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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

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“Take him anyway”

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

Great work by the Harvard community pushing the admin to finally think about fighting back. "The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government."

submitted 12 hours ago • 5 comments

Man if only we knew of any political leaders who encouraged such things

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

It’s telling that it’s always about making someone else do the hard labor, and never volunteering for it yourself.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Bring back everyone who was sent from the U.S. to CECOT in El Salvador. No one should be sent there. ALL their rights were violated. ALL of them should come home.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

When I'm throwing the ball for our dog, the neighbor dog will drop his ball on my side of the fence so I have to throw it for him too.

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Every now and then, when I'm on the motorcycle, I have a "shit, I forgot to buckle up" moment then I remember I'm on a god damned motorcycle.

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This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.

submitted 2 days ago • 2602 comments

'Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work.'

submitted 5 days ago • 139 comments

Judge Gives Trump Administration 3 Days To Return Her From El Salvador Prison theonion.com/judge-g...

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

I admit surprise at some of Trump's actions. Sure, incompetence, corruption, lawlessness, and targeting of enemies were all a given—but he has also abandoned a lot of routine politically-useful stuff. I can't see why (it's not the deficit) other than "angry old man taking revenge on the world."

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I didn’t know how long it would take to do this, so I had to ditch the humans quickly.

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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

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Been reading about Criticality Events, aka times when Los Alamos scientists accidentally offed themselves. It's enlightening. These guys were young, under 35 many of them, some just out of school. They were extremely cavalier and they were playing with unimaginably destructive technology. >

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Saying we MUST cut Medicaid and funding for food or else America falls apart while spending new money on rockets is crazy. How do you have money for toys but not medicine?!

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This anonymous White House source whom WaPo allowed to heavily influence its social security story yesterday is openly malignant as well as false. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

2024-2025

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The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.

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Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

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SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.

submitted 3 days ago • 537 comments

Ok I’m doing it: Thread of all the unquestionable antisemitism by trump admin and associates, because as a Jew, I refuse to be used to further their cynical assault on civil liberties. 1/x

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Exactly - I get people wanting the contempt citations. But that effectively ENDS the attempts to get Garcia back while the issue of contempt is dealt with. She doesn't want to do that.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

DOGE broke the system that collects tariffs so none of them are actually being collected...

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It’s odd how this is the 1,571 one of these and yet we continue to do the opposite

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Multi-seeded sourdough using a rye levain after 5.5hrs in proofer @ 26°C. 9% scalded home milled wheat grain, 5% scalded cracked rye, 6% scalded home milled pulses, Wakame seaweed, lemon zest, 80% very strong white flour plus 65g seeds. Overnight in the fridge @ 6°C. #sourdough #bread #breadsky

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I am again calling for the next generation of leadership to be steely-eyed puritans who hate corruption in every form.

submitted 4 days ago • 33 comments

One of the sources of rot running through our political, intellectual, and media institutions is the total triumph of the idea that democracy means outsourcing your morality and point of view to a fuzzily incoherent view of what's popular. Total rejection of the idea of morality as personal virtue.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

It’s amazing that things like cutting FDA funding are never framed as, “I think private companies should be able to profit from having you literally eat shit and you shouldn’t be able to do anything about it”

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The North Carolina GOP in December adopted a law that stripped the Democratic governor of the power to appoint election board members, handing it instead to the incoming GOP auditor. The governor is trying to stop this in court. boltsmag.org/north-c...

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THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole. Why? Because an algorithm said so. 1/

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An #alpacasilk & #merinosilk order of "Alessandro Velvet Red". The layers of color that create this rich blend add so much oompf. It's hard to capture reds w/ photos they either come out too bright or too dull but this pic is pretty close to the deep & intense red of Alessandro's robe/ hat. 🧶

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"Ethnic cleansing through deportation" really does capture the intent behind what's happening.

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The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 4 days ago • 485 comments

This Window Safety Week, check the windows in your home. Remember to always open them from the top and remove any furniture kids can climb away from windows.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

Why the hell does everything have to happen at once?

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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Donald Fucking Trump did on J6!

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments