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If you run charmless candidates who believe in nothing you will constantly find yourself substituting tactics for values and of course you'll have no room for error. If you have candidates who actually give a shit and act like it you'll be amazed the "errors" voters would be willing to ignore

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They are never jet-lagged on The X-Files. The fact this never comes up is the real conspiracy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

your budgeting around your poverty level is killing the economy

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

I'd be nowhere without 'em

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

They said the same things 100 years ago and they’ll say the same things 100 years from now.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

You've probably been wondering: "How many eels is a cottage worth in 14th C. England?" This is a reasonable question. I get it. And happily, I'm here to help! I included a chart showing this kind of equivalence in an article I wrote for HistoryExtra , but here's an excerpt! 🗃️🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

submitted 1 day ago • 272 comments

A movie that takes place where you’re from (this counts if we assume little to no statistical variance for anywhere you could call “rural Florida”)

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Guess the millionaires will have to find some way to subsist on their millions of other dollars

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Every person with a spectrum disorder has a more valuable life than RFK Jr, and every trans/nb person has a more valuable life than JK Rowling. You are a human with dignity and they are sunken demons

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

lmao a lot of people are going to die for no reason and every dollar “saved” by these cuts will cost $5 - 10 down the road. Complete disdain for humanity, dignity, life, objective reality. But that’s a fascist death cult for ya.

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Hello, please meet the first page of the fourth issue of ATOMIC ROBO AND THE PERIL OF PROMETHEUS www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/1...

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Hello, please meet the first page of the fourth issue of ATOMIC ROBO AND THE PERIL OF PROMETHEUS www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/1...

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yes! this dude will back down to anyone who tells him to fuck himself! this is the only response worth having!

submitted 2 days ago • 544 comments

Still testing positive for COVID but feelin' recovered. If I find out you're the one who gave it to me, I will simply kill you :)

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Harvard's endowment is worth 52 BILLION dollars. They can afford to dip into their war chest while you do mutual aid.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Tax Day Reminder: Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

im pro worker except for people who use this, they are the only people who should ever be laid off. doesnt matter what job.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

I’m sorry but if your students use AI to write papers and you use AI to grade them zero school is happening. You are running together on a hamster wheel

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 3 days ago • 337 comments

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

“This”, as the kids say

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Time for a general strike that doesn't stop until these ghouls are gone

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 4 days ago • 694 comments

The multisolving potential of public grocery stores is enormous. From food security and affordability to climate mitigation and resilience this could be transformational --and people support it!

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Do you know the difference between “$2 trillion” and “$150 billion”? About $2 trillion.

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this is such a fantastic illustration of the weird caste system that the american dream is made from, that there's always a bigger fish and how if you 'rise up', get paid more and do less, you deserve it, and those at the bottom therefore deserve their lot for not trying harder to advance #political

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Use LOOT rules to build/upgrade combat rally cars your characters use to form caravans for deliveries/missions helping disparate communities besieged by warlords, mutants, monsters, etc.?

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

The right for autistic people with intellectual disabilities (and other disabled people) to live outside of institutions was only granted by the US Supreme Court in 1999.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

gen ai freezes all progress, creativity, and new thinking in place by recycling what has been, disallowing would could be. and what group of people might be motivated by that i wonder

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

We're starting up the fourth issue of ATOMIC ROBO AND THE PERIL OF PROMETHEUS this week. Why not dive back into the previous issues to remind yourself of the stakes, the mystery, and The Cyberpunks! www.atomic-robo.com/atomicrobo/1...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Number one takeaway from the insane turnout at fight the oligarchy rallies, while chuck schumer cancels his little book tour and gretchen whitmer hides her face, is that there is zero constituency for bipartisanship

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments