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The left-wing backlash against Musk and Trump has become shrill and illiberal. It’s time for another Harper’s letter.

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so like the "rural trump voters still deserve mail service" thing goes hand in hand with "don't misgender people even if they're assholes" and "the unhoused guy who street harassed you still deserves housing" and "your cousin who stole 5k from his parents still deserves affordable psych meds" etc

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Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

LOL so “Don’t Look Up” is going to be prophetic, why not phys.org/news/2025-02...

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'Our democracy is under threat -- send us money!' 'Waaaaahhh don't tell us to act like democracy is under threat!' LOSERS. Call them out of sheer spite. www.axios.com/2025/02/12/d...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Read history. Oligarchs have owned and controlled our government before. They’ve attacked oppressed groups, gone after migrants, and enacted mass violence against workers who dared resist. But people kept fighting. They organized. They built power. What we need to do is not unprecedented.

submitted 17 days ago • 23 comments

I wrote about how Bo Burnham's 'Inside' has become a curious time capsule that unintentionally demonstrates exactly where and how we went wrong: jasonpargin.substack.com/p/in-which-i...

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

I'm not saying this _will_ happen but Musk's making himself a useful scapegoat for if some of Trump's policies have a very bad outcome. Trump could swoop in and "save" America from Elon, conveniently arresting him and taking all his money.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

PITCH: An updated version of the curse of Cassandra where she's describing things that are happening now, in front of everyone, but still isn't believed.

submitted 18 days ago • 79 comments

TRUMP: machine-guns crowd of pedestrians at Fifth Ave NYT: President's most daring argument for population control brings new scrutiny.

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

How long till President Elon fires Trump?

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

After the interview, Scott Jennings scolded Democrats for insulting Sen. Darkness’s supporters.

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

This is the most importantly thing on the internet right now

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Concentration camps preceded extermination camps by several years. They began in Germany just as administratively, just as innocuously, as this. It's important to understand the historical track we are on.

submitted 24 days ago • 106 comments

Democrats before the election: Democracy is on the ballot! The future of America as a free country is at stake! Democrats after losing the election: What’s important now is the price of eggs.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: I ran 80,000 simulations of the election. My wife left me for a guy who doesn’t do that.

submitted 109 days ago • 78 comments

I’ve run 80,000 simulations and boy are my arms tired

submitted 109 days ago • 1 comment

As we all await the outcome of what feels like a make-or-break election, I want to offer some perspective, if you’ll hand a fellow with eight-plus decades the mic for a moment.

submitted 110 days ago • 59 comments

We are on ULP strike. We gave @nytimes.com management months of notice of our strike deadline, we made ourselves available around the clock, but the company has decided that our members aren’t worth enough to agree to a fair contract and stop committing unfair labor practices.

submitted 110 days ago • 51 comments

Lmao my BIL, a guy who literally never pays attention to anything political, called me this morning and the first thing he said was "what the fuck is going on with the cheez-its man is Trump gonna take em from us"

submitted 111 days ago • 79 comments

Just a reminder that if Republicans actually wanted to keep undocumented immigrants from working in the U.S. they could mandate E-Verify or a similar system to prevent employers from hiring them. I’m not saying they should, just that they could and they never will.

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

i worry that democrats learn the wrong thing, regardless of outcome, regardless of margin? if she loses, adopting right wing policy didn’t go far enough; if she squeaks by, not defending trans people & tacking to the center was critical; if it’s a blowout no one cares about palestine or immigrants.

submitted 114 days ago • 12 comments

too easy

submitted 113 days ago • 53 comments

My brain: remember on Saturday morning cartoons when the good shows were over and there was that cheap cartoon that started with “Captain Caaaaaveman!”? Me: Yes but I was wondering why I came upstairs. My brain: Look, I can’t remember everything.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Note: Joe Biden never said Trump supporters are garbage, that’s a misquote. So I’ll say it. If you support him you are garbage.

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

it's getting so you can't even make racist jokes about puerto ricans living on a garbage island and black people eating watermelon, because of woke

submitted 117 days ago • 5 comments

“Put Them in Trauma”: Inside a Key MAGA Leader’s Plans for a New Trump Agenda Private videos reveal Trump adviser Russ Vought’s “shadow” plans for using the military on protesters, defunding the EPA and villainizing civil servants.

submitted 117 days ago • 14 comments

No one likes getting a speeding ticket but I notice white drivers bitch about speed cameras more than they do about cops and for good reason. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

The FBI visited me over my decision to publish the JD Vance Dossier.

submitted 131 days ago • 26 comments

still seeing articles saying stuff like 'israel has still failed to meet its strategic objectives of eliminating hamas and freeing the hostages'. how can anyone paying attention still think those were ever israel's objectives, rather than exterminating palestinians and taking their land, as ever

submitted 132 days ago • 3 comments

When my activist group blocked 5th Ave & 42nd to protest for immigrant rights, lots of people said, “what if an ambulance was trying to get through?” When lack of congestion pricing blocks ambulances though…crickets. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/10/n...

submitted 134 days ago • 0 comments

hey guys what if we turned the entire U.S. journalism industry into glorified blogspam affiliates for a single billionaire-owned retailer several times a year

submitted 136 days ago • 11 comments

Climate scientists: If you don't get CO2 under control you're going to have hurricanes like you've never seen. Climate skeptics: That's not going to happen! [Second major hurricane hits weeks after the first.] Climate skeptics: Nobody predicted this, it's obviously government space lasers.

submitted 137 days ago • 0 comments

I'm increasingly convinced that the best gift you can give a hostile foreign intelligence service is to let your domestic security service build a mandatory national surveillance apparatus.

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

Psychedelic Furs

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Jesus & Mary Chain

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

outta the way squares,we're KISS! we're scary demons who LUV 2 fuck! this song is called "Its Fun To Rock" off our album "Havin A Neat Time"

submitted 143 days ago • 13 comments

“I was born a lonely singer, guess I’m bound to die the same, but I got to feed this hunger in my soul. And if I never have a nickel I won’t ever die ashamed, ‘cause I don’t believe that no one wants to know.” youtu.be/faF0wOsVucw?...

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