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submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

With regard to these terrible Court decisions: It is CRITICAL to resist the urge to give in to doomerism and declare that things not directly accomplished by the decision - removal of books from classrooms, age verification expanding to medical websites, and so on - are now the law.

submitted 16 hours ago • 16 comments

Yes. It's a lot. Sometimes I'm not just writing to convince you (plural). Sometimes I write to remind me. When you're looking at the next hill while you're still lying in the mud of the last one, getting up at all is hard, let alone finding hope.

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

11/10 social media work by the Durham Bulls

submitted 1 day ago • 196 comments

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

See, I'd try this, but after a couple decades in the same office I've forgotten which of the columns of books are load bearing.

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

It's very very funny when American news outlets panic over stuff like baby boxes which are very normal in other western countries (Like Scotland) as if its a brand new communist terror threat unheard of throughout the globe. 'FREE STUFF FOR BABIES???? LIKE STALIN????'

submitted 2 days ago • 63 comments

I've said it before and I'll say it again: "Native-born Americans" are just immigrants plus time. Once we accept this, the logic of the Great Replacement Theory becomes nonsensical. In @kevinmkruse.bsky.social's latest essay, he offers some excellent evidence of this, including this great cartoon.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Always loved the people who are like, "But my ancestors came here the legal way!" and by that they mean they arrived via ratship to an island, a man asked them their name, they were like, "Uh, Jeff... Smith?" another guy said "sure?" and then they became permanent residents of the United States.

submitted 2 days ago • 264 comments

If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I had a REALLY lovely time talking to @milesklee.bsky.social at Rolling Stone about why The Onion is thriving. It's because we're one of the only legacy outlets unafraid to accurately reflect the mood of this country. That mood? Everyone fucking hates this. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

There is no press outlet of any size, in any medium, that would offer this kind of coverage to a Democratic president, no matter the circumstances. There is a massive, explicit agitprop operation on the right, devoted to the power of the conservative faction, & there is no analogue on the left.

submitted 3 days ago • 93 comments

As the author of a global history of concentration camps that came out in 2017, this sums up the last several years of my life.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Honestly one of the best reasons I can give you to plant native plants right now is that everything fucking sucks & a lot of it feels (or is) totally out of our control (depending on who you are). One thing most people can do is plant a plant and then look at bees happily sipping on it.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

🚨NEW: Erez Reuveni, the DOJ lawyer fired for his honesty in the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, sends Congress a whistleblower letter detailing lawlessness at the DOJ around the CECOT deportations. He says Emil Bove told the DOJ to respond to likely court orders blocking flights with "fuck you."

submitted 3 days ago • 196 comments

We need more writing by the attorneys who left the Civil Rights Division. This article by Katie Chamblee-Ryan is a good start. The destruction of this central pillar of the American justice system can be undone in the future—but only if people understand what happened. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Here's the comprehensive thread of Tesla robotaxi launch fail you've been waiting for

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

Those of us who speak German have a good rule of thumb: if you translate the name of a government department word-for-word and it sounds like it could only have existed between 1933 and 1945, fear it.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

it is worth constantly repeating things "everybody knows" because most people simply dont know. people dont know whats in the gop's medicaid killing bill, they hardly know all the shit trump and musk have been up to. we are essentially hobbyists. most people dont look at this stuff.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Abolish ICE remains the correct position. Those who called for it in 2018 showed great foresight. Here’s a reminder how The Washington Post treated it. This is how legacy media treats good ideas from the left—with scorn and dismissal to build consent for the status quo.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

YES BITCH YES HAVE YOU SEEN THE WORLD RN

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Not a day goes by when I don’t think fondly of shoe throwing guy.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Ofc it's not new, not like this hasn't been happening, this is from 2023:

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.

submitted 5 days ago • 87 comments

I frequently take comfort in the fact that the Universe is vast and beautiful and entirely unaffected by petty human foolishness

submitted 4 days ago • 104 comments

Since the automated cat fountain only runs for fifteen minutes at a time, there are moments during the week when Lambchop, the bigger drinker of the two cats, just sits and waits.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Mahmoud Khalil giving a presser/rally on steps of St. John the Divine, he said bc even now, columbia would not grant permission to hold it at campus gates

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

irony of course is that what these people are demanding are explicit racial preferences and quotas for themselves

submitted 5 days ago • 54 comments

Serously, come ON. This is NYC. Our whole thing is "I'M WALKING HERE!" not oh yes sir mr president thank you sir please don't notice me please.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

YOU WANNA SEE A DEAD BODY??? This is the NOW INFAMOUS "Footnote 12" that Jackson wrote. It basically tells Neil Gorsuch: "Fuck you as a staff, label, and motherfucking crew."

submitted 7 days ago • 98 comments

Looking forward to 2-3 years from now when all these idiots try to pretend they never said these things.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

submitted 6 days ago • 346 comments

Fun fact, it was never lowered to blue or green. This ran from 2002-2011 and would get covered by the news

submitted 8 days ago • 138 comments

Freud might have had a few things to say about this.

submitted 10 days ago • 221 comments

"Was it really this dumb in 2003" guys they renamed french fries

submitted 8 days ago • 447 comments

next level pattern matching IG salve.studios

submitted 12 days ago • 94 comments

I love this whole thread, but this in particular, this is why derek's advice is so good. And he uses history to explain things, and gives sensible advice.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes I find things like this and feel so much love for the internet. Also kid-me who photographed her toys doing things back in the 70s feels somehow vindicated (parents felt I was wasting film, heh).

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

The kids out there cannot comprehend exactly how dumb this experience was

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

www.lx.com/social-justi... At age 89: "She needed to talk to everybody about Juneteenth becoming a federal holiday. “And so I decided if a little old lady in tennis shoes walked from Fort Worth to Washington, somebody would take notice," said Lee."

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments