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A great deal of trouble we face now is that those in power assume everyone working for the public good has to be part of a grift because they literally cannot conceive of a public good. They are broken, deranged people, almost to a one. I'm struggling with the response to this.

submitted 20 hours ago • 71 comments

Now that I've made peaceful revolution impossible it's time to sit back and enjoy my wealth and power with no adverse consequences

submitted 45 days ago • 92 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 1 day ago • 595 comments

We're only seven weeks in. It's a lead-pipe lock that before this is over, we'll have a confrontation between a D governor and Trump over the state's National Guard. Take that to the bank.

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

primary this spineless wimp

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

“Please leave us out of this for the next 22 months”

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 2 days ago • 1128 comments

You can buy Oreo cream filling by itself in a container but it doesn’t taste as good. You must work for the cream. The T-Rex doesn’t want to be fed. It wants to hunt.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

It’s wild that everyone who wants America to be “run as a business” seems to want lower taxes. That’s not what a business would do if it had a monopoly and the violence of the government behind it to set whatever price it wanted. A business would send taxes through the roof.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Barbara Marx Hubbard says that our task is “to hospice what’s dying and midwife what’s being born.” I agree.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

Something I hate now is that every place you even think about shopping at sends you three emails a week.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

the Home Depot thing rocks, actually getting a guy to show up in a random place you aren’t anywhere near to fight you is one of the greatest internet achievements there is.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 4 days ago • 6048 comments

Generational problem

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is the key thing. We’re in a period of civic degeneracy with many roots. But this is a kind of personal character made for the old monarchies of Europe, or the degenerate autocracies of modern Hungary and Russia. Obsequious, dignity-free, desperate to be demeaned. Very weird people.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

There are tools for you if you need help narrowing down your focus to figure out what actions you might take in the coming days, weeks, months and years. I co-created a zine just for this: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

motherfuckers have me watching cspan on a friday

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submitted 4 days ago • 364 comments

conservative education policy in a nutshell: starve the system to get middle class parents to put their kids in private schools and then teach junk and slop to everyone left behind

submitted 4 days ago • 99 comments

i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.

submitted 4 days ago • 496 comments

FDR once bragged to a massive crowd at Madison Square Garden that the richest people in the nation hated him and “I welcome their hatred.” Just weeks later, he was re-elected with 61% of the vote in a 523-8 blowout in the Electoral College. Voters like politicians who make the right enemies.

submitted 5 days ago • 103 comments

The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.

submitted 4 days ago • 789 comments

Schumer was so cowardly that it literally broke the party

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Too much is at stake not to keep up the pressure on the Senate Democrats up to the very moment of the vote.

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

AOC: It is almost unthinkable why Senate Democrats would vote to to hand the few pieces of leverage that we have away for free when we've been sent here to protect social security, protect medicaid, and protect medicare.

submitted 5 days ago • 833 comments

Boy I sure hope the governor of California is around to rebut this and not, say, flogging his new podcast.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

The news media gave more coverage to the idea Tim Walz retiring from the National Guard after 20 years was scandalous than to Trump's promise to destroy the department of education

submitted 5 days ago • 88 comments

serious answer: the sabotage of reconstruction

submitted 5 days ago • 38 comments

In the Senate there are votes that are forgotten on the day they are cast; and there are votes cast in granite that will be learned about by Senators’ great grandchildren. Whether Senators do everything in their power to curtail Trump’s excesses will long be remembered.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

absolutely vile

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

This is a day where it feels to the terminally online like a lot is happening in DC, but in reality if you log off at 7AM and check back in at 9PM, by 9:15 you will be exactly as well informed as those of us following things post by post and have had a much happier and healthier day

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

The Cubs winning the World Series. No doubt about it.

submitted 5 days ago • 144 comments

I'm going to call my Senator and ask him to kick Schumer's ass on live TV.

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submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

submitted 8 days ago • 622 comments

"Everyone Is Mad At the Bad Thing But For Slightly Wrong Reasons" is an argument that can be made with grace and skill or self-congratulatory pedantry, and when you're in the thick of it, it can be hard to tell exactly what distinguishes them

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

seen in newark, new jersey 🔥

submitted 23 days ago • 54 comments

New from Trump: “shut up about egg prices!”

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

oh so now the biden economy was "firing on all cylinders" huh? i kinda don't recall that being the tenor of economic news coverage before the election

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

my son just casually said a dog he met was 'the size of a beef wellington'

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Think we’ve forgotten about the time that Elon was booed so badly by fans of Dave Chapelle (of all people) that he locked himself in his office and Twitter employees considered calling the cops to do a wellness check. What I’m saying is we can go harder.

submitted 13 days ago • 302 comments