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This man is so smarmy.

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The US Dollar is backed by one thing: confidence in the US economy. If that confidence holds firm, holding a couple billion worth of Bitcoin "reserves" is going to be utterly irrelevant. If it ever goes belly up, holding a couple billion in Bitcoin "reserves" will be equally irrelevant.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

When someone writes the definitive book about DOGE & Musk’s foray into politics, it absolutely has to be titled “Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly.”

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I miss her so much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kf24...

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We are so fucked.

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This article highlights that both of the following are simultaneously true. 1) Our leaders, elected and otherwise, are exhibiting shameful cowardice by not speaking out about what is happening. 2) The country is rapidly becoming a de facto Mafia state where dissent is genuinely dangerous.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

"Sucking up to Trump...is the worst possible thing to do." "The only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them." These five minutes from Malcolm Turnbull are a must-watch. Recorded in June last year as part of our Joe Stiglitz tour. #auspol

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

Truck month is over.

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At the same time that the entire Republican Party is complaining that Zelenskyy lacked sufficient respect, Trump is calling the leader of our neighbor and longest ally "Governor" and his Cabinet are doing shit like this.

submitted 5 days ago • 89 comments

The Onion got hacked on Twitter today for the first time since the Syrian Electronic Army hacked us in 2013. This time they're selling crypto, which as you all know we love. Crypto is great. I love it. We love it. Twitter is also great. So is Donald J. Trump and Elon Musk, who is normal-shaped.

submitted 5 days ago • 98 comments

Wait until MAGA wine moms can’t have their avocados …

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The interesting thing about this is how technology has made it easier to erase history and distort it. There’s no fire from burning books things are just gone with the click of a button.

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

Could it be a rare March melt? Vote now! Vote often!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

submitted 8 days ago • 83 comments

To all our followers in America: we have some heavy wooden bats you can borrow.

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments

A perfect illustration of what the Republican Party is.

submitted 8 days ago • 187 comments

JD Vance gives off cyanide pill in the bunker vibes.

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I feel as if we're capable of acknowledging that a one-day boycott is mostly symbolic without becoming contemptuous and dismissive of people finding a little meaning and comfort in such a symbol. The scorn seems petty.

submitted 9 days ago • 774 comments

Can't even think of a dry, irony-poisoned elder millennial joke about this. These people are not our friends www.semafor.com/article/02/2...

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Guess I’m going to jail

submitted 13 days ago • 113 comments

honestly, woulda been more impressive if the chainsaw'd been going, right?

submitted 15 days ago • 91 comments

Here's an example just from today of how closely Elon Musk is aligned to ideas propagated by Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt. Musk says that people vote for elected representatives who "decide their will." Nothing else matters. (no courts, no bureaucracy) Schmitt says...exactly the same thing.

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments

JD Vance: "Our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge ... my message to young men is don't allow this broken culture to send you a message that you're a bad person bc you're a man, bc you like to tell a joke, bc you like to have a beer with your friends."

submitted 17 days ago • 1932 comments

Dog sleeping habits hold fascinating clues on how living with humans has shaped canine behaviour. Sleep in dogs appears to be determined by human lifestyle + situational factors. Left to their own devices, however, dogs may be more likely to assume the sleeping habits of their wild ancestors.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

It was an honor to sign the guest book in the home of Anne Frank. I was here as a younger man and thought about her life as a dark chapter of history. Today, I can’t help but think of her story as one of caution. Our world is fragile, and it’s incumbent on us not to break it.

submitted 17 days ago • 1206 comments

📢 “He’s trying to steal Medicaid to enrich himself. He’s gutting NASA to line his pockets with SpaceX. He’s looting everything good in America for private profit.” - @aoc.bsky.social at today’s #SaveOurServices NYC rally. The fight isn’t over. Join us: go.savepublicservices.com

submitted 17 days ago • 577 comments

DNC Aiming To Reconnect With Working-Class Americans With New ‘Hamilton’-Inspired Lena Dunham Web Series

submitted 17 days ago • 239 comments

True story: a few years ago, I was being interviewed by a reporter for the New York Times. I mentioned the history of eviction statutes and how they tied into Jim Crow. The reporter asked "what's Jim Crow?" When I explained, the reporter didn't believe me and said the US wouldn't do that.

submitted 18 days ago • 816 comments

If you to send something to friends and family who don't follow the news closely something that'll bring them up to speed, try this @nprfreshair.bsky.social interview with @charliesavage.bsky.social, who has been covering attempts to expand executive power for 30 years. www.npr.org/2025/02/17/g...

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

silicon valley is going to destroy america

submitted 21 days ago • 625 comments

Thread.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Vale, this one here. Bloody legend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-3c...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll say it: anyone who sees a movie starring this monarchist fuck is a class traitor

submitted 21 days ago • 239 comments

Musk's wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk's wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos's wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos's wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg's wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg's wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

Absolute unit

submitted 24 days ago • 85 comments

www.marketplace.org/2025/02/13/t...

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

College for Us but not for Them.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 24 days ago • 1149 comments

you fucked up a perfectly good computer is what you did. look at it. it's got innumeracy

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she's doing a noise set

submitted 25 days ago • 93 comments

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

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submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Time for this was like last year, my dude.

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