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submitted 22 hours ago • 561 comments

found your posts

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

Alarming state of affairs. In past 3 months, Trump has: 1. Closed FBI Foreign Influence Task Force 2. Closed State Dept Global Misinformation office 3. Ordered CISA to no longer address misinfo 4. Redirected Cyber Command away from Russian disinfo 5. Fired NSA Director 6. Sacked 6 NSC officials

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

NSF has posted an “update on priorities.” They’re canceling all “DEI and misinformation/disinformation” grants. And the guidance on how to fulfill the longstanding, legally mandated Broadening Participation requirement is utterly incoherent. www.nsf.gov/updates-on-p...

submitted 7 days ago • 11 comments

It took Peter Staley two weeks to build 200 full-sized coffins. The longtime AIDS activist, with a group of volunteers, fashioned them out of styrofoam, tape and velcro. On Thursday, the volunteers stacked coffins 10 layers deep outside the State Department to protest cuts to global AIDS relief.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

theonion.com/show-me-wher...

submitted 8 days ago • 422 comments

this new Kamasi Washington soundtrack is awesome for writing: music.apple.com/us/album/laz...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

@samreich.bsky.social give Wysocki a travel show. It is the only thing that could heal America. “Wysocki Abroad”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

As the First Amendment cases proudly proclaim, "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted by customs and border protection"

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Nearly half of CDC's developmental disabilities and birth defects center is now off the job Secy Kennedy's layoffs included entire team working on sickle cell disease www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cut...

submitted 16 days ago • 65 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 30 days ago • 694 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 30 days ago • 1921 comments

SCOOP: AI scientists partnering with the government are now being told to remove ‘ideological bias’ from powerful models. “AI safety,” “responsible AI,” and “AI fairness” are no longer required skills. www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...

submitted 42 days ago • 92 comments

Justice Democrats, a PAC whose candidates include AOC, Ro Khanna, Pramila Jayapal, among others, just sent out a text blast that literally says: "F*ck Chuck Schumer"

submitted 42 days ago • 36 comments

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

submitted 42 days ago • 497 comments

Chuck Schumer is gonna end up forming a two-person support group with Drake.

submitted 42 days ago • 123 comments

primary them all

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Surrender Caucus

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

I do think the Surrender Caucus is making a category error. I don't think this will blow over for them. #SurrenderCaucus

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Well. Can't wait to see how that works out for them. Anyways, I just bought this book.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 43 days ago • 3634 comments

This is such a cool infrastructure story: audio processing unit inside of the SNES because of heat wear on ceramic resonators inside of the chip, and the slight changes have huge impacts on the speedrunning community

submitted 43 days ago • 4 comments

Just ran my first session of Realis, the awesome new TTRPG from @austinwalker.bsky.social. I am obsessed. I am sentence-pilled and fully sentencemaxxing. Aristocratic failson turned street fighter, a ghost, a child journalist, and a magical antique dealer extradite a prince from a moon-wide rave.

submitted 43 days ago • 2 comments

Tim Walz: www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

submitted 45 days ago • 143 comments

I called. You should too.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

shoot this into my veins!

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Zelensky has now responded to his Oval Office meeting with this series of tweeted thanks to world leaders reaching out in consolation.

submitted 56 days ago • 14 comments

All in exchange for what? He doesn't even run the State Department. Whatever he says, some 24 year-old DOGE engineer simply ignores.

submitted 56 days ago • 20 comments

'Trump asked Zelensky to leave the White House...' www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 56 days ago • 22 comments

my dog when I ask what’s in his mouth

submitted 56 days ago • 373 comments

Spain joins in with its support of Ukraine. Hopefully, Trump's tantrum will lead to significant action from Europe on Ukraine.

submitted 56 days ago • 27 comments

Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.

submitted 56 days ago • 84 comments

Ukrainian ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova during today’s Oval Office meeting with President Trump, VP Vance and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy. (via White House pool) nbcnews.to/4ilvKLp

submitted 56 days ago • 69 comments

The name Marco Rubio will forever be synonymous with cowardice. A repellant, loathsome figure.

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Nauseated and ashamed.

submitted 56 days ago • 53 comments

These newly cancelled projects “had received a waiver from the freeze because the State Department previously identified its work as essential and lifesaving.” What else is there to say? They’re all obliterated, with nary an effort to distinguish. Gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 57 days ago • 1 comment

WASHINGTON (AP) - 21 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk's DOGE, refusing to "dismantle critical public services."

submitted 59 days ago • 23 comments