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How conventional!!

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1090 comments

200 million dollars of waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1090 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 20 hours ago • 449 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 19 hours ago • 198 comments

Sounds like they’re trying to revert to an all-white, all-male force

submitted 19 hours ago • 11 comments

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Friday that he was firing Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first female officer to rise to the Navy’s top job of Chief of Naval Operations, and would be looking for her replacement.

submitted 19 hours ago • 713 comments

Okay this has to be a bit

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

So this is going well

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

I’ve been going back to Civil War era/Reconstruction history because it’s my fucked up way of processing anxiety about the present moment, and it’s remarkable how many savvy observers in the 1850s agreed slavery was going to be around forever.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

We’re definitely seeing a spike in Washington DC jobless claims:

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

Oh happy day! 😀 ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

So good

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Americans do not like Nazis or cancer or not getting their mail. Just sayin—this is hugely unpopular stuff

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Pretty much

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 264 comments

“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

okay, it’s time for me to finally weigh in: it’s probably a bad sign that guys are just doing sieg heils in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

A truly generous and courageous move by this 18-y-o and his mom to participate in this story—for all those who aren’t able to be on the record about what care for trans kids means to them and their families

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Want to see this

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Have always been confused by the concept of “breast-themed fast-casual family restaurant” and now may die without ever understanding

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

I feel like this basically works but with occasional hits from like a Giant or Stop & Shop when you need a normal amount of normal food. Like what if you want one box of Grape Nuts

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Heads up to people who got their measles vax before 1968 — you may want to get a refresh

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Oh boy do I have the historical anecdote for this: late 1930s, the American Silver Shirts—initials, S.S., deliberately chosen, decided not to do the sieg heil, writing in their minutes that it was “too fascist”—with “too” underlined. Goldilocks fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I maintain the Citizens United will be remembered as one of the top three worst decisions of the Roberts Court

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Trump/Elon Musk's mass firings of probationary employees cited 'performance' issues for workers with stellar performance reviews and any proclaimed 'cost-savings' from firings are likely to be wiped out by the legal challenges www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments