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Americans hate government in the abstract & love it in the particulars, Episode 78,239 We're touching the stove now, in ways we haven't in the modern (post)industrial state era, & we'll find out what happens when the actual "big government" folks hate concretely disappears bsky.app/profile/thet...

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

Zero votes from Dems Republicans control the House, Senate and White House. It's on them Any reporter who asks Dems what they are doing to keep govt open is doing GOP's work - and many DC reporters, especially those covering the hill, will do just that

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Oh dang, are we talking about ancient prosthetics in here?! My absolute favorite ancient prosthetic is this 2,200-year-old leg from prehistoric China! It was made of wood, ox horn, leather, and horse hoof, and made for a man with a fused knee joint.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

submitted 21 hours ago • 123 comments

Would this be a similar social crisis if it happened to women consistently for decades and decades and decades, and would it be appropriate in that case to take countervailing action rather than categorically oppose all countervailing action, is a question that occurs to me for no particular reason

submitted 7 hours ago • 25 comments

not to mention the birth defects…all in the name of “protecting” children

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Literally could just be one. Trump is carrying a grudge, Zelensky saw him for who he is and he hates it. Zelensky in many ways is like Trump from a mirror universe - an entertainer who it turns out is a bold and brave leader at a desperate time, who cares about his people more than himself.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

One of the remarkable features of the present moment is how transparently anti-worker the rhetoric and actions of all the oligarchs is.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

AP: “.. Data published on DOGE’s “Wall of Receipts” shows that more than one-third of the contract cancellations, 794 in all, are expected to yield no savings.” @apnews.com #DOGE 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/doge...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

#wildlife #nature #birds #picnickingbirds Picnicking Birds 🪶

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I can't stop laughing at this man I'm sorry. This is the kind of shit the biggest loser in the world would say to their girlfriend about buying her flowers on Valentine's Day once, and he's doing so in an argument that started because he called her a bitch

submitted 1 day ago • 895 comments

democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”

submitted 1 day ago • 172 comments

The sun's out, the birds are singing, and it's day 3 of our podcast trailer existing in the world. Listen now below, or search Absolute Units wherever you get your podcast. Gosh you have no idea how long we've been waiting to say that. linktr.ee/the.merl

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.

submitted 1 day ago • 146 comments

It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.

submitted 1 day ago • 337 comments

I think that Democrats should boycott the State of the Union, which is pointless. Instead, of having a Democrat provide the rebuttal, they should bring in recently fired federal workers to describe the important work they used to do.

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

Dickless chode

submitted 2 days ago • 9371 comments

THIS is why Democratic leaders must be replaced sooner rather than later. 9:42 AM: Amy Klobuchar posts a photo with Lindsey Graham bragging about her "bipartisan meeting" and how they "stand with Ukraine" 1:40 PM: Lindsey Graham is on Fox News "trashing Zelenskyy and praising Trump and Vance"

submitted 2 days ago • 280 comments

Every member of the Greatest Generation who gave their lives fighting for democracy and the freedom of mankind must be rolling in their graves over the behavior of the most disgraceful President and Vice President our country has ever seen.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

his supporters will eat it up. they love the phony strong man bullshit. hopefully the majority of this country are smarter and instead feel deep shame

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There it is! "Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt." He is referring to them weathering their collusion becoming public, and now is the big payback: together until the end.

submitted 2 days ago • 590 comments

who told this pampered asshole he has the right to speak to anyone like this?

submitted 2 days ago • 1137 comments

“Gimmick” season begins. 1. Baking in “tariff revenue” 2. Using “current policy baseline” on taxes @nbcnews.com @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

advanced age and privilege-induced impulsivity do not a president make

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

While NIH funded researchers have found a potential cure for one of the most deadly cancers around, Trump and Musk are continuing an illegal NIH grant freeze, threatening so many potential life saving scientific advances. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

An average person who did something as incompetent as “accidentally cancelling Ebola prevention” wouldn’t be applauded, they’d be fired. And they didn’t restore it, Elon Musk was lying, the Ebola prevention work still isn’t happening.

submitted 3 days ago • 48 comments

“No God, No Boss, No Husband.” FEMINIST GIANT Daily Dose: 109 www.feministgiant.com/p/daily-dose...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

every time somebody tells me to be safe when I’m going out on my bike, they get this lecture. i will be safe and ride within my limits. but I’ve got no control over the oversized vehicles and poor road design.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

so i guess there really are people who will FA until they literally find out. like, does this have anything to do with the k-12 shift away from traditional learning towards experiential methods?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

submitted 3 days ago • 539 comments

all-out support for men accused of this shit is a litmus test for maga, freaking degenerates

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

When this is over, we tax billionaires at 90 percent. Fuck that shit. It's abundantly clear that NO ONE should ever have that much money.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Not a bad idea -- if House Republicans refuse to hold town halls in their congressional districts, local Democrats should set one of their own up.

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 4 days ago • 158 comments

This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 4 days ago • 1232 comments

aint no way we cut medicaid and housing assistance so jeff bezos could buy this shirt

submitted 4 days ago • 2704 comments

After 3 surgeries, a blood clot, infection & being hospitalized for over a week, the moment I was discharged I rushed to the airport so I could get on a plane to DC & vote NO on Republicans’ disastrous budget plan. Rep. Pettersen traveled from Colorado with her newborn son so she could vote NO. 🧵

submitted 4 days ago • 864 comments

I think countries should boycott the Olympics in 2026.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

It’s fun to write a book on sheriffs and ppl are like WHAT YOU CAN DO THAT and again I have to say, Law Enforcement Baronial Class. LEO don’t follow the rules of mere mortals.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

This is an INCREDIBLY serious story for Washington, DC. There is one prosecutor for DC: the federal/DOJ US Attorney for DC. That's a Trump-appointed position now. The Trump appointee is corrupt, venal, MAGA. Here the DC police wanted to prosecute a crime, and the Trump USAO SAID NO. 1/

submitted 5 days ago • 180 comments

Napkin math and shower thought: We have one (75 year old) Phytoseiidae taxonomist in the U.S. For the cost of ONE hypercar, we could revitalize an entire field of research, train a new expert, and pay their salary for life. Where are the billionaires rushing to fund this? 🧪

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

this perhaps was the true flaw in Fukayama's argument -- that folks basking in the peace and prosperity wrought by liberalism and capitalism would not content themselves with building furniture in their spare time, but would instead spice up their humdrum lives with a soupçon of fascism

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

For those following the story of unidentified men violently dragging a protester from a local Idaho GOP meeting, it turns out they were from a private security firm called LEAR Asset Management. But neither the sheriff (who watched it all go down) or the GOP will take responsibility for hiring them.

submitted 6 days ago • 864 comments

It was “his turn” over AOC

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

Yeah what did this cunt achieve in his entire life that wasn’t buying out some one else’s creative capital?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Another dataset I like is from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program, which has maps of the US that show we fixed the acid rain problem by implementing stricter emission controls on power plants. nadp.slh.wisc.edu/maps-data/nt...

submitted 8 days ago • 93 comments

“In November 2024, when their son was just two months old, Musk texted St Clair, “I want to knock you up again.” Just a few weeks ago, in early February, Musk told St Clair that the two “have a legion of kids to make.” Read my SCOOP!

submitted 8 days ago • 44 comments