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they’re having some tea

submitted 17 hours ago • 58 comments

This entire week my pattern recognition senses have been on full alert. My Spidey senses if you will. It turn out there are immense downsides to know history. Also immense downsides to not know what the fuck I can do to put a stop to all this madness that has me going Red Alert on the daily.

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Lawyers for Luigi Mangione asked a federal court on Friday to bar prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against him, arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi’s recently announced decision to do so was “explicitly and unapologetically political.”

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This is how tariffs work. ..and now I want Crab Rangoon.

submitted 9 hours ago • 124 comments

The Syrian Arabic word for a hamster is أبو جراب (abu jrab), where jrab refers to a pouch/saddlebag/tote. And abu often means “father of,” but can also function as a general honorific (like “mister”). So it’s not too big a stretch to say the Syrian Arabic word for a hamster means “Mister Saddlebags”

submitted 19 hours ago • 289 comments

The thing that bugs me about moderate Dems playing footsie with tariffs is that the only people who are truly excited about tariffs are hardcore MAGAites who aren't supporting them for economic reasons. They're doing it because they think it will make everyone less gay.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Little man is feeling the music 🎶✨ 🔊🔊 📽️danceworldkids

submitted 8 hours ago • 237 comments

RFK believes that he is one of the genetic elect and that it is a violation of the natural order to either impose on the genetic elect with public health OR prevent nature from taking its course with those who are predestined to biological damnation.

submitted 16 hours ago • 862 comments

People ask the dumbest questions. And then pretend they couldn't possibly figure out the answer.

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Did you want to see the all Pikachu Pokémon Halftime show of the Indian Super League Final?

submitted 12 hours ago • 72 comments

For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws

submitted 16 hours ago • 216 comments

I think that if someone says "birthrate" to you, you should get to slap them across the mouth once for every thing on this list that they don't believe in * vaccines * free pre-natal care * free healthcare for children * universal pre-k * free childcare * free school lunches * vaccines again

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

The nice thing about admitting to ourselves that we just dislike something is it frees us of any need to convince others. You don't need to slide into anyone's replies about a thing they like when you don't like it! You can just keep scrolling!

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Molly Jong-Fast deleted a post where she said George Packer was right in saying that "Fleeing before you're threatened is a lot like obeying in advance." A bunch of people reminded her that fleeing Europe in, say, 1932 or 33 versus 1939 was often the difference between living and dying. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 36 comments

come with me and you'll be in a world of strong potato flavor

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

Bicycling on a Lake Superior ore boat. www.perfectduluthday.com/2025/04/11/b...

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Humanity is getting a very quick refresher course in how evil, dangerous psychopaths can simultaneously be utterly pathetic losers. There is no contradiction!

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Try not to laugh.

submitted 1 day ago • 407 comments

As of today all foreigners in America are required to carry proof of our status with us at all times. Print off your i-94s uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?r...

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JUST IN: US Attorney Ed Martin seeks 48 month sentence for former MPD Officer Shane LAMOND, for leaking info to Enrique Tarrio about the probe of his BLM flag burning — and the lying to colleagues about it. Tarrio has called for Lamond to be pardoned. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Someone who is quickly becoming the most dear person in my life learned English listening to Voice of America. An anti fascist pro democracy service that #DOGE renamed the Department of Propaganda Everywhere and ceased broadcasting. Its small potatoes but it's also not. It's an insult to Americans.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

“Well, Dr Franklin, what do we have, a republic or a monarchy?” “A republic… I think… wait… let me refresh my feed again…”

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

NEW 🧵 The number of people travelling from Europe to the US in recent weeks has plummeted by as much as 35%, as travellers have cancelled plans in response to Trump’s policies and rhetoric, and horror stories from the border. Story: www.ft.com/content/6dc1...

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

BREAKING: the heroes at Susman Godfrey sue the Trump administration over the illegal retaliation against them They have more integrity in their pinky finger than these other firms that have been capitulating have in their entire partnerships And kudos to the team at Munger for representing them

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Just a reminder that Germany led the world in science until the Nazis came to power and fired, exiled, and/or killed all the non-Nazi scientists, which was most of the scientists 🧪 www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

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I’m seeing a lot of irresponsible speculation that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is dead and that’s why gov is being so intransigent about offering info about his status. 1) they don’t need that excuse, they’re equally intransigent about info like when planes landed 2) please think of his wife in Maryland.

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Hello #ScreenshotSaturday! Pleased to report that “Kill the Twister”, my completely free FPS boss fight against a tornado, is available for free on Steam! Check it out! 🌪️-> store.steampowered.com/app/3417820/... #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev #FPS #Unity

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How academics imagine their lives would look like if they decide to work in tech

submitted 1 day ago • 309 comments

If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

submitted 1 day ago • 627 comments

I think it's bad that the country is led by people who haven't had a real problem in their entire lives and couldn't get a regular job due to being too weird

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

I deeply would like everyone on the internet to get ok just hating things for petty reasons again. It is OK to just be like "lol I hated that" without needing it to be bad writing or ethically suspect or in some way objectively bad so that people who liked it are wrong. WE ALL GET TO HATE SHIT!

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Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 1 day ago • 1603 comments

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

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Come find me at C2E2 this weekend in Chicago. Tomorrow (Saturday, April 12) at 1:30pm CT, I'll be on a panel called "From Time Travel to Kingdoms Long Ago: How Authors Build Universes." Afterwards, I'll be signing books. www.c2e2.com/en-us.html