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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 6 days ago • 840 comments

Ghouls.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Worried for folks in Eastern Kentucky as this rain continues. 😔

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 10 days ago • 128 comments

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 days ago • 1572 comments

way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America

submitted 13 days ago • 341 comments

The guy who leads 49.7% of the House of Representatives thinks they are going against insurmountable odds.

submitted 13 days ago • 94 comments

THEY’RE CLIMBING THE POLES IN TOKYO GO BIRDS🦅🦅🦅

submitted 13 days ago • 115 comments

Duolingo is wild my boy 😂😂

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

submitted 14 days ago • 256 comments

The Moon, by Gary Hume, 2009

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

Tired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they're racist Wired: conservatives hate Kendrick because they feel attacked by his anti-pedophile stance

submitted 14 days ago • 86 comments

Oh man could you imagine if Sam Richardson and Tim Robinson had some sort of ad agency

submitted 14 days ago • 34 comments

Tim and Sam!! Love to see it.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

People of Philadelphia, go out there and act totally normal and calm, the way you always do.

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

don’t think I’ll ever be persuaded a restaurant needs AI to prevent itself from seating Matthew McConaughey outdoors in the pouring rain

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

The ASL version of “Not Like Us” is magnificent.

submitted 14 days ago • 179 comments

THE SUPER BOWL HALFTIME SHOW IS UNION MADE! Shout out to Kendrick Lamar, and all the performers and behind the scenes workers that made this go off without a hitch!

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you don’t have to know football to understand how fucking funny this is

submitted 14 days ago • 27 comments

Nuked from orbit by @dceiver.bsky.social

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Serena Williams!

submitted 14 days ago • 230 comments

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

He really smiled at him while he did. This is a masterclass in hateration.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Alert: Two minutes left in this half, so, theoretically, Kendrick is on soon.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

[LOUD SCREAMING]

submitted 15 days ago • 110 comments

This is important. “Disappearing” migrants is the stuff of nightmares and we must not forget them.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

DOGE is reportedly threatening NOAA with massive staff and budget cuts. NOAA houses the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, which produce forecasts and warn people about storms. This attack on public safety is ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025.

submitted 17 days ago • 351 comments

Outside of USAID headquarters, Rep. Ilhan Omar: "We are witnessing a Constitutional crisis...This is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like, when you gut the Constitution and you install yourself as the sole power. That is how dictators are made." Fact.

submitted 20 days ago • 73 comments

I really wish there was an app where people were taking about the news and then a different app where people were talking about good and fun bullshit because the reality is I need both but the difficulty is for continued existence I need to control when is which

submitted 23 days ago • 19 comments

SHAHID: “If this were happening somewhere else 🇺🇸 media & state dept would refer to this as a coup… why does a billionaire industrialist with millions in government contracts (Musk) need the social security #’s of every American?” Full: youtu.be/UBmFx5rUglA?...

submitted 20 days ago • 37 comments

You’re goddamn right it was also THE album of the year.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

You can read the letter for yourself 👉

submitted 26 days ago • 639 comments

Mood for the next four years.

submitted 26 days ago • 4 comments

NEW: Confusion and concern in Kentucky over Trump’s freeze on federal grants and loans. Kentucky is heavily reliant on federal funding, receiving nearly $23 billion of federal grants in the last fiscal year.

submitted 26 days ago • 20 comments

NEW — OMB temporarily pauses all agency grants and loans programs. Per copy of memo: "The use of Federal resources to advance Marxist equity, transgenderism, and green new deal social engineering policies is a waste of taxpayer dollars that does not improve the day-to-day lives of those we serve."

submitted 27 days ago • 647 comments

What the actual fuck This “ could halt payments within days to states and U.S. households that receive assistance like SNAP food aid.” www.politico.com/news/2025/01...

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

submitted 29 days ago • 181 comments