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The DC police last week sought to arrest a sitting member of Congress, a Florida Republican, for physically assaulting a woman in DC. But the US attorney’s office didn’t sign off on it. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/f...

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 9 days ago • 862 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 8 days ago • 5969 comments

Roses are red Violets are blue

submitted 11 days ago • 138 comments

If you ever said "Genocide Joe" or just couldn't bring yourself to vote for Harris - this is for you:

submitted 22 days ago • 25 comments

Heard a version of this from a source earlier today: Everyone from USAID working abroad forced to uproot their lives, let alone abandon their work, on three days notice. Uprooting thousands of families on no notice, in an intentionally humiliating and harrowing way.

submitted 22 days ago • 77 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 23 days ago • 151 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 26 days ago • 510 comments

Watching this on repeat how is your day going?

submitted 26 days ago • 2005 comments

Anybody who talks about IQ like this has 100% rotted their brain soaking it in the daily bile of the most calipers-obsessed "physiognomy" twitter Nazi freaks. That's who Vance is.

submitted 27 days ago • 43 comments

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

submitted 27 days ago • 252 comments

hi bret

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

submitted 29 days ago • 126 comments

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents attempted to conduct an enforcement action at Hamline Elementary School in Back of the Yards, Ald. Jeanette Taylor and Chicago Public Schools officials said Friday. @wttw.bsky.social

submitted 33 days ago • 70 comments

Like baby y’all sold your own country out “to save” the folks that are about to get nuked off the planet because y’all let a literal Nazi win the Presidency of the United States after WATCHING what he did the first time. Banning together with you would be exactly like banning together with MAGA.

submitted 35 days ago • 3 comments

gosh it's a good thing elon saved free speech from cancel culture

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 36 days ago • 505 comments

As a Very Serious Journalist™️ Part of my personal plan for fighting the ugliness that’s to come is … becoming as hot and lethal as possible. Ya know, embodied resistance.

submitted 37 days ago • 86 comments

I've been saying

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Brilliant, lacerating piece on the Inauguration by Vinson Cunningham: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

submitted 36 days ago • 4 comments

TO MY CIS COMRADES: IT IS TIME TO STAND WITH YOUR TRANS SIBLINGS. TO MY TRANS SIBLINGS: I LOVE YOU.

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

we are reaching levels of biblical interpretation bent to exclude compassion in ways i never thought possible

submitted 37 days ago • 171 comments

Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2

submitted 40 days ago • 217 comments

You’ll probably see this screenshot floating around a lot but it really was wonderful to see Lynch put a scene in Twin Peaks: The Return where he has his character literally stare at the camera and say that you should either support trans people or die. I needed to hear that in 2017

submitted 41 days ago • 49 comments

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 1743 comments

my timeline

submitted 41 days ago • 74 comments

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

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An underappreciated aspect of the Nazi rise is how quickly German society fell into line. In early March 1933, a majority of German voters voted against the Nazis. By late spring, pretty much the whole country backed them. How did that happen? Here's a little thread. (1/6)

submitted 48 days ago • 38 comments

Heartening to see so many out on the streets celebrating the death of an old, racist conman.

submitted 49 days ago • 22 comments

So I am to believe that Trump's top priority right now is filling low-level legal roles in his administration, AND he needed to talk to Alito specifically about this one, AND neither man said ANYTHING else in a private call of which there is no record, got it, great abcnews.go.com/US/trump-spe...

submitted 49 days ago • 173 comments

Ten Shows to Get to Know Me: 1) Buffy The Vampire Slayer 2) Twin Peaks 3) The Good Place 4) Crazy Ex-Girlfriend 5) Lost 6) Friends 7) Soap 8) MAS*H 9) Mad Men 10) Fleabag

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In 1890, the X and Y chromosomes were discovered. It was found that the men who were tested had 46 chromosomes, including an X and a Y, while women who were tested also had 46 chromosomes, including 2 X chromosomes. So obviously the conclusion was that the Y chromosome defined masculinity.

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“Adair, IA, had a population of 794. So it seemed suspicious when its three-person police dept asked regulators to buy 90 machine guns. Federal agents later discovered Adair's police chief…was using his position to acquire weapons and sell them for personal profit.” www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

submitted 83 days ago • 25 comments

how your email finds me

submitted 91 days ago • 4 comments

best thing i ever did for myself is make peace with being a ridiculous cartoon parody of a person and just start leaning into it. if i'm absurd so be it. i'm also friendly and kind and people love to talk to me so there's worse things to be than a little silly

submitted 91 days ago • 20 comments

Isn’t it funny how the U.S. media is suddenly posting stories about the improving inflation picture now that the election is over? 🧐

submitted 92 days ago • 3387 comments

Please always read Caroline Kitchener 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

submitted 92 days ago • 438 comments