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Damn 😞

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

It also gets to the hollowness of saying Democrats shouldn't focus on this or that issue, in cases the sense of a "focus" comes from the GOP (and the ads they run, & the Fox machine) — & it's not like those would go away even if Democrats agreed to throw the GOP-targeted population under the bus.

submitted 99 days ago • 7 comments

What the actual fuck.

submitted 101 days ago • 176 comments

We are all witnessing anticipatory obedience in real time.

submitted 101 days ago • 2742 comments

As it currently stands, the difference between a GOP House and a Dem House is about 13,000 votes across four districts. In the final totals, that will likely be less than 10,000 votes across two or three districts.

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

While Trump crows about his great COVID record, remember this, from the COVID Crisis Group (a bipartisan collection of scientists and public health experts), in a study published last year. Excerpt from The Death of Expertise, second edition.

submitted 102 days ago • 163 comments

Don't worry, Elon Musk is going to slash the USDA by 80 percent. #MakeEColiGreatAgain

submitted 102 days ago • 42 comments

"According to nearly complete totals, Trump secured his victory by just a cumulative 237,000 votes in three states that, had they gone the other way, would have meant victory for Harris..." www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/u...

submitted 103 days ago • 597 comments

Eight, huh?

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

I thought Biden's economic policy would basically work politically and people would vote for the government that produced full employment and controlled inflation. I am much less optimistic about the political value of good economic policy now.

submitted 103 days ago • 13 comments

Anti-science grifters don't tell you unvaccinated babies are a $ register for ERs/hospitals. The ⬆️testing, procedures, treatments we'd have to do on unvaccinated babies bills highly. By advocating for vaccines, we're losing money for hospitals. But we care more about their health than anything.

submitted 104 days ago • 1 comment

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

submitted 104 days ago • 86 comments

It is very funny to remember the era when conservatives called Michelle Obama trying to get schools to serve veggies and Mike Bloomberg taxing Big Gulps “Nanny State liberalism”

submitted 105 days ago • 6 comments

Strange. What are the House Republicans hiding about Matt Gaetz?

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

🚨 Republicans are scheduling another vote on H.R. 9495, the bill that would give Trump new powers to unilaterally go after his political opponents. We need everyone reading this to contact their representatives and tell them to vote no on H.R. 9495: indivisible.org/resource/tel...

submitted 105 days ago • 75 comments

For years now, the right has been accusing Democrats of running a shadowy conspiracy to protect politicians who are sex predators. Democrats need to scream "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?" until they force the report's release.

submitted 105 days ago • 371 comments

He said this as an unelected bureaucrat “We want to go in and slash and burn the bureaucracy to help Americans, stimulate the economy and restore self-governance. The people we elect to run the government, they are not even the ones who run the government anymore, it's these unelected bureaucrats.”

submitted 106 days ago • 174 comments

Context: Elon Musk dislikes Scientific American’s editorial perspectives on social and climate justice, and has been fanning a targetted harassment campaign this week in an effort to silence the magazine. It appears to have worked.

submitted 106 days ago • 89 comments

FFS. Rep Dan Goldman should find something useful and productive to do with his time instead of suggesting that an entirely unambiguous amendment is in some way ambiguous.

submitted 106 days ago • 11 comments

polyworking is when you're getting fucked by multiple bosses

submitted 106 days ago • 6 comments

How do you face fascism? I like Orwell's version: ground yourself in direct and immediate experience, trust your senses, find some joy, turn back to face the fascists and tell truths to combat the lies.

submitted 107 days ago • 59 comments

Wonder if this takes into consideration the 15 million they plan to remove from the country. Guessing no small number of those are in Texas and Florida.

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Clownshoes are better than jackboots.

submitted 107 days ago • 68 comments

In 2017, Matt Gaetz stood as the sole dissenting vote against an anti-human trafficking bill.

submitted 107 days ago • 21 comments

It's all fun and games in the markets until there is a loss of confidence in the rule of law

submitted 107 days ago • 14 comments

Love an Attorney General nominee with a whole Wikipedia section devoted to “legal issues,” including a subsection for sex trafficking.

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

➡️ A non-entity as SecDef ➡️ A Russian asset as DNI ➡️ A pedo as AG I love everything about this. This next Trump administration will be even more shambolic than the last one Americans are gonna get the Government they voted for, and they're gonna get it good and hard

submitted 107 days ago • 17 comments

Telling voters this guy is Hitler and gonna end America as we know it because he sent a mob to storm the Capitol when he lost last time and then sitting down for a fireside chat makes us look like the suckers and marks we are

submitted 107 days ago • 140 comments

Not to belabor the obvious, but the President doesn't have the power to adjourn Congress, only to convene it If the Senate chooses to adjourn on its own, that's their choice

submitted 107 days ago • 12 comments

1/8 I'm often asked "Why do amphorae have pointed bases?" and as a potter who has now made hundreds of them, I have to say that it's something that I have thought about a lot. For a start they'd be a lot easier to make if they had a flat base. As it is you start throwing from..

submitted 108 days ago • 37 comments

the trump administration as jobs program for the biggest grifters in american politics

submitted 107 days ago • 38 comments

The men and women of the United States armed forces - and 1500 nuclear weapons on a short fuse - will be controlled by Donald Trump and a guy who sells soap shaped like grenades.

submitted 107 days ago • 124 comments

Safety AND happiness. Only bollards can deliver this every single day. #WorldBollardAssociation

submitted 108 days ago • 16 comments

This bill failed.

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

A totally normal and non-authoritarian thing to do is purge anyone who might say "We will not kill those people for you." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

submitted 108 days ago • 20 comments

In addition to the obvious internal US problems, very difficult for external allies to navigate 'the most important army in the western alliance is in the centre of a political struggle'.

submitted 108 days ago • 21 comments

This is an interesting thought. GOP messaging doesn't really change, and even when it consistently falls flat they keep repeating it until some other factor gives them a win and they can claim it was a mandate to do the thing that was never popular. I hate to call it message discipline, but....

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments