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ANORA SWEEP. ANORA SWEEP.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

This is it. The plausible scenario is not that the 2028 elections don’t happen. It’s that they happen with every financial oligarch and major corporation backing the GOP. And every major media organization backing the GOP, except for The NY Times which is trying to be neutral.

submitted 14 hours ago • 38 comments

That worked before because Moscow and Beijing had been at odds for more than a decade, had battled at the border, nuclear war between the two was quite possible, and because Beijing needed rescuing from domestic disaster. None of those conditions exist today.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

None of the five teens who have died since June 30, 2024, were vaccinated. That includes the latest teen death, a 16-year-old girl from inland North County who died on Feb. 11. She did not have underlying medical conditions, according to the county.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

I think this is right. It’s the natural end state of decades of cowering in moral terror over being seen to be “biased”.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

submitted 2 days ago • 567 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

relatedly, why is the entire political press completely uninterested in the verifiable fact that JD Vance has close relationships with online nazis?

submitted 2 days ago • 302 comments

One of the ideas that calcified in the wake of the election is that young Rogan bros embodied a gender-based shift that aided Trump. A look at a lot of data from Gallup, YouGov and the voter files paints a picture that looks quite different. Gift link (and lots of charts): wapo.st/41hOF39

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Tate is like Trump in this sense: the most grotesque thing is not that he exists, but that he’s hugely popular, and what that says about us as a species.

submitted 3 days ago • 167 comments

This is what downtown Oakland looked like before the City Center urban renewal project demolished the neighborhood for an outdoor mall that's never been full in its lifetime. Was it worth it? No.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

Tesla stock is down 25% so far this year after dipping 8% yesterday. It's become humiliating to drive a Tesla in LA, and he's getting his ass kicked by China. I love this journey for Elon because there's still so much lower the stock can go. I believe in us! www.cnbc.com/2025/02/25/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 61 comments

everyone seeing how when you takeaway the DEI the planes start falling out of the sky

submitted 4 days ago • 592 comments

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

submitted 4 days ago • 127 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 5 days ago • 1234 comments

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

submitted 7 days ago • 185 comments

We're gonna look back at the media covering up Trump's senility in the runup to the 2024 election as one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of the last century. Will be a defining feature of his presidency and get worse as the term goes on.

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Following Elon Musk, the world's richest man, two speakers at CPAC, Steve Bannon, who was pardoned by Donald Trump, and Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui, have now given Nazi salutes. This is a major scandal + should push us all to mobilize, protest, and call out #CPAC for what it is: a Nazi rally.

submitted 9 days ago • 130 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 9 days ago • 139 comments

This is why I really have no time for the "behind the scenes, Republicans say yadda yadda yadda." This is a public-facing business. If you tell a reporter you don't want to vote "aye" then you vote "aye," who cares?

submitted 10 days ago • 40 comments

IBM 1979

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

For years now, like every few months I have to write a variation on the same post about how Elon is not about free speech, and that he's deeply censorial. And days later I always see yet another media person or politician refer to what he's doing as "free speech absolutism." It's so stupid.

submitted 14 days ago • 39 comments

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

submitted 14 days ago • 480 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 15 days ago • 5654 comments

They’re marinating in right-wing paranoia there. No matter how savvy or smart they imagine themselves to be, prolonged contact with that kind of crazy will absolutely warp their understanding of what “normal people” think

submitted 15 days ago • 44 comments

a lot america's problems come back to the basic fact that we 1) have barely had united government for the last 30 years and 2) it has been basically impossible to pass normal legislation for the last 20

submitted 15 days ago • 28 comments

we are getting a national version of red state governance, where the people in charge do everything they can to impoverish the state under the view that the more wretched things get, the easier it is for them to stay in power

submitted 16 days ago • 329 comments

“Foot traffic at…Broadway and Prince Street in SoHo spiked by 20% year-over-year since the introduction of congestion pricing, said Erin Piscopink, the executive director of the SoHo Broadway Initiative, a business improvement district that represents 150 businesses.” gothamist.com/news/vehicle...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

If you want to know why Trump is able to rule like an autocrat, compare the Washington Post' coverage of the Saturday Night Massacre with Trump doing exactly the same thing

submitted 17 days ago • 60 comments

it is beyond clear that for many americans trump is a blank slate who stands for whatever they personally want

submitted 17 days ago • 450 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 17 days ago • 1778 comments

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

submitted 18 days ago • 130 comments

Polio survivor Mitch McConnell voted against RFK Jr. today because he knows he’ll harm public health. He had a chance to stop all this after January 6th and convict Trump in the Senate but was too big of a coward. He gets no credit for his “courage” today.

submitted 17 days ago • 38 comments

they’re using our tax dollars to buy Elon’s crappy trucks. what the fuck

submitted 18 days ago • 12 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 539 comments

i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

submitted 19 days ago • 420 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

Drake rn:

submitted 21 days ago • 69 comments

Saying DEI with the hard R

submitted 21 days ago • 574 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

genuinely incredible that it's this high when the media most centrists and liberals consume is still insisting on "wow! nation amazed by the manly muscular moves of musk's team of geniuses" with "nerd scolds warn trump's moves may violate protocol" on A17

submitted 22 days ago • 81 comments

we gotta bring back "broken windows theory" but for billionaires

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

good. hardball. dems wouldn't be in such a mess right now if NY Dems hadn't botched redistricting in 2021

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.

submitted 23 days ago • 347 comments