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Suggestion re horrific 787 crash in India: *No one* has any clear idea of what exactly went wrong, at this point. Engines /flaps /gas /settings /landing gear /electronics /mx /pilots /Boeing /etc All that's known now is a huge number of people were killed. Zero value in (public) guesswork. RIP

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

The Secret Police have to stay secret because Americans might be mean to them? People on the public payroll have to be... well, public. We pay for them. We deserve to know where our money is going, and what is being done in our name.

submitted 22 days ago • 75 comments

Midnight, June 7 is the deadline to comment on the revised Schedule F, Trump's plan to politicize the civil servants by converting them into at-will appointees that can be fired for the mildest pushback against illegal actions. It's easy - here is how: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/last-day-t...

submitted 22 days ago • 45 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 23 days ago • 531 comments

He also said the price of eggs is down 400%. He’s an insufferable liar incapable of honesty.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The recent @nytimes.com guest essay from Louise Perry is utterly bizarre. She presents Elon Musk as a misunderstood "visionary" by comparing him to... Cecil Rhodes, founder of Rhodesia and one of the worst humans to ever live.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

"we should win more elections" is undeniably true but it's not like a great message to send voters that even if they do their part in one state, Congress is so broken that half the House margin on the only bill that matters can be lost by reps dying in office and leaving vacant seats.

submitted 37 days ago • 3 comments

Every Republican in Congress should be asked if they agree with Trump that it’s a “good thing” if truck drivers and dockworkers lose their jobs

submitted 51 days ago • 206 comments

DIDN'T TAKE LONG. This is what you call "committing to the bit."

submitted 51 days ago • 170 comments

You forgot to mention she resigned in protest in January after you killed her cartoon about your plutocrat owner.

submitted 54 days ago • 57 comments

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

submitted 60 days ago • 390 comments

“Twelve hours of bird-watching, and I still can’t sleep. The chirps don’t end. All my life needed was a sense of someplace to go. I don’t believe that one should dedicate their life to morbid self-attention. We have much to learn from observing the daily habits of the local avian population.”

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 71 days ago • 338 comments