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DOGE cuts ⤷ tornado forecast offices closed overnight ⤷ 27 Americans dead after overnight tornadoes

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"AI" uses em-dashes because the writers whose (appropriated) work it's trained on use them. I use them a lot, personally, and of course just about everything I've ever written was chucked into the training bin without my consent or assent. So, you know, whenever you see an "AI" em-dash, think of me.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

A swing voter is not a centrist. It's like, a guy who loves guns but has a gay sister, loves weed but hates food stamps because his cousin who owes him 50 bucks gets them. (Also, Osama was Iraqi.) You don't win that guy with a carefully crafted platform, you do it by not seeming fucking lame

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

My take on "Abundance" is that every time I hear the authors speaking about the book, it sounds like a dispatch from an alternative universe where Obama's fourth electoral victory was his narrowest yet, so the big national concern is how to make technocracy successful and more politically appealing.

submitted 6 days ago • 34 comments

The sooner you swear off arguing online the better, I am genuinely kind of angry with myself over how much time and energy and healthy blood pressure I could have saved by doing that a decade earlier

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

applying for jobs again

submitted 13 days ago • 131 comments

Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 11 days ago • 114 comments

The Senate’s alleged purpose is to defend against tyranny. But, as we’ve seen over the past three months, the institution is incapable of doing so. In which case: why should it even exist?

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

"primary everyone" feels like the moderate option tbh

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

We did over a year of coverage on the dangers of photorealistic AI image editing and the most powerful man in the world thinks labels poorly applied in Microsoft Word are the real deal

submitted 19 days ago • 23 comments

IT’S REALLY BAD THAT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES WILL SEE FAKE PHOTOSHOPPED POSTS ON TWITTER POSTED BY NAZIS AND BELIEVE THEM

submitted 19 days ago • 104 comments

Pritzker calls for mass protests and disruption - “Republicans cannot know a moment of peace,” he says, swaying their portraits will one day be put in museums “reserved for tyrants and traitors”

submitted 21 days ago • 222 comments

If you take anything away from my post, I hope it's this:

submitted 24 days ago • 90 comments

Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.

submitted 29 days ago • 461 comments

The story keeps getting more indefensible as they peel back the onion

submitted 31 days ago • 46 comments

let’s look back at what has happened so far Cory Booker giving a 25 hour speech: everyone loved it, raised his profile Van Hollen flies to El Salvador and meets Abrego Garcia: everyone loved it, raised his profile Schumer publicly caved: everyone hated that just a general note to Dems

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submitted 32 days ago • 15 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 33 days ago • 813 comments

there’s no reason not to do this. it’d probably end up with another kind of constitutional crisis, which is exactly why it should happen.

submitted 34 days ago • 12 comments

the most insane part of the world we live in right now is when gay marriage was legalized in 2015, it felt like that was the killshot into the heritage foundations entire functionality, but now they are running the national policy agenda in a way i’ve never seen in 2025

submitted 39 days ago • 114 comments

75%

submitted 42 days ago • 665 comments

i am like 80% serious when i say that woke is the only thing that kept this country together

submitted 43 days ago • 441 comments

goldman sachs execs showing up to luigi mangione's cell like nick fury recruiting an avenger

submitted 42 days ago • 57 comments

we need project woke 2029 to save america

submitted 44 days ago • 360 comments

you have to be genuinely stupid as fuck to think american companies are going to respond to tariffs by building factories and moving manufacturing to the US. i don't know how else to say it. you have to be genuinely braindead

submitted 44 days ago • 203 comments

it's cold comfort but be aware that if you knew trump was going to implement tariffs like this and implode the economy you are now officially smarter than literally everyone who works for the times, the post, bloomberg, the wsj, basically any of the legacy press who pretended he didn't mean it.

submitted 45 days ago • 7 comments

I'm 18. The economy enters a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican president is responsible. I'm 29. There is once-in-a-century pandemic that leads to a once-in-century-recession. A Republican is responsible. I'm 35. Tarriffs trigger a once-in-a-century recession. A Republican is responsible.

submitted 46 days ago • 214 comments

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

submitted 46 days ago • 420 comments

New political outlook on American politics just dropped

submitted 47 days ago • 4 comments

Good take on why embracing crypto is a dead end www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 47 days ago • 19 comments

Things Democratic Senators could do that would be useful: - Withdraw unanimous consent from all Senate business until constitutional rule was restored - Refuse to vote for any legislation until constitutional rule was restored - Boycott as a caucus until constitutional rule was restored

submitted 48 days ago • 585 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 52 days ago • 112 comments

Law firms and universities will really be like "you did property damage? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, nonviolent resistence" and then not nonviolently resist

submitted 52 days ago • 12 comments

multiple issues here: -it’s unamerican and unconstitutional for the federal govt—and certainly the executive on its own, arbitrarily and in secret—to create a speech code for visa holders -even if that was permissible, suddenly accosting her in the street and abducting her is wildly disproportionate

submitted 52 days ago • 169 comments

this is the core of the aggrieved tech billionaire archetype. Sam says it aloud. the way many of them see the techlash is that, one day they were Great Men of History and the next, with zero warning, they were inexplicably villains. everything that comes after stems from an inability to examine this

submitted 53 days ago • 234 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 53 days ago • 1911 comments

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

submitted 54 days ago • 217 comments

this is fine. the fundamentals of the american economy are strong.

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

actually the number of people who care about the nonpartisan defense of free speech is exactly the same as it was

submitted 59 days ago • 18 comments

Feels like the main thing you should know about the Democratic Party is that three years ago they controlled a trifecta after Trump tried to launch a coup, and they dismissed everyone who said they should impose accountability and said “no, we know how to beat him at the polls: kitchen-table ads”

submitted 63 days ago • 44 comments

this is what denying genocide does to you. you irreversibly degrade your political compass, you become incapable of standing for anything clearly.

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments