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i was just complaining about this to a friend a few days ago. the punditry is obsessed with this retreat to discourse, where there is an inability to examine the actual phenomenon itself. instead, they engage in language games or treat politics as a question of definitions

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

It’s nice how they’ve replicated the middle school dynamic of the insecure bully and his sniveling sidekick picking on someone surrounded by a circle of scared little boys who also try to talk shit so the bully doesn’t come after them. Or as the right calls it, “masculinity.”

submitted 3 days ago • 440 comments

U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 3 days ago • 84 comments

What happens when the SSA closes field offices? *People have a harder time getting access to services that they are eligible for because of crowded offices. *People with more severe disabilities, lower income and lower education are most adversely affected. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."

submitted 15 days ago • 69 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 16 days ago • 5654 comments

This constantly gets brought up in response to AI criticism. No one objects to these applications. They object to the consumer facing dreck that's being marketed to us as groundbreaking and forced onto our devices.

submitted 25 days ago • 102 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 26 days ago • 1755 comments

andrew johnson was impeached for violation of the tenure of office act. in the scheme of things, was that a huge deal? not really. the actual issue was that johnson was trying to scuttle any attempt to reconstruct the former confederate states on an egalitarian basis and *that* was intolerable

submitted 26 days ago • 132 comments

Monstrous www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

submitted 29 days ago • 10 comments

There is such an enormous gap right now between online people aware the administration has created a colossal rolling constitutional crisis and the majority* of offline people who are almost certainly tuning it all out or half aware at most as background noise, and it’s… not good for any society

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

A Bear and Her Lawyer — Shaun Tan

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments