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What could be more fitting than migrants being imprisoned in a Panamanian high rise that likely only exists as a money laundering scheme for global oligarchs?

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

submitted 7 days ago • 122 comments

Why is this dimwitted drunk sex pest I hired for a key position making mistakes

submitted 9 days ago • 132 comments

It should be a source of profound embarrassment that a bunch of FedSoc lifers are taking a more vocal and principled stand against the corrupt Eric Adams deal than most elected Dems.

submitted 9 days ago • 247 comments

The interim US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, a FedSoc member and former Scalia clerk, has done more to publicly expose the corruption of the Trump administration this week at greater personal cost than any elected official I can think of.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

Total attendance for Major League Baseball was 71 million. Average player salary $4.6 million. ~1000 players. For a total of $4.6 billion. Before you pay a coach or a hot dog vendor. I guess the National Parks don't have TV rights, but you get the picture.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Just thinking a lot about how Democrats responded to public pressure by attempting to go into federal buildings and giving up immediately when stopped by security and how apt of a metaphor that is. Imagine if they had pushed back. Gotten detained, thrown out, arrested. These are choices.

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

I hate it when my ailing king is usurped by his scheming foreign vizier

submitted 18 days ago • 40 comments

The one funny thing about this is that the name Greenland itself originated as a stupid and fairly bald-faced marketing gimmick, so this isn’t entirely outside of tradition

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Even our Hollywood A-list is a gerontocracy.

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

👇🏽🤷🏻

submitted 16 days ago • 130 comments

"Just posting" during last Trump admin, we organized around 1000 in our district that put big pressure on our Rep, made Rs spend millions, made a buttondown authoritarian spend untold days on us, and ultimately flee the district and lose in a primary. If your writing rallies and encourages, DO IT.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It's really embarassing losing our democracy to people this fucking weird and gross.

submitted 15 days ago • 62 comments

If you're over the age of 15 and a robot from the future hasn't come to kill you yet, you're most likely not that important.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

Everything’s building up to the question of whether the Democrats will provide any votes for funding the government in March. And given that they can’t trust the bureaucracy to follow through (that is, follow the law) on any deal they strike, it’s hard to see how they rationally could.

submitted 15 days ago • 36 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 17 days ago • 200 comments

The zampolit and commissars are coming.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Here's a thing we as states can do.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a media dynamic to this too I think. When Biden pushed limits the press coverage was often like “Preposterous! A dog can’t play basketball.” But with Trump we’re getting a lot of “Golden Retriever stuns onlookers with flawless dunk.”

submitted 22 days ago • 21 comments

I've heard a number of people say, "I live in a safe blue district/state--there's no point in calling my reps since they're already on the right side." Yes, there is: You can call and insist that they be among the loudest voices on the issues you care about, since they can afford to be.

submitted 24 days ago • 61 comments

Pritzker understands the assignment in a way that is frankly rare for Democratic presidential hopefuls

submitted 24 days ago • 12 comments

It’s time to stop making excuses for Democrats. Or overlooking the gazillionaire insider traders, the ones who won’t retire, the encrusted committee chairs, the party committee that isn’t an actual organization, the donor bottle service legislators, and everyone who won’t fight and doesn’t know how.

submitted 25 days ago • 21 comments

because they have trained themselves to think of politics as a social game in which they are participants, and not as something that determines whether people live or die

submitted 27 days ago • 91 comments

The fact Democrats are still advancing nominations for this man 97-0 is insane.

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

I spoke to a talented junior scientist who just got a good faculty job offer in the US and they told me “well I wouldn’t move to 1930s Germany either” so that’s how that’s going

submitted 26 days ago • 474 comments

If anything, today proved that this is not a Sputnik moment, it is a Pets dot com moment, and if you don't know what I am talking about then yes, you are doomed to repeat it.

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

In the spirit of Sputnik, let's at least consider the possibility that our geopolitical adversary is lying about its capabilities and how much is being spent on them before we race to close the AI gap at any cost.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Since Johnny Carson hasn’t been on the Tonight Show for over 30 years, younger audiences might not get the “Here’s Johnny!” reference in The Shining, so they should update the iconic scene so Jack Torrance says, “It’s a me, Mario!” as he sticks his head in the axe hole in the door.

submitted 559 days ago • 50 comments

Hello out there scientists. If you're having meetings or grants or anything else impacted by freeze of NSF meetings, please feel free to reach out to me to share your story. Signal: thealexknapp.79 Email: [email protected]

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

I don't disagree, but I would also point out that this is precisely sort of simple to comprehend, unambiguous posturing that makes Trumpism work politically and sociologically.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

We don't do ally work hoping to change the person doing/saying bad shit. We do it to reach the bystanders, who see that there is another way, and not everyone agrees with the weirdo who thinks nothing of doing their Weird Shit in public.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"The Bishop hijacked the Prayer Service" is like saying "the pilot hijacked the plane"

submitted 31 days ago • 212 comments

Shutting down NIH is one way to keep RFK, Jr from wrecking it, but it's not really my preferred approach.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

it’s me, the america first guy, making sure china knows its place in the world by ceding all the international organizations that america set up to maintain its hegemony

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

This matters. Not because I think Trump is capable of mercy or empathy towards these vulnerable groups. But because it is a public act of defiance. Contrast that with all these other powerful people in this country signaling nothing but appeasement and obedience.

submitted 33 days ago • 318 comments

Musk could wear the armband and the press would go into esoteric discussions of Sanskrit.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments