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I seem to be of the minority opinion that it's bad for our historical understanding when people use "blood libel" to mean "well-documented exposé reporting on actions committed by the Israeli military."

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We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a 29-year-old in California wrote.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

Holy smokes! Our article is on the cover of The Lancet!!!!!!!!!! Nbd 💅

submitted 18 hours ago • 40 comments

As other people have pointed out, California's Republican House delegation could easily put a stop to this by withholding their support for the reconciliation bill, and yet there's no chance that they will

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

#BREAKING: #SCOTUS also grants the Trump administration's request to pause discovery in CREW's effort to challenge the structure (and identify the leadership) of DOGE, again over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees: www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...

submitted 16 hours ago • 32 comments

It continues to make me sad that Ro Khanna used VC and tech money to push Mike Honda out of Congress. Honda was a childhood Japanese internee who became a high school teacher, congressman, and staunch ally of labor and LGBTQ ppl. Khanna is … wooing a white supremacist anti-trans bigot for his money.

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

A DOGE staffer didn't use an AI tool that hallucinated. A DOGE staffer fabricated data. If you use a tool that everyone (including you) knows provides unreliable output and don't check that output, you deserve zero benefit of the doubt regarding that output...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I have never seen any example of the left "hating" young men that doesn't distill to "refusal to coddle them/insistence on treating them like adults with agency."

submitted 10 days ago • 661 comments

I watched large portions of this segment and at one point @mattyglesias.bsky.social threw up this slide, said Dems are "making bad press on this issue" and moved on. But the polling is wildly on Dem's side on this one! Opponents of what the Trump admin is doing with him outnumber supporters 2-1!

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that many, many people who work in politics don't actually believe in anything but making money in a white collar career of consequence. You can't explain this kind of thing any other way.

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“I'm not comfortable supporting any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else. I think that, in the way that we have in this country, equality should be enshrined in every country in the world. That's my belief.” - Zohran Mamdani

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The New York Times insists on treating Christopher Rufo not as a far-right activist who has been successfully pushing an ideologically defined rightwing agenda, but as a respectable conservative voice and a serious interlocutor on key political issues. That is an active, deliberate choice.

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We got another update on Jonathan Joss’ murder in San Antonio. The SAPD are walkkng back on their statatement that his murder was not a hate crime. I’m glad the attention to this case is forcing the police department to investigate this as what it was. A hate crime. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

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Violin so small it breaks the Planck length

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

I've been wondering this for months now tbh

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this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

submitted 1 day ago • 431 comments

Whoever said this is just Kendrick v Drake but with two Drakes was correct. And, once again, I plan to pay very little attention to either until someone drops the unavoidable hit of the summer. Then, and only then, will I watch a summation video essay about it by someone Black.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Stephanie tells the story of how she feel down the conspiracy rabbit hole and how she climbed out. It was my pleasure to meet her last week in SF and this is worth a listen.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

that's right

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The Court really cleared a good bit of the unanimous underbrush today. The storm is coming.

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"Lawmakers under 45 — Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s cohort — used to be much better represented in Congress. In 1981, when the median age was at its lowest since at least 1951, some 37 percent of House and Senate members were younger than 45. In the current Congress, it’s only 16 percent."

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 3 days ago • 142 comments

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

submitted 3 days ago • 1565 comments

It's even worse. The Cecil Rhodes section is all about begging the question of nostalgia for British Empire.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

This is what Democrats should be doing right now. One part of it is making the case in public. The other part of it is doing the work NOW to gather evidence for a legal case against these assholes later, so that can move quickly (unlike the Trump cases 2021-2024)

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

When Matt Stoller claimed the Trump FTC would "continue the antitrust legacy of Lina Khan," surely he meant "launch weird and baseless investigations of companies that don't want their ads associated with nazis," right?

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Today I saw the executive director of the American Enterprise Institute attempt to address a conference room full of leaders of state human services agencies and I have never seen a speaker more reviled. Big swaths of the audience (myself included) simply walked out because he was such an asshole.

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

gonna be very funny when The Husband wakes up and asks me about my morning and I tell him I got blocked on Bluesky by an NYU Law professor He's gonna be like what do you mean you already had a law professor block you, it's only 9.30 in the morning, you haven't even had breakfast yet

submitted 4 days ago • 51 comments

heckuva job brownie II: this time, it’s worse

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

i wasn't going to say anything else but this is art

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"According to three witnesses who spoke to NBC News, a tank fired on Palestinians crowding around an aid distribution center near Rafah." www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Again, I have done the thing. New toon: the presser and the coverage. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments