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Well I guess Musk won’t mind if we just start calling this place Twitter then huh

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

blah blah james bond

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

How to understand the stock market if you only watch Fox News

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

every time you get the urge -- like I first did, when I read this -- to laugh at the fascists' incompetence? remember that what they're actually doing is bragging that they can lie with impunity

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The SSA is moving all communication with the press and public to X and cutting its regional office workforce by close to 90%. "Things are going to break, and they're going to break fast," a regional commissioner told managers this week. This is from @zoeschiffer.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

How I feel about the state of things

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump spent $200 million to thank himself. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... The entire motherfucking annual budget of the National Endowment for the Humanities was $210 million.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fired Justice Department employee reveals that Trump officials tried to send armed officers to her home to intimidate her and her family: “I will not be bullied into concealing the ongoing corruption and abuse of power.”

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Just remembering how Joe Biden forgiving some student loans was taking the power of the presidency too far.

submitted 6 days ago • 48 comments

At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.

submitted 6 days ago • 313 comments

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like destroying both the economy and the government is a suboptimal strategy for owning the libs.

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

i did my taxes today

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Someone tell me the Democrats are keeping track of how many people this administration’s policies is killing

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration froze funding for a program to upgrade aging low-income housing and make it energy efficient. The move threatens hundreds of projects around the country. By @jenniferludden.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 36 comments

turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

I shared some thoughts in response to a post on Reddit that asked "will the tariffs drive publishers to focus more on card-based games?" I said "yes," and offered some details from my perspective as a board game publisher. You can see the full discussion here: www.reddit.com/r/boardgames...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

If you follow me you may not be 1. in the US 2. an academic But I want to mention something the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds with its tiny slice of the budget — which was just gutted. Funding to make scholarly books Open Access — free for the public to read, anywhere.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

List five famous people you've met, but ONE is a lie: 1. Jonathan Frakes 2. Vince Vaughn 3. Matthew Lillard 4. Dan Brown 5. Margaret Atwood

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

In Daredevil Born Again episode 6 is finding serial killers Matt's new super power or something because apparently he can just run down a subway and find anyone in like two hours

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

No cheating. The last saved celebrity pic is your therapist

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion.

submitted 10 days ago • 35 comments

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

submitted 11 days ago • 434 comments

Today is the PUBLIC debut of Magical Women, my comic series about a group of magical girls who failed to save the world 20 years ago but now they're trying again as they all approach 40. Read it FOR FREE every Wednesday at magicalwomencomic.com

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

People will say this is the result of a presidential election, and that’s partly true. But the Constitution does not delegate tariff power to the president, and he is only able to impose these ruinous, peace-destroying taxes because Congress has let him do so. Congress can end this at any time.

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

great, the penguins are gonna make a trade deal with their sworn enemies, the orcas, now, and come at us

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments