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None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 14 hours ago • 292 comments

"You can be Russia's colony or ours" is not a way to run a railroad.

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I think it's good we put the Hamburglar in charge of the McDonalds and I find nothing suspicious about the fact that his first act in office was disconnecting all the security cameras

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

In case anyone missed it, we have reached the "arrest teachers and librarians" part of the fascism The books in question are largely LGBTQ+ literature and resources. Though any book with sex with it can be targeted. Or rather, the librarian can if a child reads it. This was Page 5 of Project 2025.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

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

submitted 3 hours ago • 22 comments

If you take the totality of his public-facing career, Musk's hard turn deep into very online politigrift bubble because those folks made a concerted effort to gas him up to get him on the team, is going to turn into one an all-time Icarian falls, cause Elon Musk ain't built to handle public scrutiny

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 23 hours ago • 77 comments

This is actually not uncommon with hate groups. "Hey, we're not anti-lesbian. We have a lesbian leader!" The key is that they regard whatever group they hate as subhuman with a few exceptional members that rise to the level of being human.

submitted 9 minutes ago • 0 comments

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

submitted 22 hours ago • 47 comments

Spoiler: The glue is failing in freezing weather. Because they used glue on the Cybertruck.

submitted 19 hours ago • 191 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1017 comments

WaPo about the TPUSA grifter who promotes vaccines cause autism conspiracies and features episodes discouraging toothpaste and cancer screenings while also preaching that LGBTQ+ people should be barred from having children and fantasizes about publicly executing immigrants: “wellness influencer”

submitted 15 hours ago • 23 comments

Odd how "efficiency" always requires firing the watchdogs

submitted 21 minutes ago • 1 comment

Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 18 hours ago • 26 comments

I'm happy to dump on co-President Musk and his gang of miscreants but ... Falcon 9 is exceptionally safe. I'd trust my dogs on one.

submitted 34 minutes ago • 0 comments

OK. Good news is we don't have any indication (yet) that this is going to break out into the human pop. Most viruses don't. The bad news is that in in the unlikely event that it does, we are screwed, given the gang of doofuses in charge. nypost.com/2025/02/21/w...

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump fired Brown because of his race, and wants to replace him with a white candidate who is unqualified according to the statutory requirements.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Biggest crybabies on the planet.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

One thing this little bleat from Chad “Damp Little Britches” Mizelle demonstrates is the duality of Trumpism: it’s about simultaneously being (1) a tough truth-telling masculine elbow-thrower and (2) as fragile as a porcelain goose. Bullies who can dish, but weep at the slightest pushback. Losers.

submitted 17 hours ago • 37 comments

“Criticizing the government is not a crime.” It is significantly less than ideal that this needs to be said.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

This saves no money. It's just being a jackass for the sake of being a jackass.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Right now, low- and middle-income CA residents are going to subsidize rebuilding multi-million dollar mansions because that state, in its infinite wisdom, capped rate increases for fire insurance. All but one private insurer, of course, stopped renewing and writing new policies.

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Treat this story with extreme skepticism.

submitted 17 hours ago • 4 comments

Literally just talked to an Afghan Uber driver in DC tonight who said he worked as an interpreter for US military for four years — and his wife is now trapped in limbo. He’s spent $16k in legal fees. “I served the US, I should have my wife here”

submitted 18 hours ago • 4 comments

Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

submitted 19 hours ago • 856 comments

When your definition of “conservative” is “absolute adherence to a madman”, everyone starts to look liberal.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Y'all, this is what progress looks like. McCormick may defend the cuts but you can be sure that an event like that left him SHOOK. Will he change his ways? Maybe not him, this one's drunk a LOT of Kool Aid. But his colleagues will take note and some of them may change course. Keep up the pressure!

submitted 23 hours 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 23 hours ago • 8 comments

One thing to add to Chise's excellent thread. My dad's a surgeon and when wife was diagnosed, I asked why they don't surgically remove pancreatic cancers. It's because the surgery has a VERY low survival rate. In 50 years of practice, he did it twice. So cancer vaccines would be a godsend.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

"Disrupt," "disruptor," and "disrupting" are all dirty words to me now.

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

This lawsuit was about discriminating against refugees. I expect all such lawsuits to be dropped eventually and discrimination against refugees to not just be allowed but actively encouraged.

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

DOGE is scrutinizing grants of a few million while burning through tens of millions with no accountability. I mean ... $40 million is a lot of blow-up dolls.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

The only reason anyone over 40 should use young people's slang is to annoy their kids by using it wrong or really irritate them by using it right. If you do not have kids, just post online. Some teen will find it and roll their eyes into the next century and you'll know you're doing the Lord's work

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Everyone who has gotten a vaccine in the US—which the vast majority have, multiple times—heard a medical professional say "do you have any questions?," signed a consent form, and received a detailed information sheet (often multiple pages long). Everyone knows this. Another reality-inverting lie.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

We're seeing the world's richest man have a mental breakdown in real time.

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

I think Sullivan is being a bit hysterical but the gist is right: Trump has aligned us with dictators and murderers against democracy. andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/requiem-fo...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

One of the myths about Trump is that he is good at deals. He is absolute dogshit at them. He fails to recognize the cards he has, concedes critical issues in advance and will back out on a whim. Of course, in this case, the deal he wants is that Russia conquers and genocides Ukraine, so ...

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

This guys is a doctor. He should know better.

submitted 22 hours ago • 3 comments

Tomorrow in the NYT: I voted for Donald Trump because I hate the people he hates and wanted to see them suffer. Now that I am suffering, why can’t you find it in your heart to be sympathetic? RUDE

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 1 day ago • 334 comments