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I would prefer for Columbia to cease to exist if the alternative was even one of my coworkers being abducted by ICE or face-stomped by the NYPD.

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The call should be for Chuck Schumer to resign from the US Senate.

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It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

I love to call my Senators' offices three times per week and try to cajole them into doing the most elementary political messaging and strategy. This is what it means to be an engaged citizen: leaving a strenuously polite voicemail for a 74yo on a more regular cadence than I talk to my parents.

submitted 1 day ago • 312 comments

NEW: @aoc.bsky.social, @bradlander.bsky.social, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social, @jumaane.bsky.social, @claireforqueens.bsky.social and two dozen other NY elected officials signed on to a letter to DHS demanding Mahmoud Khalil's release: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Broken record time. The police are defunding us. Our schools, our parks, our libraries, everything!

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Ever think about how Facebook convinced all the news outlets to pivot to video and then it turned out they were juicing the metrics so it didn't actually work but by that point lots of the media had cut all the resources for text-based news and we're still dealing with the fallout from that now?

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

[chugging gasoline] doug ford… wel… welco… welcome to the resis i can’t fucking do this

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

again, I think a major problem with America is that a critical mass of voters and elites have convinced themselves they can't die even if they stab themselves—that it is impossible to elect a government that actually makes their lives worse so its all just a game

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 21 days ago • 309 comments

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

submitted 22 days ago • 257 comments

‘Free Luigi’ billboard has gone up in lower Manhattan the evening before his next court appearance. Sent in anon.

submitted 22 days ago • 55 comments

Tesla's stock is ridiculously overvalued, and even a modest consumer boycott could tank the company, which accounts for the majority of Elon Musk's wealth. The divestment movement weakened apartheid South Africa. Let's do that again. slate.com/business/202...

submitted 31 days ago • 240 comments

I just saw a Massachusetts license plate driving on the south side of the Butler University campus. Surely that can only be one thing. Brad Stevens has driven to Indianapolis to consult with trusted confidants before accepting the head coaching position for Indiana University men’s basketball.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

my view is that as soon as the administration froze disbursement of congressional appropriations we entered constitutional crisis territory

submitted 31 days ago • 1132 comments

my analysis is that you can get away with not paying your bill for a really long time but eventually the power company will send somebody to shut your lights off

submitted 33 days ago • 33 comments

Me: It used to be a big deal when you'd see a new room or an angle of a sitcom's main set that hadn't been shown before. You might get a quick glimpse of Frasier's guest bathroom and have to redraw your whole mental map. Broccoli-haired zoomer pointing an AR-15 at my back: Shut up and DIG, old man

submitted 35 days ago • 19 comments

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

submitted 35 days ago • 858 comments

Trump and Musk are trying to take over our government. @schumer.senate.gov isn’t doing enough to stop them. Join us and NY Indivisible for a demonstration Saturday at 12:00pm to demand Schumer resist or resign as leader. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

aside from being morally bankrupt or outright abhorrent, there’s also the fact that complying in advance simply does not work

submitted 35 days ago • 14 comments

it took a year and a half but my first reader cover story is finally out! it's a deep dive into how the cook county sheriff's office worked with the university of chicago to build a web of surveillance for people one electronic monitors. but there's so much more. strap in. 🧵

submitted 38 days ago • 21 comments

Apropos of literally everything … time to reflect on this post from a year ago.

submitted 38 days ago • 24 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 38 days ago • 587 comments

When I titled my book "Democracy May Not Exist, but We'll Miss It When It's Gone" I really did not anticipate how hard that phrase would eventually hit.

submitted 121 days ago • 101 comments

I do not want to see pictures of that one Based DOGE Zoomer with the broccoli haircut anymore. He looks like if one of the Ghoulies was 1) real and 2) rich enough that his dad owned a sailboat. He looks a toilet brush that somehow developed the ability to become libertarian. Enough.

submitted 40 days ago • 101 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s Buddy Guy (tonight at Legends)

submitted 40 days ago • 4 comments

Chappell Roan, very cool

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 41 days ago • 310 comments

I would say statistically CPD is not the “greatest police department in the world.” I don’t think the “greatest police department in the world” finds itself under consent decrees and actively bankrupts its city via misconduct settlements and openly embraces extremists.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

One way to win the economic competition with China would be to make apps that don't suck shit. Have you considered that

submitted 46 days ago • 156 comments

Imagine if tech companies could convince you that AI knows you better than you know yourself, make you trust it unfailingly. Imagine that the VC ghouls who built them could, say, unload failing real estate they bought in AZ by having your AI suggest you move there. Wouldn't that be cool for them?

submitted 47 days ago • 17 comments

girl flirting with the guy next to me: i need some fresh air, wanna come outside with me? me, mysteriously: i need way fresher air than they have outside.

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Begging various elected and appointed officials in this city to exercise literally any amount of tact and awareness of how their actions will be perceived, at a bare minium, even setting aside the question of genuine commitment to strong ethical principles and sacrifice of perks for the greater good

submitted 50 days ago • 4 comments

Its crude, but a big part of the reason any of these guys is close to Trump is the money he can make them. Something like this would essentially be a direct cash transfer from your pockets (if you don't believe in MMT) to theirs. They want to trade your dollars for their nothing.