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You want to bring manufacturing back to the US without tackling health insurance, CEO v employee wealth disparities, wage stagnation, and the assault on unions? Fuck off!

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 2 days ago • 1653 comments

New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 47 comments

Imagine the TDS accusations against anyone who might have predicted something like this 6 months ago.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Looks like Tesla joined the Tesla boycott www.forbes.com/sites/jimgor...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The number of times I have wept at the keyboard while writing something that hit me in an unexpected way = many. The number of times I have written something and then stared at it and thought "oh...well" also = many.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Writers usually do explore similar milieus, aesthetics, biases, tropes, fears, and themes throughout their body of work. I think if we don't have an emotional reaction to what we are writing then there's a problem. One thing that differentiates hacks (coughcoughAI) from people.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Keep talking about the Signal security lapse at the Pentagon. The media may have forgotten about it, but the voters have not.

submitted 2 days ago • 852 comments

i'll never get over the casual perfection of "strangelove" at every level. i paused a clip on "james whale bake sale" to look at the composition of this shot, combining graphics on the big board, ken adams' lights and set, and placement of the actors – all focusing us on bull, scott, and sellers.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Gahahahahajahahhahahahhahahahahahahha God I hate being right.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

The bill would require an individual to present in person a passport, birth certificate or other citizenship document when registering to vote or updating their voter registration information.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Hope this helps.

submitted 2 days ago • 1225 comments

US higher education was, until Jan 2025, the envy of the world and the engine of our innovation-led economic growth.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

By the way, Mike Waltz and Pete Hegseth still have jobs after freely chatting about top secret war plans an a commercial texting app while they were clueless that a reporter was listening in. Don't let the story die.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Your daily reminder that the very existence of billionaires is proof of societal failure www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Representatives from the 75 countries that have reached out on trade deals leaving the White House.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Do I know anyone in Minneapolis who wants cats AND DOESN'T already have cats? My friend Jason found a random cat outside and didn't know she was FELV+ and pregnant... Now she has two very darling 8 week old kittens who probably have it but who need a loving home... Please DM!

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

I do not know why no one has started a social media campaign that's just called "skill issue, bro" in response to all this whining

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

submitted 4 days ago • 1942 comments

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA): "I'm writing to the White House to demand who knew in advance that the President was going to, once again, flip flop on tariffs. And are people cashing in? There is just all too much opportunity for people in the White House and the administration to be insider trading"

submitted 4 days ago • 1907 comments

"...but in both cases, creators said that their share of revenue has increased because Ghost and Beehiiv charge creators flat monthly rates that scale based on their subscriber counts, rather than Substack’s 10 percent cut of all transaction fees."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

The trailer!!!!! I'm really looking forward to this.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

www.empireonline.com/tv/news/murd...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

reposting to save

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 4 days ago • 1526 comments

Never forget that the chief complaint against Biden was “the economy is terrible.” You utter imbeciles

submitted 5 days ago • 96 comments

From back-to-back 20%+ years — and “envy of the world” — to this. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/b...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

Sharkstock!

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Absolutely every business should do this.

submitted 5 days ago • 41 comments

Scientists love to debate and argue, but if there are 3 things every scientist absolutely agrees on, it's that: 1. Climate change is real 2. Vaccines work 3. Those are NOT dire wolves 😤 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

We don’t need to protect what we have if we can just pay to bring it back later. I fear on the extreme end, stuff like this will harm conservation. For example if we can clone extinct species, then we can drill all we want and let science build the ecosystem back when we’re done. Spoiler: we can’t

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

You’d think when you’re claiming the richest country in the world can’t afford childhood cancer research you might wait a year before throwing yourself a 100 million dollar birthday parade. But carpe diem, suckers.

submitted 5 days ago • 284 comments

Per leaked memo, Shopify is making AI tools mandatory, whether they help or not. This is exactly like RTO - "we paid for all of this (empty real estate/magic beans) so you better start using it." Then the C-suite can pat themselves on the back for making a wise (real estate/magic beans) investment.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

I opened a half-pound brick of Kerrygold today and wondered if it would be affected.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

In most societies, the rich and powerful acceded to the rule of law solely because they realized that, as soon as ordinary people feel they’re getting screwed without any chance of peaceful redress, that’s when you get the pitchfork-wielding mobs.

submitted 6 days ago • 637 comments

less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest

submitted 6 days ago • 68 comments

This is high art

submitted 7 days ago • 534 comments