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I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.

submitted 23 hours ago • 503 comments

I implore people to think about what Memorial Day means, and then think about…this

submitted 8 days ago • 291 comments

The year is 1925. Coal miners in West Virginia have organized against the federal government over workplace safety. A prominent antisemitic billionaire automaker has thrown his support behind the German far right, aiding their rise to power. The year is 2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

The man who wanted to ban all Muslims from entering the United States because of terrorism is meeting this week with the former head of Al Qaeda in Syria.

submitted 21 days ago • 537 comments

In 2024, Biden signed into law a $105 billion measure designed to end a shortfall in air traffic controllers. In 2025, Trump came in and instead began firing hundreds of them. So you can see how clear it is that Biden is to blame for the shortage now.

submitted 22 days ago • 233 comments

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

submitted 25 days ago • 1455 comments

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked Trebeard and he said hrum hoom burárum

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

“I asked ChatGPT...” well I asked Tom Bombadil and he said "Hey dol! merry dol! ring a dong dillo! Ring a dong! hop along! Fal lal the willow! Tom Bom, jolly Tom, Tom Bombadillo!"

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

A good rule of thumb Democrats should use to figure out how to interact with Trump is to imagine you’re addressing Jabba the Hutt. Do you sound tough? Defiant? Or are you some pandering slimeball who is obviously going to be double-crossed and fed to the Sarlacc?

submitted 28 days ago • 34 comments

Trump's post is a federal crime. 26 USC § 7217.

submitted 32 days ago • 988 comments

This is why voters loathe Democrats even more than Donald Trump. They'd rather vote for a fascist strongman than a groveling weakling.

submitted 37 days ago • 24 comments

This is true, but the larger scam pattern (web3/metaverse/crypto/etc) is what many of us are trying to give voice to — folks have to recognize that letting those bad actors define "tech" is just like media letting bad actors frame every other "debate". It's losing before we even start.

submitted 38 days ago • 10 comments

If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

submitted 38 days ago • 408 comments

Today at least two judges were arrested for acts that are not criminally illegal and a two year old U.S. citizen was kidnapped and shipped to Honduras by ICE, who called it a "deportation." Are we great again yet?

submitted 39 days ago • 342 comments

Removing a black 4-star general at Secretary of Defense and replacing him with a white talk-show is the perfect example why DEI is essential. It's not about hiring unqualified minorities, it’s about foiling the majority's habit of hooking up under qualified mediocrities of their own caste.

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

It’s already a win for Hegseth that the conversation is around if he should resign and not if he should be jailed.

submitted 40 days ago • 95 comments

Not for nothing but ‘Genocide Joe’ wouldn’t have deported you for protesting, even when the person being protested was him.

submitted 42 days ago • 116 comments

To everyone that said Democrats like Van Hollen were making a political mistake in defending due process, you were wrong, and we shouldn’t even need a poll to tell us that.

submitted 41 days ago • 122 comments

When it comes to people with autism, particularly children, RFK Jr wants to make it easier for parents and quack doctors to "experiment" and force dangerous and unproven treatments on them. And he wants to make it harder or outright illegal to counter disinformation that harms this industry.

submitted 43 days ago • 47 comments

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

submitted 44 days ago • 194 comments

An interesting fact you learn if you get interested in incarceration is that the brutality doesn’t increase deterrence but criminalization does. In other words, the death penalty doesn’t deter crime more than incarceration, but not punishing crimes at all encourages people to commit them.

submitted 44 days ago • 2 comments

Pope Francis has the opportunity to do the funniest thing in 3 days

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 44 days ago • 1015 comments

can’t really be overstated how important it was that in an era where almost every single institution we have is being dragged towards fascism, one little old man devoted his life to shoving the world’s oldest institution towards more charity, grace and inclusivism.

submitted 43 days ago • 31 comments

You guys Elon Musk appointed the head of the IRS and President Trump didn’t even know about it.

submitted 46 days ago • 231 comments

“.. If the IRS can go after you because of your beliefs, we'd no longer live in a free country,” Vance, in a resurfaced clip, says to Fox News host Laura Ingraham.” @the-independent.com www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 47 days ago • 47 comments

TBH this comment by the author has dramatically reduced my optimism about the "possible signs of alien life" exoplanet result being likely to hold up to further scrutiny. 🤨 (Chris is a prominent astronomer who has written several papers on exoplanets and planetary atmospheres.)

submitted 47 days ago • 14 comments

MAGNETO WAS RIGHT

submitted 48 days ago • 216 comments

weird how being proactive and generating friction leads to media coverage. hm. bsky.app/profile/fact...

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

submitted 49 days ago • 639 comments

Cuomo's reputation for "competence" is a totally imaginary media creation, designed to dupe liberals in a blue area into electing a conservative. His governorship was a series of embarrassing fuckups! Over and over! Didn't matter because media understood alternative to Cuomo would be a progressive

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

as a millennial of a certain age i can't really dislike Jon Stewart but come the fuck on man, a bunch of people knew. we tried to warn everyone. you and a lot of other media luminaries told us to calm down

submitted 49 days ago • 165 comments

I would not have predicted that large universities would show more courage than either Big Law or corporate media. Good for them.

submitted 50 days ago • 1058 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 50 days ago • 715 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 50 days ago • 122 comments

This is the kind of ad Democrats need to drop like a sledgehammer. Don't just say Republicans are corrupt—show it. Loud. Relentless. Unapologetic. Shove their greed right in voters’ faces. #MAGABlowingYourTaxes

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submitted 50 days ago • 175 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 50 days ago • 1321 comments

I've seen some people saying how "AI"-generated text is now as good as certain published authors, and honestly I think it's really brave for these folks to admit in public how poor their reading comprehension has to be

submitted 51 days ago • 122 comments