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submitted 7 hours ago • 7 comments

Imagine being an Article III judge and you get this email on a Saturday night lol

submitted 12 hours ago • 255 comments

DOGE’s expenses have risen above 40 million, with weekly costs now exceeding 10 million. We will release an updated DOGE staff list soon.

submitted 17 hours ago • 368 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1440 comments

Times have been tough in this Ohio town since they closed the old blood & soil factory. So when Steve Bannon and Elon Musk promised to bring back Heil Hitler salutes, they finally had something to cheer about. But now the woke mob wants to take all that away.

submitted 21 hours ago • 16 comments

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

submitted 17 days ago • 51 comments

r u fucking kidding me

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Stop mass deportations with this one simple trick: wapo.st/41apYFB (gift link)

submitted 1 day ago • 98 comments

More convinced than ever that senior and elected Democrats might really be misreading the sentiment among their base, and that they could be caught badly flat-footed by their own voters very soon. split-ticket.org/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

This is like Senators asking for Trump to release funding for their pet projects. When you campaigned for a personalist presidency you have turned yourself into a beggar seeking the King’s favor rather than a citizen who can be confident of equal treatment for all.

submitted 2 days ago • 110 comments

Federal career workers: We appreciate you and your work. You don't deserve this mistreatment. Here's a file with lots of resources if you are facing illegal termination. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

submitted 2 days ago • 143 comments

Why sit on a train and finish a book when you can sit in traffic for an hour, like a free man?

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

The next Bond movie will be titled "Time to Die Mister Bond, Handcrafted Artisanal Film Movie for Men – Perfecf Christmas Gift and Funny Realistic Spy Gag, Harmless Entertainment Prank for Kids and Adults, Realistic Vanilla Scent 7.9 Ounce Motion Picture (Pack of 1)"

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The Mississippi Legislature is NOT a "public body" and NOT subject to the Open Meetings Act under state law, a judge has ruled. That means a quorum of House Republicans will be able to continue to meet and make key legislative decisions in private. #MSLeg @nickjudin.bsky.social reports:

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The best amount of coffee is "two large cups". Whatever a large cup is for you -- have two of 'em. Can't beat that amount.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

You know how you go to Target to buy one thing and end up spending $50? Turns out they solved that problem. #DEI

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

is this bad?

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

There’s gonna be a big opportunity to run on making the government functional again. Shorter lines at the DMV, no more chaos in the park system, more good jobs, etc

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

RIP Clyde "Funky Drummer" Stubblefield. Gone 8 yrs now. Dang. His beats are foundational.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

They screwed this all up.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say, “This is the worst.”

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

someone put their pronouns in their email signature in 2017 and now the world's most irksome Boer has my social security number

submitted 4 days ago • 85 comments

’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

submitted 4 days ago • 841 comments

OSHA is disappearing "woke" information, on topics such as ergonomics in nursing homes and tracking workplace illnesses and injuries popular.info/p/in-botched...

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 862 comments

As I said to the @nytimes.com: “Not everyone in the Democratic Party disagrees with the arguments from, quote, the other side, when it comes to these issue. This is the thing about liberalism in this country. It often falls apart when race and identities are implicated.” We are on our own, y’all.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Sen. Bennet voted to confirm 7 of 16 members of Trump’s Cabinet, including Marco Rubio and John Ratcliffe.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...

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It’s not an overstatement to say that this year’s Canadian Federal election is the most important in Canada’s modern history.

submitted 8 days ago • 13 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

This is almost too stupid to comment on, but I hope it's clear to everyone what's going on here: authoritarians bully you into doing little shit like this as a way to train you to comply, to grease the skids for bigger things. You talk yourself into a little thing, the next thing is easier.

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Jose Barco, a decorated U.S. Army veteran once based out of Fort Carson who served 2 tours in Iraq, was taken into custody last month by ICE because his citizenship papers, which were supposed to be processed while he was in the Army, were lost. Read his story:

submitted 9 days ago • 193 comments

Today, along with 2,000 other NIH employees, I had to clear out my office 😭 It was truly the honor of my life to work with such incredibly passionate people focused on improving human health. I’ve never experienced a more positive culture where everyone cared about their job and serving others.

submitted 8 days ago • 362 comments

"Do I need to call Elon?” one DOGE member barked at a federal security official while demanding access to sensitive information at one agency this month, a source familiar with the exchange tells Rolling Stone." Come on, man, you’re being bullied by twerps.

submitted 8 days ago • 213 comments

I was at a retirement party once around 2013 and I asked the person how long she'd been working at EPA. She had been working _before_ there was an EPA (1970). That's how long many of these people stick around because they care that much about helping people. #FedLove

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

UPDATE: Judge CHUTKAN has called a 4pm hearing on the lawsuit over Elon Musk's authority to run DOGE.

submitted 8 days ago • 317 comments