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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.

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PRAMS is the source of data for basically every effort to limit infant mortality and all the health dangers mothers face before and after birth. So a pretty big deal the Elon and Co decided to cancel the program.

submitted 6 hours ago • 64 comments

In 1860 three of the richest and most politically well-connected white men in Barbour County, AL were appointed generals in the Confederate army despite having no military experience. That worked out about as well as one could guess.

submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 11 hours ago • 204 comments

Work has piled up and spilled into my weekend, but I'm listening to the sublime rocksteady of Phyllis Dillon, so it's not all bad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXI...

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

this isn’t real, it’s an english folk horror setting

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

If this happened in a foreign country we’d call it a purge

submitted 23 hours ago • 52 comments

is it good when your military is talking like this

submitted 23 hours ago • 12 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1081 comments

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

This is so many words to say Trump fired the chairman of the joint chiefs because he’s black www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

I don’t know why this is hard for folks to understand. The layoffs aren’t just about probationary employees. They are going beyond that. It won’t stop. It’s all about making agencies non-functional.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

Democrats should never have stopped calling these guys weird couchfuckers

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

baby are you ai because i didn’t invite you and no one knows how to get you to leave

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

If phones were round they'd just roll away all the time and that'd be great

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Your actions do matter.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

don't get comfortable we're not into the woods yet

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ok but that would be incredible.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

[the statue of liberty looks at the camera] THE ARISTOCRATS!

submitted 10 days ago • 67 comments

Sometimes you don't need a criminal police force. You need a CRIMINAL police force.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Three ways to bend a fork - street magic effect and performance by Jeramy Neugin

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

From an IRS employee in Texas, one of thousands still awaiting news on whether they still have jobs: "It's a mess. Lot of tears. Managers also just received an email that there was some glitch and not everyone received their letters."

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

Kash Patel is confirmed, and like clockwork I receive a long text from Team Kamala Harris asking for money. Look, I know it's important to fund opposition candidates. But JFC, why the hell isn't anyone not named AOC or Crockett doing or saying ANYTHING?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I hate it here.

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I’ve been warning that the Tech Bros want the S.F. Presidio for a “freedom city”. Now this. 👇 1/

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

Babe wake up...

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Rubio traveled to El Salvador, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and the Dominican Republic at the end of January to "promote regional cooperation on our core shared interests." So far, 3/5 of those countries have agreed to stockpile undocumented immigrants in jungle camps.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I had enough to worry about without the prospect of a satellite falling from the sky every hour, but here we are. Also, the fact that 2/3 of all low earth orbit satellites are owned by a single person seems bad. buttondown.com/creativegood...

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BREAKING: Donald Trump issued an executive order tonight aimed at ending several decades-old and highly successful government programs. Among the programs Trump says he's ending: The Federal Executive Boards and the Presidential Management Fellows Program. What do they do, you ask? Key things!

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

Tomorrow you’re going to see a news story like TRUMP STAFFER: he was just joking when he called himself the king, you reporters are stupid for even asking TRUMP: I am literally the King of America

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the line about how trump is just trolling or joking about the “king” thing is belied somewhat by the fact that his administration’s explicit position is he can do whatever he wants and that everyone in every branch of government needs to bow to his demands or be banished

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments