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if there's one thing Evangelical Christians know it's that having the state execute a beloved dissident always stops that dissident's message from spreading so yeah seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione seems smart

submitted 19 hours ago • 204 comments

My god, a second health bar has appeared over Cory Booker’s head

submitted 17 hours ago • 60 comments

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

submitted 18 hours ago • 195 comments

it's important that today we put our differences aside to come together and say eat shit Strom Thurmond you desiccated corpse

submitted 18 hours ago • 18 comments

This is wonderful. ☺️

submitted 21 hours ago • 18 comments

In 1930 the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed, imposing severe duties on imported goods and leading to a golden age of economic prosperity that was so wonderful today we call it The Great Impression

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

cat tv proving very popular

submitted 3 days ago • 231 comments

another fish bested. thank you, freya, for keeping us all safe

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

My cat loves attention but also gets overstimulated very easily. Thus we wind up like this a lot. She’s super content but if I move, it try to remove, my hand the paws come out. Sound on for serotonin.

submitted 3 days ago • 22 comments

Pestilence is short for pesto excellence

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

how you sleep when you have no job or bills or responsibilities and your new roommates who are obsessed with you feed and pet you whenever you want

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

Ursula K. Le Guin on the true pain of being a writer

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

Making Beds, Deborah DeWit, 2010. #Caturday

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1261 comments

Me: You know why you shouldn't set your password as beef stew Husband: Why? Me: It's not stroganoff Husband: sighs

submitted 4 days ago • 55 comments

*you poke the creature

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

That sound you hear is every Staff+ engineer and SRE screaming in unison

submitted 5 days ago • 120 comments

omg AIM has been opensourced github.com/mk6i/retro-a...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

scurvy is surprisingly common among college students and the treatment consists of the doctor sitting the student down and saying "your mother wasn't lying, you really do have to eat fruit and vegetables once in a while. please go buy and eat an orange."

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Tired: doomscrolling Wired: darthscrolling seriously go look at all the perfect babies in this thread, your day will instantly improve

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and that is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

submitted 7 days ago • 1729 comments

I don't care what side of the Israel-Palestine conflict your sympathies lie on, snatching up people with a valid student visa for the crime of writing an OpEd is naked fascism and if you don't oppose this you are a threat to this country's most basic values

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

As the Texas measles outbreak continues, doctors there are treating some children given so much vitamin A that they have signs of liver damage. Story by @teddyrosenbluth.bsky.social Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/25/h...

submitted 7 days ago • 336 comments

JD VANCE: 45 told me he was thinking about nuking Iran. what do u guys think? PETE HEGSETH: who is bonerdude JD VANCE: that’s the homie we play counter strike sometimes

submitted 8 days ago • 22 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 9 days ago • 418 comments

shut up about politics. look at this

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trying to explain to him that he can just lay down and relax somewhere instead of following me from room to room like a little duckling

submitted 9 days ago • 114 comments

The NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER added the EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC to a PRINCIPALS COMMITTEE TEXT CHAIN set up for the DEFENSE SECRETARY about PLANNED MILITARY STRIKES. Here's a thread of involved parties talking about the need for secure communications (when Dems are involved):

submitted 8 days ago • 373 comments

18 U.S.C. § 793(f) makes it a federal crime to for people entrusted with information related to the national defense to, with gross negligence, disclose it to others in violation of that trust.

submitted 8 days ago • 418 comments

This would - and should be - a clearance-pulling, career-ending scandal in any other administration. At minimum, Waltz has to resign. 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

23andMe is going under. Californians have the right to delete their genetic data before it's turned over to next party buying the assets. If you have a 23andMe account, go log in to download whatever reports you want to save, then follow these instructions to delete your data.

submitted 9 days ago • 171 comments

before and after mama starts singing to you

submitted 10 days ago • 51 comments

The ACA was cool because it made it illegal to deny you access to health care for needing access to health care the things it banned were so horrifying that people straight up don't believe they were real

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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “I was only following orders” was rejected as a defense at the Nuremberg Trials.

submitted 10 days ago • 327 comments

Why else would it be called usPSPS

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

someone should make an AI chatbot trained only on public-domain books, because A) it's more ethical and B) responses like "Prithee understand, despite my diligent & thorough Education through the readynge of Divers Books, I fear to have not made previous Acquaintance with the Concept of Java-Scrypte

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I swear Maru is the last keystone holding the world together, He's 18 now and must be protected at all costs.

submitted 11 days ago • 46 comments

What a beauty! Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

submitted 12 days ago • 730 comments

you can not win a trade war against a country that trades in chaos

submitted 12 days ago • 94 comments

At a recent talk, someone came up to me and asked: "Isn't California just always going to be a lot more expensive than other states?" The simple answer is "no." We know it doesn't have to be this way, because it wasn't always this way until the 1970s. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/mnolangr...

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Sandal would love to hear your work stories. he will not make comparisons to his own experiences. he will not make suggestions on how to fix your problems. he will act very offended on your behalf when you talk about your jerk coworkers. indeed, he will seem even more enraged than you are.

submitted 13 days ago • 184 comments

can i interest you in a sleepy baby angel?

submitted 14 days ago • 78 comments

scientists should study how the Discord app turns everyone into a pun fiend. there is never a channel called #cooking there is only shit like #go-fork-yourself or #knifes-to-meet-you

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments