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science is the coolest shit ever and the science of mRNA vaccines and therapeutics is up there for “coolest science shit ever” in my opinion

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

I don’t understand how there’s any debate about whether to characterize them as Nazis when they’re out here sieg heiling. It’s an absolute failure of messaging not to name and condemn this behavior, and build a narrative around it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 51 comments

Claire Marie caught me in action drawing Luigi Mangione’s supporters at his hearing yesterday. More to come tomorrow on @theverge.com

submitted 21 hours ago • 6 comments

Upper East Side, NYC fatal crash: Driver killed https://buff.ly/3Q5uAHR #Construction #Accident #personalinjury #NY #NYC #bicycle #queens #truck #bronx #car #crash #bike #motorcycle #brooklyn #Queens #Manhattan

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2415 comments

I know I'm not the only Jew on this website that is getting tired of y'all continuously posting sieg heil photos. We can effectively talk about how bad shit is without posting the photos. I promise you we can. Some of us still have living Holocaust survivors in our circles, ffs.

submitted 23 hours ago • 39 comments

This is really something

submitted 2 days ago • 1774 comments

I genuinely respect Joshua on here but I vehemently disagree. It's called being a child. I literally thought the world revolved around me and would cease to exist if I died but I grew out of that by middle school because I'm not a monster.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

He's just such a pathetic POS. Always was, and always will be, an insufferable, bloviating tool.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

look at this little guy

submitted 8 days ago • 143 comments

Fun fact: Charlemagne lived before Europe's Genetic Isopoint. This means that literally every white person alive today is a descendent of Charlemagne.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Man, every time I see yet another bitchass take about how it’s “essential” for progressives to perpetually debate human rights with more right-leaning people I think about Robert De Niro’s character from Brazil who goes around fixing people’s HVAC systems. youtu.be/dht_3NziwSw?...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

It's been 45 years of calling the federal govt wasteful and during that time period people had very little grasp of what the federal govt does or that message originates from businesses that want to get away with under paying people and selling and releasing poison

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

“It’s just sending them to their graves,” he said. ”Understand that." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/20/m...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

An excellent deep dive intp the dats behind FIRE's "campus free speech" rankings. You won't be surprised to learn they are bullshit, riddled with errors and willful misrepresentions. This is not a serious organization and we would stop treating it as such. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂

submitted 2 days ago • 4218 comments

"Should Musk succeed, the door will be opened to every other CEO of a Delaware-based company to ransack their companies to fund titanic compensation packages. If shareholders file suit, well, just threaten to leave the state and get the law changed." prospect.org/justice/2025...

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Steve Bannon was always a Nazi, what is the disconnect here?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

when the crowd cheers for the Nazi salute, what you have is a crowd full of Nazis

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

It's called a boycott

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

gravedigger of american democracy. a more malign influence than john c calhoun.

submitted 2 days ago • 1420 comments

Another important thread to read!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Writer friends! I'm making a zine for my kid's birthday & would love to collect 2 pieces of advice if you have them & are willing to share. I'm looking for a favorite bit of writing advice & a fav piece of advice for life. Reply here if you like—maybe this will be useful to people here, too. ❤️

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Happy now #BillCassidy #SusanCollins #JoniErnst, #TomTillis? Your cowardice will kill. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

McConnell is likely the single most deserving inheritor of Paul von Hindenburg's "Gravedigger of Democracy" title, and I hope he lives another fifty years and never has another good night's sleep.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" 🤷‍♂️

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

NEW — I wrote about Leland Dudek, a Social Security Administration (SSA) staffer who went from being on admin leave for aiding DOGE to acting head of the agency overnight. I talked to multiple SSA employees about how this prolific LinkedIn poster became Musk's poster boy for government allegiance:

submitted 2 days ago • 56 comments

"Watch Texas spend more on prisons than it does on schools. Thinking of making your tax structure more regressive? Come to the Lone Star State and see how it’s done."

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Thinking a lot about Sam Nordquist, the trans man who was held captive and tortured for a month in New York state before finally being beaten to death and his body dumped, and how the cops are misgendering him to the media.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments