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Pelosi recently missed being assassinated and her husband was almost killed but mainstream media are so far gone they quickly downplayed the political murder attempts. Now another Dem leader and her husband are dead and still most of what we will hear about tomorrow is the fascist’s parade.

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With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.

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Undocumented immigrants paid an effective federal income tax rate of 5.27% in 2022. That means they paid a higher effective tax rate than 5 of the richest Americans…and a higher effective tax rate than 55 mega corporations. So let me ask you: who are the real freeloaders?

submitted 2 days ago • 403 comments

anyone else struggling to calibrate how crazy we should feel rn ?

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

The new GOP slogan (thank you, Joni Ernst.)

submitted 16 days ago • 763 comments

All I have ate today is two cookies. 🙃

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Main character energy is OUT, this summer we’re bringing NPC energy. We’re posted up at the bar dropping lore and suggesting side quests. We’re leaning casually near a locked door and saying “I don’t think you have the key for that” when someone tries the handle. We’re staring at a tree.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

Japanese snow fairy bird 🇯🇵 😃

submitted 21 days ago • 509 comments

Congrats, GOP. You’ve managed to do what no enemy nation could: shut down American science and hand our brightest minds to China gift-wrapped. Banning genius while chasing Bible fanfic and memes isn’t “patriotism”—it’s national brain death. But hey, at least the flag’s still upright, right?

submitted 23 days ago • 41 comments

The argument “young white men turn to hate because they don’t get enough empathy for the barriers they face” needs to square itself with the reality that men and women of color — and many white women — faced generations of barriers without turning to hatred in the same numbers. 1/

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In a legal sleight of hand, Republicans want to strip judges of their power to enforce rulings — because holding Trump in contempt might actually work… hartmannreport.com/p/the-final-...

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14 MILLION. That’s how many people Republicans admit their plan would rip healthcare away from. Share it. Shout it. Stop it.

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Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'. #DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

When I was raised a churchgoing Catholic, maintaining Jesus-like compassion and charity was the entire premise of the religion, so while a pope from Chicago sounds unreal I am pleased to hear someone is following in Pope Francis's footsteps.

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BREAKING: President Trump just fired our nation's Librarian. My statement here:

submitted 38 days ago • 152 comments

If guilty people don't have Due Process rights, then innocent people don't have Due Process rights, because we don't know if they're innocent or guilty until we have a trial or hearing.

submitted 39 days ago • 382 comments

This is all SO dumb. We are going to be feeding Gatorade to plants in less than 3 years...

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Amazingly, reaction times using screens while driving are worse than being drunk or high—no wonder 90 percent of drivers hate using touchscreens in cars. Finally the auto industry is coming to its senses. Real buttons are sooooooo back baby!

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Meanwhile, in Canada…

submitted 45 days ago • 944 comments

Web Design in 1995 – Apple – Adobe – Pizza Hut – Netscape #WebDesignHistory

submitted 49 days ago • 10 comments

If it’s true that their only “evidence” against this judge is that she advised someone to leave out a side door, this is complete banana republic bullshit and should be unequivocally condemned by both parties.

submitted 51 days ago • 349 comments

What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?

submitted 51 days ago • 260 comments

Ed Martin's latest target: Wikipedia. The interim U.S. attorney and pro-Trump bulldog has sent a letter seeming to threaten the Wikimedia Foundation's tax-exempt status over allegations that it is "spreading propaganda." Our story: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 51 days ago • 94 comments

It was never just about schools, it was never just about libraries, and it isn't actually about the books. It's about finding a way to banish entire people, entire ideas, out of society, back into the closet or worse. www.chron.com/politics/art...

submitted 51 days ago • 262 comments

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

submitted 51 days ago • 91 comments

It's #Wednesday my dudes...🐸

submitted 54 days ago • 36 comments

Where do you find free movies to watch?

submitted 55 days ago • 40 comments

youtu.be/qgw6iho4XFM?...

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Academics: I am now taking on freelance indexing jobs and would be thrilled to work with people in the humanities. My own expertise is in postcolonial studies, postcolonial literature (especially African and South Asian), law and literary studies, and legal and literary theory.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

Honest people don’t lie. Or do they? Liars aren’t honest. Or are they? One puzzling conundrum in contemporary politics is that politicians who seem to be estranged from facts and evidence are nonetheless considered honest by their followers. 1/n

submitted 67 days ago • 15 comments

Who did this?

submitted 72 days ago • 1440 comments

Because rage online is draining and leaves one feeling a tad despondent, here is a short poem celebrating libraries:

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

Once again, another reason that the "You're wildly overreacting when you suggest that there's a high risk the 2026/28 elections won't be free & fair" view is so deeply unserious is that, by any serious & actually democratic standard, our current elections are already not even free & fair.

submitted 79 days ago • 15 comments

Two gifts to help. First, this image.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

This surveillance robot was walking around the capitol today to normalize something that should not ever be normal. Your government should not be a faceless omni-present surveillance force. #democracy #politics #surveillancecapitalism

submitted 96 days ago • 48 comments

Something interesting happened here around 2000. The GOP took a hard right turn and never looked back. www.ft.com/content/3046...

submitted 99 days ago • 48 comments

100% www.instagram.com/p/DGx25Kuxpt...

submitted 102 days ago • 10 comments

Name every victory when they come

submitted 109 days ago • 31 comments

Elon Musk, who has said the beneficiaries of federal spending are a "parasite class," runs businesses that have pocketed $38 billion in taxpayer-funded subsidies, loans and contracts www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

submitted 109 days ago • 124 comments

DOGE has announced a total of 45 Social Security field office closures--so far. SSA has 1,200 field offices where people can receive in-person help getting benefits, updating records, enrolling in Medicare & more. They served 30M applicants & beneficiaries in 2023 — nearly 120K per day.

submitted 109 days ago • 54 comments