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regret to inform everyone this is a real guy who could be pope

submitted 14 hours ago • 478 comments

“None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or ‘lethality,’ or promoting ‘warfighters,’ or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple.”

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

LGBTQ+ advocates say transgender Pennsylvanians can still identify as they choose at the state level, and in some ways, with their federal ID. Here’s a guide to what transgender Pennsylvanians can and can’t do with their documents.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

anotha one

submitted 17 hours ago • 72 comments

Cons be like "oh does the Nazi salute trigger you libs? Here I'm gonna do obvious Nazi salutes without calling them Nazi salutes. My heart goes out to you! Haha see what I did there? WAIT DON'T CANCEL ME FROM MY JOB YOU'RE TAKING ME OUT OF CONTEXT"

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

Wild how this keeps happening. I'm sure it's totally a coincidence.

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Just gonna note they’re doing exactly what I said they’d do. substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 15 hours ago • 21 comments

Man he really called it

submitted 15 hours ago • 56 comments

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 19 hours ago • 108 comments

"This is the moment in which they come for trans people. You know the poem by Lutheran Pastor Martin Niemöller. You know what happens next. Time to fight back." www.startribune.com/why-are-repu...

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

if you look at a bad thing that happened and assume, evidence-free, that it's because a Black person got a job they shouldn't have, you're not a "DEI skeptic," you're a dumb gutter racist

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

Illegally cutting cancer research and meals on wheels to pay for PR ads for themselves.

submitted 20 hours ago • 28 comments

"The opposition is the majority."

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

sometimes instead of rice I throw cheap Ramen into my cooking curry and let it cook in the sauce and it is aces.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

"Killing Gawker was a trial run for a media takeover."

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Stop fucking saying he blamed “DEI,” which is some abstract, non-tangible idea. He is blaming people of color having jobs he thinks they aren’t qualified for. He’s blaming race. He’s being racist every time he says it. Journalists need to get fucking backbones, my word.

submitted 23 days ago • 246 comments

It was big when I realized that fancying up cheap ramen is super easy and makes it so much better

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Trump military purge. Any Congressional Democrats telling themselves they can sit back and wait for Republicans to tank the midterms are delusional. We need full opposition mode, including supporting mass rallies and direct action. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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One of the oldest arguments against workplace diversity was that qualified white men would be passed over for unqualified or incompetent members of equity groups, which of course presumed that no one in those disadvantaged groups could themselves ever be qualified hires.

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 21 hours ago • 184 comments

Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 1 day ago • 235 comments

Kneading laundry fresh from the dryer like a cat

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 478 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Elon Musk's first ex-wife (who is a novelist) wrote this harrowing account of his insane behavior back in 2010. Sadly, way too many people ignored it. www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a53...

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

every single transportation conversation ever

submitted 1 day ago • 64 comments

Like if the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft burned the books themselves in hopes it would keep the wolves from the door. Friends, the wolves seek the light.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

These kids are all right

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FOLLOWUP: SECDEF Hegseth also firing the CNO, the USAF Vice-Chief, and somewhat unusually and ominously to do in the same breath, the senior JAGs of the Army, Navy, and USAF

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

The homie @breakdown777.bsky.social just referred to Malort as "Tire Schnapps" and I have never heard a more accurate name for anything in my life.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

JUST IN: A judge has enjoined President Trump's effort to block federal funds from going toward grant recipients who engage in DEI practices. The judge says the orgs are likely to succeed on claims that this is viewpoint discrimination, among other issues storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

We're doing it, folks

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

How big is their damn endowment again?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

submitted 1 day ago • 979 comments

This is such a savvy move by Judge Ho. It’s not just that Clement has impeccable (conservative) credentials; he was the Solicitor General from 2004–08, and even Acting AG briefly, so he can participate with quite a bit of perspective as to the proper role of the Department of Justice.

submitted 1 day ago • 34 comments

1/ Judge Ho bringing in Paul Clement to serve as the Amicus attorney to present arguments regarding the DOJ's motion to dismiss the charges against Mayor Adams, citing a Supreme Court case approving a court bringing in Paul Clement to serve as amicus counsel to argue a position abandoned by the DOJ

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

NEW: Not only is DOGE's man in the Treasury Department keeping his day job as CEO of Cloud Software Group, his company currently has millions of dollars in government contracts. Including with the Treasury Department. More from @peard33.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/krause...

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Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

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