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they should make a way out other than through

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It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

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BE NOT AFRAID

submitted 18 days ago • 20 comments

As teacher burnout deepens, states scramble to fill school job vacancies scdailygazette.com/2025/05/21/a... Treat them and pay them like professionals, not babysitters! #scpol

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

i'm hearing disturbing reports that Joe Biden is even older today than he was yesterday

submitted 38 days ago • 416 comments

Chaos can be a byproduct of progress, but sometimes, it’s just chaos

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Aetna sent its customers a “privacy reminder notice” today that basically says they’ll be working with the government

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Evidence mounts that across the political spectrum, officeholders see themselves as lords of their own petty fiefdoms rather than temporary public servants meant to return to the body politic as regular people

submitted 48 days ago • 46 comments

>:(

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

It's so odd that Christian Nationalists are trying to stomp out pretend "anti-Christian bias" when their repudiation of everything Jesus ever said is the biggest example of real "anti-Christian bias" in the United States right now.

submitted 61 days ago • 427 comments

Everyone should call it what it is.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump and Jared Golden say their tariffs will restart US manufacturing. But in fact the tariffs are endangering this repurposing of a paper mill into a new manufacturing center. #mepolitics

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

“The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.” -C. S. Lewis

submitted 74 days ago • 4 comments

The tragedy of America is that there is no way to make a society where people you don't like can't flourish without also making a society where no one can flourish.

submitted 74 days ago • 2 comments

We’re not talking about the eugenics part enough Trump: migrants have “bad genes” RFK: “healthy” people don’t die of measles Musk: loves race science and the R slur; hates WFH policies

submitted 74 days ago • 14 comments

U.S. military academies should not be banning books. If you are not strong enough to refute an idea intelligently, you are not strong enough to defend a free society.

submitted 78 days ago • 9 comments

The protest I was at: 10:35 a.m.: Hundreds assemble in South Paris SOUTH PARIS — By midmorning, more than 300 protesters had gathered in South Paris near Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School. (I was on the other side of the building.)

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I’m currently employed in manufacturing. Tool and diemaker simply do not have the capacity to actually make the amount of tooling that would be necessary to reshore even like 5% of currently overseas manufacturing. We’re already at like 16 week lead times.

submitted 80 days ago • 76 comments

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

submitted 83 days ago • 121 comments

“When hate is the seeds, you can only harvest weeds.” (Ernst Jünger, The Glass Bees, 44)

submitted 87 days ago • 2 comments

we love protests and free speech unless the protests and free speech target our power structures. that should be illegal, and frankly makes you look like a real jerk

submitted 94 days ago • 18 comments

i used to believe it was against the law to break the law, feeling pretty silly about that now

submitted 96 days ago • 88 comments

Same here when I write about Mississippi. For years, I've been writing about anti-trans laws, anti-DEI legislation, critical race theory bans, etc., in my state. And people would just say, "I'll never visit Mississippi"—not realizing, as I did, that Mississippi was just a preview for the nation.

submitted 99 days ago • 12 comments

The image here is like a snapshot of the state of the country 🇺🇸

submitted 100 days ago • 9 comments

It was the Dunninge of tymes. It was the Kruger of tymes.

submitted 101 days ago • 62 comments

Sorry, we broke money. It doesn’t work anymore. The green rectangles, the metal circles, they’re all busted. Doesn’t do anything at the store. We’re gonna try to get bartering started up again after we figure out how many tomatoes a house is worth

submitted 101 days ago • 47 comments

"Why SHOULDN'T government be run like a business?" Because the goals are diametrically opposed and mutually exclusive. Businesses exist to make money. Governments exist to make people's lives better. You ask if the fire dept is successful at putting out fires and saving people, not the $ it makes

submitted 105 days ago • 14 comments

The one cybertruck in my part of rural Maine was a gift from Elon Musk to Tucker Carlson and that is fewer degrees of separation than I'd prefer

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

My husband ran a successful business and used our local rural post office daily. My elderly neighbor’s meds come through the rural post office. The post office is one of the only places left open in my rural community. Losing it could quite literally kill my town and my neighbors.

submitted 107 days ago • 628 comments

In these trying times...my department (poli sci) at UMaine is hiring for not one but TWO open rank positions in comparative/international relations. One must have a climate focus, the other is flexible. Come live & work with me in beautiful Maine. 🌲 🦞 🎿 🏞️ Share and spread the word!

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

submitted 107 days ago • 233 comments