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Interests : Democracy, Agnosticism, Art History and Manchester United
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submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

submitted 21 days ago • 2788 comments

The Death of Competition in American Elections — a close review of the 2024 election shows just how undemocratic the country’s legislative bodies already are. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

submitted 34 days ago • 250 comments

you cannot be pro-democracy, pro-American and pal around with Musk. www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 40 days ago • 76 comments

Don't know why I have to point this out, but because this is social media: observing that gutting the US intelligence community helps the adversaries of the United States is not the same thing as enthusiastically endorsing every CIA black op and every NSA overreach of the past 75 years.

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 41 days ago • 1098 comments

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

submitted 41 days ago • 2829 comments

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submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Denis Law - A beautiful tribute from @davidsquires.bsky.social #MUFC #KingoftheStretfordEnd 😢 www.theguardian.com/football/pic...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Seattle could pretty easily get to 2.5 million residents in 10 years if we let it. Right now ~75% of residential land in the city is essentially low density/detached SF. If we simply legalized townhome density citywide, that would 6x that land. Legalizing apartment buildings would go even higher.

submitted 72 days ago • 10 comments

I found this story about the resurrection of Barnes and Noble heartwarming and nostalgic. It shows how other business sectors could use these strategies to compete with the likes of Walmart, Amazon. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9kO...

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is staffing his cabinet with billionaires who will break the government. About class, about differences in wealth, we need clarity, and we need outrage. But we will not get far without equal clarity about race. snyder.substack.com/p/class-war-...

submitted 77 days ago • 52 comments

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submitted 78 days ago • 677 comments

In Georgia, a mom facing eviction reached out to DFCS for help. They offered her nothing. Soon the agency took her kids away because of "inadequate housing." The state then paid *$6,200 a month* to house her kids in foster care. One of the most important and infuriating stories I read this year:

submitted 78 days ago • 476 comments

Reminder: The House republicans against releasing the Gaetz ethics report because it violates his rights as a private citizen, are the same Republicans who made posters of Hunter Biden's schlong and forced everyone to watch for months on end.

submitted 85 days ago • 212 comments

Well done RollingStone for reporting it accurately.

submitted 85 days ago • 824 comments

Wild times. "Mr. Greenberg told the Committee that he would typically provide drugs, such as ecstasy, for events he attended and Rep. Gaetz would pay him back in cash. Several other women observed Representative Gaetz to be under the influence of drugs." s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

What's amazing about the ongoing allegations against Pete Hegseth is that they're such a distraction from how comically unqualified he is to be Defense Secretary. It's like a one-two punch of outrageously stupid.

submitted 92 days ago • 44 comments

If you have had enough, tell all your followers on BlueSky that it's time to #EndGunViolenceNow! Our kids deserve to grow up safe and free from gun violence. It's time to put their lives ahead of guns. We can build a future where no parent has to bury their child due to senseless gun violence.

submitted 92 days ago • 115 comments