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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3285 comments

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

submitted 2 days ago • 125 comments

Google wants to me try their AI, Gemini?

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can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

submitted 3 days ago • 332 comments

Is Bill Gates still shorting Telsa stock? I'd love an update on that wild story.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

King of Shoot the Shit checking in

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

submitted 4 days ago • 3345 comments

4 ex-Dem grifters who all came to realize the Dems weren't gullible enough.

submitted 106 days ago • 128 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 765 comments

Oh cool Trump just re-invented DARE.

submitted 14 days ago • 1197 comments

I've read most of the analyses of the DOGE 2025 "receipts" site. This, from NPR, is the best I've read so far. Some of what they claim to have cut haven't been cut, other "cuts" will incur costs down the road. NPR says DOGE has made $2B of cuts, not $55B. www.npr.org/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 14 days ago • 270 comments

Kings in America:

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Fascists never make the trains run on time. In reality, fascists are incompetent and stupid and they screw everything up and then blame minorities. None of this is new, and that's whats so depressing about it.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 16 days ago • 606 comments

NEW: At least three more DOJ Public Integrity Unit senior officials have resigned after meeting with Emil Bove on the Eric Adams case. Five in Public Integrity overall. That’s six officials who resigned, triple the number that happened during the Saturday Night Massacre.

submitted 20 days ago • 479 comments

Donated!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 20 days ago • 315 comments

Please stop with the generative AI. It's garbage, theft, making us less capable. Image by www.nobodyssweetheart.com

submitted 22 days ago • 33 comments

Mitch McConnell is so old he had polio.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah democracy and a constitutional republic are great and all, but have you ever been mildly inconvenienced by having to wear a mask during a global pandemic?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

How is it possible the some people are so incredibly smart and other people are so fucking stupid.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

LeBron James is now both the youngest (19 years, 88 days) and the oldest (40 years, 39 days) player in NBA history to score 40+ points in a game.

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

submitted 28 days ago • 168 comments

One of Elon Musk's DOGE staffers is a 19-year-old who goes by "Big Balls" online and owns a company called Tesla.Sexy that sells an AI bot for Russian Discord servers. These are the kinds of people who have access to the country's most sensitive data www.wired.com/story/edward...

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

All hail Dictator DOGE: www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Their response to "he's violating the Constitution" is really "but bro is so sick at coding." US rule of law in shambles. Tech ideology is really that kind of caricature of itself.

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Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

submitted 31 days ago • 604 comments

I don't usually quote the GOP, but in 1988, Ronald Reagan said, "We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag." Guess what, Ron...

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

It’s like someone dropped acid, tried to think of the most damage they could do to the US, then downloaded it into Trump’s brain.

submitted 32 days ago • 101 comments

If the FAA director got fired over a business beef AND there was an air traffic controller hiring freeze despite huge shortages AND a chaotic blitz to hollow out federal bureaucracy, and then within a week the first American airliner crashes in 16 years, you would be insane not to talk about it all.

submitted 35 days ago • 555 comments

Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week. Don’t let him.

submitted 34 days ago • 622 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 35 days ago • 1412 comments

I often feel this way when reading student evaluations.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

No, I don't need a bloody copilot for this document, thank you. Writing is, in no small part, a tool for thinking. If you outsource that element to a machine that cannot think, you shouldn't be surprised if, at the end of the process, neither you nor your reader are any the wiser.

submitted 39 days ago • 340 comments

Congressman Eric Swalwell: "Donald Trump does not back the blue. He backs the coup."

submitted 38 days ago • 146 comments

Perhaps rephrase this: Trump announces he doesn't want to cure cancer.

submitted 41 days ago • 73 comments

Trump just revoked the Equal Employment Opportunity executive order of 1965, rolling back 60 years of progress on civil rights. The order had prohibited employment discrimination in federal hiring based on race, religion, and gender.

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submitted 43 days ago • 1838 comments

Wow.

submitted 43 days ago • 86 comments

wow back in tallahassee... snow...

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

WSJ Ed board even includes descriptions of the cop-assailants Trump pardoned. www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 43 days ago • 35 comments

this is basically all human civilisation

submitted 44 days ago • 227 comments