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Non-toxic dating advice for straight men: don’t take your date to a porno movie or attempt to assassinate the senator she works for

submitted 8 hours ago • 48 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 2 days ago • 745 comments

everyone should listen to this in its entirety but journalists should listen to it multiple times. this is how you ask questions. you just keep asking simple, easily answerable stuff and the evasiveness becomes that much more glaring

submitted 4 days ago • 74 comments

The whole thing is important, but listen until the end: the US depends a lot on the flow of capital into the country because it is perceived as the safest port in a storm. Once that is no longer true, a lot of things Americans take for granted go away.

submitted 6 days ago • 170 comments

JD Vance says Canada should spare him our "sob story" about being good allies. We sent so many young Canadians into Afghanistan to help the United States in THEIR war. A war THEY lost. We paid a huge price and will never forget the sacrifice. J. D. can go lie on his couch. Canada is #elbowsup

submitted 7 days ago • 394 comments

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

submitted 10 days ago • 221 comments

The Pentagon is erasing history, scrubbing tens of thousands of images deemed DEI. One marked for deletion is Harold Gonsalves, a WWII Medal of Honor recipient who threw himself on a grenade during the Battle of Okinawa to save his fellow Marines.

submitted 11 days ago • 47 comments

Imagine watching Office Space and rooting for The Bobs.

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments

It's so funny that even Florida, after five days of Andrew Tate living there, is like "you're going to jail buddy"

submitted 13 days ago • 104 comments

SCOOP: Business leaders are paying as much as $5,000,000 to meet one-on-one with President Donald Trump at his Florida compound, sources tell WIRED, while others are paying $1,000,000 apiece to dine with him in a group setting.

submitted 13 days ago • 1100 comments

I'm going to become the Joker

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

I can't recommend any of my international friends visit the United States ever again, at least not until the Donald Trump/Elon Musk nightmare co-presidency is a distant memory ... the ripple effects of which will unfortunately, probably not end during my lifetime.

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Sometimes it feels like I’m going crazy, because there is something that is right in front of our faces, has been for years, and nobody of consequence ever says it: Donald Trump works for Vladimir Putin. How much more proof does anyone need? And what is anybody going to do about it?

submitted 17 days ago • 681 comments

You could not have written any of this in a novel or a tv show unless the genre was “bizarre dystopian parody” - and even then the reviews would have likely pointed out that it was all a bit much. It would all be immensely funny if it wasn’t so dangerous.

submitted 18 days ago • 61 comments

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar—where tens of thousands of people are enslaved—are using Starlink to get online.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

I would die on the spot of shame if I were this spineless.

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

This is literal dictator shit. Jesus Christ. This is actually incredibly chilling.

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

We are just fucked beyond belief.

submitted 21 days ago • 385 comments

About goddamn time.

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submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

The more I think about it the angrier I get. This is so deeply disrespectful: to readers, to colleagues (at Politico and in the industry), to anyone who is covered by this publication. This person is genuinely, openly ignorant and proud of it, while shaping our news and information environment.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit.

submitted 28 days ago • 92 comments

Richard Grenell may be the most odious servile official in the 'Trump administration,' and that's saying something. www.jezebel.com/trump-behold...

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Engraving on the exterior of the United States Department of Justice headquarters.

submitted 30 days ago • 301 comments

Do you understand how badly you have to fuck up to make Quebec sing the anthem with this much pride

submitted 32 days ago • 50 comments

“Sources told CNN the officials did not seem to know this agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons.” 🫣 www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 31 days ago • 212 comments

CDC source: “We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff. They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

submitted 31 days ago • 594 comments

At a US Military School in Germany: At Wiesbaden Elementary School, a portrait painted on glass of Michelle Obama was removed Thursday following the canceled observance of Black History Month, according to a person familiar with the school and a picture of the removal viewed by Stars and Stripes.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

I have never seen so many men in a suburban Philly supermarket #gobirds

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submitted 39 days ago • 14 comments

“Efforts by Trump officials to control the publication have stalled the release of three studies about bird flu for weeks, as the virus continues spreading through wild birds, poultry farms and cows around the country.” www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-o...

submitted 38 days ago • 88 comments

Mike Benz, the Alt-right YouTuber & brains behind the Censorship Industrial Complex is back — and his conspiracy theories are informing — or justifying — Elon Musk’s anti-USAID crusade. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Tired: Who Funds The Federalist Wired: Who Fondles At The Federalist

submitted 39 days ago • 69 comments

If you wanna know how pissed off Canadians are over the tariffs (and Trump threatening to make Canada the 51st state), they are out here booing a woman in a wheelchair.

submitted 43 days ago • 92 comments

We're just going to leave this here…

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet: www.404media.co/declassified...

submitted 47 days ago • 1266 comments

a bunch of east coast journalists got too rattled by having female employees complain about ass grabbing and in response they smugly tilted the entire board not just toward fascism, but to the stupidest motherfuckers in the room

submitted 49 days ago • 23 comments

Hi DeepSeek

submitted 49 days ago • 107 comments

This is so great. If you are of a certain age, it's like the video you see just before you die and your whole life flashes before you. Feels like snippets of every song you've ever heard. Also, Ron Howard introducing The Clash!

submitted 49 days ago • 14 comments

Cancer is the 2nd leading cause of death in the US & affects many people at young ages. Cancer trials are often the best hope for survival for people who currently have cancer as well as those who will subsequently develop cancer It is critically important for these trials to continue

submitted 52 days ago • 16 comments

The Washington Post editorial this morning essentially equating Biden's questionable pardons with Trump's outrageous Jan. 6 pardons was unconscionable. The newspaper I've been part of for 48 years has utterly lost its soul.

submitted 54 days ago • 740 comments

i’m actually stunned joe biden did this. good on him for this one, genuinely. there were people who supported obama in 2007 asking him to do this and he never did

submitted 56 days ago • 43 comments

Padilla: Will you defend birthright citizenship as the law of the land? Bondi: I will study birthright citizenship Padilla: You're asking to be considered for Attorney General and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution?

submitted 61 days ago • 194 comments