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I saw two coyotes on my late-night walk. This one was following behind a bigger one that I didn’t catch in time

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flashback to how americans acted the last time federal agents started kidnapping their neighbors

submitted 65 days ago • 478 comments

Holy shit

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www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... Oh cool, now Trump’s gonna raise taxes on medicine too

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if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 93 days ago • 629 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they done yet but the level of …

submitted 140 days ago • 583 comments

Excited to see John Zorn has a new complete string quartets recording with the JACK Quartet, one of the best modern music ensembles out there. Fantastic performances of some of the most challenging — but fun — music around. Looney Tunes fans need to listen to Cat O’ Nine Tails

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If you are 1) a federal civil servant/contractor ordered not to release scheduled data or reports, or 2) an academic who has lost access to government data in the past week ...please get in touch. I'm happy to keep our conversations confidential. crampell[@]washpost[dot]com

submitted 147 days ago • 41 comments

The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else

submitted 146 days ago • 32 comments

It's bad, T. He's firin' all the Inspector Gadgets.

submitted 147 days ago • 12 comments

People are registering displeasure with Cybertruck owners.

submitted 147 days ago • 86 comments

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

submitted 150 days ago • 151 comments

Federal agencies are issuing directives to scrub websites by 5:00pm ET today, wrt executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... Targeted terms: diversity, equity, inclusion, minority-serving institution, Indigenous people, environmental justice, underrepresented groups & women-focused

submitted 150 days ago • 13 comments

It’s cool that Trump and Republicans are just saying openly that they don’t like the concept of civil rights. Anyone who’s not an idiot already knew that, but maybe a few idiots will also realize that

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In this week's New Yorker, a labor of love. The woman who used to live in my apartment—and died there—was named Charlotte Zwerin. She was a jazz buff, a chain-smoker, and a vérité pioneer, whose work on "Salesman" and "Gimme Shelter" made her the "third Maysles." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 151 days ago • 8 comments

I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself. The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.” www.whitehouse.gov/es/

submitted 151 days ago • 84 comments

trump revoking desegregation in federal contracting

submitted 151 days ago • 236 comments

all right

submitted 150 days ago • 194 comments

She suddenly started watching Les Vampires with me. I guess those hypnotic eyes really work

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Buying a publication with a mostly left wing readership and turning it right wing is a very old play - Rupert Murdoch did it with both the NY Post and The Sun - Bezos is just doing the same thing upmarket

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Hard to overstate how thoroughly played the Biden admin and the Dems were on all of this. No one, at this point, remembers that all of this started as a Trump executive order in 2020. All that will be remembered is that the Democrats couldn't — or wouldn't — save TikTok.

submitted 156 days ago • 40 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 158 days ago • 375 comments

The FBI background check on Pete Hegseth does not include interviews with Hegseth's ex-wives or with the woman who accused him of sexual assault in a California hotel room in 2017, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the contents of the report. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

submitted 158 days ago • 82 comments

Can’t stop laughing.

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Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller January 13,1943

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As everyone should know by now, the anti-trans rhetoric isn’t about “protecting women” in bathrooms or sports … but about removing trans people from public life. And it’s working. This is a big company, making a big change that isn’t about protecting anyone (except men from having to see tampons).

submitted 162 days ago • 47 comments

These fires illustrate how the United States has handled global warming disastrously, while other countries have managed much better. In January, temperatures in Los Angeles now reach 68°, while Tijuana only reaches 20°.

submitted 162 days ago • 15 comments

Nature is where Chadwick published evidence of the neutron, where Watson & Crick published the double helix structure of DNA, where Wilmut et al. published the cloning of Dolly the sheep. what a disaster

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An idiot flying a drone over the LA fires hit a Canadian waterbomber, punching a hole in its wing. That's nearly 10,000 gallons of water an hour lost, for footage. Also TIL Quebec and California have a 31-year deal where they send down two of these aircraft to help every fire season. Lovely folks.

submitted 163 days ago • 12 comments

NEW: I've obtained internal Meta docs revealing an array of sample posts that are now allowed under new hate speech rules. Examples include calling children "trannies," “Jews are flat out greedier than Christians," and “immigrants are grubby, filthy pieces of shit” theintercept.com/2025/01/09/f...

submitted 163 days ago • 369 comments

Writer / Mortal Podkaster / poster of hilarious fake advance screening reactions that would then get run by entertainment sites / great dude @benmekler.bsky.social + his wonderful family lost their home in the Eaton fire. There’s a GoFundMe to help them get back on their feet: gofund.me/7ec6690b

submitted 163 days ago • 5 comments

They weren't even like, "As historians, we demand that our voices be heard repudiating the oppressive logics of settler colonialism," they were like, it was wrong to blow up all the universities and the universities need to be rebuilt

submitted 163 days ago • 7 comments

i’m kind of amazed at how this is just the crudest, most obvious n****rbaiting you can imagine. “the people you don’t like, yeah, they are responsible for everything bad.” and it works!

submitted 164 days ago • 3172 comments

Ah shit www.latimes.com/california/s...

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The R rating reason for Se7en still goes so hard

submitted 166 days ago • 6 comments

Was Rudy trying to hypnotize the judge

submitted 166 days ago • 31 comments

The forced “AI” features will continue until consumer demand improves

submitted 166 days ago • 3 comments

so wait the one content creator in the whole world they’re maybe going to pay is the one broadcasting official acts and statements largely in the public domain?

submitted 167 days ago • 17 comments

just saw an “we overstocked! help us!” sale where it was 10% off. insulting. that’s an email signup / first order discount. if we’re going to play make-believe about an existential inventory crisis, it’s gonna cost you at least 25%. and that’s me being generous

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It is truly wild that it is estimated that more than 20 million people died of Covid and the prevailing vibe is that the world overreacted. That is an astonishing toll! More people died of Covid in the US than in the Civil War. www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

submitted 168 days ago • 303 comments