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Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 1 day ago • 1130 comments

As usual every US economic graph is just another way of telling you when Reagan was elected.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

I think something that needs to be on the agenda once sanity is restored to the US government is 1) kill qualified immunity and 2) criminal penalties for federal agents or officials who grossly violate rights. Someone who does this should legitimately fear it will put them in prison.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

OK, its not a question of whether the phone is compromised. If you are the spy chief of a major country's intelligence service and your people have not compromised this phone, you should resign and find some other line of work

submitted 5 days ago • 64 comments

a gen x classic rewritten for the times🥲

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submitted 6 days ago • 32 comments

I’m really proud to be part of this community. dailynorthwestern.com/2025/04/23/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The mainstream media’s habit of taking what the government says at face value will never die. To say that the attack on universities is about “antisemitism” and “racial politics” is akin to stating that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is about “denazification”.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

You guys are being so mean to Kristi Noem, but sometimes you have to pay for Dalmatian puppies in cash.

submitted 8 days ago • 150 comments

‘How can we encourage people to have more children?’ ask the people who are trying to eliminate Head Start, which provides education, nutrition, and so many other vital services.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

you know things are bad when the tech magazines are putting this out

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

If Trump era spy movies don’t all star Mr Bean, it won’t properly reflect our lived experience.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I am no longer a practicing Catholic but it does bring me a small amount of joy how much the Vatican absolutely fucking hates JD Vance.

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submitted 10 days ago • 15 comments

Darkly funny how Russiagate turned out to be 110% true but everyone decided it was cringe and therefore it’d be better to pretend it wasn’t.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever they aren’t going into universities’ endowments they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

submitted 12 days ago • 123 comments

This. When I was a kid in the 60s the rivers were open-air sewers awash with trash. The air on summer days was a thick soup you couldn’t see more than a mile through. Thalidomide pregnancies, poison toys, oil spills left stinking on the ground, chloroform in well water, weird shit in food. shudder

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 16 days ago • 1329 comments

An aspect of the normalization of Trump is that if any other President behaved this way there would be wall-to-wall coverage about how terribly irresponsible they were with regards to the U.S. economy and American lives. This is, & I mean it literally, an insane way to govern.

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

I am begging American Jewish organizations and community leaders to do something. How can you let them destroy U.S. higher education in our name?

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Young man, quo vadis?

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

instead of spending $300m on tv ads no one watches, maybe next cycle the Dem-aligned PACs could pay a few hundred unemployed ex-investigative journalists just to track down and out every pedophile Republican running for office

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

can we take a moment to celebrate the magnificent economy of the phrase "dipshit sex pest failsons asking chatgpt to regurgitate a trade policy for them"

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

I feel like the tariffs might get Bad Orange Man fired Stay with me: His ego won't let him back down without a "win" Rest of world correctly sees a bully doing a shakedown and refuses to give an inch Stalemate US economy tanks. Rs allow impeachment or 25th to save what's left of their brand

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

We go now live to our economics editor who has broken out the good whiskey and seems to be playing with a revolver. How are the markets reacting Greg

submitted 27 days ago • 37 comments

"if you like elon musk and kids dying from cancer, vote for the other guy. otherwise, i'd like your vote." - free as hell message for any democrat running over the next 2-4 years

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

I keep saying there's a massive opportunity for any institution that loudly and proudly tells Trump to eat shit and I think that will only become more obvious with time

submitted 29 days ago • 94 comments

We’re literally watching overpaid techbros who have spent their sad little lives making online shopping software marginally worse openly, viciously lash out against people who have literally devoted their lives to helping others via humanitarian aid and government. The implications are obvious.

submitted 29 days ago • 22 comments

They just lie. Lie, and repeat the lie until it turns into a kind of wallpaper. Orwell described this perfectly in 1948, and Le Guin described it perfectly in 1969. It's not new. Repeating the lie uncritically is a purity test.

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Do no sleepwalk into autocracy. Keeping your head down will not save you. Instead, your institution—school, nonprofit, church—needs to do what Rutgers is: flocking behaviour. Band together. Be solid. Face reality—together. It does work.And there's no other choice than to sleepwalk into the horror.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 33 days ago • 480 comments

Stop letting people in this administration say they want to make changes to FEMA because it will save money/minimize disaster spending. This is not true. One thing we are very sure about in disaster research is that investing in mitigation & preparedness saves us major money in response & recovery.

submitted 33 days ago • 21 comments

Gang Initiate Forced To Peacefully Deescalate Conflict To Prove He Not A Cop theonion.com/gang-in...

submitted 34 days ago • 107 comments

Sen. Duckworth brings the 🔥👇 Pete Hegseth's careless mishandling of sensitive information has not only compromised national security but also put the lives of U.S. service members and our allies at tremendous risk. Tell Congress to demand Hegseth's resignation here: bit.ly/4j4IeHZ #HegsethResign

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

journalists should assume the admin is lying. judges should assume the admin is lying. Dems voting on appointments should assume the admin is lying. like, we should not be extending the benefit of the doubt ever here.

submitted 35 days ago • 300 comments