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At what point is it simpler to assume that SpaceX is just a big insurance scam or ponzi scheme, and that he's blowing up those rockets on purpose.

submitted 11 hours ago • 11 comments

Hey remember that time Tim Kaine was Hillary Clinton's running mate in an extremely well-funded campaign and lost to an extremely unpopular and beatable candidate.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

I still find discourse about the difference between bluesky and Twitter boring. Are there some important differences? Yeah, and we have known what they are for a very long time. This doesn't need to be a multi-year discussion.

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Absolutely ridiculous that the American national anthem was written by a slave-owning lawyer who represented owners of enslaved people who escaped. Embarrassing.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Transition care for trans people saves lives, but it doesn't need to save lives to be worthwhile. Trans care is simply good! It would be worthy of funding even if lives were not on the line!

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

You ever think about how the city of Fort Worth, TX is literally mining bitcoin out of city hall offices.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

The prospect of the alt-right abandoning Trump en masse over its firm anti-war principles seems pretty unlikely to me, sorry.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Treat every single reactionary anti-trans "just asking questions" journalist and politician the same way you would treat Joseph Goebbels if he stood before you.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

"... maize production could fall by 40% in the grain belt of the US, eastern China, central Asia, southern Africa and the Middle East; wheat production could fall by 40% in the US, China, Russia and Canada; & soybean yields could fall 50% in the US." www.cnn.com/2025/06/18/c...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

we should always be demanding everything; never start with a compromise

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

I don't think I was supposed to feel so personally moved by Tim Robinson's character in Friendship. I don't like what this says about me.

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Inmates at Salinas Valley State Prison launch hunger strike over CDCR policies www.ksbw.com/article/inma...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In Israel's hour of need, the United States must stand by its strongest ally in the middle east by dumping more jet fighters into the ocean.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Every few years, I wonder how hard it would be to take over the Alameda County Republican Party. It seems like low-hanging fruit. During party elections, many of their Central Committee positions are uncontested.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

What would be the funniest thing that could send Kristi Noem to the ER with an allergic reaction? I can't decide between jalapeños and dogs.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I increasingly worry that a lot of centrist pundits sincerely believe that cities around the country defended their police departments in 2020. They don't realize they're lying. They have just completely lost the ability to distinguish casual comments on Twitter from existing policy.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Interesting that I’m not seeing any reports of the “He’s An Asshole But The City Needs An Asshole To Stand Up To Trump” mayoral candidate doing any standing up to Trump re: the unjustified arrest of the sitting Comptroller

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

As Philadelphia’s jail population hits a 33 year low, Philadelphia homicides plummet to their lowest level since 1967. And after blaming him for virtually every bad thing under the sun, suddenly the national press abandons all interest in DA Larry Krasner. abolitionistlawcenter.org/2025/06/17/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It's not just the raids--- people are dying while in ICE custody, and we need to pay attention to this. A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation". www.ice.gov/news/release...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

Apropos of nothing in particular, Mississippi Masala is streaming on Criterion.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

It is amazing that the Democrats will not and maybe can not roast the administration on what is already an unpopular war. Part of it’s their deeply internalized Israel-centric view of Iran and Middle East; part of it’s that they just suck and are natural losers

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

They've wanted a war in Iran for my entire life. For all the bluster about Trump creating a new Republican party, the neocons are finally getting their wish under his watch. May they all burn in hell.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Mental health train ride.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has been negative on immigration twice; after the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and after the Stephen Miller quotas went into place and sparked unrest. This is a sign people should be leaning into his outrages to highlight how terrible they are, not running away from the issue.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Police enforcement drives overdoses because people are pushed to use alone which increases the risk of a fatal overdose, and confiscating drugs makes people buy again (maybe not from a trusted source) thereby increasing their chances of being sold toxic drugs which increases their risk of OD.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Bombing a TV station is a very straightforward war crime if anybody still cares about that sort of thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles is only mentioned once on the front page of the NYT website right now, and it's a weather report.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I find it really hard to take seriously any political analysis that treats the term "wine mom" as a meaningful or coherent social category.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment