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submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

"It's kind of been sad, because I've been trying to prove to people that it's a really awesome truck that's not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart, so it's just... Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate and sad."

submitted 21 hours ago • 56 comments

Doesn't know what AI is, doesn't know what duplicitous means, doesn't know what the CDC does.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

I've often insisted that we need to keep our eyes on Trump's actions more than his words (because so many of the words are bluster & lies). Now we have a genuinely dangerous action: a purge at the Pentagon, notably a purge of the top figures who can decide if Trump's commands are unconstitutional.

submitted 18 hours ago • 21 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

"The Trump administration fired the only locksmith on staff on Friday...the sole employee with the keys and the institutional knowledge needed to rescue visitors from locked restrooms." www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

submitted 335 days ago • 80 comments

Breaking: Secretary of Defense removed Adm. Lisa Franchetti as chief of naval operations. Story to come for USNI News.

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk have fired “multiple FAA lawyers whose job was to help prevent pilots with drug and alcohol problems from getting in the cockpit.” Musk and Trump want you to die in an airplane crash. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 1 day ago • 1810 comments

Why have Enrique Tarrio's crypto investments not been transferred to the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church? AME is owed a $2.8 million default judgment entered against the Proud Boys stemming from their December 2020 attack. A debtor's exam should be ordered against Tarrio.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 1 day ago • 248 comments

It’s awe-inspiring how he unlocked the whole system’s capacity for the most shameless bullshit, he’s not John fucking Wick, he didn’t kill the dude with a stray pencil

submitted 1 day ago • 33 comments

Luigi Mangione is brought into the courtroom, shackled with his hands in front of his chest. His attorney Karen Agnifilo requests permission to unshackle him. The judge denies the request, citing security concerns.

submitted 1 day ago • 59 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 1 day ago • 48 comments

Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds. Gov Mills: See you in court

submitted 1 day ago • 2229 comments

maybe this is a silly idea but I sort of think we should make a “elected leader actually standing up against fascism in a meaningful public manner” leaderboard not a news site, just a hi score, low score & clear details when they are up for reelection

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

I don't think people really get how these employee purges are just going to break the culture of public organizations for a very long time.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

"You screwed people": Inside the National Science Foundation’s firing of 168 workers👇

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

This was just done at the University of Cincinnati. The administration are also requiring RAs to inform on any potential trans students to assign them to separate dorms.

submitted 1 day ago • 188 comments

Breaking news: Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the mail provider and trillions of dollars of ecommerce transactions into turmoil.

submitted 1 day ago • 793 comments

At the end of his CPAC speech, Steve Bannon exclaimed “Fight! Fight! Fight!”, raised his arm in a brief Nazi salute gesture, brought his arm down, nodded his head at the crowd, and then said, “Amen!”

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

A lot of people have said that this will eventually set the stage for land grabbing national parks and i honestly cant see any other trajectory for this but that.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

This is exactly how Hitler talked. It's not even a comparison or analogy, as people claim. It's a direct connection in ideology as well as a similar approach to governance and relationship to democracy. This needs to be how we talk about it. They are the ideological descendants of Hitler.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 1 day ago • 227 comments

I havent posted my possum doodles to bluesky yet what a tragedy! #PossumancerCoDoodles • #Possum • #FurryArtist • #Furry

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

What a sweet idea!

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I've always loved how if you ever put a scratched up or an incompatible disk in your Playstation 2, you would be sent to gamer hell for your sins. Wasn't fun seeing this pop up at 2 am while trying to play Onimusha ;_;

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

PLEASE mask (well-fitted KN95 or N95). If you don't care about the risk to yourself, at least care about the people you're bringing germs to during your travels. I know so so many people who've gotten sick (covid, flu, etc) after recent trips and it's preventable with a simple mask.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments