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Editor. Writer. Singer. Baker. And other things that end in -r. Horrified but not deterred. Deleted Threads and Instagram accounts (and quit Facebook in 2018). My X account still exists, but I don't log in. Deleted LinkedIn, too. Bluesky is my lone home!
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The fact that Carrier’s plea deal contains only a single charge left some victims even more angry. “That’s ridiculous,” said Ron Carver, who lost $300,000 and whose father lost $200,000 before he died. “They will let him plead out and he might get a slap on the wrist.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

What was it like inside the production meetings for "Curb Your Enthusiasm"? Pretty similar to a Presidential Cabinet meeting, Larry David writes. Read an exclusive transcript from one such gathering, courtesy of New Yorker Humor.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: Leaked audio shows Scott Brown, the GOP's top recruit for NH Senate, saying people "don't want their Social Security" and "don't care about that." This is completely disqualifying.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

What an odd little idea that is absolutely going to blow up in their faces.

submitted 8 hours ago • 27 comments

I went through a 6mo hiring process for a WaPo job in 2022, finally got an offer, then passed after passive-aggressive convos that culminated w/ the hiring manager asking me to take down a post I'd written a couple years prior lightly criticizing efforts to incorporate AI into newsrooms. So: lol.

submitted 8 hours ago • 18 comments

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

submitted 9 hours ago • 461 comments

'Completely made up': Analyst debunks Trump aide's bias claim www.rawstory.com/karoline-lea...

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

There’s a whole batch of these right-wing pseudointellectual grifters whose primary function is performing a stupid person’s idea of a smart person, with the content of that performance being sort of secondary.

submitted 15 hours ago • 11 comments

This is horrifying. Avelo Airlines should be ashamed. You can call Avelo customer service at (346) 616-9500.

submitted 13 hours ago • 306 comments

Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.

submitted 5 days ago • 853 comments

We are in the Disney Villain US Administration Era. Watch this witch cackle….

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Don’t miss the guffaw

submitted 13 hours ago • 38 comments

Maybe The Piano Guys can do a four-year residency?

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Thread.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Tesla - cars that burn up with owners inside. SpaceX - rockets that explode when they aren't supposed to. Starlink - satellites that are melted by the sun. X - owned by a Nazi & a home for other Nazis. DOGE - dismantled every agency that was investigating Musk. This is what MAGA call "winning."

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

"FEMA is shifting from bloated, DC-centric dead weight to a lean, deployable disaster force that empowers state actors to provide relief for their citizens" translation: you're on your own, bitch

submitted 12 hours ago • 71 comments

This is really chilling. It's not clear that the Boulder suspect's family did anything illegal or that they were even residing in the U.S. illegally. If that were the case, then the Trump administration is lawlessly arresting whoever it wants, whenever it wants.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

The head of FEMA joked about not knowing hurricane season had started. Americans work too damn hard and pay too much to be governed by clowns. When lives are at stake, we need serious leadership, not punchlines.

submitted 10 hours ago • 178 comments

Ric Grenell has been running it, so I’m sure he will accept responsibility. As MAGA does.

submitted 9 hours ago • 162 comments

Tracked down the source of this video by way of Reddit comments to a Facebook post from a local news reporter that says this was due to a passenger’s wife calling in a bomb threat against her husband on the plane. It seems like these guys were local police and the ICE link was TikTok speculation.

submitted 9 hours ago • 20 comments

A generation? How about 250 years?

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

Vaught imagines returning to a past ... before the Constitution existed.

submitted 9 hours ago • 21 comments

Russell Vought: "Impoundment, which is also a possibility. We are dusting off muscle memory that existed for 200 years before President Nixon in the 1970s and Congress acted to try to take away the president's ability to spend less." (Impoundment is literally illegal.)

submitted 11 hours ago • 194 comments

Trump pardon in 3 ... 2 ... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Jesus Christ.

submitted 13 hours ago • 48 comments

Effectively, this is a loyalty oath which in this country has historically been to the Constitution or to the office being served. Not to a leader. That is what fascism demands.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s a dictatorship cult. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

Musk, who thinks "The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy" (yes, he actually said this on camera), killed all of these people – and many more will die because of his greed. These are facts. There's no other way to frame it.

submitted 9 hours ago • 18 comments

David Brooks, a conservative columnist speaks about the amount of people who have died directly as a result of cuts to USAID by Doge. Over 55,000 adults, 6,000 children just from AIDS. That’s a total of 300,000 who have died due to Doge’s cuts. It’s only been four months.

submitted 11 hours ago • 99 comments

Probably time to wrap up this "Curtis Yarvin" bit, I think.

submitted 11 hours ago • 14 comments

The credit rating of the United States was downgraded due to how fiscally irresponsible Trump’s bill is. It’s ridiculous they are arguing this point.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Kennedy Center theater ticket sale revenue plunged 82 percent after 🌮 appointed himself chairman of the board. Members have canceled their subscriptions and artists have canceled their engagements.

submitted 9 hours ago • 11 comments

But he says “What was we ranked … ?” He’s a United States senator. Sigh.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

The rescissions request is out. This is very real. As with reconciliation, this is filibuster-proof, meaning that there is no Senate cloture vote, and Republicans can pass it even with all Dems opposed. The White House is calling to cut global health programs, condemning people to die.

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years. What are we doing?

submitted 12 hours ago • 80 comments

Josh Hawley *furious* that the fire department spends a disproportionate amount of time on burning buildings compared to non-burning ones

submitted 11 hours ago • 7 comments

"Give me liberty or give me death!" Trump admin - okay, let's go with death! The admin's guidance says that state abortion bans can force hospitals to turn away pregnant patients experiencing medical emergencies that jeopardize their health, including reproductive health, & potentially lives.

submitted 13 hours ago • 26 comments

These ships honor giants of American history — people like Marylanders Thurgood Marshall and Harriet Tubman, who helped forge a stronger, more powerful nation and made us a global example of freedom in action. This is repulsive.

submitted 10 hours ago • 100 comments

Trump has revoked guidance that directed hospitals to provide emergency abortions to women when necessary to stabilize their medical condition — eg when women are experiencing medical emergencies and need abortion to prevent organ loss or severe hemorrhaging, among other serious complications

submitted 11 hours ago • 38 comments

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days via @drewharwell.com @emilydavies.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments