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Very informative chart from Washington Post

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Chattel slavery ended in the U.S. because of war. It would have lasted into the 20th century were it not for the civil war which ended on April 9, 1865.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

submitted 2 days ago • 480 comments

"Who could have predicted this?" say the people who spent the past year dismissing or mocking those who predicted this.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

He took 75 phone calls to negotiate over the last few days? During his golf tournament. What fucking bullshit. So dumb.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I can only imagine the bailout package they are drawing up for themselves. As the saying goes, privatize the profits, and socialize the losses.

submitted 5 days ago • 296 comments

This is a real exchange I just had:

submitted 7 days ago • 643 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 9 days ago • 563 comments

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

submitted 9 days ago • 305 comments

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: living through historic times fucking sucks.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Now THAT’s a headline, no notes

submitted 10 days ago • 49 comments

Are we great again yet?

submitted 14 days ago • 788 comments

Everyone should read this.

submitted 14 days ago • 145 comments

History books won’t make sense of this either. It will be up to psychology studies.

submitted 16 days ago • 467 comments

Project 2025 = modern day Mein Kampf

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Oh, what I would give for a good old-fashioned blow job scandal or tan suit fiasco.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I asked an international human rights lawyer recently what red lines to watch for - he said, “when people start to disappear.” Well…https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/us/ice-tufts-student-detained-rumeysa-ozturk.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

submitted 17 days ago • 42 comments

It’s only Wednesday. Signal-Gate might not be the biggest scandal of the week.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

"He's learned his lesson."

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments