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It’s bleak out there, but it’s heartening to know millions of people from all walks of life took the time to ruin one specific persons birthday, America’s hater spirit remains strong

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This may seem sacriligious to some, but Wussy's show at the Mercury Lounge last night, which climaxed their first tour in years, was for me even more enthralling than Gof4. New steel player somehow filled the gap left by John Erhardt. Do this more guys, please. Made me forget Trump for an hour.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I just got back home to finally sit down and watch the parade footage and it’s 100x more embarrassing than I expected. I totally forgot the weak nations that do these spend decades perfecting them. It looked like if Fyre festival did North Korea.

submitted 1 day ago • 226 comments

I can always use a brilliant shot of the Milky Way over Lake Superior and one of the small islands in the deep lake. ALT: This Lake Superior island has an assortment of evergreens, their branches open to the explosion of a night time Milky Way light show behind them.

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Would be cool if it was easy enough to tell all folks in law enforcement in Minnesota to switch things today to their cool not-militarized looking uniforms which are friendly looking and have their names & credentials prominent so it'd be easy to tell them from the fake cop but that's not a thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Since it's playing over and over in my Gen X head... youtu.be/WvOZs3g3qIo?...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

PSA if you're thinking of going to one of the protests tomorrow and the one closest to you has a private address that you need to RSVP to get, do not go to that one, you will end up on a list that the Feds can subpoena only go to protests that list a public address and don't RSVP for them either

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Update: We've removed the paywall for all ye who enter.

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

Right now you are either on the side of the shouted question or the snapping handcuff, and it is very clear which side is correct.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

my most important opinion is that all regional pizzas are vital parts of the overall pizza ecosystem. you hate chicago deep dish? then you hate pizza. you hate provel cheese? you hate pizza. you hate little caesar? he is the emperor. show some respect. all pizza is canon

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

Wish I could be at this Austin show on Friday the 13th …but the laws of time and space dictate otherwise.

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i hope the people running @wikipedia.org know that if they implement any kind of generative AI, many of us will never donate ever again

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Yeah if I thought there was even a 5% chance of being renditioned to Gitmo or El Salvador for the crime of leaving my passport at the hotel, I would simply not travel. This is going to kill tourism.

submitted 4 days ago • 253 comments

Think about this. RIP tourism. Nobody will come here, and who can blame them? But that's not all: If non-US citizens have to carry proof of legal status, then eventually so will US citizens. We will need to carry papers. RIP America.

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

I am conditioning myself to feel reliant on a product that doesn't work but maybe it will one day. In the meantime I'll be eroding my creativity and ability to identify accurate information. You are the one that's stupid, by the way

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

This has been a very strange time to be out of the usa.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Met an active duty member of the military yesterday who filed conscientious objector paperwork in response to deployment of military on U.S. soil. Was told multiple Army have filed, unknown quantities in other branches.

submitted 5 days ago • 474 comments

We’ve leapt over a lot of red lines in the last week. But one I find most worrying is Trump/MAGA/ICE have ceased even pretending to claim some criminal pretext for cracking down on protected speech. It’s just straight up “if you criticize us, you’re getting throttled/arrested/disappeared.”

submitted 5 days ago • 57 comments

The Mayor of LA has issued a curfew tonight — not because the citizens are out of control BUT BECAUSE THE PRESIDENT IS.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

This is actually perfect. The emptiness makes it look as ridiculous and wasteful as it is.

submitted 5 days ago • 1253 comments

The founding fathers did not live and die to see this moment. It’s time for all of us to stand up peacefully.

submitted 5 days ago • 868 comments

Every institution that is run by people with actual wealth, power & privilege are bending the knee and licking boots, and it's those of us with, like, $32 in our bank accounts and everything to lose actually fighting back. If that's not proof of who the real enemy is & has always been, nothing is.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Leaders in Austin, San Marcos, and Dallas have raised concerns about how police are using automated license plate readers following reports of ICE searches Austin just ended their program. San Marcos halted an expansion of their program. Dallas could be next. thebarbedwire.com/2025/06/10/c...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

this is what is so nutty about it to me: to the extent that america has, on whatever level, "worked" it did so by selling a national myth of pioneering, freedom, and meritocracy to 350 million people from countless different backgrounds, convincing us we are all temporarily embarrassed millionaires

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

I think about the day in Pennsylvania, how close he came. Or the Covid. Since "grab 'em by the pussy" a friend has said he clearly made a deal with the devil. I laughed. Then all the escapes from justice. Then SCOTUS immunity. Now I wonder. But I don't believe in the devil. Unless it's him.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

We could've had home care for seniors covered for those who need it. Instead we live in a police state.

submitted 8 days ago • 46 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 7 days ago • 897 comments

Just put some random dude in an uber to the other side of London, just to get him out of my life. Oy vey.

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submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

The fascist feds think they targeted one man, but they don’t really understand what they’ve done www.latimes.com/california/s...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Go back in time eight months and show these posts to voters and far too few people would have said they weren’t surprised.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

submitted 9 days ago • 329 comments

Methinks Elon is one ketamine bender away from tweeting how Trump stole the 2024 election.

submitted 10 days ago • 436 comments

I'm just having a really negative reaction to people's reactions to Musk's claim that Trump is in the Epstein files. My reaction is: In 2016, one of his victims openly sued Trump and Epstein jointly claiming she was raped at the age of 13.

submitted 10 days ago • 42 comments

phallocentic for pride

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

This is the news day I’ve been waiting for.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The first album in over two decades from Pulp asks, just how ribald can a man in his 60s get away with being in 2025? More, by Pulp, is our album of the week thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

This is very bad Once they start screwing with the data, that’s the whole ballgame

submitted 11 days ago • 161 comments

If the bugs and the birds and the pollinators die, WE die. And they are dying. They are dying in mass numbers.

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Lee Jae-myung, the South Korean politician who climbed the fence of the parliament to get inside and vote against martial law, has been elected president. Pretty cooool

submitted 12 days ago • 216 comments

I like getting a new credit card with an expiry in 2030, it makes me feel like the world is not falling apart and will still be there

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Pub defenders and criminal defense attorneys listen up. Former PD union disciplinary rep head here. I know you. Do NOT talk to ICE, the FBI, or cops if they show up at your door without having your own lawyer. You are not as clever as you think you are. You are not as safe as you think you are. 1/

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Please stop calling my life crisis “mid”

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

when i tweeted this eight years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

submitted 15 days ago • 143 comments

Rick Nielsen gave us timeless power-pop ditties. Please put some respeck on that man’s name. #eloncouldnever

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment