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#caturday and Edward Gorey's birthday

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

They're deleting all the old movies because they don't want you to know that it was once possible to be conventionally attractive with a regular amount of working out.

submitted 3 hours ago • 6 comments

Could we send this guy to Palo Alto?

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submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

I hate when a narrative is reinforced by factual events

submitted 6 hours ago • 16 comments

LOL

submitted 2 hours ago • 3 comments

Measles are contagious. Measles cause 1 in 4 people to be hospitalized. Measles can be deadly especially in children. Measles can cause blindness & deafness. Measles can cause brain damage yrs later. Measles can cause "immune amnesia". Measles are preventable with MMR vaccine. #medsky #IDsky 🛟 😷🧪

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Hint: they’re not happy about it

submitted 3 hours ago • 11 comments

To state the obvious as has been observed my countless people on numerous occasions, Dems speaking about red areas 10 percent as harshly as Republicans speaking about blue areas is treated as a massive scandal.

submitted 3 hours ago • 17 comments

I think we should all do our patriotic duty and tell them what we’ve been up to for the past week.

submitted 3 hours ago • 19 comments

New, from me @theatlantic.com: No, the federal government is not too big It has real human capital needs Firings are indiscriminate, weakening state capacity Creating a toxic and politicized workplace is driving away dedicated employees www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 12 hours ago • 37 comments

I beta-read this. I've never wanted to write fan fiction so much in my LIFE. Publishers need to cage fight over this one.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Re LRS, states are categorically better than individuals at violence. If states cease to be categorically better than other organizations at violence they get overthrown in revolutions. The orgs that win revolutions are the ones that are best at violence, not the ones with the best ideas.

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

the purpose of violent conflict is to reduce the enemy's will to resist until they are incapable of resistance. a well-armed and competent opposition force capable of violence but only tepidly willing to commit it should not be put in fear of its life for the same reason you don't corner a herbivore

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

Please. Pleeeaasseee. Feel free to ask me about our local candidate training programs!

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Put another way: "leftists hate centrists and centrists hate the leftists, but everyone hates the Democrats". There are too many people that hate Trump and the Democratic Party's current approach for this to be sustainable. And Trump isn't going to change

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

This is a bold strategy for a Massachusetts politician to go with Does he know that most of his electorate is driven by spite? Does he know he just signed his own political suicide note?

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

If the legislative and judicial branches let them get away with all these illegal cuts, we will shortly have a famine in America. Mark my words.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

submitted 8 hours ago • 56 comments

Democrats are fundamentally misunderstanding the moment: We're not asking them to be legislators right now. We need them to be politicians. There's nothing to be done about the legislative situation. They're right about that. But there's PLENTY to be done as politicians.

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

I had a woman who took all my kids’ books about pride off display and threw them in the book drop. Joke’s on her. Any time you throw something in the book drop or hide something, we have to scan it back in. That’s a circ, which means they’re more likely to order more copies.

submitted 5 hours ago • 13 comments

I don't even think it's out of hatred so much as it is about making a SPECTACLE of immiserating and psychologically torturing workers. It's a core part of his brand, and should be understood as a branding exercise.

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

biden was a great president except when it came to what he imagined to be his area of expertise (foreign policy), his electoral proposition (he is a white guy everyone likes), and the most important thing he was called upon to do (permanently incapacitate donald trump)

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

this is also a great cautionary tale about the belief that people in silicon valley just need to read books

submitted 6 hours ago • 7 comments

This is 100% correct — I have heard the Silicon Valley money guys admit as much out loud, about all of these fools.

submitted 6 hours ago • 13 comments

Today is Bob Sheldon Day, commemorating the life and death of activist bookseller Bob Sheldon, who was assassinated in Chapel Hill, NC on Feb. 21, 1991 at the height of the antiwar movement against the First Iraq War 🕯️🕯️🕯️ Gone but not forgotten!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The City of Boston is leading 40+ mayors, cities, and counties in an amicus brief against the Trump Administration's drastic and illegal cuts to federal research funding—cuts that will lead to immediate job losses nationwide.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

this is an act of unspeakable violence. it benefits no one, it doesn’t move a number on a balance sheet. it only guarantees that every one of these incarcerated transgender people will be tortured.

submitted 7 hours ago • 97 comments

The wholesomeness of today’s Wikipedia PotD is killing me en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leland_...

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

I think it’s not helpful to repeat claims that the administration is working on eliminating “DEIA” as though it’s some kind of corporate strategy; just say explicitly that they’re trying to eliminate diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, and explain how.

submitted 5 hours ago • 73 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1523 comments

Also, just a little side note, and I know this was metaphorical, but it’s always a good time to mention that we need to end literal Brahmin supremacy, too. That vile, toxic practice is part of what enabled the fascist takeover in India, driven by right-wing religious extremism there.

submitted 5 hours ago • 7 comments

Not all heroes wear capes 🤣🔥

submitted 5 hours ago • 306 comments

this whole album is just so crucial but esp the song "Disco" by the Rollies...so necessary

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

If I was a shareholder at Tesla, which has tanking sales even during soaring interest in EVs, I might have questions about the CEO clearly not doing any work at the company and being on meth. I know the actual shareholders are all dumbies and true believers, but I'm just saying

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

The problem is not the strategists and consultants -- it's elected officials only listening to advice that involves tinkering around the edges of failing status quo politics. If you start hyping democracy, empowering party membership and aggressive action, you get shown the door 99% of the time.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 7 hours ago • 473 comments

Fired federal workers share the crucial jobs no longer being done Six people describe what they were doing to benefit public health, safety and the environment www.sciencenews.org/article/fire...

submitted 11 hours ago • 101 comments

Great Man theory and vulgar Carlyleianism are a big part of Silicon Valley culture these days www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

In modern history, what is the least popular that party leaders have ever been to their OWN voters? Second place was the GOP in 2009, where their net approval with Republican voters was only +6. Currently Dems are -8, shattering all previous records.

submitted 8 hours ago • 69 comments

This is horrible for the future of American science and innovation and economic wellbeing and all the things Pitt is not a small institution It has nearly 10K grad students It is where Salk discovered the polio vaccine

submitted 7 hours ago • 35 comments