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I do can-openers into the pool because it's fun. I have a degree in economics and I think my pittie is the most beautiful being in the universe.
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On this date in 1794 was born famed orator Edward Everett, who spoke at Gettysburg for two hours before Abraham Lincoln took two minutes for his own remarks. Everett was entirely gracious: "The fuck, Abe? Did you write that shit on the back of an envelope at breakfast? Fuck me. I'm dead."

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

If you haven’t seen this, you need to! Trump is short-selling America—deliberately tanking the economy so that businesses and entire industries bend the knee and beg him to save them. Thanks, @chrismurphyct.bsky.social, for sounding the alarm. Now, what is Congress going to do about it?

submitted 4 days ago • 257 comments

Republicans on the Titanic: "It's just a little ice." Later: "It's just a little water." Later: "It's just a little crack." Later: "Get out of my lifeboat."

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

All of this was completely avoidable. He cratered a booming economy for what? Loyalty? Putin? Power? When will his base say they were wrong about everything he promised and what it would do to all of us?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Grace Kuhlenschmidt goes deep undercover to get the scoop on Trump's penguin tariffs

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

I have allergic asthma. Right now, I'm on 3 medications to manage it, and I have a rescue inhaler to use for asthma attacks. Spring is the worst time of year. WITH medications, I've been at the point where I audibly wheeze when walking. Without them - I can't imagine. #FreeRümeysa

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

🚨UPDATE: Rümeysa Öztürk has now suffered three separate asthma attacks while in DHS custody. She has not received her required asthma medications—a violation of her fundamental right to medical care. This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

submitted 9 days ago • 236 comments

🚨Georgetown University Law Center students are detailing which law firms have caved and which have stood up to the Trump regime. They have created this spreadsheet: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Please share widely.

submitted 10 days ago • 224 comments

a cage full of shaved men in bunks stacked up to the ceiling is the modern day death camp. they are invoking the cruelty, the sadism, the AESTHETICS of Nazism and turning it against young Latino men. it is disgusting and it offends me in my deepest self.

submitted 17 days ago • 420 comments

the gestapo is ICE, ICE is the gestapo. we are witnessing fascism right here in the USA. how the fuck do we fight this.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

So it turns out Pete Hegseth lied. And Michael Waltz lied. And Tulsi Gabbard lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath. And John Ratliffe lied. And also lied to Congress while under oath. And as ever Jeffrey Goldberg and the Atlantic were telling the truth. This is why journalism matters.

submitted 17 days ago • 383 comments

Meiselas: Steve Witkoff, was allegedly in Moscow while he was on this group chat. Do you believe the Russians now have all of that information and potentially more? Rice: Well, yes—the Russians have whatever Witkoff was doing or saying on his personal cell phone. The Russians undoubtedly have it.

submitted 18 days ago • 669 comments

The view from across the pond… 😕

submitted 18 days ago • 853 comments

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

submitted 18 days ago • 1070 comments

I wonder why Kyle Rittenhouse isn’t volunteering to protect Tesla dealerships?

submitted 20 days ago • 98 comments

Anyone who would say this damned well deserves their own airport

submitted 19 days ago • 39 comments

I wrote about my kind, funny childhood friend Michelle Trachtenberg, and the group of friends that saved my life when I was a kid. www.vulture.com/article/mara...

submitted 25 days ago • 330 comments

tesla autopilot has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time

submitted 32 days ago • 194 comments

Today it's Palestine, tomorrow it's "gender ideology", the next day it's the Luigi Mangione meme you liked on Instagram

submitted 33 days ago • 27 comments