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Prodigal daughter back in VA after almost 2 decades in Maine. She/her
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Jesus Christ. Just horrific levels of crimes against humanity happening every day in Gaza. Our country keeps supplying weaponry to the perpetrators of this atrocity, which makes us equally culpable. May all those involved never know peace.

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"The nation’s forecasting agency is in tatters as what could be a destructive hurricane season nears. Several current and former agency meteorologists told CNN they are concerned forecasts and life-saving warnings are not going to be issued in time." www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

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This is the most backward, irredeemable administration of evil fuckwits… your standard dystopian fiction could never. This plot would have been deemed too heavy-handed and juvenile by even the most cut-rate publisher.

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the leap from disappearing the undocumented to disappearing visa holders to disappearing green card holders to disappearing naturalized citizens to disappearing natural born citizens is no leap at all, but a series of tiny steps block the path

submitted 108 days ago • 7 comments

A reminder that women’s sports are kept separate from men’s not to protect women from always losing to men, but rather to ensure that no man ever loses to a woman. I’m not making this up; that’s literally the reason.

submitted 111 days ago • 94 comments

“Democrats need to decide whether they want to fight for the things they believe in, or spend the rest of their days chasing polls but never catching them.” Hell yes, @notalawyer.bsky.social excellent newsletter today!

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about genAI is if it was actually useful or benefits the end user in any capacity, you'd have to pay for it. it'd be locked behind so many gates as a use privilege but instead opt-outs are virtually impossible and it's force-fed down your throat like ducks being prepared for foie gras

submitted 120 days ago • 5 comments

If I worked at a newspaper, I’d ask why we have to keep coming up with novel phrases like “mass detention camp” to describe Trump’s plans instead of using a more familiar term.

submitted 147 days ago • 38 comments

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

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Women-

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It sucks pretty bad that democracy needs to be chosen at the ballot box over and over again while fascism only needs to be chosen once, by the slavery-era relic the Electoral College.

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the death penalty is one of the most evil things in this country. it must be abolished and it is a deep, horrible nauseating rot on the fabric of all that we should hold dear that it still exists.

submitted 274 days ago • 3 comments

I feel like the Harris/Walz vibe of "radical joy" is a great contrast both to the GOP's "angry weirdness" and the Dems' usual strategy of "feckless despair"

submitted 323 days ago • 4 comments

I know, and the #couch thing *is* priceless. But let’s not forget the other important news today— newrepublic.com/post/184192/...

submitted 336 days ago • 5 comments

The central joke in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a race of dipshits building a planet-sized computer to answer the question of "life, the universe, and everything" and then a million years later it says the answer is 42, and somehow that has taken on a William Gibson level of prescience

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