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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 2 days ago • 111 comments

chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

submitted 2 days ago • 526 comments

From a FOIA perspective, "the entire federal workforce should write down and email what they did last week" is extremely funny

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

remember how i told you yesterday that i've talked with people who are volcanically angry? boy, do i have a story for you coming on monday.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

you know, we think about the rise of fascism as a response to WWI but sometimes I wonder if it wasn’t as much a response to the 1918 pandemic

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 9 days ago • 541 comments

THIS

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 7 days ago • 2402 comments

The other website is pretty much done

submitted 6 days ago • 710 comments

I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 6 days ago • 641 comments

"I called it ethnic cleansing. But when I saw the images of starving babies in Gaza I had to upgrade my language." By Art Spiegelman (Maus) and Joe Sacco www.theguardian.com/world/pictur...

submitted 10 days ago • 26 comments

The twin peaks police department hates to see him coming

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

like, this is just fucking insane. the government is pretending that it passed the Inverse Civil Rights Act overnight and everyone is acting like it's a real law.

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Count me in. “We are hope despite the times”

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Disgraceful

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 11 days ago • 439 comments

Sorry guys

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

JUST IN: Ohio reports state's first human case of H5N1 bird flu.

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submitted 13 days ago • 389 comments

My VPN works

submitted 13 days ago • 1147 comments

Was at an event in DC this evening with a lot of federal employees and it is absolutely wrenching to talk to people who dedicated themselves to public service work through the appalling attacks and uncertainty that they are facing now.

submitted 18 days ago • 112 comments

And now you know where Queen got the cover for News Of The World

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 20 days ago • 212 comments

I attempt a very rough historical materialist breakdown of the tech ascendancy:— www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

Acting nice to chatgpt in advance because it's going to decide whether I get social security

submitted 21 days ago • 44 comments

And ye maye aske yowerself, 'How do Ich werke thys?' And ye maye aske yowerself, 'Wher ys that large destrier?' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my fayre castel!' And ye maye tell yowerself, 'Thys nys nat my swift goshawk!'

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

is this what happens when you get older. you just recognize things and note that you have recognized them

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM. We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building. Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

submitted 22 days ago • 1175 comments

heinous

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

trans america for trans rights

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I'm never going to forgive the people and politicians who sat silently while Trump sicced the entire federal government against trans people.

submitted 24 days ago • 73 comments

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

submitted 24 days ago • 91 comments

I really wish that instead of preserving "norms" we had preserved “values" and "principles.”

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

An unelected, erratic, ketamine-addled billionaire with far right/white nationalist views has taken control of the personnel and payment systems of the United States government. Not an exaggeration, not hyperbole.

submitted 24 days ago • 134 comments

Please kill me

submitted 24 days ago • 352 comments

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

submitted 24 days ago • 232 comments

Franz Neumann on the (lack of) rule of law under German fascism:

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

so which fool called it "the Trump administration executive order on federal hiring policies" and not "Opus DEI"?

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

On 30 January 1972 British soldiers from the 1st Battalion of the Parachute Regiment shot 26 unarmed civilians during a march in the Bogside area of Derry. The march had been organised to protest against the introduction of internment without trial. The massacre became known as 'Bloody Sunday'. 1/2

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