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Elon’s busy schedule today is claiming astronauts were left in the ISS for political reasons, getting corrected by an ISS astronaut, throwing a fit where he calls the astronaut a slur, then complaining that we should deorbit the ISS

if you were an unreconstructed segregationist from jim crow alabama, what would you do differently than this administration with regard to civil rights enforcement?

The first visual of the Trump presidency at the border; a sobbing woman in Ciudad Juárez stands outside the Paso Del Norte port of entry, clutching a pole as she weeps having learned that her 1:00PM appointment for a chance to seek asylum in the US has been cancelled. x.com/arelisrhdz/s...

personally i think one should just ignore anti-anti-trump academics who have done nothing but obscure the reality of the situation facing the nation in favor of grinding axes against people they don’t like

Calm smug above-it-all nonchalance in the face of really bad and harmful shit, in order to position yourself as the reasonable adult in the room, is in my opinion, the real virtue signaling.

I think a lot of the reactionary tech stuff can be boiled down to these guys believing that once they were rich enough they’d be both happy and respected only to find out that they’re neither and they’ve chosen to believe that it’s everyone else’s fault.

If ya don’t know, now ya know

For some reason, I keep thinking of the scene in Catch-22 where Milo cuts a deal to use American planes to bomb their own base.

@papapishu.bsky.social watching HR clips of Balatro having never heard of it before, I finally understand how Fry felt at his first blernsball game

i think it should be a bigger story that NYC’s public libraries are now being forced to close on Sundays due to budget cuts while the NYPD spends 95% of the Library system’s total budget to get new encrypted radios that prevent people from knowing when the cops kill people

the liberals who talk endlessly about how “defund the police” is a terrible slogan aren’t really concerned with the slogan itself. for them it’s a proxy fight - their real concern is that the left has gotten too powerful relative to the establishment center

A culture of death is $39 prenatal vitamins locked behind glass at a drug store chain that grossed over $28 billion in profits last year

it was completely inevitable that this panic would become an excuse for some parents to keep race mixin’ out of the schools

The easiest point en route to the endgame of capitalism is the people with the money using it to control information; what elon did with twitter is just a more flagrant impulse of right “centrist” producers and editors after Jan. 6 bringing us phrases like “cbs news contributor mick mulvaney”