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X is a Nazi censorship engine. I'm baffled that so many people who should know better continue to use it

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

unironically this is the alternate universe where everything else is the same except that Heath Shuler didn't get his congressional district gerrymandered into oblivion and has since been one of North Carolina's Senators for the last 10 years

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

The Eagles will snub the White House visit. Go Birds 🦅

submitted 9 days ago • 1194 comments

Wish they'd tried harder. (They didn't try. This didn't happen. And remember: every accusation is an admission. Also, fuck this guy.) www.joemygod.com/2025/02/trum...

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

To be clear, AP said it would accede to Trump changing the name of Denali back to Mt. McKinley because it was within the US, whereas the Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water not subject to the US's exclusive control. This is what you get for meeting an authoritarian halfway.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

UPDATE: Judge CHUTKAN has called a 4pm hearing on the lawsuit over Elon Musk's authority to run DOGE.

submitted 9 days ago • 317 comments

If you're in NYC, please go. www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

It is actually genuinely funny that the Army looked at the Executive Order and said "no"

submitted 11 days ago • 152 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 63 comments

"Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office." www.ap.org/the-definiti...

submitted 12 days ago • 113 comments

Scoop: DOGE's Edward "Big Balls" Coristine launched a privacy-focused image-sharing site in 2021 that allowed users to create custom URLs. The URLs that redirected to Coristine's site referenced the sale of child sexual abuse material, racial slurs, and rape www.muskwatch.com/p/doge-teen-...

submitted 12 days ago • 478 comments

I admit that every time I call my Arizona Representative Juan Ciscomani (R, gerrymandering), I have to fight not to unleash a string of invectives. But if I did, it would accomplish nothing, so for now I’m polite and stick to the script. 5calls.org

submitted 12 days ago • 10 comments

this attitude — paperwork is for sissies, real wars are won by Big Strong Men — is traditionally a harbinger of ruinous for defeat for everyone who holds it

submitted 12 days ago • 2085 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 13 days ago • 724 comments

🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

we love attentive blocking

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Philadelphia is a great American city. 🇺🇸🫡🥲

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

I wish the Senate handled a coup in the US treasury the way Philly handles winning a ball game

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

God I wish

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

ok so genuinely what are we supposed to do about elon

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

mind you, this "doge official" IS A FRESHMAN AT NORTHEASTERN

submitted 20 days ago • 459 comments

I need Americans to hate this administration the way Kendrick hates Drake so they can actually stand a chance of surviving

submitted 20 days ago • 182 comments

SCOOP: Many of the pages that went missing on Friday from the CDC website on Friday have reappeared — in response to intense media coverage, backlash from the scientific community and concern for the public’s health. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/h...

submitted 20 days ago • 97 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 20 days ago • 1622 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 730 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 20 days ago • 151 comments

Your regular reminder that pretty much all of the Russiagate stuff was completely true and Trump just got away with it by firing and pardoning the right people and covering it all up

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

I committed every Achewood strip to memory for a perfect pull like this

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

Well the award for most cowardly, boot-lickingest academic society has squarely gone to the American Society of Microbiology, who has taken down features of various non-white scientists. Absolutely pathetic behavior. Those articles are now coming up as “under review”. Truly sickening cowardice here.

submitted 21 days ago • 353 comments

The NTSB says it will no longer email news outlets or reporters with notifications of upcoming press conferences, including those on plane crashes in Washington and Philadelphia. Instead, all notifications will be made on X. We're filing a FOIA to find out more about the change in policy.

submitted 22 days ago • 658 comments

I wonder if Cory Booker’s social media training for elected Dems included to just keep blithely posting as your terrified constituents beg you to do something

submitted 23 days ago • 101 comments

Cannot tell you how hollow it feels to get scads of these BLUE WAVE!! accounts following me while watching our government disintegrate. Yes, meme some more, I’m sure it devastates them while they try to executive order me out of existence.

submitted 23 days ago • 13 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 23 days ago • 503 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 24 days ago • 876 comments

Can we please remember that very recently South Korea showed us all what we should do when the president does illegal shit

submitted 23 days ago • 61 comments

oh did you write some code for a website that became popular once? well you must be the wisest and best of us, here let us give you unlimited authority over the future of the entire country.

submitted 24 days ago • 47 comments

HE'S FUCKING SENILE AND RACIST THAT'S ALL THAT'S HAPPENING HERE

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

The plan was to understaff everything, at least until you could staff it all with Project 2025 or Twitter Blue Nazis. Almost shocked at how quickly the danger of that showed up.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

submitted 24 days ago • 322 comments

I saw a post saying that ICE is pausing its tip line, so I decided to call myself to verify. The recorded voicemail said they are not currently accepting immigration status tips. Good job, friends.

submitted 25 days ago • 976 comments

Elon Musk just killed 67 people. Say it back.

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

leaving the cruelty aside for just a minute it's absolutely humiliating to imagine being my age or older and getting excited because you think you've been given permission to say a bad word. what are you gonna do next, ride your tricycle past the end of the block

submitted 27 days ago • 126 comments

Checking in on Kash Patel’s confirmation hearing:

submitted 24 days ago • 1079 comments

"Trump appointed a road rules cast member to be in charge of airline safety and this is the result" that's all true and a one-sentence narrative that is completely damning to the ears of someone who isn't paying much attention to politics. Take the layup.

submitted 24 days ago • 29 comments