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“Officials liked what the man in the van set out to do - give all the children delicious candy - but have been frustrated by his reckless abduction approach”

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I had to bring this here because it’s so good

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Creating a big tent is fine, great even. But that tent has to have a pole, a backbone, a set of values it believes in and policies it supports, otherwise it simply caves in and is no kind of shelter, gathering place or party at all.

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It's the entire email list for all DOGE employees. Have fun!

submitted 3 days ago • 1191 comments

The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments

The Iowa GOP advanced a bill making it a misdemeanor for a healthcare provider to administer a Covid vaccine. Even when a person has requested a Covid vaccine.

submitted 5 days ago • 2634 comments

Saying you want to hear Trump explain himself tonight after the past six weeks is like watching someone pour gasoline all around a house, but politely waiting until they’re finished to ask them what they’re doing.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

If you need to move your email out of Google (and you do need to move it out of US territory), Fastmail kicks butt. I migrated 10 years ago: join.fastmail.com/f892c0e3 (referral link). The migration isn't difficult and includes all folders, but if you want someone to do it for you, I'm for hire!

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Worth noting that primarying a Democrat is worth doing even if you don’t win, even if you don’t stand a huge chance of winning. You can still force important issues into the spotlight, hold people to account, make them explain themselves to their voters, pressure them to grow a spine

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Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

submitted 6 days ago • 102 comments

been thinking a lot about the media reaction to Biden's first debate performance compared to its response to fascism

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Handing the teller a note to give me all the money in the drawer, I'm fighting waste, fraud, and abuse.

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in california they let dogs play basketball. teams of nothing but golden retrievers. they're pushing the human children out of sports because the rulebook doesn't explicitly say they can't play.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

The stock market is in freefall over Trump insisting that tariffs on Canada and Mexico will go into effect tomorrow.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

In a month Trump has taken projected GDP GROWTH of 2.5% and turned it into a decline of -2.8. Folks that’s almost 5 points!!! We’re all gonna be broke.

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Even the last few months have shown a clear pattern. Muslim-Americans have been a rock solid Democratic voting bloc for decades, when a minority refused to vote for genocide of Muslims they instantly became the enemy. Trans-people are nearly all Dem voters but they're going under the bus anyway.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

As a cishet dude, when I see a Dem ditch trans rights, it sends a message: you ain't got no fight in you, no principles, just another empty suit. Think I'm some too-online outlier? Go ask your expensive consultants why people don't bother to vote. It's because they know you're all empty suits.

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

The rumors are true: The proposed SAVE Act, now considered a priority for Republicans in the House, will make it harder, if not practically impossible, for millions of women to vote.

submitted 7 days ago • 84 comments

i hope more than anything what people learn from this 2nd trump term is that the capitalist class are aligned and they want you to have less rights and only want you to exist to generate profit for them

submitted 9 days ago • 110 comments

Trump And Vance Ambush Zelensky In Prelude To Betrayal talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-a...

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Again, please, Generative AI (chatbots, image generators...) demands crazy amount of energy and water and increases carbon footprint. When you use it, you are not just stealing copyrighted material and looking super clumsy, you are also accelerating global warming.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Every day I have to hear about some asshole

submitted 9 days ago • 204 comments

that Spider-Men pointing at each other meme but every western country pointing at each other's far-right movements

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Authoritarianism suffocates not only political life but also economic life. Instead of the best products rising to the top, people get coerced into using Dogshit because the ceo of dogshit enterprises owns the government

submitted 17 days ago • 30 comments

i still think one of the oddest political developments in my lifetime was trump's disdain for troops causing the party to largely jettison decades of troop worshipping lip service

submitted 19 days ago • 81 comments

Not sure we’ve ever had a president who hates Americans as much as this asshole does

submitted 19 days ago • 131 comments

To Russia With Love Pete Hegseth doesn't care if his drinks are shaken or stirred but his Dr. No-NATO routine is very live and let die. What would it take to convince incel-in-chief Elon that Europe is forever? Pussy galore might help. by Maureen Dowd

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

This is the way.

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Unlike other services that want to take away your access to things you’ve bought, when you buy digital comics from 2000 AD you can download and keep them forever – with no ‘DRM‘ software or restrictions bit.ly/4h2csdj

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

“Desperate times call for incremental measures.” My piece in @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-v...

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The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

submitted 20 days ago • 190 comments

let me strongly recommend the flu shot to whoever hasn't gotten one for this season. i just had a terrible bout with the flu that almost certainly would have been WAY worse had i not been vaccinated

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If you haven’t figured it out yet, the anti-diversity equity inclusion campaign has always really just been a stealth resegregation campaign as well as a reinstitution of Jim Crow era violence and destruction

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The other day my son randomly asked, "what if Christopher Robin took parts of all the animals and sewed them together and made the god of the 100 acre woods" and I have not been able to stop thinking about it.

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

This raggedy bitch got a ‘c.’ by his birth year like he was Tutankhamun

submitted 24 days ago • 141 comments

Failson with no medical training who self-medicated with heroin thinks he’s qualified to revoke access to doctor-prescribed anti-depressants that have helped save the lives of millions of people with depression. As one of those people, go fuck yourself, Junior. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 22 days ago • 46 comments

There's a lot more to fatherhood than randomly flinging semen in every direction and opening a tab wherever it happens to land.

submitted 22 days ago • 90 comments

Bong Joon-ho wakes up ever goddamn day thinking of new, creative ways to hate capitalism. Bless him and his wonderful work.

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The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."

submitted 22 days ago • 68 comments

everything is a conspiracy if, like david sacks, you are a fucking idiot

submitted 22 days ago • 284 comments

Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.

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