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Dumb journalists think being a tough interviewer requires writing down gotcha questions in advance. Smart journalists know that the trick is just listening and sometimes going, ‘how so?’

submitted 14 hours ago • 94 comments

Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 13 hours ago • 182 comments

Oh my god this is insane - I’m struggling to find a comparison but it’s something like “the Navy cancelled all submarines”

submitted 14 hours ago • 41 comments

The first autism diagnosis was in 1943. ADHD traits were first spotted in 1798. The first medical treatment for ADHD was in 1937. His grandfather lobotomized his aunt, Rosemary, for showing neurodivergent traits in 1941. He was born in 1954. He’s a grifter, a liar, and most importantly a eugenicist

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

they want you sick and preferably dead www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 1 day ago • 814 comments

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

submitted 2 days ago • 1423 comments

The NYC council voting for this downgrade was just such an own goal.

submitted 2 days ago • 127 comments

This framing of "dependence" is fucking propaganda. The whole point of the federal government is to build and maintain national institutions that promote public health, education, scientific advancement, etc. The implication here is that those functions are a matter of private not public concern.

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

The CDC eviscerated divisions that oversee a database on accidental deaths and injuries AND the team that maintains a tool for tracking sexually transmitted diseases. The EPA will stop requiring that industry measures greenhouse gas emissions. If you don't measure, it's not a problem, right?

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

submitted 6 days ago • 82 comments

they want us poor, sick and desperate

submitted 6 days ago • 961 comments

“You feel as if you are constantly under siege. That voice reminding you that you could be fired tomorrow is always there.”

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Atlantic Writer who has only ever written "wokeness has gone too far" op-eds seeing authoritarian government send masked secret police to kidnap students for what they wrote in the student newspaper: "getting some real 'wokeness has gone too far' vibes from this"

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

I feel this way about generative AI in businesses, too. If you’re using AI to write emails that your phone uses AI to prioritize and that you then use AI to summarize, maybe it should say something about how effective or necessary some of this communication is

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 8 days ago • 168 comments

also hilarious that his unedited solo blog posts are straight up better prose without some schmuck NYT editor making them more pretentious and turgid

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

submitted 10 days ago • 99 comments

I really can’t get over the fact that it took so many major U.S. companies and institutions less than 100 days to Orbanify and become vessels for Trump

submitted 12 days ago • 19 comments

this is TOUGH but it’s probably something like: Chrono Trigger Dragon Quest V Pokémon Gold/Silver (ideally the DS remakes) Skyrim

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

If there was any doubt DOGE is a scam motivated purely by malice and cruelty, this report from WSJ should remove it. nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 12 days ago • 32 comments

Mom purposely exposes kids to #measles, turns out worse than she expected, would still do it again. Absolutely delusional.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

submitted 13 days ago • 75 comments

One sign that we are living under an authoritarian regime is that a lot of people are acting like they are living under an authoritarian regime.

submitted 13 days ago • 61 comments

One of the sources of rot running through our political, intellectual, and media institutions is the total triumph of the idea that democracy means outsourcing your morality and point of view to a fuzzily incoherent view of what's popular. Total rejection of the idea of morality as personal virtue.

submitted 13 days ago • 62 comments

Let's be clear here: If you mumble "people should get the measles vaccine" but then spend the rest of the interview saying "many vaccines aren’t safety tested," your position is still dangerously anti-vax. Do not normalize RFK's deadly lies just because he'll say the bare minimum to keep his job.

submitted 13 days ago • 42 comments

De-extinction is a fantasy sold to us by billionaire tech bros so they can pillage the planet and we’ll ignore the consequences. Saving species via de-extinction is as viable as solving climate change by making Mars habitable. Which is to say: it is not

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

from a parenting perspective, it’s hard to imagine a faster route to complete chaos than perpetually making threats you do not enforce

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

This is precisely why I harp on the negative influence of reactionary centrists so often: Exaggerating the radicalism of the left gives voters permission to support the radicalism of the right. If both candidates are deranged fascist liars, why not support the one that's gonna cut your taxes?

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 15 days ago • 206 comments

This has been studied extensively: Regret rates for gender affirming care, including for children, are extremely low. A core tactic of conspiracy theorists is to ignore existing bodies of research and demand further study until they get the result they want.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 15 days ago • 207 comments

Absolutely incredible: the Feds totally folded on Congestion Pricing, thanks to the MTA just...refusing to abide by their demands www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

They seem to be missing a few key steps in their plan. Like, you know, building the factories www.dispatch.com/story/news/2...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

my offer to america: we bring woke back

submitted 16 days ago • 316 comments

less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments