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Easy way to stop political mailers and flyers and make sure people get their ballot info online from Joe Rogan and gum up vote by mail. Honestly it's pretty efficient move if you're trying to fuck up elections.

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if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

submitted 2 hours ago • 309 comments

Here we go. The dam is breaking. Call your D senators and reps and tell them that Schumer has to step down as the minority leader in the Senate. Find your reps here: reps.fyi

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

Tesla has recalled... every single Cybertruck. Every one they've ever sold. For a hardware issue www.carscoops.com/2025/03/tesl...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1589 comments

BREAKING: The Trump administration is considering to give up the role of NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe - a role that began with then-World War II hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

submitted 2 days ago • 123 comments

very excited to do 2002/2003 except somehow stupider and potentially more destructive

submitted 2 days ago • 264 comments

"If the administration is claiming inherent constitutional authority to ignore court orders whenever it doesn’t want to follow them, not much to the rule of law remains." Harrowing stuff from legal scholar Matt Seligman on Trump border czar vowing to ignore courts: newrepublic.com/article/1928...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

“physically” doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here

submitted 3 days ago • 225 comments

Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim to have targeted the US aircraft carrier Truman with 18 ballistic and cruise missiles and a drone.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

The destruction of American soft power will do wonders for American hard power. 🇺🇸 @politico.com $LMT www.politico.eu/article/port...

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding. inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

submitted 5 days ago • 252 comments

they look at russia — a stagnant backwater — with envy

submitted 5 days ago • 228 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 5 days ago • 750 comments

Looks like we've got a cure for sickle cell. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 6 days ago • 160 comments

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks www.wunc.org/news/2025-03...

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In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

submitted 5 days ago • 263 comments

Something really weird is happening to old Super Nintendos and there's a small community of people doing hard science to figure it out. I love this www.404media.co/super-ninten...

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

submitted 6 days ago • 3175 comments

You can provide comment on the actions of Arlington National Cemetery’s administration at the following link: www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/FeedbackForm

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

It’s the Tesla Spring Sell-a-Thon! 🎉 @forbes.com $TSLA www.forbes.com/sites/antoni...

submitted 6 days ago • 292 comments

this is a good joke but this also speaks to a truth about 2025 America: the growing, horrible sense among many people that running scams is the only path to basic financial stability this is, of course, utter poison for human society

submitted 8 days ago • 110 comments

Meta's trying to suppress Sarah Wynn-Williams book because it exposes what an amoral man child Mark Zuckerberg is and how Facebook "doesn't give a fuck" about people. Sarah, who is a friend, knows what she's talking about. She worked at Meta for years. Buy her book! www.amazon.com/Careless-Peo...

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

you’re telling me that yet another one of these guys is a degenerate sex criminal? i’m shocked

submitted 7 days ago • 429 comments

CALLS ARE WORKING - it has bought us precious time, but we NEED to keep the pressure up. Tomorrow is the cloture vote. KEEP CALLING: (202) 224-3121 ☎️☎️☎️ Tell your Dem Senator to vote NO on Cloture and NO on the Republican spending bill. Do NOT assume your Senator will be good on this. Trust me.

submitted 7 days ago • 1532 comments

worldwithoutcaesars.com

submitted 7 days ago • 804 comments

The Trump administration is withholding $1.88 BILLION in taxpayer money that belongs to the people of Illinois. My colleagues and I are demanding answers:

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JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by: -The FBI -The EPA administrator -The EPA IG -Treasury www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 8 days ago • 119 comments

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

submitted 9 days ago • 1090 comments

NEW: Unions representing career diplomats and federal workers filed an emergency motion against the Trump administration to prevent officials at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from violating federal law by destroying classified records.

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

Here's the full email about the classified and personnel records destruction, which just hit the public record in labor groups' litigation against the Trump admin. The groups say: "Defendants are, as this motion is being filed, destroying documents with potential pertinence to this litigation."

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“Less congestion means less noise,” Jaqi Cohen, director of climate and equity policy for Tri-State Transportation Campaign, told THE CITY. “But I think horn honking is also a symptom of people’s frustration behind the wheel, so it probably speaks to the fact that people have easier commutes now.”

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NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the urgent release of DOGE records, citing the office's "unprecedented" power and "unusual secrecy." Judge Cooper wants "rolling" productions of records to begin within weeks. Details TK ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

submitted 9 days ago • 186 comments

the feminine urge to

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Thinking about how Enron’s solvency was based entirely around its stock price and how its stock declining led to the triggering of many hitherto unthinkable consequences tied to the myriad Byzantine financial structures the company was involved in, for no reason

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

we are straight up allied with russia

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

My thing is, my family came to the U.S. from an authoritarian country and I'm not moving again so we have no choice but to win and fix all this shit

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

Joe Biden was in the process of making it illegal and Donald Trump overturned it on day 1. Hope that helps!

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

NEW: State health department announces new measles case in Maryland State agency alerts: "Anyone who visited the following location.. may have been exposed: Washington Dulles International Airport: The international arrivals area March 5th, 4pm-9pm"

submitted 11 days ago • 304 comments

The head of Germany's intelligence service: Russia is considering testing NATO's Article 5. Russia plans to challenge Western unity, particularly the enforcement of NATO's collective defense clause, according to Bruno Kahl, head of the German intelligence service.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Transatlantic relations in great shape

submitted 11 days ago • 80 comments

One by one all the firewalls that preserved the rest of the economy when FTX and other crypto firms collapsed in 2022 are coming down.

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

CIA is investigating the damage done when the identities of its recent recruits and employees were sent to the White House by email. Whistleblower Aid's @andrewbakaj.bsky.social says that damage is irreparable and grave. whistlebloweraid.org/mass-exposur...

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

At times the deliberate supervillain shtick is comedy gold

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Both Sandler and Bauman are no longer alive and hence can not possibly be involved. They do share one cultural characteristic with George Soros, however, which surely wasn’t on Musk’s mind when he wrote this.

submitted 12 days ago • 93 comments

Tusk is really rising to the occasion www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

submitted 12 days ago • 88 comments

1-4 The U.S. has cut off support for the electronic countermeasures of Ukraine's F-16s. Sadly predictable. I think many analysts were thinking it without saying it, for fear of appearing to suggest it. Sorry, Lockheed Martin. I will henceforth have to recommend that nobody buys your aircraft.

submitted 12 days ago • 33 comments