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"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 2 days ago • 134 comments

A constituent asks Senator Roger Marshall (R, Kansas) why DOGE is firing so many veterans and the man just runs away. I’ve seen some pathetic behavior in my life but this might get first prize.

submitted 3 days ago • 727 comments

This should not be posed by journalists as cost-cutting measure. This is an attempt to gut civil rights enforcement across the federal government and therefore across American life. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments

It's kind of weird how Trump getting impeached over trying to extort Ukraine disappeared from the discourse

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 4 days ago • 181 comments

The anti vax playbook was indistinguishable from the playbook they ran on trans youth healthcare and I'm never going to forget those who carried water for the latter and acted surprised when the former gaoned control of the country.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1

submitted 7 days ago • 168 comments

Joann had a sprawling retail footprint and was a victim of the slow US decline toward cheaper, more disposable clothing, but they also suffered a blow during Trump's first term. Trump's 2018 tariffs increased cost of imports and US equivalents were too expensive for customers.

submitted 7 days ago • 177 comments

NEW: A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administration and elected officials keep relying on it?

submitted 8 days ago • 80 comments

I had, as it turns out, a voluminous quantity of words to say about the National Endowment for the Arts demanding fealty to Trump in their new grant guidelines (with side tangents into Robert Mapplethorpe, the Eight of Swords in tarot, compliance and resistance, and why budgets are moral documents)

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments

ME: Look man, you’re a great proctologist, I just think you’d be happier if you went to see this great clown Pagliacci, they say he’s a local professional in disguise BUTT DOCTOR:

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

This isn’t drugs. This is him assuming other people don’t work because he doesn’t do that much work. Very common bad boss behavior. bsky.app/profile/rcma...

submitted 9 days ago • 154 comments

i tell this story every time these old photos come up but: I remember in film school one of my classmates asked what about film chemistry in the 1970s caused everything shot in NYC to look so brown and grimy and our professor was like "that wasn't the film, that's just what the air looked like here"

submitted 16 days ago • 90 comments

for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

submitted 15 days ago • 122 comments

Seeing many false claims about immigration as the source of measles outbreaks. Here are some facts: 1) the west Texas outbreak started in a county with 1 of the highest vaccine exemption rates in the state 2) the Americas are the only WHO region that is free of endemic measles

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Just a few days ago, I wrote about how Musk and other MAGA propagandists are using misogyny to distract their dumb male followers from Musk's unsubtle plan to pick their pockets. www.salon.com/2025/02/12/l...

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports. Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/1915...

submitted 17 days ago • 301 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 17 days ago • 2688 comments

This is the dumbest timeline. Trump fired a bunch of people that oversee our nukes because he had no idea what they did, so he had to hire them back. More proof this is a hatchet job www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/c...

submitted 17 days ago • 309 comments

The Trump administration dismissed many CDC staff members today, including everyone in the Epidemic Intelligence Service, first responders to outbreaks. This leaves us ill prepared to contain and deal with future outbreaks. It makes America less healthy.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

It sucks that Apple lets people get victimized like this.

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

submitted 19 days ago • 1247 comments

Musk is trying to destroy the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which would regulate any "e-wallet" he starts. How does he trick his fans into hating an agency that protects them from scams? He tells them it has girl cooties. And they fall for it! www.salon.com/2025/02/12/l...

submitted 20 days ago • 32 comments

Apropos of nothing the entire nazi high command was blasted out of its mind on amphetamines every day

submitted 20 days ago • 16 comments

Shopify selling Kanye’s Heil Hitler Swastika t-shirts seems about as good as any for a thread on Shopify’s role as a far-right political business venture disguised as a typical tech company and their reputation for not taking down hate merch. 🧵 ⬇️

submitted 21 days ago • 34 comments

The “stop the hate” commercial featuring two celebrities who support the President who began his career by calling Mexicans rapists and whose biggest campaign donor recently gave a Hitler salute and rehired the “I was racist before it was cool” guy was….a choice.

submitted 22 days ago • 64 comments

Your annual reminder that Intuit/TurboTax have spent 20 years using their lobbying power to prevent the federal government from offering you free and functional electronic tax filing. DirectFile finally delivers that, but they haven't stopped trying to kill it. www.opensecrets.org/news/2024/02...

submitted 22 days ago • 59 comments