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We can quibble about the placement of each item but the original sin here is the very existence of this graph. Why on earth would a news organization rank social issues like they're weapons in an RPG?

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

Yesterday, Vance harassed the leader of a country under attack from Russian bombs and missile - who has stayed to defend his nation Today, Vance, who lectures about masculinity, fled because of protesters with signs Same guy who won't defend his wife and in-laws from vile racist attacks

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Seeing piece after piece in the DC sheets about mounting economic uncertainty. They're saying it implicitly by what they're discussing. But note that the editors are really struggling with the fact they can't bring themselves to say that Trump is tanking the economy.

submitted 4 days ago • 73 comments

Hey, sorry but no more Yosemite. It’s getting more efficient.

submitted 14 days ago • 75 comments

These absolute morons are going to destroy the United States. If you’re in favor of the US leaving NATO, you either don’t want the US to succeed, or you don’t know wtf NATO does. Worth noting that Mike Lee voted to expand NATO in 2022.

submitted 15 days ago • 2600 comments

Mitch McConnell is the person most responsible for our current state of affairs, whether he chooses to realize it or not

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 21 days ago • 489 comments

Musk's propaganda focusing on individual items in US AID's budget is part of the authoritarian assault on the concept of "a public good." By turning every penny the US gov't spends into a topic of public deliberation (and potential ridicule), they are trying to turn people against democracy itself.

submitted 22 days ago • 27 comments

This is an important point that I hope becomes relevant at some future juncture.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hey @washingtonpost.com you say your new Kash Patel story has "not previously been reported." Wrong, we at @motherjones.com scooped you and had this out earlier today. www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Feel free to correct.

submitted 24 days ago • 500 comments

There have been three plane crashes in the two and a half weeks since Elon Musk forced out the head of the FAA who had been critical of Space X spewing toxic debris everywhere.

submitted 24 days ago • 13 comments

This is exactly the time for this type of action.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We all like to yell at the Democrats, but it’s really Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune who are letting Elon Musk and his faceless goon squad make a mockery of their power as leaders of a coequal branch without uttering a peep or lifting a finger.

submitted 29 days ago • 627 comments

JFC.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

In the strangest twist of all, @benstiller.redhour.com casually reveals that Dan Erickson is Kier Eagan!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Goldman Sachs, Jan 21: "Despite Trump’s comments that the 25% tariff will be implemented in 10 days, we continue to believe the odds of a 25% tariff on Canada and Mexico are low (20%)." Why have analysts been caught so flat-footed by Trump doing exactly what he said he would?

submitted 30 days ago • 499 comments

How to overstate the scale of power - hard and soft - as well as prosperity that is tied up in US dominance in the sciences. what they’re doing here is. Just lighting that on fire.

submitted 32 days ago • 17 comments

Looking at you, Bob Castellini.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Goodbye Divot. You were my best girl. I love you. #RainbowBridge.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Goodbye Divot. You were my best girl. I love you. #RainbowBridge.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

It’s funny Zuck says “I started building social media to give people a voice” when in fact, he started building social media to publicly rate the hotness of undergrads.

submitted 55 days ago • 590 comments

I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me. In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.

submitted 57 days ago • 1385 comments

The Oval Office is back on the market…

submitted 57 days ago • 832 comments

Ah yes, I see it's the time of year when the Philanthropy Industrial Complex (Big P for short) seeds negative stories about Mackenzie Scott because everything about the way she gives money undercuts their entire model... fortune.com/article/mack...

submitted 63 days ago • 232 comments

Punchbowl, NOTUS, Semafor, Politico, Axios...all outlets mostly focused on congress and yet the Appropriations chair was living in memory care for months, the whole Gaetz thing..

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

@rexchapman.bsky.social suggested we post a childhood photo "around the holidays." Going by the apparent age of my baby sister, this is most likely X-mas 1979 (my 5th bday).

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

GOAT www.nbcsportsbayarea.com/mlb/oakland-...

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Dems clearly singing from the same songbook on this one and ... honestly it'll probably work! The Trump-Musk breakup is going to be a sight to see

submitted 74 days ago • 28 comments

I appreciate the "full obstructionist" strategy, but eliminating the debt ceiling--and with it the regular GOP brinksmanship--would be a huge benefit to the country. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social should get behind this one idea. Blind squirrels and all that. www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

While I am thoroughly against a government shutdown, I am encouraged by the fact that the Republican broligarchy is already stepping on their own dick. Incompetent evil is preferable to competent evil. Gift article. wapo.st/3VOhn9U

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

New York Rep. Pat Ryan, who easily held his Hudson Valley swing seat last month, spoke for AOC in the Dem conference meeting yesterday. Asked him what he said and he just sent me the speech - sharing in case it's interesting

submitted 75 days ago • 97 comments

Post somebody you've been told you look like that you definitely don't look like.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Biden has proven over 5 decades in public service that he is committed to moral rectitude. This pardon was the right thing morally and politically, even if--as the consistently excellent @theshebeen.bsky.social points out--"the usual idiots are birthing bovines."

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Truth finally gets its fly zipped.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

🧵Thread with examples of why it’s dumb to say “CO2 is only 0.04% of the atmosphere, so it can’t possibly have an effect!” It’s time to just ignore the “400ppm is too small to have an impact” meme…

submitted 91 days ago • 7 comments

Drake waited until Kendrick dropped his next album to sue so that Kendrick couldn't make fun of him suing on it

submitted 98 days ago • 219 comments