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Update: looks like this is going to fall out as a result of the Byrd rule, per the Parlimentarian's ruling tonight

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I remain mad at this prophecy and one should be more careful with the Lathe of Heaven.

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

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I increasingly feel certain that the thing that has driven politics insane is the growing ability of people to find ways to validate their beliefs, no matter how incorrect and irrational. It started in right-wing media but has become central to all political discussion.

submitted 8 hours ago • 24 comments

there is no way to guarantee a draft will never happen, largely because if a war that requires it emerges people will get drafted. the entire debate over this has been facile for a very long time bc people are highly resistant to thinking about a draft as what it is: a way extract manpower

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

yeah, i don't think mr. trump's wild ride really cares if you're on it

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

it’s wild how the trump administration doesn’t even need to try and spin a WMD story. they’re literally just like, we did what we did and you can get on board or die mad.

submitted 8 hours ago • 52 comments

you guys we're gonna make it

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It's one of those things like "the velvet underground only sold 6,000 records but everyone who bought it started their own band" but for everyone who answered "yes" to this being given a national newspaper column

submitted 9 hours ago • 52 comments

People make art under hellish conditions locked up in prisons as just one example. It's because making things affirms our humanity. So yes, make art during fascism. What are we fighting for? A free society FOR ALL where we can revel in beauty, culture and all good things.

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I don’t know if you needed a pic of a bear who climbed to the top of a giant boulder to sun her taint, but I went to the zoo today so I got one for you

submitted 10 hours ago • 34 comments

Idk if you could get this kind of consensus from Americans on what color the sky is

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

It’s not 2003 anymore anywhere in America except for CNN, Fox News, and the New York Times opinion page.

submitted 10 hours ago • 58 comments

Some things never change.

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

Brad Lander via @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on Insta: “I am proud as a Jewish New Yorker to be on that slate alongside a Muslim New Yorker. Jewish New Yorkers and Muslim New Yorkers are not going to be divided against each other. Our safety, our freedoms, our thriving are bound up together.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

That's genuinely impressive

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

it’s sunday timeline sucks here’s something to ease u into monday: watch nimbus sit for a treat sound on, i tell him to sit and he sits for the treat hehehehe he can also gieb paw too that one is a little more work but he sits pretty good

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Summer Landscape, Thunder Looms, by Lars Hertervig, 1856, 📸 by @gwephoto

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Me when people say wwiii isn't happening and we're being ridiculous myopic decadent Americans

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I would like to see a powerful member of the Democratic Party take a single fucking risk.

submitted 10 hours ago • 285 comments

I've got like 200 days to go so hopefully i start feeling fixed soon :/

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

I had buried the traumatic memory of the time contractors worked on my apartment during the height of COVID... It really gives perspective on this moment. Material conditions rn for me personally are practically utopian

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Here's a literary/pop culture that's wild to me - in the Sherlock Holmes stories, John Watson is a veteran returning from Afghanistan. In two modern day reboots, "Sherlock" and "Watson," John Watson is a veteran of the war in Afghanistan.

submitted 17 hours ago • 9 comments

Hey, so there's a big heatwave sweeping the US and one of the programs DOGE cut was heating/cooling assistance for low income elderly people. If you have elderly neighbors who live alone, please check on them over the next few days. Make sure they're staying cool.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

"For the first time, social media has displaced television as the top way Americans get news." www.niemanlab.org/2025/06/for-...

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

We threw @defunctland.bsky.social ‘s FastPass video essay on tonight after dinner and my god it’s such a great revisit. An absolute masterwork of analysis, imagery, building suspense, and joyful surprise. (If you haven’t ever seen it, do so right now - I can’t recommend it strongly enough.)

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

oh hey Iran deal

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

I’ve been something of an apologist for the Dem establishment over the years, but watching them endorse Andrew Cuomo, one of the most vile politicians in America, has been absolutely radicalizing to me. Burn them to the fucking ground.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

First time as tragedy, second time as farce remains undefeated

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

listen, what if something strikes… this is how I wrote my most kudosed fic back in the day…

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

One of the problems with having a profoundly anti-intergenerational elite is that it honestly does not occur to them that people below a certain age literally have no memory of what they think is the normalcy we can supposedly return to

submitted 12 hours ago • 9 comments

getting bored being part of mankind There's not a lot to do no more This race is a waste of time People rushing everywhere Swarming round like flies Think I'll buy a .44 Give em all a surprise Think I'm gna kill myself Cause a little suicide Stick around for a couple of days What a scandal if I died

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments