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ben.regenspan.com
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you can look at this and say we're divided or you can look at this and say that a majority of americans oppose every one of these things

submitted 15 days ago • 112 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 16 days ago • 221 comments

Things are too dumb for poetry right now. Imagine a strange beast slouching around, it'd probably get hit by a Cybertruck.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

submitted 23 days ago • 83 comments

Trump has signed 10 executive orders attacking trans people in his first 16 days in office. Do not ever let anyone tell you that it's Democrats who are obsessed with trans people.

submitted 25 days ago • 34 comments

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

submitted 26 days ago • 55 comments

at least @techdirt.bsky.social is not fucking around

submitted 26 days ago • 18 comments

Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down

submitted 31 days ago • 42 comments

a key take away from reading a lot of history for me: the people who survive hard times and eventually brutally humiliate their seemingly invincible enemies are not the people whose first response to adversity is “oh well, guess I’ll die”

submitted 40 days ago • 60 comments

It's incredibly funny that DraftKings is legal but TikTok is not.

submitted 42 days ago • 69 comments

AOC remains one of a handful of elected democrats who understand how politics operates

submitted 46 days ago • 123 comments

submitted 50 days ago • 44 comments

please stop suggesting I solve my problem by changing my behavior. I do not want to do that

submitted 56 days ago • 212 comments

every tech company in 2025

submitted 60 days ago • 75 comments

In 2014, the IDF’s acceptable civilian casualty ratio was one civilian for a high-level terrorist…. In the Gaza war, the number has grown to about 15 civilians for one low-level Hamas member and “exponentially higher” for mid- and high-level members.” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 63 days ago • 3 comments

british people are like "oi i picked up some macca down at the chazzer innit" and americans are like "someone shot my kid's friend at school today"

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

I remain convinced that if you resort to convenient bigotry to win votes, the people whose votes you gained will eventually vote for a more sincere bigot, while the people you abandoned will never trust you again.

submitted 66 days ago • 25 comments

long after i've fallen asleep on the couch in another failed attempt to stay up until Santa arrives, he quietly tip toes across the room to me and, with a twinkle in his eye, gently eases the gun out of my hand

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2024...

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

Why’s it always “nyc smells like pee” and never “my pee smells like the greatest city in the world”

submitted 101 days ago • 30 comments

submitted 225 days ago • 12 comments

Canadian Ice T: found another beaver pelt at the scene. Kids are calling it getting dammed. Canadian Mariska Hargetay: Bet you 20 Timbits this is connected to the Curling case, but this time they aren’t going to sweep the evidence away *both ride away on a moose*

submitted 295 days ago • 25 comments

Lazy woke kids won't even buy out the US defense industry

submitted 301 days ago • 9 comments

loving this review of the pop tart movie that’s only concern is verisimilitude

submitted 302 days ago • 6 comments