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"Hey Vlad, whaddya want to do now? Wanna play catch? Wanna carve up Ukraine? Want some military secrets? Want me to abandon Europe? Huh, huh, you wanna, you wanna?"

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

“So Elon Musk killed this program for disabled kids (illegally) because it included the word ‘transition.’ It helps them to transition from high school to work.” H/T @palafo.bsky.social, who posted the above on another platform.

submitted 11 days ago • 354 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 9 days ago • 1222 comments

I'm hearing now that *every* technologist CFPB hired to investigate Big Tech was fired this evening. That's somewhere between 70-100 people. wired.com/story/dozens-of-cfpb-workers-terminated-in-after-hours-firing-blitz/

submitted 14 days ago • 487 comments

The inverse trig functions arcsin and arccos as actual arc lengths

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

It could mean that the world financial system melts down when investors realize that Elon Musk may selectively default on US debt. Just saying.

submitted 18 days ago • 429 comments

My top Super Bowl memory is when Musk tweeted “Go Eagles” in 2023 from the game and then deleted it after a similar tweet from Biden got more engagement. Then he flew to Twitter HQ and demanded his workers find out why his posts were doing poorly, starting a multi-day fact finding mission.

submitted 18 days ago • 214 comments

This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 18 days ago • 1165 comments

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

submitted 19 days ago • 1490 comments

If you don't think America is corrupt, Pam Bondi, the Florida Attorney General who took a bribe, was sworn in as the US Attorney General by Clarence Thomas, a SCOTUS Justice who routinely takes bribes.

submitted 22 days ago • 729 comments

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 488 comments

The IRC was founded in the 1930s, partly at the urging of Albert Einstein, to help Jews who were fleeing Hitler's Germany. For almost a hundred years they've been helping the most vulnerable humans on Earth. Today they sent all their donors this email. Trump is a cancer on the world.

submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

Good morning from the Great State of Cascadia.

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 24 days ago • 425 comments

Does CA get to join us? 🅰️ Yes 2️⃣ No 🔵 Only if we get to turn off the faucet 📅 Ends: February 4, 2025, 9:51 PM UTC 📊 Show results

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Appeasers and quislings all. Treasury Sec Bessent has given Musk's team access to Treasury's payments system, which disperses trillions of dollars each year (Social Sec & Medicare benefits, contractor payments, etc.). www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

submitted 26 days ago • 60 comments

This is what the government did with 120K+ Japanese Americans in 1942. I know. I was there in those camps.

submitted 27 days ago • 3624 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 32 comments

The Tuskegee Airmen were the first African American flying unit in the U.S. military. Altogether, 992 pilots graduated from the Tuskegee Air Field courses, and they flew 1,578 missions and 15,533 sorties, destroyed 261 enemy aircraft, and won more than 850 medals.

submitted 32 days ago • 53 comments

I don’t know anything about this story, but it’s pretty funny that Ben Pennings looks exactly like Ken Jennings.

submitted 394 days ago • 0 comments

Greenhouse Effect xkcd.com/2889

submitted 391 days ago • 40 comments