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the core problem with "just triangulate" is that polling shows Harris won "voters who knew what the fuck was going on", which pretty directly implies that you cannot fix whatever problems we have by changing facts. the problem is people who don't know facts.

submitted 11 hours ago • 27 comments

the spirits smile on the great khan of the plains

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A thing I think it’s worth stressing is that even the voters who are squeamish about trans rights can spot tactical pandering when it’s this obvious. They’ll be repulsed by the cowardice and lack of principle even if they’re on board at the policy level.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Yglesias refuses to update his priors with data. It's lazy When the Garcia news broke, these people said that "raising the salience" of immigration would be bad for Dems. But addressing the issue decreased Trump's approval and support for deportations, in both experiments and observational data.

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

OH MY GOD! PUT THE LINK IN YOUR POST! I CAN SEE YOUR POST! I COULD CLICK ON THE LINK IF IT WAS THERE! I CAN'T CLICK THE LINK IF IT ISN'T THERE! I'M NOT ON INSTAGRAM! FAIRIES AREN'T GOING TO SHADOWBAN YOUR POST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T CENSOR 'PATREON'! PASTE THE LINK!

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

stealing our own tax money from our state (already a net donor state that pays more than it receives) to send to elon musk and trump's goons in a huge tax cut. Plunder. Intolerable. Trump wants to rule California like we're conquered territory.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Columbia completely caved and are getting their accreditation pulled anyways. Anybody that doesn't go nuclear on these people when they even sniff at you is nuts. *COLUMBIA NO LONGER MEETS ACCREDITATION STANDARDS, US SAYS

submitted 17 hours ago • 32 comments

just a reminder that the dem who ran this campaign unseated a 3x gop incumbent who had never won by less than double digits

submitted 23 hours ago • 72 comments

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

submitted 1 day ago • 237 comments

incredible "blacks rule" moment here

submitted 22 hours ago • 39 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 21 hours ago • 7 comments

Republicans are responsible for nearly all the deficit and tens of trillions of debt yet adult brains have only just begun to accept that their entire plan is to bury us in debt.

submitted 21 hours ago • 2 comments

Agree with every word, save I would argue that the initial comment was a gaffe in that it was unplanned. They had the assault on empathy locked and loaded and turned it into a Christian Nationalist dog whistle: ONLY "THEY" care about worldly death.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Folks, do not @ creators with your negative feedback. Nobody needs that.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

A New York Times investigations editor logs onto bluesky for the first time in 5 months to defend a virulently transphobic journalist who works beneath her knowing she'd provoke a reaction. She then uses that disapproval as a smug reassurance of her transphobia being justified.

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

This just happened to my friend’s partner. There’s so much blame going around among the bereaved who lost him but the truth is he was priced out of surviving asthma.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

The plan? Save Democracy from fascism by hiring the worst taco truck in all of Washington DC to suggest Trump should have actually gone ahead with his tariffs

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

It's very simple: they illegally killed USAID openly, without a hint of subterfuge, and brazenly lied about what the effects would be. The US commentariat and democratic leadership are totally rhetorically unequipped to deal with that, because it would be biased and uncivil respectively

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Bluesky's character count literally isn't long enough for how astonishing and out-of-pocket this woman was, lol. Like, there wasn't even room to add the bit about her being a master fencer who would humble your ass in duels for misgendering her

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

submitted 1 day ago • 568 comments

The brain drain will be when scientists are forced into other careers/jobs so that they can keep paying the bills. They will never return. There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.

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Once again I am calling for Democrats to introduce legislation requiring standardized uniforms, visible badge numbers with names, as well as a requirement for ICE and DHS agents to present proof that there is enough danger present to be masked to a judge when they get their warrant.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Last week, Linda McMahon was threatening to cut funds to NY schools because of a state ban on Indian-themed mascots. She said she was deeply concerned that the move was “an attempt to eliminate the history and culture of Native American tribes.”

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I really think there’s an appetite for a party that opposes the Republican Party. If somebody were to start such a party, I think it could do well.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

i'm reposting this because there's a lot of people who keep screaming about data server water usage when the actual water crisis is already here and it's because americans cannot be bothered to grow anything but livestock feed and strawberries in the desert with flood irrigation. and hamburgers.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Why is Musk pretending to back away? What's the regime hiding? What's Tesla's board afraid of? A ton of reporting is needed now. The entire media is disgracing itself. Like Walter Isaacson, they are either missing the massive story in front of them or actively trying to snow the public.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Following up: while Jonathan Joss complained about years of homophobic abuse from his neighbors and his husband wrote that the murderer was screaming homophobic epithets, the San Antonio police says there’s “no evidence” of a hate crime. This is why so many queer folks don’t like cops at Pride.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

i swear the easiest way to get money in washington is to tell democrats to be republicans but just like 4% less bigoted.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Wall Street would rather read the most absurd headlines devised by man than accept that Tesla has been running a self-driving scam for eight years www.barrons.com/articles/tes...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

"As currently drafted, the GENIUS bill paves another road to financial self-destruction that will undermine the American and global economy." One author predicted the 2008 crash. The other won a Nobel prize. Without fixes, this bill shouldn't pass.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

autopark systems have been a solved problem, available off the shelf from suppliers, for many, many years now you absolutely should not trust your life to a driving automation developer who can't get parking right!! www.torquenews.com/1083/my-2026...

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Congress is about to pass a stablecoin bill that, experts say, will reopen ways of destabilizing the financial system that have been closed for decades talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-de...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Tapping the sign

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

There's still basically no evidence for Musk "stepping away" from politics besides his own claims, yet the Times keeps repeating the lie to help him - sometime contradicting their own reporters. Don't print lies in the newspaper.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

It's so incredible to still see the left accused of moral relativism when every conservative column is just 'yes all of our leaders are bad but the people calling them bad sometimes exaggerate.'

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

Federal employees can not accept a gift of anything valued at more than $20. (training.smartpay.gsa.gov/training_pur...). Did…did the NYT witness and document a gift transaction higher than that? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Jonathan Joss was Comanche and Apache and an openly gay actor. He was murdered while looking at the remains of his dogs at his own house that was burnt down. The killer yelled homophobic slurs before shooting him. This is the real world consequences of the hatred that the right commodifies

submitted 2 days ago • 586 comments

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

submitted 2 days ago • 1186 comments

I guess just like with deportations we get to do the whole "I voted for trump, but I didn't vote for THIS" song and dance again when millions of people lose their medicaid in a few months

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Musk has now traveled through an entire arc of embracing anti-black crime panic narratives, embracing overt race science, embracing swastika-bearing neo-Nazis, openly promoting Nazi conspiracy theories, introducing them throughout government policy - all without political elites noticing or caring.

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'It is also reported to have spent more than £1 million developing a machine learning tool which was supposed to assess someone’s social media networks to estimate how effectively they could crowdfund a book. It was never successfully deployed.' www.thetimes.com/uk/arts/arti...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments