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It is mind-boggling to me that people say "but I had to comply with the fascists because otherwise there would be some cost—" NO FUCKING KIDDING. Did you think you'd never have to make a hard choice in Fascist America? That you wouldn't be asked to sacrifice someone and be rewarded for it?? JFC

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

when you roll over for the fascists in charge to keep your federal funding

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

"I like all music except country" HA! We'll see about that, buster. You will be on hands and knees BEGGING for Willie Nelson by the time I get you through this atonal sonata for saxophone and reversed tape of bonobo mating calls

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 79 comments

Trumpists will continue to be furious at any dissent no matter how much power they steal. That’s because the administration is premised on pathological insecurity. They’re shitty people, they know it, and they will never stop resenting being seen as shitty people.

submitted 3 days ago • 539 comments

Continues to be the simplest summary of Musk's whole deal

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

They’re probably equally evil but it’s tremendously fucked up that Elon (worst poster in the history of the medium) might be tweeting for Trump (naturally gifted at posting)

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

Your regular reminder that measles has a r0 (basic reproduction number) of 12-18, which means that in an immune-naive environment every infected person will infect 12 to 18 people around them: it's one of the most infectious diseases out there. Get a MMR booster or get your titers checked, ASAP.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

why, if they are genius coders with the power of cutting edge AI, have the DOGE team seemingly not done anything to detect fraud or waste that isn't just "scanning a database for a list of naughty words", as if they were practicing writing regexps in the first week of a coding bootcamp?

submitted 8 days ago • 20 comments

the left can accurately be defined as people who have made fun of me online. here’s why they’re responsible for everything going wrong

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go full shadow cabinet

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

sort of feels like this is what passes for good news now.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

The Musk/Trump junta is exploiting an utterly deadly loophole in the American system: Courts may rule against evil white men, but evil white men have figured out that no one is, thus far, willing to lay hands on them to enforce those orders. We must end this loophole now.

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

When someone in a folk/country song does something "for to" some goal or other I start hollering like a delighted ape

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 10 days ago • 1153 comments

I think it's worth repeating plainly that a federal judge halted Musk's federal funding freeze nearly two weeks ago but funds are still very much being frozen in violation of the court order.

submitted 11 days ago • 182 comments

My “This is not a quid pro quo” footnote is bringing up a lot of questions already answered by my footnote.

submitted 11 days ago • 45 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 12 days ago • 232 comments

✊ keep up the good work always mask up

submitted 13 days ago • 137 comments

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account

submitted 15 days ago • 721 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 14 days ago • 1040 comments

Astronaut: Houston…uh…..have a problem Capcom: Who does? Mission Control engineer: you’re fired Flight director: [points] both people here no more work

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

If you work for the federal government and are tempted to take Musk’s “buyout” offer please know that you’re never going to see that money.

submitted 17 days ago • 130 comments

We’re going to have to call them white holes aren’t we

submitted 16 days ago • 30 comments

Perhaps if he had not spent so much time playing video games so that he could be the #1 video game player he would know that the answer to this question is "All of them."

submitted 17 days ago • 636 comments

The federal government is best understood as a giant risk mitigation bulwark for risks too big for any state: self-defense, health safety nets, natural disaster relief, maintenance of vital infrastructure, nuclear material handling, etc. You want this shit to be there when you need it.

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

The Republicans’ merciless obsession with destroying trans lives is indicative of something larger: a full-throated effort to strip all of us of our bodily autonomy. @luxalptraum.com in her column today: www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/04/t...

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

I, on the other hand, would prefer members of Congress to bellyache quite a bit about what they believe to be unconstitutional exercises of presidential power vis-a-vis the execution of Congress's spending decisions. www.notus.org/congress/tru...

submitted 18 days ago • 37 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 19 days ago • 523 comments

I think there's a general understanding that Trump's bluster works well to project strength to stupid and incurious people, and then confusion about why the media so often seems to fall for it, and I have to say, there's an Occam's Razor solution to this conundrum.

submitted 18 days ago • 26 comments

STEM Bros Take a Humanities Course Challenge

submitted 18 days ago • 29 comments

Me opening the news every fucking morning

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

The US does not have an offensive bioweapons program. Gain of function research did not lead to SARS-CoV-2. The scientific evidence points to a NATURAL zoonosis, ie a jump from infected animals to people. If there is evidence to the contrary it has not been presented.

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

Academics: I know it’s the weekend but this student really needs a PDF Elected officials: We will discuss the coup on Monday

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

I'm glad that America is doing real classic end of empire stuff. A king who is visibly losing his mind declaring a war based on a dream he had. Greedy courtiers feuding over access to the treasury. Some looks are timeless.

submitted 20 days ago • 78 comments

Drake is the all-time biggest loser of a rap feud and that includes people who have gotten shot and died as a result of rap feuds

submitted 19 days ago • 57 comments

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.

submitted 20 days ago • 178 comments

The ordinary questions you might ask: Is Elon Musk a government employee? Are his lieutenants? Does he personally hold a security clearance and do his “lieutenants”? Have they all undergone a background check? Are they subject to foreign influence? Have they ever done a sieg heil on stage?

submitted 21 days ago • 231 comments

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

submitted 21 days ago • 817 comments

Folks the single number one thing you should demand from your Senators when you are making calls is that they start objecting to unanimous consent. It only takes a single Senator to do it and if they start objecting, it will grind Trump's fascist takeover to a halt.

submitted 21 days ago • 66 comments

In my self-defense classes I focus on how most people are socially conditioned to follow the norms of a civilized, polite society — and there is a MENTAL SHIFT required to use violence to defend from violence. I'm reminded of this while watching our elected officials dithering and delaying. 1/

submitted 21 days ago • 129 comments

This is a war against the idea of the public good.

submitted 21 days ago • 97 comments

We should be divided. One side is cranks and criminals who want to roll back the Enlightenment and impose techno-feudalism. We should be against them.

submitted 21 days ago • 52 comments