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Scene: long day trip car ride Me: "let's try this audiobook with the cute cat in a suit on the cover" Me, two hours later, explaining to my 9yos what a "f*ck nugget" is all about union labor disputes. So thanks for that @scalzi.com

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Next it will be Sally from Adventure Time

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear we are going to have to touch the stove

submitted 11 days ago • 158 comments

Lord knows I’m not a constitutional scholar not even a lawyer (and I’ve yet to check in with @kateshaw.bsky.social) but a legal regime in which “you can do crimes if you’re buddies with the president or praise him publicly” is on its face a violation the equal protection of the laws.

submitted 13 days ago • 1185 comments

in america giant bodies of water can change their names, but trans people can’t

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submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Not Hyperbole Anymore: Musk Is In Charge of the US Government talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/not-h...

submitted 12 days ago • 60 comments

At this point I genuinely don't think it's hyperbole to say that Elon Musk is functionally in charge of the US government. Perhaps not in specific policy areas - two bills or one on the hill, policy in the mideast. But certainly functional control of the state apparatus.

submitted 12 days ago • 142 comments

Dems: Y’all gotta cease the High Road, Institutionalist BS and pivot to Ruthlessly Effing Them Up. YoursTruly, a BW StratCommPro who has been ringing this Alarm for years. 🚨📢

submitted 12 days ago • 29 comments

This says it all

submitted 12 days ago • 1636 comments

This is a BIG DEAL. Ford's CEO says Trump's clean energy cuts and efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act could lead to extensive job losses at the automobile company. Trump is throwing working people under the bus in order to enrich his Big Oil and billionaire friends.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Most Americans cannot comprehend what is happening because it’s the opposite of what they’ve ever experienced in the US. They assume they’re aren’t happening because the system will protect them. The system is being dismantled. By the time they realize, it will be too late.

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

I recommend review bombing the Gulf of America till they rename it back

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

JD Vance has three half-Indian kids, but he decided to cape for a 25-year-old dipshit who tweeted “normalize Indian hate”

submitted 16 days ago • 84 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 17 days ago • 508 comments

Here is a minimalist web app to check your document against these words: nsf-keyword-checker.vercel.app Here is the keyword file, pull requests for updates welcome: github.com/jbcpollak/ns...

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

We can't build shit here in the US but we can bulldoze the Middle Eastern equivalent of Rhode Island. Also it's not Israel's to give, is it? "More beautiful communities in the region" -> tent cities in the desert in countries that don't want them, with no compensation for the land.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Caitlyn Jenner must be proud www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The keyword list is horrible but the decision tree is dangerous and clearly designed by someone who knows nothing about science.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

submitted 20 days ago • 1330 comments

Don’t let them make you feel like no one is organizing:

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Trump has no idea whatsoever what Musk is actually doing even though he also signed the executive order giving DOGE “full and prompt access to all unclassified agency records, software systems, and IT systems."

submitted 21 days ago • 869 comments

Big national media outlet still failing. Headlines suggest some dispute over data access at US AID. Not connecting the dots with other DOGE moves. Not conveying illegality. *Not communicating constitutional crisis.

submitted 21 days ago • 127 comments

Freezing rain + Sunday scaries are nothing in the face of @schumer.senate.gov’s weakness as Minority Leader — he needs to take several pages out of McConnell’s playbook 📖 It’s a coup, where are YOU?! Fight or Resign, Chuck. @indivisible.org @ezralevin.bsky.social @leahgreenberg.bsky.social

submitted 21 days ago • 21 comments

This trade war is going to backfire. It already has.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Please just fight. And make sure everyone knows you are fighting. Even if it's a hopeless battle. People love that shit. People are inspired by that shit. That is one of the singular myths that we have at the foundation of our entire culture. Going into battle despite great odds.

submitted 21 days ago • 14 comments

So Trump is just going to cede all global influence to China huh? That seems smart.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Trump blaming last night's tragic crash on "DEI" isn't just racist nonsense. It’s part of his divide and conquer strategy. He wants to get us so riled up against one another that we don’t look upward and see where all the power and wealth have gone.

submitted 24 days ago • 147 comments

Naturally they will also stop observing Christmas right? RIGHT?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Starting to think it might have been a mistake to let a handful of tech companies control most online information.

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

People at the NSF aren’t allowed to advocate for their budget or really push back on this freeze. But y’all should know this pause/freeze/delay/cancellation will hurt basic science research throughout the United States including nearly every university. We should all be deeply concerned. #savetheNSF

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Booking a flight on the Spirit Airlines website is a Kafkaesque nightmare. They deserve bankruptcy.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

submitted 39 days ago • 173 comments

Behold! The elusive camputer!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Because a misogynistic drunk with a "lukewarm regard for the Geneva Conventions" is really what the world needs now.