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"You don't deserve due process if you're a criminal" has got to be among the least "American" arguments the government has put forward in a century

submitted 4 hours ago • 74 comments

Your regular reminder that almost everything Trump is getting away with is not because of presidential strength, but because of congressional weakness and judicial deference. The constitutional tools are already there to fix this, but those who can fix it are refusing to do so.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Guys i think we have to do something about donald trump

submitted 7 hours ago • 8 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1144 comments

this is so insulting to seniors?? my mom doesn't want to talk to a chatbot on the phone, jesus christ

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

“In order to prove you don’t hire based on ideological litmus tests, you must submit your current staff and future hires to our ideological litmus test.” Glad to see not all Ivy League schools are quite as willing to destroy themselves as Columbia has been.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Strong moment from AOC’s speech in Utah

submitted 1 day ago • 436 comments

These people just want slavery back. I get it, I know libs/Democrats won't ever say this but it's the actual truth and it's getting tiresome that we have to step around it. They want to literally own people, control them, force them to do whatever they want. That is what slavery is

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

No it doesn’t. Being an asshole isn’t ideological diversity, it’s just edgelording. Wanting livable wages, healthcare, peace, kindness-those are all supposed to be 99% agreeable stuff. Folks just want to live their lives and occasionally get Friday’s off work. These don’t require a devils advocate.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

"oh no, this'll make the right wing mad!" Buddy they get into a frothing rage over like, cereal mascots and cartoon characters and the mere existence of gay people and what oil a French fry is cooked in and women knowing how to read, etc. They'll get mad anyway, no matter what. Tell em to fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

For the five other people who care, the (superior!) theatrical cut of Amadeus is now available for rent and purchase, or streaming on Criterion. It's been unavailable for a couple decades, almost impossible to stream.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Automation should serve to make human lives better and more fulfilling. Generative AI is using enormous resources to attempt to replace artists instead of helping us build a world where more artists can thrive. This is why no matter how interesting it is, it's fundamentally gross.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

One weird thing about all of these awesome federal programs getting gutted out of existence is that I now know they used to exist. That’s sort of nice, I guess. It’s like learning about an animal that went extinct last Tuesday.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

This is so obviously correct that I'm embarrassed for the firms that caved.

submitted 3 days ago • 27 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 3 days ago • 839 comments

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks. We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

submitted 4 days ago • 2013 comments

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 204 comments

Just me banging on again that BROADWAY employs more people than coal.

submitted 6 days ago • 158 comments

I know people like these free ad-laden streaming services but it's hilarious to me we put all that time, money, and energy into innovation and just wound up with a shitter, lazier version of broadcast TV?

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

i feel compelled to remind everyone that chatgpt/LLMs are functionally the opposite of an actual expert. the more your problems are unusual or novel, the more likely LLMS are to be wrong. they are least helpful when it's most important

submitted 26 days ago • 19 comments

move slowly and build things

submitted 7 days ago • 20 comments

make america great again means turning the clock on america’s political economy back to 1890, make america healthy again means doing the same for public health

submitted 7 days ago • 182 comments

Sometimes I think I’m worrying too much when I imagine that the ultimate plan for Miller, Musk, Lutnick, et al, is to create a new class of slave labor by falsely jailing people and forcing them to remotely control humanoid robots that act as servants. And then I see this trash.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile God is up there screaming, “I sent you an updated version that doesn’t kill kids! Why won’t you use it??”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

submitted 7 days ago • 426 comments