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Posting for no reason. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

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Another excellent article in @arstechnica.com. If you're frustrated by Google/Bing search results - I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend @kagi.com. It's fast + accurate and comes with awesome tools like the Universal link Summarizer. Well worth $12/mth. 🔗 arstechnica.com/google/2025/...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

"These are real people with real families that you're hurting." Yes, spare a thought for those poor, careless, armed-to-the-teeth stormtroopers, says the teleprompter-reading stuffed shirt with the vibe of the world's luckiest perpetually-failing-upward high-school assistant principal.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Attention: American MDs, NPs, RNs, RPNs. #OnPoli #OnHealth

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I think I’ve recognized that I don’t like Matt Yglesias because it makes me anxious when I can’t tell whether someone is mocking themselves or not

submitted 2 days ago • 102 comments

Man if Trump was wrong about Elon, what else might he be wrong about? Sheesh that's a lot to think about.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Berkeley's NIMBYs on Nextdoor: we must carefully study this zoning proposal to ensure equity for the disadvantaged. Berkeley's NIMBYs on Airbnb: $50/day to sleep in my yard.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

submitted 4 days ago • 171 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 4 days ago • 40 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 4 days ago • 219 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 5 days ago • 7 comments

The precise peak of the American Empire

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Peak meme execution

submitted 6 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 7 days ago • 5 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 63 comments

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

submitted 8 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 8 days ago • 0 comments

This was a great (and infuriating) listen!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

submitted 11 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 12 days ago • 1151 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

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

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

the first conspiracy.

submitted 16 days ago • 87 comments

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

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 17 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 40 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 21 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 22 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 23 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 23 days ago • 169 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 23 days ago • 10 comments

my mental state, without downloading new pics

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

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

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submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

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

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments