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So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

submitted 12 hours ago • 123 comments

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

submitted 18 hours ago • 32 comments

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

submitted 13 hours ago • 181 comments

"It's called 'literary sci-fi,' T — it's when you rewrite a Twilight Zone episode with a thesaurus and sell it to a bunch of fanooks who think 'Heinlein' is a cheap beer"

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The precise peak of the American Empire

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Peak meme execution

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

(Sorry, reposting with an edit!) My friend's daughter wants a Catfrog, so she's gonna get a catfrog. Didn't say it would be good!

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Best line at the #DallasFANEXPO was the one for giving @effinbirds.com my money.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This guy has murdered hundreds of thousands of people this year, most of them children.

submitted 4 days ago • 64 comments

I hope the history books use all of their worst photos.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

My favorite tech journos over at @theverge.com are having a sale on subs, and I strongly recommend you guys give @reckless.bsky.social your money so that a.) he can give everyone boats, b.) no one can tell him what to do, and c.) 10000% more party speaker coverage! www.theverge.com/subscribe

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This was a great (and infuriating) listen!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

submitted 7 days ago • 338 comments

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

submitted 8 days ago • 1153 comments

This hits so hard considering we’re all the same age as LeBron James and hurt ourselves on the toilet half an hour ago

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Your local grocery store probably gets two truckloads of food every week. Maybe more.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

the first conspiracy.

submitted 12 days ago • 87 comments

guys be like "i know a place" and then take you to the cloudflare AI labyrinth

submitted 13 days ago • 12 comments

@schumer.senate.gov could say "I resign." That'd help.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

in:re MyPillow AI sanctions, this minute order makes me think that the court is also getting a whiff of lack of candor from the proceedings.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

How is Naomi Wolf not already the Surgeon General or something. Also I get a warm glow from avoiding people. Is that weird?

submitted 17 days ago • 235 comments

Now that I'm pushing the line from "firmware" into "operating system" territory, I figured I'd give JumperlOS something any self-respecting OS needs, a color picker. www.youtube.com/watch?v=shE6...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

American staffers who work at the International Criminal Court, at the Hague, have been told they'll be arrested if they come in the United States, the AP reports: apnews.com/article/icc-...

submitted 19 days ago • 28 comments

arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake

submitted 19 days ago • 170 comments

NEW: Verizon is ending its corporate DEI programs following a pressure campaign and regulatory threats by the FCC theintercept.com/2025/05/15/t...

submitted 19 days ago • 10 comments

my mental state, without downloading new pics

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Set the "techbros reinvented the bus" timer back to zero

submitted 20 days ago • 48 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 34 comments

YOU GUYS I’M SCREAMING HAHAHAHAHA Thank you @muellershewrote.com!! #WITAODforever

submitted 20 days ago • 12 comments

Accidentally clicked Mastodon instead of Bluesky, so now I get to fix whatever this is

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Hey NY Times-- It is still a "fringe theory" -- every court has rejected it. There is still a "broad consensus" -- John Eastman is a disgraced lawyer under indictment. The only thing that has changed is the Times.

submitted 20 days ago • 473 comments

Paradox of tolerance strikes again!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I just know he could be our Bolsonaro

submitted 21 days ago • 85 comments

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

submitted 21 days ago • 465 comments

They botched this operation from beginning to end. Devastatingly damning on every level and in every detail. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

I can't top this one.

submitted 22 days ago • 295 comments

A good article about understanding yourself a little better than you did the day before. Also a reminder that autistic people were always there, it's just that many of us - including many autistic folks - didn't have a vocabulary or medical knowledge to describe it. observer.co.uk/news/first-p...

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments