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It is extremely notable that Pharaoh justifies himself by citing national security. It’s “if we treat these people as people, rather than things, they might potentially hurt us, at some point in future.” This could have been written yesterday.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

republicans are disappearing people under the guise of fighting antisemitism and can’t even pretend to give a fuck when a jewish governor’s house gets firebombed on passover

submitted 9 days ago • 163 comments

rule of thumb, delete whatever you planned to write after "but"

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

If anti-Zionism is the term people use to describe those who question the right of the Israeli state to exist, what's the term for people who question the right of Canada to exist? Asking for a 78 year old billionaire President.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

No one in this administration has the attention span to read Mein Kampf. So it’s hard to see why liberals are so upset.

submitted 9 days ago • 14 comments

tell yourself that the photo of Whitmer hiding her face is actually Julia Louis Dreyfuss in Veep and you'll never be unable to unsee it

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.

submitted 10 days ago • 118 comments

I wish I hadn’t already decided not to have children so I could do it again out of spite.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

to agree with the Bruenig piece, you have to accept the premise that continued human presence on earth requires us to be concerned with white birthrates, because otherwise there's no problem to be solved

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

"People need to be having more babies" is creepshow shit and also highly annoying

submitted 10 days ago • 69 comments

if you are looking for a politics that fights for the conditions in which families can flourish you are looking for feminism. if you have ended up in “pro-natalism” you have taken several wrong turns and are surrounded by racists and eugenicists. turn back immediately and reflect on what happened

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submitted 11 days ago • 415 comments

"Therapists at Kaiser went on a hunger strike in Los Angeles" is so fucking dystopian

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Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 11 days ago • 28 comments

Remember when everybody thought disaster was averted for like a day? Good times.

submitted 12 days ago • 30 comments

I thought it was a joke but it's not. There's an actual study. Researchers at Penn & Finland engineered gum with antiviral bean proteins that ⬇️ viral load in the mouth the main site of replication for many viruses, including SarsCov2, HSV-1 &2, & influenza. www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

I realize this is over Donald Trump's head, but killing foreign tourism will increase the trade deficit.

submitted 12 days ago • 108 comments

The gerontocracy has real consequences: The House just passed their budget resolution -- a vote that would have likely failed if every Democratic seat was filled. Remember: We've got three Dems missing -- one who's out from illness and two others from members who died in office. Not great.

submitted 12 days ago • 36 comments

"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

submitted 13 days ago • 76 comments

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

submitted 13 days ago • 1695 comments

10/10 Onion headline

submitted 13 days ago • 16 comments

the jamelle bouie secret to presciently anticipating the behavior of the president is to just ask myself what a dumbass bully would do

submitted 13 days ago • 128 comments

Just to be clear, this is how it’s REALLY going. Nothing special or amazing. It’s still down from 6 months ago.

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 13 days ago • 393 comments

Excellent execution of the form

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I bent down to retrieve a dropped tortilla chip and bonked my head on my own desk THE ART OF THE DEAL!

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Saying "Doomsday Clock or regular?" when someone asks what time it is

submitted 14 days ago • 21 comments

Y'all are going to be begging for DEI to come back. Because this is peak whiteness right now, and it's looking pretty damn inept.

submitted 13 days ago • 212 comments

When I see a country where a single, clearly incompetent and deranged individual has sole control over all trade policy, and that person makes major changes to said policy every other day with no consistent philosophy, I absolutely think "that's a place where I want to invest and build a business."

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Twenty minutes before he paused the tarriffs Not even trying to hide the insider trading at this point

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

the United States is a very stable genius country. everyone wants to invest in it

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.

submitted 13 days ago • 195 comments

The past four Republican administrations have tanked the US economy. But I know multiple Democrats who include their pronouns in the footer of their emails. I have never felt more politically homeless.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 13 days ago • 380 comments

Wait, so they made a white dog? A large white dog? We're all going to starve in a measles gulag, but don't worry, they made a dog?

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

The discourse around tariffs has been “things will get more expensive” but I am here to tell you that I am knee deep in reporting on this subject and I strongly suspect that if super high tariffs endure, it will shift to certain items cease to be available at any price

submitted 14 days ago • 253 comments