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The Marshall Plan, in reverse.

submitted 13 hours ago • 63 comments

Pesky damn lawyers, it's always "no, that's illegal" this and "we could all go to prison" that.

submitted 13 hours ago • 32 comments

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

submitted 18 hours ago • 215 comments

Five things I accomplished last week: 1. Sued Musk & DOGE (repeatedly) 2. Got Musk blocked out of Treasury 3. Sued Trump (repeatedly) 4. Helped persuade SCOTUS to leave anti-Trump injunction in place 5. Got booked @theweekendmsnbc.bsky.social Join us at 9 AM ET Sunday morning to discuss!

submitted 1 day ago • 372 comments

'luigi mangione being celebrated as a hero will lead to a valorization of vigilante violence' is one of those things that only sounds reasonable if you start paying attention to American vigilantism at the exact moment it targets someone with wealth and influence

submitted 1 day ago • 71 comments

It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

submitted 1 day ago • 2108 comments

Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs. That's not counting the replies.

submitted 1 day ago • 438 comments

תשע מעלות! אני דורש ועדת חקירה מי אישר את הלוח משמרות שאומר שאני צריך לצאת בדבר הזה.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Normally the DNI and POTUS see each other regularly for intelligence reasons but Trump doesn’t do that stuff.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

I just share this stuff in family group chats with family members who are pro-Ukraine and voted for Trump. They should know what they voted for.

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

Imagine how news media would respond if it was Harris saying this after a dozen eggs topped $8 nationally

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

Trump’s EO ruining the independence of federal agencies shows the real goal of Musk and Trump is not efficiency or even winning the culture wars. It’s thievery. And they are exceptional thieves. My latest in @thenation.com

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

Well shit. consequence.net/2025/02/j6-c...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

submitted 2 days ago • 129 comments

Diaper Don's planning a heist? Wha?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

27% of Canadians view the US as 'enemy.' 75% of Canadians have a negative view of the US. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

Police procedurals everywhere else: sex money and anger cause most murder sprees British police procedurals: most murder sprees start when a person discovers that they were adopted

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

The credit card computers do more every hour of every day. Maybe every minute.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Trump: "If you notice, every country that has the death penalty has no drug problem. They execute drug dealers. And when you think about it, it's very humane, because every drug dealer on average they say kills at least 500 people ... I don't know if our country is ready for it. I am ready for it."

submitted 2 days ago • 768 comments

This is an interesting framing of what exile and homeland mean here.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

FIRE’s brief is exceptionally good and refutes the “you can regulate fake news” fatuity that you hear from both right and left.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Good. It's hard to imagine government documents of greater concern to the public than police disciplinary records.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

addicts will definitely stop using to have radiant skin, yes that sounds right

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Wow, I wonder why a spy agency might want to recruit people from diverse socioeconomic backgrounds

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Extremely fascist things happening. While everyone sits there obediently.

submitted 2 days ago • 100 comments

"I Shot The Sheriff," the Jaco way: t.co/PbhLFM1Nz3

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I see they started with the copyeditors.

submitted 3 days ago • 41 comments

The dude who's feeding the US government to the woodchipper won't talk to his baby mama about his kid's medical emergency.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 2950 comments

We all have lapses where our memory fails us and we forget some complicated technical term, or have trouble recalling some difficult bit of jargon, like "triangle."

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Wow. DOGE is far more expensive than the USDS that it pretends to be. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Trump just blamed Ukraine outright for Russia’s invasion. ‘You shoulda never started it,’ he said. What a lie, a Russian lie—from the President of the US.

submitted 5 days ago • 171 comments

Here’s the pitch: They hire back the accidentally-fired bird flu folks and the accidentally-fired nuclear security guys BUT they put them in each other’s jobs — also by accident! It’s TRADING PLACES meets FAILSAFE meets CONTAGION — and maybe also FREAKY FRIDAY! Need a title.

submitted 5 days ago • 255 comments

Sadiq Khan to tell EU diplomats 'Brexit was a mistake' arguing strengthened ties would offset Trump tariffs www.lbc.co.uk/politics/uk-...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

לקציני צה״ל, סוכני מוסד, אנשי שב״כ ופקידים ישראלים אשר נוטלים חלק בתכנון הטרנספר (הטיהור האתני) של העזתים, תדעו לכם שאתם עומדים לבצע פקודות בלתי חוקיות בעליל. מעשים אלו יובילו אתכם ישר לבית הדין הפלילי בהאג – מה שאתם עושים מוגדר כפשע מלחמה. ראו, הוזהרתם! (גרשון בסקין, 18 פברואר 2025)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Satellite imagery reveals Israel has built at least seven new bases in Syria, all along the buffer zone, from the Syrian Mt Hermon, down south towards tri-border area with Jordan www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic... Planet Labs PBC

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

יהודים מתחננים על החיים שלהם, לא לנאצים, לא למערב, לממשלת ישראל #מה_שואה_בישבילך

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

A few further thoughts on DOGE accessing the IDRS database at the IRS: I led the Treasury Office of Tax Policy and have spoken to a number of former career and political appointees at Treasury and IRS. None can recall a political appointee ever having access to this database. 1/5

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

במקום לסרב לשרת, להכריז על שביתה כללית עד שהכנסת מחליטה על פיזורה והליכה לבחירות, ואז להעמיד לדין בהקדם את כל הממשלה המנוולת הזאת על בגידה ופשעים נגד האנושות, מאוננים על משפט שוחד שהוא מעבר לפרודיה וייגמר חצי מאה אחרי שהנכד של ביבי ימות בשיבה טובה #מה_זו_פשיטת_רגל_טוטלית_בשבילך

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

On the way back from my lecture on early Hasidism, I ran into another professor who asked me if I have any hope that things in the US will get better any time soon. So I answered by quoting Kafka, as recounted by Walter Benjamin: "Oh, plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope - but not for us."

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

if you're looking to forewarn & forearm yourself about the days that are here and are to come, consider checking out my book, which former evangelicals have described as bracing, validating and truthful to their recollections: bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

submitted 33 days ago • 25 comments

BREAKING A Delta Airlines CRJ appears to have crash landed at Toronto’s airport.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments