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"Welcoming those voters back into the tent," i.e. swinging the Dem party to the right, i.e. the same project they've been undertaking for the past several decades which has led to complete electoral collapse

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I'm glad we let the guy responsible for the simplest app in the world breaking twice a week be in charge of government spending

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

this got buried, but apparently AI was used to imitate the president’s chief of staff on phone calls with senators and other officials. and her phone was hacked.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

it should be understood that they essentially know this and and don't care (at best). this along with deportations is part of their effort to "purify" the country by eliminating "undesirables" in the form of anyone non-white or "unhealthy."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

1/ We got government data showing that the Trump administration knew the majority of Venezuelan men it sent to a prison in El Salvador had no criminal record in the U.S. - and that only a handful had been convicted of violent crimes - before calling them all terrorists and deporting them.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Let the leaking and backstabbing begin. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 5 days ago • 245 comments

remigration is neo-nazi speak for ethnic cleansing. wrote a whole story about the origins of the word here: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

this truly couldn't have happened to a funnier person

submitted 6 days ago • 139 comments

my takeaway from reading 150 years worth of historical transit and planning documents is that the solutions have been known the entire time and studies are just a way for people who don't want change to waste time

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society! What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

submitted 6 days ago • 72 comments

i think something ppl have difficulty grasping is that "doing (X) will only effect incremental change, not holistic/structural change" is not by itself a sufficient argument for NOT doing (X)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I wonder why in the intelligence world it might be difficult to export information directly off a computer

submitted 6 days ago • 94 comments

Missed this truly American moment yesterday

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

this is wild. apparently stablecoin purchases of US Treasury bonds are so large that they measurably reduce their yields

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

going 15+ over the speed limit is a violation of the social contract

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

DC streetcar was so poorly designed: —No dedicated lanes & thus frequently obstructed by traffic —No connection to Metro or even the front of Union Station —No enforced signal priority, slowing trains —No real effort to improve the streetscape —Too many stops (8 stations/2.4 mi)

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

if you have ever set up a direct deposit into Coinbase then your brain needs to be studied for science

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Jordan Peterson voice: well to begin with it's a contradiction in terms, or perhaps a paradox, I'll return to that. but the membrane itself has no consciousness, you see. so it can't prima facie be "insane." and moreover we have to understand that there's more than one membrane, really quite a few

submitted 9 days ago • 24 comments

If it wasn't for this it would be for some equivalent...the party functionaries need to keep that money flowing to the consulting firms where they'll all work in a couple years

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I’m so serious abt this tho. Oh noes if we ratio moderates they won’t post and then the platform won’t GROW! market poisoned thinking. who the hell is fantasizing about The Platform That Endures? platforms are ephemeral, posting is eternal, join my webring

submitted 9 days ago • 41 comments

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

submitted 11 days ago • 150 comments

I encounter this in most conversations with German media, politicians, diplomats. This is where the stupid "Trump is just a businessman / not an ideologue" nonsense has caused tremendous damage. It's also partially a coping mechanism: A comforting fairy tale that the regime "doesn't really mean it."

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the real grievance Stephen Pinker seems to have is “despite my comfort and prestige, people are still allowed to think I’m a bad person because of my beliefs”

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

I'm not kidding when I say we need a national PR campaign for public transit

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

if you're still a congressman when you die, you get to be a congressman in heaven and do the really good insider trading up there. why is everyone pretending not to understand this

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

imagine going on record with the papers to announce your candidacy for the world's biggest whiny baby

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

A day for the history books: the President of the United States invokes "white genocide," while the Vice President highlights "great replacement" theory, both staples of racist right-wing extremism.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

"Unexpected" ???

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

TIL: When the Original Star Wars Trilogy finally aired on Chilean TV in 2003, the network spliced custom beer commercials into the films themselves to avoid cutting to commercial breaks. these additional scenes turn Obi-Wan & Luke into raging space alcoholics who are constantly shotgunning booze.

submitted 14 days ago • 167 comments

Unprecedented constitutional violations & crimes happening daily now. But please do enjoy this podcast with Jake Tapper & Ezra Klein on Joe Biden.

submitted 13 days ago • 38 comments

the irony of these technofascists naming their companies after Tolkien references is, I'm sure, lost on them

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

First day on the job as a detective in a small remote town. Should be a breeze assuming its bucolic exterior doesn't hide any dark secrets & things are what they seem

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

submitted 15 days ago • 142 comments

Why would you set a limit on Stuf, we are a community of dreamers, we want our children to believe future Stuf will far exceed the Stuf of today

submitted 17 days ago • 300 comments