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Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 14 days ago • 575 comments

As the expected Christian Nationalism EO came in, I’m seeing a bunch of “this isn’t real Christianity” noise in my mentions. Nope. Christian friends. 1/x 🧵 This is 💯 part of the history of Christianity, dating to Constantine, to the Holy Roman Empire, forced conversions, Inquisitions, +

submitted 15 days ago • 124 comments

No one has tried this before, let's see how it plays out.

submitted 15 days ago • 939 comments

Gotta say, the mainstream media is simply not doing the minimum amount of work to communicate that a bunch of Nazis implicated in child pornography have all of our banking information and can turn off social security whenever they want.

submitted 15 days ago • 52 comments

Also, realizing that literally as Zuck was going on Rogan whining that Biden staffers had cursed and threatened Meta, he was in the middle of negotiating to pay Trump $25 million to be let "into the tent" two months after Trump promised to put him in prison for life. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/16/r...

submitted 25 days ago • 41 comments

Dachau started with a 5,000-person capacity

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Lmao this is a loud post for a party that was way quieter than the American public yesterday

submitted 25 days ago • 4 comments

Tired: Trump withdrawing from the WHO will have catastrophic effects on global public health and our collective response to the next pandemic. Wired: Trump administration cures millions suffering from Impostor Syndrome!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

All crypto is fundamentally a scam, they invested a ton of money to elect a guy who would allow them to scam more, and he is running the biggest scam of all himself as a result. Congrats to all. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...

submitted 36 days ago • 31 comments

What the fuck are they supposed to be stealing here man? Are they stuffing their pockets with fistfuls of ash? www.welcometohellworld.com/whatever-saf...

submitted 44 days ago • 17 comments

There’s essentially no one on earth with more independence to stand by basic moral values than billionaire tech barons. They have more wealth than they could ever spend, no voters or constituency. They could say “my values are all-important and immovable.” And instead they blow in the wind.

submitted 44 days ago • 45 comments

this is the party that keeps texting me and asking for money

submitted 46 days ago • 107 comments

In case you’re interested in the weeds of how bad this is, this is a redline version of Meta’s formerly Hateful SPEECH now Hateful CONDUCT rule.

submitted 47 days ago • 131 comments

Vaccines are amazing. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 51 days ago • 46 comments

On Truth We are no longer in a culture war, we are fighting instead an epistemological war, where authoritarians seek to replace process with diktat: why truth is a gradient and not a boolean.

submitted 49 days ago • 24 comments

He gave away all his horses, so this was the only possible outcome

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

"Vought wants to produce a version of the climate report that includes more “diverse viewpoints.”" This is why a lot of people distrust "intellectual diversity" - it is being used here to water down scientific facts in order to justify worse policy.

submitted 51 days ago • 21 comments

That's all for 2024, now let's never speak of it again.

submitted 53 days ago • 10 comments

Woody Guthrie's "New Years Rulin's" from 1943 19. Keep hoping machine running 27. Help win war - beat fascism 33. Wake up and fight

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Did it affect the flavor? Yes, it made a vas deferens.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Should old acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind? Should old acquaintance be forgot, and auld lang syne? Trans rights are human rights, my dear, Trans rights are human rights, we'll take a cup of kindness yet, for auld lang syne.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

He’s a racist far right disgrace

submitted 57 days ago • 132 comments

"I never thought they'd deport my indentured immigrant servants," sobs man who spent $44.2 billion electing the Deport All the Immigrants Party www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024...

submitted 58 days ago • 39 comments

I don’t know who needs to hear this but Criterion Collection is currently selling a bundle of their 7 Jim Jarmusch films on Apple for just $35.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

An unhoused woman in active labor—her water had just broken—was ticketed by Louisville police for sleeping outside. What a cruel, cruel country.

submitted 66 days ago • 170 comments

submitted 66 days ago • 20 comments

And that's the News From Omelas.

submitted 67 days ago • 4 comments

At first I thought “Impossible” was an upcoming product name focused on addressing these concerns (the more fool me).

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

There are flight delays, and then there's getting stuck in orbit for 9 months when you were only supposed to be up there a week. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 67 days ago • 18 comments

If a donor buys $100 million of ads that lie about a candidate, that's free speech. If a newspaper publishes a poll, with crosstabs, that ends up being wrong, that is election interference.

submitted 67 days ago • 33 comments

A thread of Bane Christmas Carols for the holiday season

submitted 69 days ago • 8 comments