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US threatens to shut off Starlink if Ukraine doesn’t sign minerals deal. Starlink is essential for Ukraine’s battlefield comms. This is the equivalent of FDR threatening to arm the Nazis if Europe didn’t sign over half its resources. Extortion. And utterly unforgivable. Hell awaits.

submitted 19 hours ago • 120 comments

Hey everybody, you might want to go to these two links and turn everything off.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 3 days ago • 211 comments

imagine living your whole life as the kind of guy who uncritically quotes “give me liberty or give me death” and then when someone actually offers you those options you pick “dictatorship flunky”

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ask yourself: If Donald Trump worked for Vladimir Putin, what would he be doing differently?

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that refraining from provoking the authoritarian is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

Good grief

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

Heartbroken. Furious.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

My bad @mapquest.com I wasn’t familiar with your game.

submitted 7 days ago • 26 comments

Sure would be nice if a Dem Senator wasn't getting drunk in Germany and instead was freaking out in front of the DOE with a film crew right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Next year’s Blacklist is just going to be 30 screenplays inspired by this prompt.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Maybe one day I won’t spend Valentine’s Day alone!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder that Germany was the center of scientific progress until the Nazis suppressed, drove away, or killed all the non-Nazi scientists.

submitted 9 days ago • 67 comments

In the Daily Beast, I make the case for older Democrats stepping aside and making room for new leaders. www.thedailybeast.com/aging-democr...

submitted 9 days ago • 22 comments

The passive authoritarian tense

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

The anticipatory swiftness with which certain organizations go along with attacks on diversity and rewritings of history suggests that maybe some of the folks in power think that these are genuinely good changes.

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

As a person who gives notes for a living (and has broken all of these rules at one time or another) I think every professional note-giver should understand and internalize this whole manifesto

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

so my dear friend @josemolinatv.bsky.social told me that to publish this essay about giving notes as a #screenwriting #screenwriter who does #tvwriting would be career suicide - you tell me! okbjgm.weebly.com/uploads/3/1/...

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

NASA, I will remind you, is <0.5% of the US budget. LESS THAN ZERO POINT FIVE PERCENT. This is like trying to save disk space by deleting a text file when you've got a gigabytes of music you'll never listen to. More proof that what Musk and DOGE are doing is a lie.

submitted 10 days ago • 87 comments

To be a little real for a second, the USAID news is almost (just almost!) too much for me because I was born in one of those refugee camps. I was a difficult birth, and I know my mother got her natal care in that camp. This stuff absolutely devastates me.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

'Shipwreck' cartoon. Available now as a print in my shop: www.tomgauld.com/shop

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 12 days ago • 402 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 12 days ago • 492 comments

This might be the most nakedly corrupt document I’ve seen on DOJ letterhead — and I wrote a history of Watergate!

submitted 12 days ago • 252 comments

Welp I guess they are going to have to shut down the website where they track my activities lol

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Breaking "the government" and replacing the "deep state" civil servants with AI bots programmed by 20-something right wing Elon fanboys may sound like a great idea until it's time to eat an egg or a chicken sandwich without fear of getting sick, or deal with a hurricane or get on an airplane.

submitted 14 days ago • 89 comments