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Here's a really visceral example of why everyone should be upset about potentially privatizing the USPS-- whether you ship things, or have things shipped to you, you would be VERY effected. That price from UPS is the next "cheapest" international rate compared to USPS rates.

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

*crab-walked

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Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there actually is an effective treatment for measles. That’s why the vaccine exists. The vaccine is how we treat measles, by stopping it from infecting children, you absolute fucking monster.

submitted 18 days ago • 10 comments

“The money the Post Office spent came from us already. It is used to provide an insanely valuable service to us. And we could say that about any number of other things that provide massive value that we already paid for: libraries, schools, parks, fire departments, roads.”

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

the worst light

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submitted 175 days ago • 53 comments

i'm forbidden from trading stocks because my husband works two degrees removed from the UK government and that means the risk of me having privileged information is too high. meanwhile, congress

submitted 50 days ago • 2 comments

get me to gods country

submitted 59 days ago • 33 comments

The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"

submitted 59 days ago • 35 comments

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts. The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

submitted 74 days ago • 748 comments

good lord. didn't see this till now. musk didn't just say his site falling apart was a cyberattack. He said it was a cyberattack by Ukraine.

submitted 80 days ago • 88 comments

Cool cool cool. They literally pulled $1Bn from American farmers. I'm sure that'll end well.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 97 days ago • 78 comments

the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose

submitted 84 days ago • 5 comments

People keep saying Democrats have no power. Uhm, have you forgotten how Rs dug in their heels and committed to obstruction of anything Barack Obama tried to do? That is the fuck-you energy we need, along with some theater of the absurd. Cooperation is immoral at this point.

submitted 84 days ago • 18 comments

Democrats should have either skipped the shitshow entirely or gone and heckled the fuck out of this parade of lies and insults. This? Kinda pathetic.

submitted 86 days ago • 186 comments

Sitting there with your little paddles and not leaving or interrupting this bullshit only grants it the veneer of normalcy. This isn’t normal. And if you value decorum over the lives of trans people, over the destruction of democracy, go find another job. We don’t need you.

submitted 86 days ago • 26 comments

I don’t see why more people don’t see the anti-trans stuff as a precursor for arguments defunding and dismantling women’s sports, women in the military, and women in federal positions. They already went after Title IV and are setting up to take women out of combat and leadership positions

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

Amidst everything, I still can't believe they didn't exempt Canadian oil. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it. They acknowledged it was a bad idea to put tariffs on it but decided to do 10% instead of 0. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it!

submitted 87 days ago • 112 comments

I really want ppl to understand what the 25% tariffs will do to prices, because most of the price hikes you're about to see will be PRICE GOUGING by retailers.

submitted 87 days ago • 4 comments

When we talk about rape culture, this is what we're talking about. I am afraid of Rahm Emanuel and Bill Maher. I have never been afraid of a trans person.

submitted 89 days ago • 9 comments

Andrew Cuomo ordered the deaths of countless disabled New Yorkers. apnews.com/article/new-...

submitted 89 days ago • 3 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 91 days ago • 297 comments

i don’t think the average republican in congress understands that by removing all of the normal pressure valves and methods for relief, they are directing all of the pressure at themselves

submitted 89 days ago • 40 comments

are we allowed to point out they're targeting women and minorities then replacing them with unqualified white men or is that woke DEI

submitted 89 days ago • 43 comments

This is the thing I don't think people understand. The US has been so much worse than this & a lot of people were okay with it because it wasn't hitting their communities. Now it is on deck for everyone. White people better get in the field on the front lines

submitted 89 days ago • 24 comments

Holy shit it's still not cute to make fun of evil Nazi shitfucks by implying they are gay, trans, effeminate, women, or that being fat has anything to do with how fucking evil they are THIS IS NOT DIFFICULT

submitted 89 days ago • 19 comments

I hear the zoomers are obsessed with Friends and I'm gonna need y'all to watch Living Single, trust me gen z you want that instead.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was just demolished by Musk’s team. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 million. A thread about 18F:

submitted 90 days ago • 27 comments

Not my home but I know my way around

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 89 days ago • 422 comments

NEW: When the Trump Admin abruptly cancelled almost all USAID programs, it also refused to pay $2bln the U.S. govt owes for work that’s been done. One of the cut-off programs in Syria couldn’t afford security and was robbed by masked men. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 89 days ago • 154 comments

This is so beautifully said. Hell yes, Pedro Pascal.

submitted 92 days ago • 12 comments

Jfc. Do not take pictures or video at protests, this is basic level safety. And REALLY don’t tag your actions on your social media that’s on your phone with a LOCATOR in it.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

this is the way

submitted 100 days ago • 5 comments

A thing I wish I could teach people is that the vast majority of very rich people are deeply stupid. They did not get where they are because of ingenuity or talent. They got there because of compound interest on hereditary wealth and being tax cheats.

submitted 102 days ago • 167 comments

So, one thing I learned from the 4 Nations Face-Off is that when assembling Team Finland someone forgot to include a penalty kill unit. #hockey #4NationsFaceOff

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