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I do understand that Biden’s inner circle covered up his decline. Got it. What I don’t understand is the same journalists and pundits pounding that story are ignoring this psychopath like it’s normal. I accepted Biden was old all along. I can’t accept this lunatic leading us.

submitted 10 days ago • 582 comments

Duh

submitted 10 days ago • 82 comments

A reminder for all that Peter's wife Kathleen still needs a lot of help with the massive medical debt of his long-term care. If you can help. 💙 www.gofundme.com/f/help-peter...

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Since we’re playing these games. Name this President. Correct answer is below in the thread.

submitted 18 days ago • 171 comments

Please enjoy this stock photo the local CBS affiliate chose for a story about traffic this summer

submitted 21 days ago • 515 comments

As we sleepily crawl to bed, former Director Walensky echoes in our head: "Your voice will matter. Your choices will shape lives. And your willingness to face both facts and uncertainty — with humility, with curiosity, and with courage — will be what defines you." Rest well, #AltCitizens

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every interview with this guy makes me tear up

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

Outside of think tanks and newsrooms, there is no such thing as a “moderate voter.” There are swing voters, but they look like Meagan, 37, Texas, white, small-business owner who voted for Trump

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

I’m so glad papers like the Berkshire Eagle still exist. this reporter covered every detail of these arrests, including quashing a rumor that the building’s maintainance guy called ICE on these men (he didn’t). support your local journalists!

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki1n... ❤️💔

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REPORTER: You just announced a new nominee for US Surgeon General who never finished her residency, and is not a practicing physician. So can you explain why you picked her to be America's top doctor? TRUMP: Because Bobby thought she was fantastic ... I don't know her

submitted 28 days ago • 988 comments

🧵1/ RFK Jr. says childhood vaccines weren’t tested and that COVID boosters need full trials every year. That’s not how vaccines—or science—work. Time for a #FactCheckFriday! Let’s talk about how vaccines are tested, and how this kind of talk puts real people at risk. www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

submitted 28 days ago • 51 comments

The US is now importing white people.

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

I didn’t give a wit about new pope coverage, but the first American pope being a man with Black ancestry born in Chicago by way of New Orleans by way of Haiti. Names his self after the pope who condemned slavery? In the Trump era? Oh, baebae, I am HERE for it. www.wwltv.com/article/news...

submitted 27 days ago • 151 comments

🧵1/ BIG NEWS!! CDC just dropped a landmark report — the first US data on RSV hospitalizations after rollout of the maternal vaccine and infant antibody. What happened? Hospitalizations in babies under 3 months fell nearly 50% vs pre-pandemic years. Quietly, radically effective.

submitted 28 days ago • 26 comments

1. My colleague Ron Knox just published a killer guide to resisting monopolies. It shows that fighting monopoly power isn't just a job for the government — it's something regular people can do every day in their communities and workplaces.

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Needed time to relax. Still do. We lost great people on Friday as part of the deferred retirement/Fork program. The Gov as a whole, and IRS in particular are losing subject experts. The terrorists are destroying your government. You pay for us. We work for you.

submitted 38 days ago • 33 comments

Plenty of politicians on both sides of the aisle feel threatened by rising class consciousness.

submitted 41 days ago • 2563 comments

In Dwarf Fortress terms this is a federal judge entering a Strange Mood

submitted 42 days ago • 59 comments

This is how you do it.

submitted 44 days ago • 20 comments

They had lawyers, trials, most were given pretrial release, allowed to testify in their own defense, got discovery, could call witnesses, could cross-examine witnesses, could present mitigation at sentencing, and had a right to appeal.

submitted 45 days ago • 3478 comments

Beyond the fact that I love this photo, I think about this concept ALL OF THE TIME. As an archivist, I am really conscious of the fact that it's likely we'll have a more robust understanding of the 18 and 19th centuries than of the 21st century. Why? PAPER. bsky.app/profile/doro...

submitted 46 days ago • 42 comments

Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

submitted 50 days ago • 27 comments

There was a joke on Night Court where someone asked the bailiff Bull if he knew what due process was and he said it was “how they make Velveeta” and honestly I’m delighted to see Rogan score better on that one

submitted 46 days ago • 40 comments

American media are truly stuck on stupid. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

submitted 46 days ago • 199 comments

Be the “Russian warship, go fuck yourself” you want to see in the world.

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

submitted 48 days ago • 792 comments

turns out that not only is hegseth grossly incompetent, but apparently everyone he knows is also grossly incompetent

submitted 49 days ago • 34 comments

Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.

submitted 51 days ago • 227 comments

I've got a piece up at @liberalcurrents.com clarifying whether Trump is trying to install merely an authoritarian regime or a properly fascist one in the federal government. My conclusion: we're facing Actual Fascism. www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...

submitted 55 days ago • 30 comments

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

submitted 55 days ago • 168 comments

He has learned that it is very easy to do insider trading from the White House and nobody is going to stop him.

submitted 55 days ago • 14 comments