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They used AI to write this and it's such a phenomenal example of two forms of absolute enshittification of our lives. I hate it here.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

submitted 40 days ago • 117 comments

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

submitted 39 days ago • 29 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 41 days ago • 629 comments

It’s so annoying how cancel culture discourse eliminates context. I checked, four authors other than Díaz were dropped from the Contemporary World Literature section: Machado De Assis, José López Portillo Y Rojas, Higuchi Ichiyō and Isabelle Allende. No one is writing about their “canceling”.

submitted 55 days ago • 4 comments

Seeing Booker and now Van Hollen each drive the national discourse single handedly for a week, it makes you really question what the point of Schumer, Durbin, and the rest of the Dem Senate leadership is.

submitted 60 days ago • 2 comments

Reminder that one of the three great consistent rules of Trump is that he will always back down if directly confronted (the others are that he never keeps a promise and that he will always betray anyone who helps him)

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

submitted 62 days ago • 68 comments

seems like an opportune moment to tap the sign: a society that has any chance of defending itself has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authority figures

submitted 63 days ago • 14 comments

Anonymous centrist coward need to be identified and primaried

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I love that the sentence before mandating hiring based on ideological litmus tests says that Harvard must ban hiring based on ideological litmus tests.

submitted 66 days ago • 13 comments

I gauge the relative horror of each passing day with a scientific measurement I call the WASF meter--which is a count of how many times each day I catch myself quietly muttering "We Are So Fucked." The WASF levels today are pretty high.

submitted 66 days ago • 24 comments

El Salvador is a contractor providing the United States with a paid service. The idea that we couldn’t get anyone they’re holding back with the snap of a finger just by asking is so ludicrous on its face, it seems less like a real excuse and more like a test of how much shit the courts will eat.

submitted 66 days ago • 124 comments

Intolerable and tyrannical. No free people should stand for this, and we should recognize that those who do are a threat to our freedom just as much as Trump is.

submitted 66 days ago • 3 comments

The pattern is clear: on a popular level there is strong resistance to Trump, among the elite near total capitulation. In education we see grade school staff (principals, teachers) refusing to co-operate with Ice while Ivy League universities are silent. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 66 days ago • 31 comments

If I were a Congressional Democrat, I would be raising absolute hell right now. This is a "stay on the floor and do not leave the floor ever until this is fixed" I would also be introducing legislation that amends the INA that forecloses the "but they're in another country now" loophole

submitted 66 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely not an exaggeration. High crimes and misdemeanors committed and endorsed in the Oval Office on live television.

submitted 66 days ago • 27 comments

This is the the only case anywhere in the country that determines if the country falls into fascism. Either it stops here, or we fall into the abyss. There is no coming back from this. Anybody anywhere can be plucked off the street, denied all due process, and disappeared.

submitted 66 days ago • 17 comments

This was a great effort by Eisgruber to explain the situation and I wonder who is today's guest on the daily after....oh fuck you, nyt. It's fucking Rufo

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

My alma mater doesn't produce many conservative politicians, but Cass and Needham are evidence of a type that we have to own up to. Smarter than thou dumbassery

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

A mid tech if ever there was one, amirite @tressiemcphd.bsky.social?

submitted 77 days ago • 2 comments

And dems could maybe constantly remind people of that

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

They know they can't logistically pull off "mass deportations" they promises their base so doing high-profile, intentionally-controversial actions (which they turn into content) creates the illusion of mass deportations while enraging people their base hates

submitted 84 days ago • 19 comments

Drake has to be one of them

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

Listening to Ezra Klein talk about rural broadband with Jon Stewart and lack of interest in why the process was so long is telling. Yes, the process is unnecessarily long, but no consideration of why the steps were put in. You can tell each step is to protect from abuse that has happened before 1/2

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

there is absolutely nothing standing in the way of more moderate democrats being aggressive opponents of the white house and holding public events highlighting their opposition

submitted 85 days ago • 323 comments

Every single Democrat in Congress should be demanding the resignation of Waltz and Hegseth. Every single one. This is a massive scandal. There should be a serious price to pay. AND THERE IS ZERO DOWNSIDE FOR EVEN THE MOST SCAREDY-CAT CONGRESSPERSON.

submitted 87 days ago • 251 comments

Least surprising result ever. Stop doing anything close to complying. It will not help, it will only bring the worst end result faster. It's the coward's form of accelerationism.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

This is where I am and they used all my stuff too

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Fentanyl is very much like a weapon of mass destruction in the sense that Republicans like to lie about finding it and then use that lie as a justification to do ruinous, destructive things

submitted 92 days ago • 119 comments

we're not throwing trans people under the bus for any fucking reason. None. There are two sides: the one that throws people under buses and the side that does not. Choose which one you are on.

submitted 93 days ago • 81 comments

The juxtaposition between the two is worth reading in full. It's absolutely bonkers how narrow Stephen's mind and worldview are, but it is rarely exposed to such direct opposition. As always, TMC is brilliant

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments