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i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

submitted 43 days ago • 2407 comments

They want us to memory hole tearing down the American flag to fly Trump’s.

submitted 47 days ago • 321 comments

“McConnell laid the blame for Jan. 6 squarely at the feet of Trump. In private, he said things like: ‘If this isn’t impeachable, I don’t know what is’ and indicated he expected bipartisan support for a vote to convict Trump … And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict.”

submitted 48 days ago • 17 comments

Say what you want about Biden, he’s not out there claiming he actually won the election and sending a mob to the US Capitol to “fight like Hell” or they won’t have a country anymore. Republicans rightly condemned Trump on this day in 2021. He was unfit then. He is unfit now.

submitted 48 days ago • 48 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 50 days ago • 1093 comments

Adjudicated rapist says what?

submitted 53 days ago • 32 comments

Elon Musk has changed his X profile. His avatar is now Pepe the Frog, a mascot adopted by white supremacists. His name is a Latinisation of “Kek”, a phrase used by neo-Nazis. Musk has also backed AfD in Germany, the political home for racists. The man is telling us explicitly what he’s about.

submitted 53 days ago • 265 comments

in a world of Donald Trumps, be a Jimmy Carter

submitted 56 days ago • 108 comments

Musk's opinion piece for the German paper Die Welt, endorsing a right-wing extremist political party, matters a lot more for us than you might think, so I spent some time putting together a look at German politics, Musk's views, and the reaction to them. joycevance.substack.com/p/musk-in-di...

submitted 56 days ago • 248 comments

This is so cool

submitted 56 days ago • 198 comments

My latest. I wanted to take today off but I think more Americans need to know this before it's forgotten by tomorrow. "Elon Musk and JD Vance's Support of Germany's Nazi-Loving AfD Party Should Be Much Bigger News" thelefthook.substack.com/p/elon-musk-...

submitted 64 days ago • 257 comments

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: The message I’m hearing from people across Canada is this: they’re not afraid of you. They know you’re a convicted felon. They know that the people you’re bringing in to run your, let’s call it an “organization” rather than a government, are grifters, thieves, and thugs.

submitted 65 days ago • 1560 comments

This is ridiculous. Republicans might as well cut out the middle man and make Putin Speaker.

submitted 66 days ago • 75 comments

Just a reminder that in 2019, RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine misinformation campaign helped cause a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people, mostly kids. Do you really want him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services?

submitted 68 days ago • 2182 comments

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

submitted 74 days ago • 155 comments

When Trump says "we want our FBI back" what he really means is, he wants to make sure they can never investigate or prosecute him again. This is not democracy.

submitted 74 days ago • 424 comments

A reminder that Christopher Wray, a lifelong Republican, was appointed FBI Director by Donald Trump but later became a target of Trump and MAGA after refusing to follow Trump’s illegal orders, lie on his behalf, and his role in the investigation of the Jan. 6 inssurection

submitted 74 days ago • 13 comments

“We are a country that stands on the precipice, just six weeks away from swearing in, for the second time, a wannabe “dictator” with ambitions to wildly reshape our democracy. There is a desire to tune out. I get it.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/w...

submitted 75 days ago • 806 comments

A little louder for the folks in the back: The development of vaccines is likely the greatest achievement of mankind. www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...

submitted 76 days ago • 596 comments

My daughter and I are obsessed with Patrick O'Brian's "Master and Commander" books. There is much drinking of grog in these books, so we whipped up a batch. Not bad, though quite apt to make you start belting out sea shanties at the top of your lungs if you indulge in more than a single glass.

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

Cassidy Hutchinson is one of the many people on Trash Patel's hit list. Her "crime"? She testified before the j6 committee. She was pressured by Trump's camp to downplay what she knew. She did not. This is one of the many reasons Trash Patel cannot have any role in law enforcement.

submitted 80 days ago • 538 comments

Here is what Kushner admitted to when he pled guilty.

submitted 85 days ago • 831 comments

Elon Musk thinks HE won the election and gets to be the autocrat. Fascist and delusional to the core.

submitted 88 days ago • 2967 comments

www.bookweb.org/news/year-da... Truly astonished and gratified to find The Boys in the Boat still on this list thirteen years after publication.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Wow. When CNN reached out to multiple experts in doxxing, cyber bullying, and online abuse they refused to speak on the record for fear of themselves becoming a target of Elon Musk. Wow. This is where we’re @ ?! /1 www.cnn.com/2024/11/27/b...

submitted 88 days ago • 168 comments

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submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Public library energy is the best energy. Like here is all the knowledge we could find, it's been meticulously organized and vetted and it will cost you nothing today, welcome to the absolute pinnacle of human civic evolution, feel free to pull up any bean bag chair you like

submitted 89 days ago • 441 comments

Mueller didn’t say he was innocent. Cannon didn’t say he was innocent. Merchan didn’t say he was innocent. Chutkan didn’t say he was innocent. Jack Smith didn’t say he was innocent. He got away with all of it. And not a one of them said he was innocent of any of it. Not one.

submitted 90 days ago • 236 comments

These words are engraved above the entrance to the United States Supreme Court. It's time for them to be removed. They're clearly no longer accurate.

submitted 90 days ago • 224 comments

After today, Americans may well go on saying that no one is above the law. But no one will believe it. Nor should they. Trump has destroyed that America forever more. #trump #jacksmith

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

YES! THIS-->

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

In these trying times , I keep thinking about people I've written about. Today I'm thinking of Sarah Graves, who, starving, hiked her way over the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the winter of 1846 to tell the world of the tragedy unfolding at Donner Lake. If she could do that, maybe I can survive Trump.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

I created a starter pack with links to authors of narrative nonfiction books. True tales from history, adventure, sports, and contemporary life. If you write such, let me know. go.bsky.app/R6VvfGB

submitted 92 days ago • 5 comments

1/After Trump claimed he didn't know anything about Project 2025, I wrote several columns for my newsletter, Civil Discourse, documenting that wasn't true. Now that he's appointed Russ Vought to his cabinet, here's a little refresher b/c Project 2025 is coming joycevance.substack.com/p/more-lies-...

submitted 92 days ago • 221 comments

It's weird that Looking for Alaska is the second-most banned book in the U.S., and mostly challenged by evangelical Christians, because the novel is about Radical Hope and how forgiveness is available to all people at all times, which are Christian concepts I wrote about because I'm a Christian.

submitted 93 days ago • 138 comments

Two questions: a) What was the happiest single day in American history? b) The saddest?

submitted 94 days ago • 3 comments