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submitted 5 hours ago • 19 comments

the american electoral system is basically 500,000 information-resistant people across a handful of states taking a guess and then going "haha! oops!" every two years. this process takes 18 months and costs four trillion dollars every time

submitted 17 hours ago • 265 comments

submitted 7 hours ago • 5 comments

i have no doubt that senator van hollen was genuinely concerned for the safety and welfare of abrego garcia BUT ALSO this is what i'm talking about when i say POLITICAL AMBITION. van hollen may well make himself a household name and nationally recognized political figure with this move

submitted 6 hours ago • 781 comments

Shout out to all the finance bros who didn’t give a shit about democracy, human rights, racism, homophobia, misogyny, the future of the planet or basic human decency and voted for the conman they thought was gonna be good for the economy. You guys are geniuses.

submitted 8 hours ago • 375 comments

"But in my more than 26 years of incarceration, I have never seen anyone attacked because of racial animus — not that it has not happened or cannot happen."

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Kilmar is alive! Thank you @vanhollen.senate.gov now let’s bring him home to his family!!

submitted 6 hours ago • 20 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 7 hours ago • 138 comments

i am going to Lose My Fucking Mind if the seed crystal for an antifascist general strike ends up being david fucking brooks

submitted 8 hours ago • 90 comments

President Trump just fired almost the entire staff of the CFPB, who protect you from getting scammed by Wall Street. This is another assault on consumers and our democracy by Trump's lawless Administration. We will fight back with everything we've got.

submitted 8 hours ago • 244 comments

Thank god. The people who terrorize the innocent must be shunned from society.

submitted 7 hours ago • 3 comments

We gotta stop seeing JKR as "Harry Potter lady" and start viewing her as "Murdoch-esque billionaire controlling a global media empire" You do not get there by writing a couple of books. THAT is fantasy. Otherwise we'd see more authors/artists become billionaires (and not billionaires who dabble).

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump tried to disappear a U.S. citizen

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

Same tree, a year later and from a different angle. Should've used the flash or something; needs more light. I like it, too, though.

submitted 7 hours ago • 29 comments

“Reps. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) and Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), who made the same request of Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.), have not received a response, a source familiar with the matter told Axios.” www.axios.com/2025/04/17/h...

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Shooting memorial cancelled because of a shooting is so very American.

submitted 11 hours ago • 27 comments

if youre writing headlines about things trump says without pointing out he's dumb or a liar you're wasting our time

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

literally writing a memo about econ data like -worst on record -worst on record -worst on record -2nd worst on record -worst on record -surprisingly resilient -worst on record -worst on record

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Attacking the rights of a marginalised group isn’t a win for feminism. Demanding that women be defined by our biology isn't a win for feminism. The people driving this are not acting in the interests of women. They're taking us all backwards and ushering in the far right.

submitted 17 hours ago • 142 comments

Pimpernel fell out of a tree while saving his bird friend from another cat! From The Fat Cat Pimpernel by David Walker, illustrated by Alan Howard, 1958.

submitted 12 hours ago • 19 comments

This is such a good observation from @edkilgore.bsky.social

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if there is NEW evidence that would change a determination already made by a judge, the government needs to present it in that court and get the determination changed. Re-litigating a judge's determination based on old evidence on TV isn't due process

submitted 18 hours ago • 138 comments

Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.

submitted 16 hours ago • 167 comments

Lex Luthor blowing up a cruise ship filled with passengers so that the Justice League won’t pursue him is literally a “distraction.” The Justice League understands this but Superman doesn’t think “screw those people.” He prioritizes the vulnerable, whoever they are.

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

We must expect and demand that the executive branch follow the law. We must expect and demand that the executive branch comply with court orders. To expect and demand anything less is a form of obeying in advance. Defeatism is a form of surrender.

submitted 15 hours ago • 170 comments

just a periodic reminder that blocking people you haven't interacted with yet, but who are acting up in someone else's mentions or posting unhinged freak takes with sincerity, is both fun and cool

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

The US plan to weaken Ukraine and push them to bow down to Russia has run into the intertwined problems of the Ukrainians not wanting to, the Russians giving them no reason to, and the Europeans having resources.

submitted 20 hours ago • 14 comments

Democrats won't like hearing this, but the response to the kidnapping and deportation of immigrants and pro-Palestinian activists has been very muted by many Democratic leaders until this week. Why? Because they saw the polls & listened to consultants and thought it was bad politics to oppose it.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

Over on The Hellsite, JD Vance has now functionally called for an end to due process for migrants. His argument is riddled with deceptions, bad faith, and embarrassingly awful logic. I think it needs a real response, so here's what I put up over there. First, his 20 million number is fiction. 1/

submitted 20 hours ago • 102 comments

My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music. Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity

submitted 20 hours ago • 151 comments

🚨BREAKING: Trump's IRS nominee Billy Long just had his personal debt paid off by donors whose firms have business before the tax agency he’d lead, according to documents reviewed by The Lever. If confirmed, Long would be able to do favors for the donors. www.levernews.com/trump-irs-pi...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

I'm 32 years old and a product of a sort of hybridized homeschool-chuch-operated private school education and my curriculum was a mix of Abeka and Bob Jones, which gave us gems such as this:

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

this is not only authoritarian but stupid because he's going after msnbc, which is not under the fcc's rules

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

I think it's important to add this: Serious and sustained conflict is how you liberalize democracy. If you do not force "the people" to pay attention, they will slip back into their routines and habits, suffer virtually any hardship, permit virtually any crime.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The thing that’s very important to remember about American conservatives and any other sort of fascist is that anytime they posit some value or principle or positive outcome, they are lying. Every time they talk about stealing and enslaving and murdering and terrorizing, they are telling the truth.

submitted 18 hours ago • 11 comments

I'm involved in a vaccine research study studying the length of immunity for COVID vaccines. Just got a call cancelling my next appointment because they got a stop work order. I mean, I know this is just one of many DOGE, Trump, and RFK JR just destroying scientific research for funsies....

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

im sorry to be so divisive and partisan but i dont think the government should be inventing a criminal history out of thin air to justify sending someone to a concentration camp in a foreign country

submitted 19 hours ago • 273 comments

Marco Rubio: censorship of Americans ends today Brendan Carr: report what we tell you or we’ll pull your license

submitted 19 hours ago • 314 comments

remember, stranger danger as a concept was introduced shortly after some 70s studies came out and determined nearly all child abuse was from adults close to the family. it was literally a nationwide "fuck no that can't be right"

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

We’re suing President Trump for unlawfully imposing tariffs without Congressional approval. These chaotic, haphazard tariffs are not only wreaking havoc on our economy and pocketbooks, they’re illegal. We’re going to court to protect CA’s consumers and the 5th largest economy in the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Pretty much everything this guy does that isn’t currently a crime needs to become a crime

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

Pretty much everyone knows an autistic person and already knows this is a fucking heinous lie, though Or at least, if you did, you WOULD know ... Again, this is why they want to kill DEI. Running in diverse circles means "othering" doesn't work on you anymore, and it's all they have left.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I've been in El Salvador all day fighting for the return of Mr. Abrego Garcia. The Trump Administration can lie all they want, but the Court said they failed to show he was part of MS-13. This is about bringing home a man they ADMIT should never have been abducted. I won't rest until then.

submitted 1 day ago • 573 comments

We’ve got an orange banner, y’all! 🥳

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Anti-trans policies don't just hurt trans people. They hurt anyone who doesn't fit neatly into a pink box or a blue one. And they hurt the rest of us by creating pressure to ensure that we always fit neatly into our box.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Please watch and share. It can be easy to get a little lost in the details, but the ENTIRE THING they're doing is absolutely built on a foundation of lies and flagrantly illegal.

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments