

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

submitted 7 days ago • 662 comments

the social consequences of people replacing human connection with a hallucinated connection with a chatbot are going to be genuinely horrendous

submitted 10 days ago • 126 comments

It is not virtue signaling to note this, it is the basic requirement of democracy. You are not obligated to like politicians, nor to have parasocial relationships with them. You should not, in fact, do so in a democracy. Doing so is a part of the authoritarian bargain.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story. Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.

submitted 10 days ago • 23 comments

shocked to hear that “...AI chatbots have had no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation" based on a study of 25,000 workers at 7000 companies by the National Bureau of Economic Research www.nber.org/papers/w33777 fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Some leftists were mean to me on the internet and that's basically at the root of why everything sucks is a very specific brand of douchebag bullshit. The level of self-absorption this entails is intellectually disqualifying.

submitted 11 days ago • 36 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 11 days ago • 366 comments

It obviously has historical precedents ("If only the Tsar knew!"), but it's hard to think of any other president or politician who has had this level of trust among his supporters that he's a good man who isn't really meaning to harm them.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

This is simply not how it has worked before, this is not 'both sides'. Even in the 1950s Red Scare, Hoover and DOJ weren't basically trying to basically take over day to day administrative control of Ivy universities

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I've never seen it so well put before.

submitted 12 days ago • 80 comments

The worst part about this is that it's part of a pattern. The Roberts court writes an opinion with logic that entails all sorts of other crazy stuff while insisting the crazy stuff won't happen (but crucially not giving a reason that the reasoning doesn't apply)

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

I wish journalists would stop framing political news as wins or losses for politicians or political parties. It’s an abrogation of our mission. Why do we keep doing this? Is the spending bill a win or loss for the American people? Who does it help? Who does it hurt? Is it sound policy? Fiscally?

submitted 12 days ago • 503 comments

An outdated calculation by the state education department and Gov. Dan McKee’s budget office last fall now leaves Rhode Island schools facing a $24 million budget shortfall. By @ohnocastro.bsky.social rhodeislandcurrent.com/2025/05/22/l...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

i just want democrats to hate republicans as much I hate them and as much as they hate us

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

If we're ever going to have a chance of rebuilding from this mess, the left-right axis is far less important than the fight-don't fight axis. Moderates who are willing to do whatever it takes to recover from Trumpism are far more valuable to the left than "leftists" who just care about their seats.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Ah, but you see, covering Biden means you can play act at being a hard nosed journalist without taking any risks or having to reflect on the morality of your own profession!

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments