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I feel brainwashed by news outlets using the 𝐟𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 in headlines – not for cop shootings – for Trump's illegal plotting. Instead of: Trump is Closing the Post Office, Why not? Trump Tries To Claim He Can Kill Post Office Constitutional Law Professors Guffaw: Yeah, right!

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If you have an R rep, call 'em up and ask them why they hell they aren't speaking out like Balderson. Call 'em now. Tell 'em to stand up for you against Trump and Musk. Ask 'em if they're cowards. Tell 'em to step up like Balderson, or step down. reps.fyi

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

Russia attacked Ukraine—not the other way around. Let’s be clear: Ukraine is defending its sovereignty against Putin’s aggression. #StandWithUkraine

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“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated. This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

No one in Republican world seems to have a lot of curiosity about why Musk needs people’s personal data to engage in government cost cutting

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

The Milwaukee Stabber has killed a 26th person, but YAWN we GET IT and we have decided to stop reporting on him unless he switches it up and starts using an Axe. bsky.app/profile/shad...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

Antivaxxers will worry about imaginary neurologic damage from vaccines but do not care about reality like this year’s influenza strain causing necrotizing encephalitis in children.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Without going all Martin Niemöller here, I do think that it's bad not to speak up for immigrants, transgender Americans, civil servants, women, Ukraine, and everyone else the MAGA bullies are going after. We're beyond picking and choosing whom to defend. It's time to stand up and speak out.

submitted 6 days ago • 265 comments

It’s not what Trump posted that tells you where this is going; it’s how his people are responding to it that really tells you where this is going.

submitted 7 days ago • 307 comments

Checked this story about Trump shaking Ukraine down in exchange for continuing military aid to see if it mentions that he got impeached for doing that exact thing, and friends, you will not be surprised that it does not.

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

As a journalist who covers extremism at the local level, I think it’s a mistake to view Trump’s Napoleonic statement as solely about presidential power. Consider if it’s interpreted as a wink and a nod for any extremist to act outside the law to “save” the country as they see fit

submitted 7 days ago • 478 comments

Zero point zero chance Trump is aware of an apocryphal Napoleon quote. This reeks of Musk, who no doubt got it from some rando twitter groyper.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

NY Times publishing thoughts of 6 Americans with "diverse political ideologies" FOUR of the six are Trump voters! 1 voted 3rd party! 1 is a Green Party supporter who in the end voted Harris ❌This isn't "diverse ideologies," this is the NYT (again) misrepresenting Trump supporters as the norm

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

Musk and Trump illegally fired 200,000 essential government workers. Services we all rely on will soon cease to exist. Make America Great Again, my ass.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

⚠️Trump's actions are going to disrupt the power grid. ⚠️Call your Republican reps and tell them to stop this; they're the majority push them to act ⚠️United States Capitol switchboard will connect you to your reps at (202) 224-3121

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, here’s some of what @thedemocraticparty.bsky.social did today 👋🏽

submitted 10 days ago • 2176 comments

Musk's company has been awarded a $400 million government contract for "armored Tesla." This is what the tech oligarchy looks like. www.dropsitenews.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 10 days ago • 141 comments

How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

submitted 10 days ago • 898 comments

“This will likely mean fewer new treatments will get to children and therefore that fewer children will be saved," said Charles Roberts, director of the St. Jude Comprehensive Cancer Center, which treats thousands of children with cancer at no cost to their families.

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

We still have the Affordable Care Act in large part because people kept the pressure on their Republican electeds when they were in charge even though it seemed useless to many to call someone like Concerned Susan Collins or McCain. The idea that your calls don’t matter simply is not true

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