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Have they perhaps considered making themselves smaller? Taking up less space? Adding "I could be wrong" before things they're an expert on? Inflecting the end of sentences to make statements sound like questions? Adding 'sorry' as a filler word? No? Ah, I've heard some folks feel they have to.

submitted 13 hours ago • 7 comments

Not much here is actually new but this is a very good overview of DOGE, which can only now be viewed as a failure on its own terms and a catastrophe on any other terms www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

what a stupid presidency, what a stupid fucking war

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

I see people saying stuff like "why criticize Substack but give other problematic platforms (like, say, YouTube) a pass? Which is a fair point. Thing is, YouTube is a quasi-monopoly for sharable video. Substack wants to have a newsletter monopoly but isn't there yet. And it should never happen.

submitted 14 hours ago • 25 comments

It strikes me that if we had swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming Wall Street chasing down tax cheats and white collar criminals, many Americans would respond differently than they are to swarms of masked men with weapons of war roaming the streets of LA chasing down brown people.

submitted 16 hours ago • 128 comments

I mean honestly, no? A significant majority of Americans are outraged at masked ICE agents kidnapping people and the Trump administration sending them who knows where.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Fuck

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

I get what they are trying to say, but "mask" is not purely a noun for an item of PPE. Masks, in general, are things which cover other things, hence (among other things) the verb form, "to mask" and the gerund "it was masking the sound of..."

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

President Trump: “We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 105 comments

Six former CDC vaccine advisory committee chairs warn: U.S. risks losing access to life-saving immunizations www.statnews.com/2025/06/20/a...

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

I’m sorry but we need to unleash propaganda and economic warfare against the mainstream media that will make “no angel”-gate look tame.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

The thing people refuse to grapple with is they’re perfectly okay with many of these techniques being applied to poor Black people, and they’re outraged when people point out this fact.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

After months, I remain unconvinced by this theory. That DHS is acting extremely unprofessionally is not evidence of secret J6ers. Rather, I believe it reflects longstanding culture problems within ICE, a chaotic multi-agency approach to raids, the corroding effects of quotas, and Miller’s extremism.

submitted 13 hours ago • 124 comments

Turn Gestapo: The cleric can use their Channel Divinity ability to emit an aura of shame and righteous judgment. Any Gestapo, fascists, lickspittles, or thugs in the area of effect must use the waddle action to move at full speed away for three rounds timesofsandiego.com/life/2025/06...

submitted 13 hours ago • 41 comments

How the F can the NY Times even ask this question in 2025? 86% of LGBTQ voters voted for Harris, up from 71% for Biden. After the hell Trump has unleashed since Jan, erasing queer from web sites, killing the suicide hotline, he's even more unpopular. Seriously? Nothing but clickbait bullshit.

submitted 13 hours ago • 51 comments

What if I told you the mental image of “criminal thugs” is highly racialized, and the reason policing still holds so much hegemony is due to this racialization?

submitted 13 hours ago • 4 comments

Because the people who are voting for Cuomo and writing puff pieces about him think this is good

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

submitted 17 hours ago • 64 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/n...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

submitted 14 hours ago • 1126 comments

This is what “a gang” is so much more than some kids spray painting stuff or whatever. This is fucking insane

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Why did folks stop talking about grocery prices? I just left the store and OMFG…

submitted 16 hours ago • 1248 comments

yeah -- ground beef hit an all-time high last week, and nobody appears to be reporting on that www.bls.gov/charts/consu...

submitted 13 hours ago • 72 comments

In their analysis of more than 12,000 regions across 55 countries, a team of researchers … found that for every 1°C increase in global temperature, global food production could decline by approximately 120 calories per person per day—equivalent to 4.4% of current daily consumption.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

Trump take beef

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

This heat wave is absolutely bone crushing. I'm so glad I installed central air two years ago. But if you're without AC, or you're dealing with a heat wave for the first time because it's reaching areas that don't historically get this hot, here are a few tips from my years of poverty in a desert:

submitted 18 hours ago • 32 comments

Even though they’re in the minority, Congressional Democrats have a lot of tools they can use here. In addition to showing up at detention centers etc, Dems can grind the Senate to a halt, push impeachment articles against Noem in the House, and more. Flood the zone.

submitted 17 hours ago • 109 comments

Lis Smith only tweets this if she thinks there's a good chance he can lose

submitted 14 hours ago • 7 comments

Dear MAGA, Fuck what you’ve been told You’ve been groomed into existence We’re only getting started Be on the right side of history 🔥🔥🔥🔥 #SheShed

submitted 15 hours ago • 57 comments

My relatives in East L.A. — born in the U.S.A. — are afraid to go outside because masked men with guns are randomly snatching people off the street. This is a government terrorism campaign against its own people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 122 comments

They’re just wrong. What happened is liberals didn’t push back and in fact they ceded the argument to the right. In 2016 there were consequences for the NC bathroom bill and they retreated, but then liberals got scared of Trump. It’s the exact same thing they did with immigration.

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

After 104 days of being unjustly detained for his advocacy for Palestinian rights, Mahmoud Khalil is finally home with his wife and newborn son.

submitted 16 hours ago • 23 comments

STORY TIME: ICE rolled up. The city of Bell, California said, “Not today!”

submitted 19 hours ago • 1018 comments

We still have no idea who the ICE agents are. They could be insurrectionists, extremist militiamen or criminals themselves, chasing law-abiding citizens down the street for recording their kidnappings. The odds they aren't are low. Congress must raise hell about this. A masked gang runs our country.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1132 comments

Who they are is newsworthy, but I think people overrate the idea they must be newly recruited Proud Boys or stuff like that as opposed to plain old ICE agents and other assorted feds. They've been given carte blanche to behave much worse but ICE was not filled w/ people too good for this a year ago.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

you don’t need to read it, link it, click it, reshare it; you don’t need to do anything ever that supports the NYT if you give a shit about trans people living—or for that matter other gay rights, because this is just the next stage of the project they’ve planned in the open for 10+ years.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

A system where men, women, poor folks, people with disabilities, and marginalized voices all have an equal say has more potential to build national prosperity than handing the reins to the same dead-eyed sociopaths who've been killing us and bleeding us dry for generations. Do you agree or disagree?

submitted 16 hours ago • 21 comments

archive.ph/2025.06.20-1... “Brazilians are turning against their team. In recent yrs many have stopped wearing the yellow jersey, which has become associated with far-right politics. The Brazilian Football Confederation is desperate. It hired an Italian superstar coach to try to turn things around.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I've read so many pieces talking about how AI helps in the writing process, but I've never seen recommendations about writing AI helped produce - it would seem like advocates should have examples of novels, essays, poetry, something readable AI has produced

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments