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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The ICC’s chief prosecutor has lost access to his email, and his bank accounts have been frozen. American staffers at the court have been told that if they travel to the U.S. they risk arrest. NGOs have stopped working with the ICC, the leader of one won’t even reply to ICC emails.

submitted 32 days ago • 76 comments

I read an article about how season 2 of #lastofus was a slow burn and having now watched episode 2, can I just say wtaf is a fast burn you asshole … I had misplaced hope the entire freaking episode and now I’m devastated

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Fuck yeah. Proud Jenner Alum right here.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Scadden & Paul Weiss have agreed to provide a combined $140M pro bono representation to the Trump admin. Think about what types of cases those are likely to be. It will have a generational impact on the types of lawyers willing to work at those firms. wapo.st/4l97YVm (Gift link)

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

This guy has not a fucking clue what the Secretary of Defense’s job is and thought he could fake it til he makes it

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

This guy is in one of the worst prisons in the world with no way out and may spend the rest of his life there because, it appears, he has an autism awareness tattoo in honor of his little brother. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 82 days ago • 2062 comments

Fucking EXACTLY

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Nicholas Enrich rose to the moment and history will remember the ghouls that did this thanks to him

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

submitted 106 days ago • 159 comments

"Have you said thank you even once?"

submitted 107 days ago • 31 comments

At a time when so many lawyers are enabling and normalizing the dismantling of the rule of law, it’s important to recognize those who refuse to do so. This is what honor and integrity looks like.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

also, if you are worried about this and you think i'm even 20% right, you should be calling your senators, reps, and governors, especially if they are republicans, because the democrats don't have the power to step in here.

submitted 136 days ago • 18 comments

Regardless of how you feel about taxes, this episode of Search Engine by @pjvogt.bsky.social should be required listening for all the rest of us chumps - I mean, Americans - who pay their taxes while the Billionaires use the banking system as their private allowance open.spotify.com/episode/7Ikh...

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

One you spot this tactic, it’s so obvious and you see it everywhere. The press get so easily distracted chasing these stories it like watching my collie chasing shadows

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

Whenever I visit the US I’m stuck by how disposable everything there is, all the single use plastic, the instant gratification lifestyle, etc and I just try not to be overwhelmed by the futility of all the sustainability efforts the rest of us are making outside the US

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

this is our actual climate future staring us in the face - no consensus reality or shared source of authority, rampant conspiracies everywhere, more pressure to address made up nonsense than the underlying problem conspiracy theories are fully mainstream now

submitted 158 days ago • 113 comments

Does anybody base their vote on newspaper editorial board’s endorsements though? I mean it’s spineless and suss but does it even move the needle and why does the 3rd estate endorse anyway?

submitted 233 days ago • 0 comments

To the surprise of literally no one (gift link) wapo.st/4f09HbI

submitted 241 days ago • 0 comments

If the fate of the world depended on me correctly spelling bureaucracy I regret to inform you that we would all perish.

submitted 242 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve been here a minute & its time to make my first post. Pretty happy with this & I would’ve been earlier if it hadn’t been for that pesky waiting list!

submitted 271 days ago • 0 comments

THESE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS ARE EATING OUR CATS

submitted 279 days ago • 114 comments

The BBC has pieced together evidence of a civilian massacre in Myanmar. Scores of Rohingyas killed. Survivors blame insurgent Arakan Army, the group denies it.Thousands have fled to Bangladesh in the past 2 weeks. These are some of their harrowing stories. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 300 days ago • 1 comment

Ask any Republican voter about this and they’ll say he doesn’t really mean it. Ask them again on day two and they’ll say people knew what they voted for

submitted 330 days ago • 5 comments

A reminder of how Trump responded when a supporter broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and brutally attacked her husband with a hammer:

submitted 338 days ago • 9 comments

If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

submitted 345 days ago • 33 comments

Sex is great but have you ever watched an absolute sleezeball shitheel of a human being who has previously escaped punishment get rightfully convicted on 34 felony counts?

submitted 382 days ago • 6 comments

Old enough to remember when there was a widespread consensus in the media that Hillary Clinton would need to drop out of the Presidential race if the FBI recommended an indictment on the email server thing.

submitted 382 days ago • 4 comments

It's always a good time to revisit the 1904 Olympic Marathon Wikipedia page en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athleti...

submitted 543 days ago • 21 comments

When I encounter myself as a different colored cursor because I have the Google Doc open in two tabs

submitted 543 days ago • 3 comments