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No, but if you’re looking for one, I am aware of a guy you work with that was indicted four times and convicted of thirty-four felonies.

submitted 2 days ago • 5075 comments

The Pentagon is now pausing their mass firing of civilian employees in order to evaluate potential impacts on military readiness. I’m just spitballing here, but maybe a readiness assessment should have been the first step. 🤦‍♂️

submitted 1 day ago • 360 comments

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.

submitted 3 days ago • 1918 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 3 days ago • 1215 comments

Yes, plants need carbon dioxide. But the denier argument that "CO2 is plant food" is BS. Let @andrewdessler.com explain why. open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Put aside the nastiness of this post, & the way in he attacks Zelenskyy as a dictator but says not a word about his pal Putin, & just focus on the way it is written: would you hire this weird person to work for you? Would you trust this odd person to teach your kid in school?

submitted 3 days ago • 3391 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 4 days ago • 1417 comments

Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:

submitted 4 days ago • 557 comments

I'm watching Canadian officials hold a presser on the Toronto plane crash and remarkably they're not blaming DEI or recklessly speculating about causes. They could never cut it down here in Trumplandia.

submitted 4 days ago • 637 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

Looking forward to more deep insights from Politico. "Wait, there were two presidents named Roosevelt?" "Not many people know that RFK Jr isn't the first in his family to enter politics." "His name was Lincoln? Really? Like the tunnel?"

submitted 4 days ago • 292 comments

Here’s a better peace plan for Ukraine. “Russia, you’ve already sustained twice as many casualties as the US did in ww2. Leave Ukraine or suffer four times more, and collapse as a country in the process” Done

submitted 6 days ago • 608 comments

That’s the problem. We’ve been standing by for too long.

submitted 5 days ago • 569 comments

🚨BREAKING: In 4-3 decision, Wisconsin Supreme Court reverses lower court decision and DISMISSES voter suppression lawsuit. A big victory for our clients the WI Alliance for Retired Americans and voting rights in Wisconsin. Another stinging loss for the GOP! www.democracydocket.com/cases/wiscon...

submitted 4 days ago • 1007 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 5 days ago • 728 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 11 days ago • 1186 comments

Kanye West has gone full Nazi. Full full Nazi. But I don't see any of the top House Democrats who obsessed over alleged antisemitic student protesters on campus - Torres, Gottheimer, Moskowitz, Goldman, Fetterman, etc - calling out Trump and the GOP for their one-time alliance with Kanye. WHY?

submitted 12 days ago • 227 comments

Ran into the idea that there is a smallest possible volume, and that it is a quantum of gravity roughly analogous a photon being a quantum of electromagnetism. Physics is weirder than magic.

submitted 15 days ago • 11 comments

put it in the chyron hall of fame

submitted 15 days ago • 208 comments

There’s no need for a new law and you’re never going to get it passed in the minority anyway. Just demand that the authorities apply the current laws to stop the actions that are already illegal

submitted 18 days ago • 448 comments

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

submitted 19 days ago • 1622 comments

Neptune, by JWST Credit: NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI

submitted 20 days ago • 4 comments

I'm going to miss lettuce (Mexico) and tomatoes (Canadian hothouses) in winter.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Synchronicity with US presidential election cycle can't be a coincidence, and I predict it in fact WILL rendezvous with Earth to one-up the J6 insurrectionists and prevent trump (kept alive using an AI-Neuralink-pig organ mashup) from remaining in office for his 4th term.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

submitted 20 days ago • 1708 comments

I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

submitted 21 days ago • 8684 comments

It is astonishing that mainstream media is covering this like it is a shruggie vibe 🤷‍♂️

submitted 20 days ago • 2054 comments

Awesome, and I'm a lifelong Reagan despiser.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Everyone realizes they’re trying to shift the Overton Window, right? They’re conditioning you to be accepting of the insane shit they’re doing now so you’ll accept the more insane shit they do later.

submitted 20 days ago • 327 comments

In a couple days we're going to find out that a Trident submarine has exploded because a 20-year-old Elon minion who calls himself "Boner" accidentally erased the nuclear failsafes or something.

submitted 20 days ago • 51 comments