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submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

The Emancipation Proclamation was an executive order. At the time, it was largely considered unconstitutional. It was enforced by the military. It was also morally correct and unqualifiedly the right thing to do and in fact should have gone much farther than it did.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

if i was in control of billions of dollars & people were mad at me for how i got it, i would simply do my best to slip into the background in a bubble of private luxury instead of actively fucking with every single person on the planet's headspace in an escalating failed attempt to seem cool

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

elon musk might be one of the most paranoid weirdos out there

submitted 5 hours ago • 162 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 2 hours ago • 339 comments

Democrats can't fight #Trump because in a lot of ways, they're still fighting Bernie @Sanders.senate.gov

submitted 1 hour ago • 2 comments

this is completely right but also, even if they break into your house, seize you, and take you to a concentration camp, you effectively can't sue them for civil rights violations. so this stuff (your civil rights) only really matter as long as ICE continues to care about law.

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

i absolutely believe this is where we are headed. this has always been the playbook. sartre wrote in 1945 that they delight in their own bad faith. in 2017, andrew anglin made it the official editorial policy for his nazi blog. it’s always “just a joke,” but the punchline is actual violence.

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 5 hours ago • 24 comments

Doing this while your child's mother is frantically trying to get in touch with you

submitted 3 hours ago • 349 comments

I'm starting to think that repeatedly grooming NYC machine pols to be the next generation of Democratic congressional leadership was one of the great mistakes of the post-Citizens United era. Their loyalties are misplaced, their instincts unhelpful, & above all they are visibly, painfully soft

submitted 3 hours ago • 9 comments

I understand Mr Beast is a successful businessman and he’s going to keep launching products but they got to stop putting his face on them. He’s the most off-putting person I’ve ever seen. Haunted ventriloquist doll face.

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 3 hours ago • 74 comments

When you smell that womb is ripe

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

Anyone justifying national Democrats' current strategy to you is committing massive, possibly world historic political malpractice, including the elected officials themselves.

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

I think people should also be aware that this would be economically devastating on a local level. The economy of "College Towns" often revolves around the college. Closures and/or layoffs will devastate those communities.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 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 6 hours ago • 185 comments

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 41 comments

Elon is hiring criminals to work for DOGE because it is a criminal conspiracy

submitted 4 hours ago • 18 comments

Reuters reporting that the U.S. has threatened Ukraine with the “imminent” shutoff of Starlink access unless the country agrees to handover control of rare earth minerals to the United States. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 6 hours ago • 29 comments

The sheer contrast in how the US treats Ukraine vs how it treats Israel has always been so striking. Both administration restricted the way in which Ukraine can engage in warfare while giving Israel unlimited scope to do as it pleases and now the new administration is bullying Ukraine at the UN.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Hegseth's tattoos got a lot of attention, but of course he denied they were racist. What probably should have gotten more attention: He belongs to a church that teaches slavery was the pinnacle of race relations. dougwilsonbelieves.com/beliefs/sout...

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

It’s beginning to come together for me as to why Elon is hellbent trying to destroy Wikipedia

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

Does holding a security clearance gives the govt the right to piss test you at any time? If it does, next dem admin should unironically spring surprise inspections on every VC with a clearance. Tons of them will pop hot, yank their clearances, make them liabilities to their firms.

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

Due to legal technicalities, Luigi Mangione is now the mayor of new york city

submitted 7 hours ago • 37 comments

We are seeing how that salute spreads. The mechanism of it spreading, how it becomes a thing to do at all in public situations. Sorta ironic, sorta coded, a little bit something else too, but end they’re doing it. Fcking horrifying. Just saw images of people doing it on ride photos at Disneyland

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

People like this should be shot, sorry!

submitted 6 hours ago • 12 comments

“Why aren’t people protesting?” Bitch we showed up for three weeks at children’s hospital and they caved and kids are getting their gender affirming care now from checks notes protests

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk (e.g.) is a fucking nazi let's get clear about that

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

i'm much less concerned about debating who's TECHnickully a "nazi" than reaching broad accord re: what we do to them

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

"Why do you keep calling them Nazis?"

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

American political press: "As a member of the 4th estate I will lay down my liberty and my life to uphold my commitment to Truth & hold power to account." Also American political press: "If reporting the truth would make me sound silly I will become a loyal propagandist for the president instead."

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Let me take this format for a spin

submitted 7 hours ago • 23 comments

dem messaging: "have you considered that dictatorship won't bring down the price of eggs?" gop messaging: "THE DEMOCRATS HATE YOU AND WANT YOU TO DIE"

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

the stove, it burns my hand!

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

it's "vampire rules" for ICE officers & that's so perfect

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Fascist freaks eat shit and die mad in the driveway, this house never answers a cop-knock

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments