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You're plugged in and have heard comparisons of DOGE and Gamergate in passing. I took a deeper dive — but still a short, breezy read — explaining how it goes much deeper than a comparison. Gamergate was whiner boot camp. DOGE is the Loser Invasion. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

submitted 3 hours ago • 20 comments

Sending an email to employees asking them to list five things they did that week is a classic move from a manager who has no idea how to manage

submitted 1 day ago • 934 comments

I think it's useful to boil fascism down to "a cult of power." In the US we can see it in the irrational admiration for the ultra-rich like Musk or the Silicon Valley oligarchs, or in the unquestioned obedience a mob boss bully like Trump receives from Republican "leaders" and the base.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

the way this incident was covered was ultimate vindication for "they want trump to win" theory. totally buried in the final weeks of the campaign despite indicating serious, serious health and mental problems for trump

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

I need this sign for my front yard.

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George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse are walking free! They're doing fucking speaking tours!

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Dear OPM FOIA staff - Remember to preserve all of these email responses, as we will be submitting FOIA requests for this consolidated compilation of information on what the entire federal government did last week. Thx - FOIA community

submitted 1 day ago • 162 comments

Popehat’s law of goats applies here.

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Man he really called it

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

a better world is possible

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

The NYPD and our criminal mayor accidentally Brady violating this guy out of a conviction because they can’t stop publicity hounding would absolutely be the most fitting end to the entire saga.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Come on pope. Make an example.

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Our new FBI Director sells a supplement that “detoxes other people’s vaccines out of your body.” Sure. Why not.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

We need to start the Politico Read A Fucking History Book Challenge.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

If Mayor Adams is the reason this case is dismissed, I'm going to die laughing 🤣

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The story of Prometheus except the rock is my driveway in February.

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IMO, this is the test. In normal times it’s easy to justify decisions/actions based on legality. These are not normal times — institutions erode via “legal” means too.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Reminder that it’s the Ketamine Koup for a reason

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Not a moment's peace for a single Trump administration official Disrupt every event they do, of every kind or sort, from now until 2025

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

Based Catholic Church

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The notion that Trump's "I'm king" tweet is "just trolling" or "a joke" presents an opportunity to recreate my just-joking thread (porting it over from the Bad Place): 1. I wrote my PhD dissertation on the social function of humor (in literature & film) and here's the thing about "just joking."

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

I think we underestimate the prevalence of Billionaire Psychosis, when people get so rich they lose touch with reality. Musk wears it on his sleeve but he's not alone, staid "business leaders" like Jamie Dimon also live in parallel worlds where they're victims. Rationality left them long ago.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Look, we told all the anti-Biden people exactly what would happen to Ukraine if Trump came back. Our secret is that (1) we were alive in 2019 and (2) we listen to what he says.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

All else aside I really really hope trump costs poilievre the election

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

I’m the dairy farmer running to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

submitted 6 days ago • 132 comments

The only thing more regularly and confidently wrong than a large language model is a billionaire.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Elon Musk personally reinstated and remonetized this guy's account after he posted watermarked screenshots from a piece of CSAM that is so horrific that the people who investigated it thought it was an impossible urban legend for years

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

These are Fort Campbell-based 101st Airborne Division soldiers escorting the Little Rock Nine in 1957. Fort Campbell is erasing its own history.

submitted 7 days ago • 129 comments

New, from me: DOGE's mass firings of probationary employees are a masterclass in how not to manage public organizations. They don’t have a plan to fix what they are breaking because they don’t understand or care about the damage they are doing. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-misma...

submitted 8 days ago • 95 comments

the entire nation is experiencing what happens when the vast majority of people running the country cannot even remember the last time they had to work for a living

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 8 days ago • 497 comments

There’s a thick pad of ice on my driveway apron that will not melt until June.

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The far right uses concentration camps and Holocaust museums as a kind of baptismal water. Performatively showing up absolves you of antisemitism and buys you indulgences to talk about Rothschild space lasers, invent a blood libel or endorse Himmler's nephew for Chancellor.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

This is one way of understating why Republican senators have all fallen in line to vote YES on Trump’s cabinet, because Elon has all of their DMs. Another is that they don’t want to die.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

our annual Presidents’ Day lesson remembering the 3 US presidents who died of a waterborne illness.

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

Corporations are like deer. All they are interested in is eating everything green around them. The only way to prevent destruction of the ecosystem and starvation is to regularly shoot those that get too big and greedy.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

a major part of why we are here is that people do not have the courage of their convictions and are unwilling to take responsibility for things they say and do

submitted 8 days ago • 337 comments

This is the central tragedy of the havoc Musk is wreaking - the people he is hurting are there to make a difference for the rest of us. They love what they do, most of them do it well, and are there out of a commitment to serve. The very worst of us are discarding the best, because they can.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

The state with the lowest kindergarten MMR vaccine coverage in the U.S. is Idaho (79.6%). The state with the highest MMR vaccine coverage is West Virginia (98.3%). West Virginia doesn’t allow non-medical exemptions to vaccines for school entry; while Idaho’s exemption form looks like this:

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Public service is a noble calling and doing this to people for little more than good ratings and polling is fucked beyond belief and cultural revolution shit.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments