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Walmart called the police on a cis-woman using the women's bathroom. Even after proving she's a woman, "one deputy continued to question her appearance, insisting she 'looked like a man.'" 😡 😡 😡

submitted 2 days ago • 148 comments

If you are spending any time attacking Democrats rather than focusing on what Republicans are doing to destroy our democracy then you are wasting value time.

submitted 2 days ago • 1485 comments

These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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“Transitioning” from 50 straight months of job growth, a 400% rise in manufacturing construction and the best back-to-back years for the stock market in a quarter century. 🤡

submitted 2 days ago • 1314 comments

A thing few seem to learn about Trump and MAGA is that once they've set a narrative designating you as the enemy, there isn't a damn thing you can do about it. It doesn't matter if it's false. And no amount of capitulation is going to move them. So you might as well do the right thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I feel this frustration BUT companies/journalists know what their click rates are and should work to better inform at the impression level—otherwise you risk misinforming 95%+ of your audience.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

This goes back to the media getting cowed into asserting that "Borking" is a pejorative, when what Ted Kennedy did was to accurately summarize Robert Bork's publically stated views, which Bork continued to reiterate in very temperate and closely argued books like "Slouching Toward Gomorrah"

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Damn. Not wrong. But damn.

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

90 minutes in 1988 - open.spotify.com/playlist/19k...

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Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.

submitted 5 days ago • 721 comments

Percent of population enrolled in Medicaid/CHIPS in some of the states Trump won in 2024: LA: 41.3% WV: 36.3% KY: 35.4% AR: 33.3% OK: 31.4% MI: 30.0% AZ: 30.5% OH: 28.3% PA: 28.2% MT: 28.2% NV: 26.8% WI: 23.8% GA: 22.0% NC: 21.1% worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankin...

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Straight-up McCarthyism thepostmillennial.com/us-atty-ed-m...

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NEW from @markhertling.bsky.social : "The U.S. does not provide aid to Ukraine as a handout—it does so to uphold a world order that prevents wars and ensures prosperity. To abandon Ukraine is to betray our values and undermine decades of U.S. national strategy designed to contain threats."

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

A point that needs to get hammered more is that the caprice and chaos with which this administration implements its bad policies will inflict serious long term harms, in addition to the damage done by the bad policies themselves.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

So much for that experiment in El Salvador about replacing fiat currency with Bitcoin. But I’m guessing this won’t get a lot of coverage from the cryptobros and other libertarian dipshits. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Another one for the annals of “so far gone into sociopathy it doesn’t even occur to him how repulsive this sounds to any minimally decent person.” Someone a little more self aware would at least realize you’re not supposed to boast about making deals with invaders to carve up sovereign states.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

The desperate search to find decorated US soldiers that happen to share the same last name as Confederate generals is one of the funniest spectacles of this whole Administration.

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

I legitimately think a nontrivial reason why the world went to shit is that at some point, we decided there are mess makers and mess cleaners and if the mess makers make a mess too big for the mess cleaners, it just shows the mess cleaners suck.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

The administration got rid of 18F under the cover of night. People who own skyscrapers are afraid of 100 people who make websites. Not because of the latest tech fad, but because we proved the government can be fixed, the government can be made better and the government can work for the people.

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

Vermont understood the assignment. Take notes, America.

submitted 8 days ago • 567 comments

So to summarize the new Republican Economic Populism (TM): --Social Security: Ponzi scheme, should be defunded --Shitcoins: legitimate investment vehicles that should be bailed out by taxpayers

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 7 days ago • 292 comments

Note that not only are they stopping payment to farmers in Kansas (and across the farm belt) for work already completed. They're doing the same to USAID contractors abroad, cutting off payment for work already done. So many of those aid orgs have already gone under. US farmers next.

submitted 7 days ago • 49 comments

We have spent trillions to posture against Russia over the years. Now we have a chance to send them into the ash heap of history by supporting Ukraine. It’s a good deal, unless you want Russia to win, in which case god help you

submitted 7 days ago • 376 comments

In the next few days, you'll be able to tell which economists are complete political hacks by whether they argue for accepting Trump's rejiggered GDP numbers as legitimate.

submitted 7 days ago • 14 comments

If the U.S. “withdraws” from Europe, it will quickly learn that our presence there is less about protecting Europe than facilitating our force projection around the world.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Vance is completely wrong here. US military sales to Ukraine served as a catalyst to rebuild our production capacity for our own potential military needs. I bet you'll never hear him say the same thing about US missiles fired to defend Israel, though that did deplete short-term stocks.

submitted 7 days ago • 147 comments

The lesson he learned was that Republicans in Congress would never hold him accountable. And he learned it well.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky. kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

This a magnificent piece from political theorist Jeff Isaac, which captures the shame all Americans should be feeling for the behaviour of their leaders yesterday, offers solidarity, lessons from history, and even some hope. Please read! jeffreycisaacdesign.wordpress.com/2025/02/28/l...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The well-oiled flywheel of far right / MAGA comms is only vaguely understood by most Americans. Here is a stylized account of how it works: substack.com/@nilsgilman/...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Today was a grim, terrible day for the United States and the cause of democracy. Putin, along with other dictators around the world, can finally look at Trump with confidence and think: one of us. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 9 days ago • 295 comments

It's equal parts nauseating and funny to see these guys talking about "strength" and "courage" and "standing up" while engaging in the kind of pathetic, servile, "yes-my-baron" ritual groveling rarely seen by men not wearing literal gimp suits.

submitted 9 days ago • 131 comments

Republicans are lining up to denounce Zelensky because their base was seduced by a cranky old racist with a fondness for dictators. Just wild how the whims, prejudices, and weird obsessions of a senile 78-year-old have completely supplanted the party’s priorities — and reshuffled the world order.

submitted 9 days ago • 82 comments

Trump and Vance needed to create an incident to provide a justification for their pre-planned abandonment of Ukraine now, then separation from NATO in the near future. That’s what that was all about, and that was always the way a second Trump term was going to go.

submitted 9 days ago • 1162 comments

Kayfabe for Hitler www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/02/kayf...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I feel it needs to be stressed that Wired has absolutely been killing reporting on the DOGE takeover.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

This hideous motherfucker is right.

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

submitted 10 days ago • 165 comments

A thing I've noticed over the past few years is that because the right doesn't really understand the ideologies they've made into bugbears, they keep resorting to these absurd lists of shibboleth terms as a proxy, which keeps yielding absurd results because lots of them are pretty ubiquitous.

submitted 9 days ago • 17 comments

I think we have to agree that JD is such a sniveling little bitch.

submitted 9 days ago • 691 comments

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 11 days ago • 480 comments

interesting to me that no one condemns republicans for “racial essentialism” when their most prominent voices — say, the literal president and vice president of the united states — believe that citizenship has an ethnic and racial basis. www.thebulwark.com/p/vance-immi...

submitted 11 days ago • 130 comments

When individuals and publications labor to construct the intellectual and moral justifications for genocide, I think they should be treated like people doing that.

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

Senior WH Correspondent for Fox News.

submitted 12 days ago • 306 comments