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ISTR that Rushmore is not geologically stable enough to add another head; trying might bring the whole thing down (& there's a metaphor for you). www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

In amongst all the excitement I fear many have missed this outstanding bit of trolling by Friedrich Merz. The Chancellor gifted Trump a gilded framed copy of his grandfather’s German birth certificate... reminding Americans that Trump is both the child and grandchild of migrants.

submitted 16 hours ago • 232 comments

it’s always two dumb bitches telling each other exactlyyyy

submitted 21 hours ago • 58 comments

Bet all those people who said Suetonius was making shit up "because emperors didn't really act that way" are feeling pretty fucking stupid tonight

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."

submitted 23 hours ago • 32 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 1 day ago • 640 comments

Night of the Long Tweets.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Democrats need to fucking run straight to the end zone with that Musk tweet about Epstein

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” sobs man who spent $250M getting the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party elected. My reaction:

submitted 1 day ago • 76 comments

I think you can make a reasonable case that the move in retrospect was to take very coercive steps to vaccinate everyone ASAP then do a full reopening. Instead the "Dems kept schools closed too long!" people always insist it was BEFORE the vaccines that everything should've reopened. It's insane!

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet. h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

One more for the "WTF" quota... This lady has been legally in the U.S. for 50 years. She was detained by ICE in February when coming home from a trip to the Philippines and only just released last week. "It was horrific; it was awful, it is crowded—super crowded." www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 4 days ago • 82 comments

How many more rivers of Palestinian blood will it take for Western citizens to shame our gvts to sanction Israel? "Israeli tanks & drones open fire on Palestinians gathered at US aid distribution site, killing more than 30 people in Rafah alone." www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

It's like a death cult

submitted 6 days ago • 494 comments

If our government is doing something and Trump can’t figure out a way to steal it, they just destroy it instead

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

just absolutely insane that this is what Trump accused Biden of doing, and now he's done it himself.

submitted 11 days ago • 149 comments

Have you noticed people disappearing from the simulation?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Calling it by its name. By me. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/23/t...

submitted 14 days ago • 18 comments

#GoldenAgeOfFraud #Crypto

submitted 193 days ago • 13 comments

A lot of politics that are desperately intellectualized by even liberal pundits and journalists basically boils down to "look at this freak"

submitted 14 days ago • 40 comments

NEW — Kelvin Membreño will be deported to El Salvador by ICE tomorrow. He’s the birth father of three US citizen daughters and has become an important part of their lives. Here their adoptive mother makes a last ditch plea to let him stay in the same country as the girls. A gutting guest essay:

submitted 15 days ago • 33 comments

sorry, i’ve got to cancel our plans this evening. i’m encumbered again. no i will not drop any of my items

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

hey chatgpt, plan my kids birthday party but do it in a really lackluster half-assed way so they think it was me

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

I’m not judging any form of protest but I do agree that it’s important we remember that we can’t defeat fascists with logic. Like, idk how else to say this & it might sound like I’m an asshole but people on the side of liberation are already correct about everything. They still beating our asses.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

McGovern: "What the hell are Republicans so afraid of? What the hell are so scared of that you guys are holding this hearing at 1 in the morning ... if Republicans are so proud of what's in this bill, why are you trying to ram it through in dead of night?"

submitted 16 days ago • 59 comments