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Universities can't even have a Gay Sex Command Center anymore, because of woke.

submitted 21 days ago • 106 comments

At this moment, it’s simply reassuring to know that this set of discerning policy professionals has also reformed the country’s medical research agenda, energy R&D portfolio, foreign aid and intelligence program, and military doctrine. We are in good hands.

submitted 68 days ago • 41 comments

That is exactly true.

submitted 93 days ago • 1270 comments

the details here are quite technical. there's finding money and there's finding money. but agreeing to spend USG money that is not appropriated is actually a statutory crime on the part of the individual who makes the obligation. So not Trump, but the appointee/employee who does it.

submitted 99 days ago • 47 comments

I knew I shouldn’t have used that @!*$# AI!

submitted 100 days ago • 63 comments

Welp folks, death to America I s’pose

submitted 101 days ago • 44 comments

literally every time I talk to friends

submitted 101 days ago • 224 comments

I think he truly hates America because we didn’t let him win in 2020 and we had the audacity to call him on his bad behavior in the first and second impeachment trials. And then his civil and criminal trials.This presidency is his temper tantrum. His hissy-fit. His revenge.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

💥 BREAKING: At Apple's 2025 annual meeting of shareholders today, proposal entitled “Request to Cease DEI Efforts" is rejected by shareholders. Right-wing nonprofit National Center for Public Policy Research (NCPPR) proposal was also rejected by Costco shareholders 98-2 percent.

submitted 104 days ago • 668 comments

Murdoch’s New York Post today. #ukraine🇺🇦

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

Haven't mentioned it in a minute, but @billcorbett.bsky.social and I are still delving greedily & deep on Ringheads. We've just started working our way through the beloved BBC radio adaptation of LOTR from 1981. It's quite British, and quite cool. Now's a good time to hang out in Middle-earth, imo.

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"They have special diets are afraid of seed oils. They wear skinny jeans and have meticulously groomed beards. They talk non stop about masculinity, drive pickups, and wear plaid, but can’t change a tire to save their lives."

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Pretty damn good framing for Dems

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Just imagining a world where the US had an agency, maybe an Aid agency for the US, that worked to make life a little easier, maybe softer, and empowered people in ways that made them like the US instead of China. Hegseth and Trump should look into that.

submitted 118 days ago • 2 comments

When he described “shithole countries” I didn’t realize it was aspirational.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments

Trans rights should be our highest priority. If we allow them to strip rights from a small minority, it becomes easier stripping rights from larger groups. There's a poem about this.

submitted 121 days ago • 2 comments

They suck equally hard.

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Actual phone call with Tammy Duckworth’s staff: Me: “Before I go how are you doing?” Staffer: [wearily] “What?” Me: “How are you doing? I’m assuming things are busy right now.” Staffer: “Oh,” [deep breath] “You know, we’re just glad voters are engaged and appreciate your call. Sincerely.”

submitted 123 days ago • 4 comments

Any "celebrity" (and I use the term very, very loosely) like "Dr. Phil" who go along on rides to deport people, is a POS. It's that simple. If your idea of entertainment is to ride along on a spectacle of human rights violations, dig a hole and crawl in. Stay there.

submitted 123 days ago • 7 comments

“When you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” Apparently this is his mantra for every situation. I thought the Antichrist would at least be stylish and interesting.

submitted 122 days ago • 0 comments

Having to fight Elon Musk at DOGE before we’ve even battled Trump feels like having to defeat the forces of Saruman first at Helm’s Deep.

submitted 123 days ago • 530 comments

Guy who runs a farmers market booth I’ve shopped at for years had much less produce than usual, he said people are afraid to work thanks to ICE and the new administration. Grimness everywhere.

submitted 125 days ago • 0 comments

There is still beauty in this world

submitted 125 days ago • 1424 comments

There are literally not enough journalists employed in the US to cover the bad shit that is happening right now. We are now going to experience the social consequences of a weakened news industry--which are the same as the benefits of a weakened news industry, to those who weakened it.

submitted 127 days ago • 322 comments

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submitted 147 days ago • 375 comments

The simple exhaustion of being lectured daily by the literal dumbest people you've ever seen in your life about how the problem with our society and government is a lack of competency.

submitted 130 days ago • 10 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 137 days ago • 2487 comments

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

submitted 131 days ago • 2403 comments

Just donated to Trans Lifeline to help our friends and family being persecuted by this new regime. IF you have some $ to spare, please consider doing likewise? Even a few bucks helps. But if not, some real LOUD support from the cis community would also be great. ❤️ link: translifeline.org/donate/

submitted 131 days ago • 74 comments

particularly maddening coming from the DC political press. "we didn't remotely communicate the stakes of this election, but Trump has a mandate to do the things we didn't tell you about, hands tied"

submitted 131 days ago • 22 comments

Fox News is reporting this and irony may never recover.

submitted 131 days ago • 374 comments

They gave up on this faster than I quit the 5th grade basketball team after my parents made me join.

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The campaign against trans rights is also about stripping away everyone’s protections against discrimination, reviving, as Douglass put it “the moral blindness” of those who “persuade themselves that they are safe, though the rights of others may be struck down.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 131 days ago • 87 comments

Boy, these last eight days feel like a good reminder why democracies generally avoid letting people who attempt a coup come back to power….

submitted 132 days ago • 110 comments

This is the right kind of messaging.

submitted 133 days ago • 8 comments

This is the absolutely stupidest compliance in advance I could have imagined

submitted 133 days ago • 2 comments

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

submitted 133 days ago • 224 comments

DEI exists to help right the historic wrong of unqualified white dudes always getting the gig.

submitted 133 days ago • 183 comments

Here's my weekly list of must-read articles, some resources for justice-minded folks, and some thoughts on how we can sustain ourselves and each other in these times.

submitted 135 days ago • 14 comments

Trump Admin unnecessary death toll clock already climbing.

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Well, at least Pete Hegseth is cured of his alcoholism.

submitted 136 days ago • 1174 comments

I watched so many Marvel hero TV movies from the 70s and 80s to pull the juiciest clips for this special. So much hero juice. The special has host segments with the guys, and oh yeah, a healthy splash of the unreleased Roger Corman Fantastic Four!

submitted 136 days ago • 8 comments

“We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting... ...today 75% [of the workforce] didn’t show up.” The FO we all warned the fuckarounders was coming is here.

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments