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There is no way for for “democracy” to function in a world that looks like this

submitted 8 hours ago • 28 comments

EXCUSE me?! The unelected, unconfirmed, apparently all-powerful person in charge of destroying our government from within must remain SECRET?! #TrumpCorruption #ThisIsAmerica now

submitted 13 hours ago • 42 comments

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

submitted 9 hours ago • 200 comments

Every House Republican just voted to defund Medicaid. Reminder: there are no moderate Republicans in Congress, and stop pretending there are.

submitted 9 hours ago • 90 comments

MSNBC worries about the perception that they’re not fair to R’s while Fox eats an $800m libel settlement to preserve its ability to lie about Ds. That’s the asymmetry that gives illiberalism a structural advantage. open.substack.com/pub/readtpa/...

submitted 13 hours ago • 807 comments

"Stop," by Blake Morrison (2006)

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If you're curious how a democracy transitions from a free press to state-run media, this is the kind of step you'd expect to see.

submitted 16 hours ago • 29 comments

Russia invades another country and the US State Department is bothsidesing it. Incredible.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

So any legit press in the White Press corps should deny him the microphone — walk out on this lying propaganda charade, and go do some shoe-leather reporting about him instead.

submitted 16 hours ago • 42 comments

Refreshing my syllabus for a course on the global history of bombing ("Dresden to Drones") and looking for recommendations for stand-out essays on bombing in Vietnam/Indochina Not particularly interested in strategy/theories of air power. Focus is more on civilian experience/environmental legacies

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

The leader of the free world.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Have to say, few things have offered me a more consistent escape from a crushing sense of anxiety than Hisashi Kashiwai's The Kamogawa Food Detectives Highly recommend for anyone seeking a light, fun, low-stakes read www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/744310...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

how long before you people realize the DOGE administrator is and has always been Satoshi Nakamoto

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Who wants to commission me to review these two

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Fraud, waste, and abuse just means resources going to people they don't like. That's it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 250 comments

For the US to side with Russia and North Korea to oppose a UN resolution condemning the illegal invasion of Ukraine defies all common sense and adds insult to the countless injuries suffered by the brave Ukrainian people. edition.cnn.com/2025/02/24/p...

submitted 1 day ago • 3676 comments

good reporting, but you spelled Pete Hegseth wrong

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Again, things that would have ended any presidency from Truman to Obama, now happening daily.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

setting aside the complete capitulation of congressional authority and betrayal of the constitution, this man just sounds like a complete lunatic here. wouldn't be a GOP sound byte without some absolutely bananas crank reference to transgender opera!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is the Speaker of the House of Representatives commenting on the total violation of Article I of the Constitution. He should resign or be removed, since he seems not to understand how illegal & unconstitutional all of this is.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Amy fucking Klobuchar

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

Is Elon in charge of NBC? Did I miss an email about it?

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

good reporting, but you spelled Pete Hegseth wrong

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Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba speaking to the Kyiv summit today: "Russia's aggression against Ukraine is an outrageous act that shakes the very foundation of the international order. Such unilateral attempts to change the status quo by force must not be tolerated anywhere in the world."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

This is so goddamn embarrassing. www.axios.com/2025/02/24/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

the view from london:

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Can a lawyer please explain how many times the government gets to pretend Musk isn’t running DOGE before they get slapped with the tiniest hint of consequences?

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Boy that is … stark

submitted 1 day ago • 255 comments

The B-1 Building of Marietta Georgia's Bell Bomber Plant (where they assembled nearly 700 B-29s) was so mammoth they ran a railroad through it

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This honestly feels like the Feb 2020, but for fascism instead of COVID only people paying attention know what is going to hell

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

Sign of the day…

submitted 2 days ago • 1449 comments

The B-1 Building of Marietta Georgia's Bell Bomber Plant (where they assembled nearly 700 B-29s) was so mammoth they ran a railroad through it

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It's been confirmed. This is such a loss. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Brilliant, just brilliant.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

I know after the last year and a half (and like the last several decades, but you get me) I shouldn't be surprised, but it's just jaw-dropping how openly the US is straight up the bad guy right now

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Speaking of "intent of the Framers," we don't have to guess what they'd think about the Secretary of War saying he's going to use the enormous standing army to break the law.

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TIL the B-29 was a joint US-Canadian enterprise, with Boeing's plant in Vancouver churning out airframes in particular. I much prefer it when the menace of fascism blurs the border, rather than threatens it.

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The guy who essentially just won the next chancellorship, Friedrich Merz, has been doing a press tour for the past week or so talking about how America under Trump can’t be trusted and promising to investigate Musk for meddling in the German election.

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

The Okhostk culture thrived in northern Hokkaido from the fifth to ninth centuries and may have provided the Ainu with some of their best-known rituals.

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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 2 days ago • 554 comments

“More than a quarter of the contracts listed by DOGE were actually already paid, the Journal found, saving no money. For instance, DOGE listed $168,000 in savings for terminating a contract with HHS for an Anthony Fauci museum exhibit. It had already been fully paid.” Beyond parody.

submitted 3 days ago • 702 comments