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what if you were on vacation last week or taking care of your newborn baby or sick with the flu i don’t even understand the purpose

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Not fresh observation but the idea that “government should be run like a business” is an exceedingly stupid one that fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a functioning democratic government. Redundancies in the event of any problem occurring are the point, not a failure or “bloat”

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 93 comments

So there is a law that says the Pentagon can't just fire people willy nilly but have to carry out a review to ensure that it won't affect readiness. Why isn't there a law requiring that in every dept? How can it be legal for some rich weirdo to just take a wrecking ball to the U.S. govt?

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Unlawful orders are coming.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 19 hours ago • 808 comments

This is very, very bad. Am working on a write-up, but let’s just say that firing military leaders for blatantly political reasons is wildly inappropriate; firing all the too lawyers is ominous; firing them all at the same time is a terrifying five-alarm fire

submitted 21 hours ago • 114 comments

arguably the biggest trans actress in hollywood has been detransed by our govt. where is the outcry

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

caring about climate change and human rights does not just like suddenly make you an extremist because a few people on the internet told you otherwise

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AI: Your Stupid Cousin Who Half-Listens to Joe Rogan.

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Scrap austerity – tax the super-rich instead Britain can’t rebuild with more cuts – a wealth tax on the richest is the fair alternative to funding public services and growth yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/eco...

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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Glaciers worldwide are melting at unprecedented rates - The Daily Climate www.dailyclimate.org/glaciers-wor...

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When people (or AIs) say climate change is a manageable threat, they're talking about the wealthy, functioning democracy they're fortune enough to live in.

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It's nearly 5am and Republicans just rammed through their pro-billionaire, anti-middle class budget blueprint. In order to pass massive tax giveaways for billionaires, they're going to defund Medicaid, slash veterans benefits, & force kids to go hungry. Make sure everyone knows it.

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it is difficult to overestimate how scared sh*tless people are in climate spaces right now

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if we must have democrats can more of them be like this

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Me “I got that dog in me” The dog

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Anyone who believes in the 'deep state' should have their license taken away..

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Society needs to start seeing natural ecosystems as a societal necessity, and be willing to pay for them. Unless that happens, nature loss will continue, eroding the very foundation of life and civilisation.

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A journalist at Sky News told Declassified there are a whole set of unwritten journalistic rules that apply exclusively to Israel -- “The Israeli narrative always reigned supreme and instructed the coverage at Sky News, no matter how inaccurate”. www.declassifieduk.org/battle-for-t...

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I regret to say there has been a lot of foolishness on some sections the left about #Ukraine, echoing Russian and far-right talking points. (Just as shamefully, the same people supported Assad in Syria). Now is the time to put that foolishness aside. We should all stand with Ukraine.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

Despite the Oscar nomination for best documentary, the Israeli-Palestinian co-production has struggled to find a US distributor. This sorry situation is a reflection of the spinelessness of an industry that loves to trumpet its liberal values, writes Juliet Jacques. novaramedia.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Bin Laden would be kicking himself. He didn't need to train all those terrorists, all he needed was a couple of South Africans and a shitload of cash.. #USA

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Olly Murs has a twin sister called Polly who owns a plastics factory

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In a couple of years time, when everything falls apart, your right wing friends and right wingers in the media will say this wasn't what they wanted. They own this.. Their philosophy is moribund and they cannot be allowed to forget..

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The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 243 comments

Get ready to wait on hold for hours to speak with the IRS. Why fire tax experts during tax season? To reduce oversight/enforcement of tax law for those who break the law? Such as those who funded your campaign for President and fill the ranks of your administration? www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

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If Musk/D.O.G.E has "god mode" access to US AID computers (with presumably more to follow) then so do China and Russia. Or at least so we (and any US ally--if that label has any meaning anymore) must assume. To do otherwise would be folly. This is treason in plain view.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Rly seems like a general strike is the only option now, pass it on

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ICE attorney James Rodden: “My WWII vet grandfather didn’t get a chance to kill asians, so he volunteered for Korea. He’d be asking for a short term job with ICE kicking doors and swinging a baton.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 3 days ago • 503 comments

Sometimes, "Move fast, break things," just results in a lot of broken things.

submitted 3 days ago • 62 comments

Really interesting point from @yappelbaum.bsky.social about how mobility, not staying in one place, is what produces strong communities in the US: www.vox.com/housing/3996...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I think what I find so repellent about the far-right is the sheer nihilism at its core. For all the talk of culture and identity, they are just flimsy masks strapped over, in Arendt's words "the intoxication of destruction as an actual experience, dreaming the stupid dream of producing the void.”

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

Putin could easily make Russia great again, by leaving his job..

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OTD in 1951, 6 years after we "liberated them from fascism", Stalin received plans to deport "Jehovists" from Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Moldova. Imagine mass deportations in this day & age..

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments