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Need a break from the socials. Don’t have too much fun without me lol

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

submitted 7 days ago • 632 comments

F*** it, drive on.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I found myself having a harder time being kind to people lately.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

i believe this 10,000% you HAVE to use smaller words. HAVE to simplify 10x more than you think is necessary, and then simplify 10x more than that. most folks don't gave fancy degrees. most don't have passports! i know because these are my peers, childhood friends, family!

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Especially if, as MAGA want us to believe, that you can die just from being in a fentanyl pill’s presence

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The people voted for this. We should be getting it good and hard

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Whenever they announced fentanyl seizures under Biden every wingnut in America would claim that it was proof that the border was wide open.

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submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Saw someone say this on the yarn site but I’ll repeat it here. Trump could have kept his mouth shut and he would’ve had the Lukashenka to his Putin. But no, he had to be the main character in another country’s elections and wound up getting his potential right hand beaten and bad.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

He’s smart enough to use big enough words that will go over MAGAs’ heads so they will believe him, and then believe his boss when he blames Democrats for empty shelves

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Greatest expansion of global trade and growth in history.. Dude wants you to think it never happened

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

I admittedly don't know what the message should be if you want to rollback ICE and DHS but realize that some level of enforcement still has to exist. But I know that 70% of the electorate will hear Abolish Ice as meaning "no border or immigration enforcement at all. So you have to plan for that.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Exactly. Language matters. If you’re explaining, you’re losing.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump retreated from his sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs after a bond selloff sent Treasury yields soaring. But who are the much-feared bond vigilantes behind his reversal?

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Young people are, in fact, protesting, the question here is disingenuous because it is designed to start fights. And it's that way because the truth is that the biggest orgs fighting against fascist takeover of the US government are lib-coded and lib-led, and that makes online edgelords mad.

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This

submitted 16 days ago • 905 comments

DOGE should look into this lol

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This is not a peace deal. This is an affront to Ukraine and its sovereignty. Total capitulation to Russia by US.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I realized I never posted a pic of the new dog. She’s a German shepherd/Airedale terrier mix.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This by @cathy.bsky.social brings up something I've noticed before, but not from the same angle. A lot of the manosphere grift is doing for men the opposite of what feminism did for women. If femininity is a box, feminism let us escape that box, but MRAs are building a box to trap men.

submitted 14 days ago • 9 comments

A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

What are you weirdos up to?

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Immigration is good, it built this country, almost every American family includes an immigrant. It is time for the Democrats to challenge this insane xenophobia as cruel, immoral, and unAmerican attitude.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

The first priority of a congressman is getting elected. The second is getting reelected in perpetuity. The third is to never be on the hook for anything unpopular.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Good description of both. I do not consider myself a Democrat but I’m definitely an ex-Republican at this point, and my rage at Trump and MAGA will drive me for the foreseeable future.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Luka Doncic was tearing up during the Mavs' tribute video to him 💔

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

First Fire Nico chants of the night. Less than 4 minutes in.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 30 days ago • 1138 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 27 days ago • 41 comments

CBO finds that DOGE failed to achieve measurable savings in March. At first glance, spending fell $38B (7%) compared to last year. But March began on a Saturday so payments that normally go out in March went out in Feb After adjusting, spending rose $45B (8%) compared to March 24.

submitted 28 days ago • 43 comments

doing everything via EO (subject to challenge, often rolled back by courts, rescinded by future admins) is a sign that you can’t actually lead your party to pass legislation (lasting, much harder to challenge)

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

[referee whistle blast] -- One call of using stats to obscure rather than reveal patterns! Additional call -- they aren't reciprocal tariffs, they're unilateral!

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

German unions are much better than American ones, but I'm convinced that American-style unions are more part of the problem than part of the solution. The libertarians were right about American unions. They're more like the rent-seeking, reactionary European guilds of old than anything else.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments