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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3118 comments

teams meeting begins colleague: hey! how’s it going?! me: pretty numb from all the authoritarian takeover and constitutional crisis colleague: sorry what, your mic cut out me: oh… i’m great! everything’s awesome

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

submitted 1 day ago • 665 comments

"Did you get your unlimited breadsticks like in Dachau?"

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

My autocorrect changed Lutnick to Nutlick and it’s not wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

(turning on CNBC like I heard Bama's down by 15 and just fumbled a kick return)

submitted 7 days ago • 25 comments

The GOP COVID Committee report is wild. The virus is a Chinese bioweapon designed by Fauci ... and it was so mild that the US should have taken zero precautions ... and Democratic governors didn't take enough precautions ... and we should have let everyone get it. oversight.house.gov/release/fina...

submitted 7 days ago • 255 comments

This is an important message for anyone running or planning to run against a GOP incumbent who can't figure it out themselves. President have no power of tariffs. Trump is only able to do this because Congress gave the President the power. Congress cld take that power back at ...

submitted 7 days ago • 30 comments

My hometown paper ☕️💅🏽

submitted 7 days ago • 403 comments

George HW Bush marveled at a new kind of grocery scanner in 1992 and was pilloried for being out of touch. Trump — who’s repeatedly said you need to show photo ID buying food — now insists “groceries” is some obscure term he recovered from the distant past and we’ll just move right along.

submitted 7 days ago • 134 comments

Imagine how angry you have to be to forego opportunities in the world's most obese nation when you've made a fortune on Ozempic.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Controlling shareholder in the Danish company that makes Ozempic says he is avoiding opportunities in the USA because “The uncertainty is just too, too high for me to give an answer as to what our response is going to be.” Shopping in China and India instead. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

Brian Eno: "When the state begins to treat moral concern as criminal intent, we should all be paying close attention." via @daviddark.bsky.social daviddark.substack.com/p/on-the-arr...

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

The claim that they're "reciprocal tariffs" is "total nonsense."

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

I do wonder how many Musk fanboys know he wants to turn humans into machines

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

submitted 8 days ago • 679 comments

dems should have pranked corey booker and formed a long line to the bathroom

submitted 8 days ago • 122 comments

Corey Booker: “IF AMERICA HASN'T BROKEN YOUR HEART, THEN YOU DON'T LOVE HER ENOUGH." 💙🥹

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

1/ I wonder if there's a complement to Mettler's _Submerged State_ thesis: the successful state thesis. In brief: American government has in many ways been so successful for so long that Americans have forgotten why they need it, making anti-government rhetoric more appealing.

submitted 9 days ago • 112 comments

Sorry, I can’t quite hear you arguing that crumbling institutions will keep Trump from staying in power past this term, the Russian people from 2008 screaming as Putin used Medvedev as a proxy until he could change the law are way too loud.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

If you believe Trump is joking about wanting to become a dictator after everything we've lived through -- including a failed coup attempt! -- I do not know what to tell you. He has also been lying about his poll numbers for his entire career. None of this should be surprising.

submitted 10 days ago • 179 comments

Targeting law firms for who they represent. Removing things from museums. Deporting legal residents without due process. Threatening companies that raise prices. Playing loose with classified intel. Impeaching judges for their decisions. We’re losing our country—fast.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t you try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel.

submitted 13 days ago • 112 comments

China regularly arrests political dissidents on the vague charge of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble”. Rubio, today, sounded like a Chinese Communist Party official.

submitted 13 days ago • 25 comments

We don’t want foreigners to cause a ruckus now excuse me I have to go help the President give a medal to Andrew Tate

submitted 13 days ago • 103 comments

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

submitted 14 days ago • 1938 comments

The combination of shameless and relentless dishonesty, stupidity, and all-around mediocrity is probably going to get a lot of people killed.

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

I have read the Signal chats released today by @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social In my professional opinion, having represented officials within the IC for over 15 years, there is no realistic or credible argument that these details were unclassified. These are military operational details and 1/

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

The Times has to issue a correction here. An Executive order can’t “require” any such thing. Calling it ‘an aggressive push to catch” fraud is bad editorial judgment. The first part is demonstrably false. Those who have any voice to the Times need to demand this. Might as well say pigs fly.

submitted 15 days ago • 213 comments

Probably not everyone.

submitted 15 days ago • 1395 comments

I had legit completely forgotten this.

submitted 15 days ago • 1701 comments

If Pete Hegseth had any honor, he’d resign @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social opines www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/o...

submitted 16 days ago • 67 comments

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

submitted 16 days ago • 153 comments

Turns out I didn't hate Matchbox Twenty, the local light pop station just played them way too much during otherwise negative times such as the cold bus ride to school.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Old enough to have attended @garrykasparov.bsky.social PutinCom during Trump One, where Rubio appeared via pre-taped video. Now he ducks questions about disappearing orphans.

submitted 16 days ago • 5 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 816 comments