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They don't want SS to go away. Their intention is to privatize it so oligarchs can take a slice of every penny you put into the "retirement wealth fund" they plan to create. Don't you just love P2025. Your money, here.⬇️⬇️⬇️

submitted 9 hours ago • 25 comments

Reading for pleasure has the biggest positive impact of any factor on children's life chances. And every reader is different, and enjoys reading different things in different ways. So please: let kids read for pleasure and celebrate books EVERY DAY - not just #WorldBookDay!

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

i think it's great that the nazi zoomers are systematically — and again, illegally — destroying our ability to do anything useful

submitted 11 hours ago • 96 comments

You know how they’re always lying about undocumented people not paying taxes...

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

i'm not a christian, and i could take or leave most of the bible, but the sermon on the mount is the single most important -- and also unequivocally the best -- act of communication by anyone in the history of humanity and it's not even close

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

here's the things about the possibility of trump being a russian asset: if that were true, he'd have an excuse. he's much, much worse.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The mistake is to think Zelensky could have salvaged this. Trump admin just doesn’t want to support Ukraine. Period. There was also never going to be a peace agreement. That’s been clear but everyone has been pretending otherwise. There can be no confusion now.

submitted 3 days ago • 137 comments

Looking at some survey data here. Trump/Elon cutting off all cancer cure research is the issue that freaks voters out more than any other, also the one they've heard the least about. Important for voters to hear more about this.

submitted 3 days ago • 116 comments

UPDATE: HE RETURNED IT

submitted 3 days ago • 130 comments

when michael karoli hits the distortion pedal in 'yoo doo right' >>>>>>>>>

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

[speed date] HER: hi i’m- ME: if a fish had sex with a duck would the baby be called a dish or a fuck HER: what ME: dish or fuck hurry please

submitted 6 days ago • 76 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 8 days ago • 185 comments

sure, i torrented 'dekalog,' but i did skip vii.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

submitted 14 days ago • 216 comments

i feel like it's an open question whether or not the flu vaccine will even be available next season

submitted 15 days ago • 667 comments

Moby Dick swam swiftly round and round the wrecked crew; sideways churning the water in his vengeful wake

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 15 days ago • 386 comments

Man that sweet spot between properly caffeinated and literally vibrating with impending catastrophe seems like it gets a little smaller every day

submitted 16 days ago • 156 comments

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

submitted 17 days ago • 507 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

submitted 18 days ago • 130 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this, but the best burrito in the city is currently the Burrito Akay (carne asada, shrimp, & rajas) at Akay's Tacos, off Clarke and Rogers. Understated gem.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Not enough attn to this. Main Justice ordered New York office (SDNY) to drop the charges agst Eric Adams on Monday. Most - me included - thought that meant it was done. Already happened. But as of right now no one has filed a motion to drop the charges. We're going on three days later.

submitted 19 days ago • 199 comments

and for my final wish, Genie, i want to absolutely nail every karaoke attempt of "i believe in a thing called love" by the darkness

submitted 22 days ago • 59 comments

submitted 23 days ago • 394 comments

Most of the world’s brightest minds are hard at work developing new ways for you to get depression from a computer

submitted 25 days ago • 170 comments

I've made too much stew, and it's become a problem.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

fuck -- and I cannot stress this enough -- elon

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

would love to see them, as a matter of fact

submitted 27 days ago • 154 comments

Proofreading justified prose is deeply unserious behavior.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

There's a pattern here -- seen in Musk's threat to end the IRS Direct File, for instance -- of them targeting the valuable services and information that taxpayers currently get for free and setting up a system where we'll have to pay private companies instead. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 26 days ago • 45 comments

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

submitted 26 days ago • 53 comments

I would really love to see the NYT & WaPo treat the current political situation with even half the level of alarm they used last year in reporting that Biden was old

submitted 27 days ago • 143 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 28 days ago • 523 comments

the obsession with AI and the belief that a few wunderkinds can replace an entire functioning bureaucracy both stem from the same place: these people are consumed with hate for the fact that they need a managerial middle class of educated workers with non-trivial political power.

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Maybe we can find “efficiency” by seizing every dollar Elon Musk owns.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

This year's Wilderness Permits are successfully booked. I'll see y'all in the Sierras.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Make them famous

submitted 28 days ago • 14 comments

Langston Hughes

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 30 days ago • 926 comments

the lyric, among its many virtues, is also the literary genre most easily consumed en commode.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

If you don't try all three salsa while you're waiting for your tacos, like, what are you even doing? Come to play, people.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments