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This isn’t some rant saying “Germany has learned nothing from its past” - the reality is more subtle than that. Middle-class Germans live and travel with an incredible amount of ease and comfort, and they just got…sleepy. Many of them dismissed the far-right’s rage as just another set of complaints.

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I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 2 days ago • 107 comments

Begotten, but not made 😂😂

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

I can’t compete with this

submitted 9 hours ago • 245 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 9 hours ago • 149 comments

Food critics are wild. Bro, why are you bullying spaghetti?

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

Lmao Dominicans, whether citizens or undocumented, can and will smack the taste out your mouth, Ho

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

this apocalypse needs a soundtrack

submitted 1 day ago • 122 comments

Someone once described him as a canned ham covered in Vaseline and I’ve never unseen it. But seriously this guy is a psychopath who should be nowhere near a position of power

submitted 10 hours ago • 97 comments

"JOB CUTS"? No. "Job cuts" is what happens when an agency finds there are budget cuts coming so it goes through the painful and arduous task of LEGALLY laying off or firing employees. What DOGE is doing is a criminal attack on the principles of good government in a well-ordered democratic republic.

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Three online "news" stories published this week that include quotes from me that I didn't say. But I didn't do interviews and get misquoted. And they're not written by actual journalists. My best guess is there are massive amounts of AI slop getting posted as news and now I'm part of it. 😬

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Like Larry Wilmore said during the last Obama Correspondence Dinner in 2016: MSNBC stands for "Missing a Significant Number of Black Correspondents"

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The young vote in Germany, by gender. 😳

submitted 14 hours ago • 235 comments

when robert frost said “and miles to go before i sleep” i really felt that

submitted 17 hours ago • 23 comments

No. 1 pencils must’ve sucked ass i bet

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

turning my account into a religion but only for tax purposes

submitted 16 hours ago • 9 comments

Prof. McDevitt is the most interesting historian I've met. He's a great person who is a wonderful mix of intelligent & funny w/ elite-level storytelling ability. So anything I'd ask over dinner would be w/ the intention of getting him to share one of his amazing stories. @pfmcdevitt.bsky.social

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

AT BEYONCÉ CONCERT HER: 🎶Who run the world? ME: [from front row, through a megaphone] BIG PHARMA

submitted 23 hours ago • 11 comments

My model train club has a #Lego division and we have a fun sense of humor. #modeltrains #Cybertruck

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

This full name is blowing my fucking mind

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Capitalists: Let the Truth compete with falsehoods and you'll see the market correct itself. The market exists in nature and is not contrived at all.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Sorry, but this is demonstrable nonsense from Cuban. We’re never going to overcome our current crisis if we don’t give up our slavish fixation with billionaires.

submitted 20 hours ago • 73 comments

Waiting for this headline when we stop seeing eggs at grocery stores: MASS EGGS-ODUS!

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

Victor Davis Hanson in a nutshell

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Weird that we have to "spend" our days. Where the fuck do I go for a refund?

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

Asking my dog to reply with approximately 5 bullets of what she accomplished last week

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

being obsessed with IQ is a good sign that you have nothing in your life to give you actual meaning. (also a good sign you have bell curve-esque beliefs about human equality)

submitted 20 hours ago • 359 comments

I once wrote an episode of Adam Ruins Everything where he said that IQ is a bad measure of actual mental ability. It got some of the most wild, furious responses online. There are people who base their entire world view on a relatively meaningless number

submitted 17 hours ago • 96 comments

LMAO #IYKYK

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

dunno why we are debating elon musk's intelligence when we all fucking saw him play elden ring with two shields and flasks removed from quick pouch

submitted 19 hours ago • 65 comments

I had this fun realization this morning that I’m only happy if I’m sabotaging myself, and it’s like, wow, “what insightful information that I’ll do nothing about, as a treat.”

submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

When incompetence and mastery of bull-shitting conjoin the results are breathtaking.

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Think privatizing will save you money? An example in reverse: Cos. like Turbo Tax sell software to help you do your taxes & charge a fee for filing. There are now free or direct filing options through the IRS but the companies that sell software oppose it. Privatizing is a scam.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

A friend of mine who is a history professor at a private university told me that his employer prefers he say "Gulf of America" because saying "Gulf of Mexico" means he's "taking a position" and not being neutral. Literal absurdity.

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I think it would make a big difference in our health if we banned Pharma ads from America like the rest of the world does.

submitted 2 days ago • 1154 comments

It’s not just Texas. Measles vax rates are down in NYC as well. Most recent data: Just 81% of kids here got their first MMR dose by 24 months (down from 94% pre-pandemic) NYC Health Dept is urging all parents to make sure their kids are vax’d Learn more: on.nyc.gov/measles

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

Just opened a box of Grape-Nuts. I haven’t been this excited since FDR’s New Deal

submitted 22 hours ago • 17 comments

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

If you’re a federal worker looking for a good accomplishment to share with Elon, tell him you responded to texts from the mother of your children.

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

the treat bag calling to my dog like the green goblin mask

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What I sent to [email protected]. Next I'm sending it to my congresspeople.

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Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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We need historians with megaphones to rip this wealth nostalgia of the gilded age apart and do some Jacob Riis 101 type of explaining. What was it like for everyday Americans living in Carnegie and Rockefeller’s America? My god.

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