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this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

submitted 11 hours ago • 205 comments

Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken

submitted 3 days ago • 97 comments

A Delta flight carrying ~80 passengers from Minnesota appears to have crash landed at Toronto Pearson Airport. No casualties reported as of this time. Numerous photos and videos have been released showing passengers safely exiting the plane, which flipped upside down. At least 8 people injured.

submitted 5 days ago • 1765 comments

Can only speak for myself but I’ve heard some reeeeally rough stories. At the end I do a thing that feels gross, which is ask their permission to share their story to put a face on what is happening. As a moral/ethical matter we can’t share stories without consent and we defo can’t put them on TV-

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

An explainer about university grant funding from the always-excellent @bretdevereaux.bsky.social acoup.blog/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

So just putting it out there, any candidates for our next FDR? Cause we're pretty fucked otherwise

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

From the White House deputy chief of staff: "We never agreed that Canada would not be the 51st state."

submitted 10 days ago • 78 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

NIH stuff is yet another example for their being only one game in town for Real Problems. yep, admin bloat is an issue in many ways. nope, you don't address this by overnight de facto massively cutting science budgets across the country. you can't work on Real Problems with republicans , sorry.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Of course anyone paying attention knows this is how Trump would behave. But I think a significant part of Dem messaging needs to be that Trump lied to the American people about what he was going to do. The only alternative is the much worse—that Trump is doing exactly what America wanted

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in

submitted 13 days ago • 102 comments

All people imprisoned by the state deserve healthcare. To deny healthcare to anyone because a far-right party will weaponise treating them as human beings as a public outrage is to give in to a right-wing moral panic. This is obvious to anyone that actually thinks about this logic

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

"We obviously can't do anything" is not a tenable response to a crisis brought about by actors using every lever at their disposal to do things no one thought they could do.

submitted 15 days ago • 25 comments

This is an absolutely remarkable memo — and a betrayal of both the Constitution and the American political tradition. In the US, by explicit contrast with interwar fascist governments, the state is not supposed to be an extension of the personality of the chief executive.

submitted 16 days ago • 215 comments

They targeted gamers. Gamers.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Is American quiet quitting democracy?

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Lots of people out there saying, "at least by fucking everything up they're showing how incompetent they are, which will turn voters against them." I just wonder where in the world people get this hope. America made it all the way through the election in near-total ignorance. Why would that change?

submitted 18 days ago • 69 comments

Do I know if the Democrats' messaging will click? Not really. Does Chuck Schumer look silly at these rallies? You could say that. But I remember covering the early Tea Party rallies in February 2009, when the CW was "look at this stupid shit, do Republicans actually want to associate w this?"

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

the Oversight Committee immediately devolves into chaos after Democrats call for Elon Musk to come and testify

submitted 17 days ago • 528 comments

Yes thehill.com/homenews/sen...

submitted 17 days ago • 377 comments

this is right. on our current track the Constitution is done, kaput www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

My depressing thought for the day: it seems increasingly inevitable that quite soon, Trump decides to simply disregard a court finding that some of his actions are illegal or unconstitutional. Impeachment is attempted & fails thanks to loyal Republicans. At which point there are no good options.

submitted 17 days ago • 133 comments

Dems in Disarray

submitted 17 days ago • 28 comments

Lot of people reminded today of Thomas Paine's "Times that try men's souls" essay after the opening lines quoted to cheers at the Treasury rally. The rest of it is worth getting familiar with again too! Paine is, in the media of his time, posting through it at a moment when it looked so over. 🧵/

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

An interesting perspective on fascism in America (2022) youtu.be/CFDDf48nj9g

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

In this Ohio town, it was tradition: Latin mass, sausage at Bob Evans, and then down to the old Treasury Department servers to download every American’s Social Security number. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Ah, yes, I’m sure no prior administration thought to ask how all the payments are made.

submitted 19 days ago • 309 comments

not trying to minimize the harms being done but please believe the country supports trans kids your enemies are made of paper

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

This Weeks Editorial Cartoon: Home Deport Advantage

submitted 18 days ago • 25 comments

Not to worry as it’s only a tier 1 violation of the Constitution and, as everyone knows, it only really becomes a problem at tier 3 and above.

submitted 18 days ago • 221 comments

A perplexing development on this website is the emergence of accounts that get extremely upset when you suggest that the Democrats should do more to fight Trump and Musk

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

Dems should run a video series where they interview a government worker, have them explain how they serve the American people and why. Keep it 5-10 minutes. In the middle of every video, ask them how they and their colleagues feel about Trump and Musk's actions

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments