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Every time I see pictures from Musk at CPAC, I think about how, a decade ago, the fear was it was young women who would get addicted to social media attention and destroy themselves. And that has happened, but nothing competes with what happened to middle-aged men.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

I don't really feel bad for Ashley St. Clair because she knew what she was walking into but imagine having a baby alone then sending pics of your just born baby to his dad ON SIGNAL

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

I always shock my students a bit when I tell them that quantitative data is just qualitative data that has already been interpreted numerically.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

holy crap .... Another Town Hall(s) Goes Off the Rails – Oregon 2nd District Edition talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/anoth...

submitted 12 hours ago • 125 comments

I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

submitted 22 hours ago • 177 comments

it's really saying something that this is how an apparent friend explains Elon's goals www.vanityfair.com/news/story/e...

submitted 16 hours ago • 170 comments

I want a Senator to ask about that, because it would be a violation and also Trump could just be lying.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 13 hours ago • 188 comments

conditioning disaster aid that californians have paid into simply to force policies on californians who don’t want them is as straightforward an abrogation of the spirit of the union as one can imagine and red states had better be prepared to accept retributions in kind

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Hitler destroyed German democracy in 53 days. We are on day 30. The purge of the military and FBI has commenced. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 14 comments

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library has officially launched in Fresno County. More than 1,000 families have already signed up 📚 www.yourcentralvalley.com/news/local-n...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

He’s such a sad, pathetic bully. Anyone who thinks that’s strength doesn’t understand strength.

submitted 14 hours ago • 4 comments

If you don’t think we’re in a constitutional crisis— I can’t help you— but if you do and you think governors should just politely sit after the president berates a governor and proclaims he is federal law. Man, I don’t know.

submitted 20 hours ago • 17 comments

Los Angeles

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Whoa

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 14 hours ago • 147 comments

FIRE (the free-speech organization) has taken on the defense of J. Ann Selzer, the Des Moines Register pollster who's being frivolously sued by Donald Trump. And while FIRE is doing the case pro bono, I feel like we should all pay them $550 an hour just for this one beautiful paragraph.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

Guarding a concentration camp isn't the kind of thing most people want to sign up for. Along with a racist effort to purge officers who aren’t white, military recruiting is going to tank and the ensuing national security crisis will be entirely self-inflicted www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 79 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 14 hours ago • 215 comments

This is key to understanding the building outrage & backlash that extends way beyond the hurt of those fired. Firing people for no reason is brutal & loathsome but the even larger overall offense is wiping out all the fired people’s jobs with them, all the purposes & needs & value those jobs serve.

submitted 14 hours ago • 35 comments

btw, i will tell you this - i have been talking to people all day, and the media is missing, whether intentionally or not, how absolutely, volcanically angry the people who have been fired are, not because they lost their jobs, but because their jobs matter, to us

submitted 15 hours ago • 55 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 14 hours ago • 402 comments

"If successful, the state of Texas would cap Musk's monthly child support payments at just $2,760 for all three children....." DOGE's "efficiency" is the "efficiency" of a billionaire who saves money by refusing to pay child support. popcrush.com/elon-musk-ch...

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Looks like Trump has fired Gen CQ Brown, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

The Trump DOJ is big mad about their finest legal minds being humiliated in court

submitted 19 hours ago • 117 comments

What a petty little bitch. It must be a requirement for the Trump DoJ.

submitted 16 hours ago • 75 comments

Shutting down already-installed infrastructure in the name of government "efficiency" while also harming business competitors of a government official who just happens to have his own network of EV chargers.

submitted 16 hours ago • 13 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 comments

A year ago this month, Trump said he would encourage Russia to attack NATO allies and "do whatever the hell they want" unless allies paid up. We thought it was so important, we ran it on the front page of the @mississippifreepress.org at a time when the New York Times and others didn't.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Ukraine did not misuse or lose half of the aid the United States has provided. Ukraine repeatedly invited Putin to negotiate in early 2022. isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

The most notable thing about this clip from the president's address to the governors is the way Maine Gov. Janet Mills stood up to Trump. And the second most notable thing is the absolute stone-faced silence from the other governors in the room. www.c-span.org/clip/white-h...

submitted 16 hours ago • 68 comments

Presumably the next guy will start mass raids and sweeps to keep his job. Nightmare.

submitted 16 hours ago • 7 comments

Wow. This is stupid.

submitted 16 hours ago • 59 comments

Oh look, exactly what everybody who has followed Musk and his scams for more than 5 minutes predicted would happen did, in fact, happen.

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CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 20 hours ago • 880 comments

If you are the governor of an entire state and stood up in this room and walked right up to him to take over the microphone, what would happen? You all swore an oath to some combo of state or federal constitutions. Fucking honor it. People have died for less to defend it.

submitted 17 hours ago • 7 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 21 hours ago • 2122 comments