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helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

This is how you deal with these assholes

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JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 861 comments

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

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submitted 13 days ago • 89 comments

I just want to go back to the time when every single song on the radio was by the goo goo dolls

submitted 14 days ago • 194 comments

Courtship dance of the peacock spider 📹 Michael Lun / wa_peacock_jumping_spiders

submitted 15 days ago • 503 comments

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

submitted 19 days ago • 2271 comments

"Nobody voted for Elon Musk. And nobody wants airplanes to fall out of the sky. But after Musk pushed out the head of the FAA and Donald Trump gutted the agency’s safety board, and Musk attempted to push air traffic controllers to quit, the worst domestic airline disaster since 2001 occurred."

submitted 20 days ago • 69 comments

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

the tariff trade war stuff is pretty complicated but one way you can think about it is that in this scenario the United States is basically Drake and Canada is Kendrick Lamar

submitted 21 days ago • 38 comments

Ah damn it turns out this whole political system relies on false assumptions about how big of an asshole someone could be

submitted 22 days ago • 200 comments

Thousands in Germany have taken the streets protest the rise of the Elon Musk and Kremlin supported neo-Nazi party AfD, ahead of the general election.

submitted 26 days ago • 416 comments

Wrote something about how the decision to purge the PCLOB could trigger the EU no longer allowing US internet companies (incl. Meta, X, Truth Social) to operate there in short order. Also, why it sometimes helps to understand how gov't works before you smash things. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

Why is it that elites are held to a standard of perfection at all times, and populists are held to no standard at all?

submitted 28 days ago • 62 comments

What does everyone think about what he said the differences between dems and reps are ?

submitted 31 days ago • 536 comments

Imagine being a billionaire. Your family, your kids family, and your kids, kids families are all set for life. You can have anything. Do anything. Be anything. Change everything. And then using your money to elect Trump just so you can get richer???

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

submitted 37 days ago • 778 comments

no one has ever lost a rap battle more than this. this is the most you can lose it

submitted 38 days ago • 19 comments

Fact-checking wasn’t “biased” against conservatives. Conservatives just shared more false content. If there’s a sportsball game and one team fouls four times as much, it’s not “biased” for the ref to call four times as many fouls against that team.

submitted 47 days ago • 110 comments

Think different in 2025: Find and support businesses that are actually doing the right thing. Money talks—spend it where it matters.

submitted 47 days ago • 1108 comments

Jamie Raskin has endured the death of a child, beat cancer and still calls out the hypocrisy and lies of the right. Jamie is a true patriot. ♥️♻️ if you think so too!

submitted 50 days ago • 374 comments

the thing about treason is that sometimes it works

submitted 54 days ago • 15 comments

thanks @studentofhistory.bsky.social here's the Raskin link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=col5...

submitted 68 days ago • 14 comments

The Kyiv Independent spent a day with one of Ukraine's top drone units, documenting their missions to hunt down Russian military equipment ― and soldiers ― near Kupiansk, Kharkiv Oblast, where Moscow is currently on the offensive.

submitted 70 days ago • 6 comments

"Democrats need to organize their future politics around the simple reality that the establishment media is structural hostile to the Democratic party."

submitted 80 days ago • 317 comments

I take a long walk in Los Angeles every day and over time I have amassed quite a collection of photos of funky little cars that are parked all by themselves

submitted 102 days ago • 53 comments

Are you kidding me with this? “A central pillar of American democracy is that no man is above the law. But Mr. Trump isn’t an ordinary man.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

submitted 96 days ago • 127 comments