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You don’t say ….

submitted 15 hours ago • 202 comments

Every so often, it just comes back to me in full force. The political and economic order that allowed this man to come to power is obviously no longer tenable. The leaders who let it happen obviously have to be replaced. This is an epoch defining failure and we have to turn the page completely.

submitted 20 hours ago • 413 comments

"you have to sympathize with the trump voter who thought..." no. sorry. I will not be doing that.

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

There is one big move Elon could make that would be extremely popular while also eliminating a gigantic source of government waste and fraud if he is brave enough to do it

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

not that any of us can do much but you hear about the mass graves in Palestine, the bombed tents, the Lebanese apartment buildings destroyed at 4 am full of sleeping people…it just feels so debilitating, and it’s hard going thru life knowing the people around you don’t care one iota about it

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Full blown idiocracy at the Oval Office

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

AI search engines cite incorrect news sources at an alarming 60% rate, study says arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

One of the defining feelings in American life, for decades now, is elites doing plainly criminal shit and nothing at all happening as a result. It is deranging in a way that virtually nothing else is. Media fixates on perceived street lawlessness but shit like this matters much more in my opinion.

submitted 3 days ago • 284 comments

I feel that if, in 2010, you had told me that Citizens United would lead to someone literally giving oversized $1 million checks to voters in exchange for their votes, I would have called you a delusional conspiracy theorist. And I would have been wrong.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

I see a lot of talk like "AI is here to stay. Get used to it. You'll be fine, buttercup" and I would take that more seriously if a single talented or interesting person was embracing it

submitted 4 days ago • 26 comments

Wow. California State University, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, UC-San Diego and U of SF are ALL urging foreign-born students, faculty and staff to reconsider international travel because there's no telling whether the Trump administration will allow them to re-enter. www.desertsun.com/story/news/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

intelectually I always knew the free speech right would start disappearing people they disagreed with but it's still a little surprising to hear them say it

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Writing an op-ed is not illegal activity. They are revoking visas for thought crimes and for constitutionally protected expression.

submitted 5 days ago • 405 comments

Jesus Christ.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

“The checks and balances have been dismantled, and despite the grassroots resistance, and despite the fact that there are genuinely good people in Washington resisting every day…the country was about to go into freefall.” “I fear there's going to be a civil war.” www.torontotoday.ca/local/educat...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Future flight bookings between Canada & the US have collapsed. Comparing total bookings held at this point last year with those recorded this week for the upcoming summer season show bookings are down by over 70% in every month through to the end of September. www.oag.com/blog/canada-...

submitted 6 days ago • 173 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 9 days ago • 319 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 6 days ago • 464 comments

A thing I did not think about until I had it explained to me: it is incredibly cruel to make someone go through puberty as the wrong gender. If they’re sure enough that they’re trans to want gender-affirming care before that happens, it’s just monstrous to keep it from them.

submitted 108 days ago • 12 comments

Seems bad. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Never a good sign when the people who study fascism the most are the most concerned

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

anyway calling these "war plans" when they were actually plans to blow up an apartment building full of civilians because the girlfriend of a guy we don't like lived there sounds more like "terrorism plans" or perhaps even more accurately "terrorism factory creation plans"

submitted 8 days ago • 400 comments

Dear journalists: stop giving this administration the benefit of the doubt. Stop using old editorial standards and practices and norms. Assume that everything they say from the get-go is a lie because it always, always, is.

submitted 8 days ago • 228 comments

It is obviously bad that they were texting this on Signal and bad that they let a journalist into their group chat. But the actual act they’re talking about—intentionally bombing civilians, a war crime—is the far more fundamental wrong.

submitted 8 days ago • 48 comments

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

The Social Security stuff is genuinely insane. If this doesn't sink this administration some theories of politics are just going to have to go right into the trash

submitted 9 days ago • 88 comments

Hope

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submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

Keep bullying these people into doing the right thing. It's working.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I feel bad for friends and colleagues at Columbia and wish them all the best as they try to get the hell out of there.

submitted 12 days ago • 194 comments

the democratic party leadership is not meeting the moment. we live in fascism and the party leadership is doing book tours and calling their own base anti-semitic for supporting palestinians. it’s laughable how there’s any confusion why no one likes them

submitted 12 days ago • 87 comments

they'll be teaching this graph in polisci classes for the next 80 years

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Okay it may seem bad that Meta appropriated the entirety of the written word without compensating or even consulting with any writers, but consider what the world got out of it: a thing you accidentally tap in Instagram

submitted 13 days ago • 39 comments

I mean this with all my heart: if hell exists every single person involved with cutting research like this, and every person celebrating those cuts, has a very special seat

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

some are wondering how this is all happening so fast. it's because we are watching the crumbling of a facade, the thin outer layer of something that has been consistently and relentlessly hollowed out by both parties, bit by bit, for decades. this shell was the fantasy world to which liberals clung.

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

If you cannot honor an American hero like Jackie Robinson -- and especially if you go out of your way to attempt to ERASE him -- you are a white supremacist. That's just a simple fact. It's high time that everyone say that in clear terms. That we call these people what they are.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

#NEW #Tesla has been kicked out of the Vancouver International Auto Show. Organizers say the company was offered the opportunity to "voluntarily withdraw," and that the move was done to ensure "safety" of attendees and exhibitors.

submitted 15 days ago • 19 comments

At Christmas Poilievre was looking at a supermajority, now he has no chance at a majority and only a small chance at a minority.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

The TESLA (a/k/a "TESLER") TAKEDOWN is working... WORLDWIDE! Turns out people really resent an unelected weirdo running our Government & creating economic chaos. Hit Elmo where it really hurts: in his big, fat wallet. If we #TankTesla, It's Ex-X! (a/k/a Twitter) #WinWin Visit www.takedowntesla.com

submitted 16 days ago • 2388 comments

Letting Musk this deep into the government of the richest country in human history is what people centuries from now will study, there will be chapters in Jared Diamond-esque books explaining a civilization’s collapse about 22-year-olds somehow gaining access to nuclear security systems

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

Goddamn. Those videos of the deported Venezuelans arriving in El Salvador. And the Trump gang is posting these videos and fucking GLOATING about them. Adding music to them, like it’s a goddamn party! The sadism is off the hook. Incredibly evil people. The US is possessed by demons.

submitted 16 days ago • 16 comments

He's sooooo unhappy and angry and sad and hurt lol

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

submitted 22 days ago • 1215 comments

Maybe if I’m a sniveling coward when it matters most people will trust me to lead

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments