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Coffee and records are a good way to spend any Saturday morning. This is easily one of my desert island albums. The tone of the guitars and Jason Molina's voice just hit somewhere deep in me on this one.

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How would any of this look different if they were actively trying to kill us all?

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

How are normal, empathic people in the US supposed to do anything other than curl up in a ball on the floor right now? Just a giant fucking knot in my stomach all the god-damned time.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

I'm depressed about everything pretty much continually (and I am NOT asking for your advice on dealing with it, just to be absolutely clear) but I'm also just so fucking ... annoyed, at the irritating stupidity of it all. It's like being ruled by a giant, stupid, buzzing mosquito.

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submitted 30 days ago • 71 comments

The dumbest invention of all time was when some fucking dude decided electrical outlets should be controlled by a wall switch.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social If this is true, then you are a fucking moron. Why on earth would you throw away one of the easiest wins you have with the American public?

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Given some of the ridiculous fucking sentences I've had to translate on Duolingo I'd be willing to bet they've been using some AI bullshit for a while.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

For as long as I can remember, this is the lesson the Democratic party refuses to learn. Dems are constantly reacting to public opinion, while Republicans are busy moving it. Maybe @schumer.senate.gov can take notice and actually follow through on reacting to our constitutional crisis.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

I will keep beating this drum until the tide turns: Obama's DNC speech got him rock-star attention, but the key reason he became a viable presidential primary candidate was his opposition to the Iraq War back when many elected Dems--especially Hillary Clinton--supported it.

submitted 49 days ago • 35 comments

I just doesn't fucking stop with these people

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This shit right here; I can't fucking wait.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Just spent longer than I'd like to admit looking around my desk for the phone I was holding in my hand and actively using.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Does he have any idea how difficult it is to move pharmaceutical manufacturing to a new facility?We don't have the manufacturing capacity to move all of our drug making here, and the regulatory burden is a painstaking process that would take a couple years though killing the FDA helps with that.

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

That was the weirdest end of a game I think I've ever seen.

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

submitted 61 days ago • 1111 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

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submitted 66 days ago • 7 comments

You should be able to buy edibles at airports.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Most clarifying era in politics in America as anything I can recall because it’s so simple: You’re either for this or against. Pick a side.

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What could these people possibly hope to gain by siding with Republicans on this? Fucking morons, every single one of them.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

It seems unfair that the time when my kids decided to double-down on teenage assholery so perfectly lines up with Trump and the GOP's efforts to tear up the constitution and dismantle our country. I can muddle through one or the other, but dealing with both is really fucked up.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

The actual trajectory of Democratic opposition to Trump since 2016 is that Democrats first engaged in #resistance and cultural progressivism, won the House in 2018, defeated Trump and won a trifecta the year of the George Floyd protests, tacked right under Biden, and lost in 2024.

submitted 92 days ago • 110 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 93 days ago • 1570 comments

This is worth your time.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Why aren't Democrats talking like this?

submitted 93 days ago • 1 comment

We need more elected Dems who hate politics. We need folks who aren't "go along to get along" types. I want Dems who understand that the old ways of doing things are dead and that friendships with elected Republicans are now a conflict of interest.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

It’s fun to whipsaw back and forth five times every day between “Don’t overreact to alarming news” and “OK should I be hoarding food or something.”

submitted 95 days ago • 32 comments

Do yourself a favor and just don’t look at your 401K for a few months.

submitted 95 days ago • 211 comments

Is there anyone less equipped for a post apocalyptic world than Musk?

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck... On top of everything, else 2025 takes Gene Hackman from us.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

As someone who spent a good chunk of my career at vaccine companies, this would completely fuck manufacturing efforts

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

While these results don't bode well under any circumstances, doesn't it seem odd that ~25% of Democrats in this survey say they support an antidemocratic, strongman-led government?

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 105 days ago • 107 comments

Why not be clear that this is exactly the point four Trump/Musk and all the other assholes like them?

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

It’s been a long fucking day, I’m tired, and I misspoke. Let me rephrase it in a more correct way. Fuck Hakeem Jeffries and almost every other elected Democratic official for forcing me to be the one to get arrested instead of them doing their goddamn job and being leaders.

submitted 106 days ago • 2 comments

If only we had a word for a shape with three sides.

submitted 106 days ago • 206 comments

The Onion out with the most truthful news again.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Exactly, what's always bugged me about this discourse is that if you compare the Most Online fringes of the left and the right, the right is far worse! Democrats are adding letters to "LGBT" while Republicans are planning a coup.

submitted 108 days ago • 20 comments

It's obviously important for elected officials to be accountable to voters. However, if I had a job where it took a bunch of strangers calling my office and telling me how to do things for me to make good choices, it would be fair to say I was bad at that job.

submitted 108 days ago • 13 comments

I have to fly in March and April and this makes me more than a little uneasy.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments