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With another set of news headlines about political elites using “””Roman salutes””” I just want to note that the Nazi salute means “I want to murder your family” and the n-word means “I want to lynch you.” That’s what they mean, they make me righteously angry, and I won’t let anybody minimize them.

Huge ad in Dortmund, Germany. "Do the right thing!"

I’m just going to keep posting links of Republicans getting pressed out by their constituents 🤭 www.newsweek.com/kevin-hern-c...

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

When incompetence and mastery of bull-shitting conjoin the results are breathtaking.

We have Nazi salutes now because nobody said anything about Confederate flags.

Maybe hating on dick bosses is the great unifier, the thing that brings all Americans together.

Putting this on every self-eval now www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

LONDON, Feb 23 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday that there can be no talks about the future of Ukraine without the participation of Ukraine, setting his stall out before a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump this week.

It’s notable that Trump cabinet secretaries and agency heads, for the most part, are acting more interested in preserving their own prerogatives against Musk’s illegal intrusions than Republican members of Congress are.

Wow! What a great cover!

Disenfranchising women is a key project of Christian nationalism.

I celebrate the 80% of Germans who did not vote for the far right. Do not make 19.6% of German voters into "the" German people (again). "The" German people don't exist! The German population is diverse and divided, but voted overwhelmingly for liberal democratic parties. #BTW25 #GermanElection

Elon, I hate to break it to you but you aren’t my boss. I answer to the people of Minnesota. But since you bring it up, I spent last week fighting to stop tax breaks for billionaires like you, paid for by defunding health care for moms and babies

Merz has won, but what won't be mentioned by anyone at the CDU is that when he took over the party, Merz claimed he would return it to results better than anything Merkel achieved for the party in her time as Chancellor. At 29% he is still 3% below her worst result in 2017.

New — State Department employees have been instructed *not* to reply to OPM’s 5 bullet email, per an email I reviewed, saying leadership “will respond on behalf of the Department.”

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No wonder he doesn't want us getting vaccinated

Boston has an Asian-American woman mayor and Black police chief. Any guess why Trump, Homan, and their band of racists want to target us?

Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

Dear manager, 1. Person 2. Woman 3. Man 4. Camera 5. TV

Fired up the VPN & sent mine to [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Copied [email protected] Let's bury them in email. #resist #5Things

If only Ukraine didn’t have that big Drone magnet that forces Russia to do this, there would be peace

NO KINGS is extremely effective because it’s simple, an extremely widely held belief, and gets right to the core of Trump’s assault without having to use words lots of people don’t understand

The party which uses banned Nazi slogans and a leader of which calls for a “180 turn” in how Germany remembers the Nazis.

𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘷𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘳𝘭 𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶'𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘣𝘰𝘺 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭 Bowie’s “Rebel Rebel” enters the UK charts today in 1974 — the defining anthem of 'glam-rock'. While writing it, Bowie reportedly told his guitarist: “It’s a bit Rolling Stones-y. I just want to piss Mick off a bit.”

Robert McWhirter, an expert in constitutional and immigration law, is not aware of any past instance in which a local law enforcement official has faced federal charges for not complying with an ICE directive. And yet the DOJ is threatening prosecutions. boltsmag.org/new-yor...

Brilliant but devastating editorial in the Financial Times. “In the past 10 days, he [Trump] has all but incinerated 80 years of postwar American leadership. If you are not at the table, you are on the menu. America has turned.”

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

Kept getting responses like this when I posted about cut services for disabled students. One person demanded to know who their parents voted for. 1) idk and idgaf; all students have educational rights no matter the politics of their families; 2) ZERO children voted for Trump; 3) ffs fix your hearts

That’s wild why would Fareed Zakaria be applauding Elo-oh wait news is coming in

Update: The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts in a late-night email confirmed that some judges and judiciary staff received OPM's email. "Please be advised that this email did not originate from the Judiciary or the Administrative Office and we suggest that no action be taken."

If this were a 75-employee small business this would be an unacceptable level of chaotic conflict between rival alleged supervisory chains. In the most important bureaucratic organization in the world...

"When Musk/Vance call for [the] destruction [of the firewall against the AfD], they know exactly what they are doing. Supporting the AfD & normalising it for the German mainstream is an attack on historical conscience as an inoculation against authoritarian nationalism."

"The loudest such voice is Merz."

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.