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I'm waiting for the day Trump blames extinction of the dinosaurs on DEI, Biden, and Obama. How ridiculous can this get?

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

If you’re in an institution doing any kind of DEI work, the most important thing to do right now is simply call it something else. Change it to “Community Outreach” & then keep on doing the same important work. When they outlaw Community Outreach rebrand it as “Strategic Partnerships,” rinse/repeat.

submitted 34 days ago • 48 comments

💥 NEW: Disney Board urges shareholders to vote against a proposal to “reconsider its participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s Corporate Equality Index.” Disney has a perfect score. The same right-wing group brought an anti-DEI proposal to Costco Board and lost shareholder vote yesterday, 98-2%

submitted 35 days ago • 25 comments

Lot of unfunny comedians who made it as MAGA podcast hosts. Just saying.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

This is a beautiful tribute.

submitted 43 days ago • 242 comments

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

submitted 43 days ago • 1743 comments

Unlike you, I get my news from a reliable source

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

“As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. For the first time, my editor prevented me from doing that job. So I have decided to leave the Washington Post” — Ann Telnaes, after drawing this cartoon, which included the image of a supplicant Jeff Bezos

submitted 55 days ago • 334 comments

From @theathletic.bsky.social: Netflix paid $150 million to broadcast two NFL games on Christmas — that’s $50 million more than producing a season of "Game of Thrones," for two games. Here's a review of their NFL debut. nyti.ms/3BMvZj4

submitted 64 days ago • 14 comments

This piece does not mention that Musk has funneled billions to his foundation, securing tax breaks, but Musk’s foundation has not donated the legal minimum to actual charitable causes www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ma...

submitted 65 days ago • 232 comments

New episode!🚨 @anthonycanton3.bsky.social & @jakechristie.bsky.social close out 2024 by reacting to the #Superman trailer! 🎧APPLE: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mar… 🎧SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/episode/3mRQLL 🎥YOUTUBE: youtu.be/MjHnAMmr4Yo?si

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

We are going to hear a lot over the next couple of years about how, despite controlling the White House, House, and Senate, Republicans just aren't able to get anything done because of Democrats

submitted 69 days ago • 506 comments

pathetic abcnews.go.com/Politics/dem...

submitted 72 days ago • 635 comments

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submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

"In 2020, [Notre Dame] admitted 86 applicants who were connected to large donors, or about 4% of the incoming class. Within that group, 76% of those donor admissions needed special consideration to get in, the motion said." lol "special consideration" here means that they Didn't Earn It.

submitted 72 days ago • 4 comments

It’s genuinely shocking if you’re remotely familiar with the basic facts of trans care and youth medicine. It is profoundly difficult to access gender-affirming care as a minor and the Times has printed more than a dozen articles implying that it is too easy.

submitted 86 days ago • 71 comments

I remember her from season one

submitted 85 days ago • 511 comments

I missed Mika Brzezinski's very bizarre on air apology for a comment David Frum made on air about Pete Hegseth's drinking. You can watch it in this clip. And it's weird for reasons @joshtpm.bsky.social lays out in this post: talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats...

submitted 85 days ago • 2251 comments

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum to Donald Trump about fentanyl: “Mexico does not produce weapons. We do not consume synthetic drugs. Unfortunately, what we do have is the people who are being killed by the crime that is responding to the demand in your country.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 85 days ago • 38 comments

Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.

submitted 85 days ago • 180 comments

Is pete hegseth on cameo yet?

submitted 86 days ago • 723 comments

The neatest bit of trivia from the Yacht Rock Documentary (yes I’m obsessed) is that Christopher Cross won the four big Grammys for “Sailing”: record of the year, song of the year, best arrangement, and best new artist. And no one did it again until Billie Eilish 39 years later.

submitted 85 days ago • 132 comments

Nothing says “lead the Pentagon” like mommy making phone calls for her very good boy.

submitted 86 days ago • 2053 comments

Here’s what you need to know about CEOs and healthcare: I’ve been a CEO multiple times, and it’s a fucking moral outrage that I had a say in whether workers could live with dignity, and provide their loved ones with the care they need. It’s an inexcusable system that violates basic human rights.

submitted 85 days ago • 20 comments

Watching @mcuban.bsky.social on stage at the Wired Big Interview conference as he explains the basics of @costplusdrugs.com. I still argue that this is one of the biggest actual innovations in healthcare in years.

submitted 87 days ago • 45 comments

Dinesh D'Souza admitting his film "2000 Mules" had a "flaw" is like saying the Titanic had a "mild flotational hinderance"

submitted 87 days ago • 613 comments

When Hegseth’s nomination falls, that’s going to be three failed cabinet appointees before we even make it to inauguration. So much for a well-oiled machine. New clowns, same circus.

submitted 86 days ago • 1295 comments

listen, the president losing his first choice pick to be secretary of defense less than a month after announcing him is an unambiguous defeat, just like losing his first choice pick to be AG was

submitted 85 days ago • 129 comments

Elon Musk and Pete Hesgeth are the kind of tough alpha males that America needs, according to their mommies

submitted 86 days ago • 568 comments

Whatever the explanation for this, it’s appalling. https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/4/24313549/bezos-trump-optimistic-dealbook-summit-doge?utm_content=buffer3e2f5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

it's remarkable

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

Donald Trump has tapped 9 billionaires for key positions, creating a risk of real conflicts of interest and the possibility of a government that serves the interests of billionaires, not all Americans, all while our ethical and legal safeguards are breaking down. I spoke to @gregsargent.bsky.social.

submitted 86 days ago • 54 comments

my going explanation for this is that it is sociological. pundits overwhelmingly live in culturally liberal urban areas where they are constantly exposed to a certain progressive cultural milieu in extremely high concentrations. they feel deep resentment and this is projected onto reactionaries!

submitted 89 days ago • 147 comments

Sources: Marc Andreessen and Travis Kalanick are involved in the Department of Government Efficiency, with Andreessen acting as a key networker for recruitment (Washington Post) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 95 days ago • 13 comments

I say no recall! Gotta let the raw milk people do their own research.

submitted 95 days ago • 15 comments

This is how Democrats need to show solidarity in defense of marginalized people in our communities and just as importantly go on offense against the ugly and vile hate of the cruel and inhumane Republicans. Dear Dems learn here from @aoc.bsky.social ↘️

submitted 99 days ago • 9 comments

Tomlin is a wild dude for this

submitted 101 days ago • 10 comments

Join us live at 8am ET for today’s Nothing Personal. Soto is holding court in California and I love all the grovelling. Www.YouTube.com/@npds

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

sometimes i'm watching a game and the feed is annoyingly 10 or 15 seconds behind and i'll get an alert on my phone that the other team scored and then i have to sit there and wait for it to happen on screen like a helpless time traveler as the awful future they're from comes to pass

submitted 104 days ago • 33 comments

getting increasingly nervous about tuesday (nfl trade deadline)

submitted 116 days ago • 13 comments

NEW: I ran 80,000 simulations of the election. My wife left me for a guy who doesn’t do that.

submitted 115 days ago • 78 comments

vote binch

submitted 115 days ago • 112 comments