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no matter how bad you think the cspan video is, it's actually worse if someone has the patience to generate a clean transcript of the entire thing they'd be doing good work

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 12 hours ago • 497 comments

"Biological men" implies the existence of chemical, ergonomic, physical, psychological and safety men.

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

Sorry, but Forever _means_ forever...

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1090 comments

For #NationalInvasiveSpeciesAwarenessWeek (2/24-2/28), we’re featuring a #GLANSIS animated video series about #GreatLakes #InvasiveSpecies, ft. invasive carp, sea lamprey, mussels, ballast water invaders, + more, and how regional partners work together to stop them. Stay tuned! #NISAW

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Ahem

submitted 1 day ago • 63 comments

Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 655 comments

@ hq to stash and fab a few things

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“the United States is not a startup. The federal government exists to do all of the things that are definitionally not profitable, that serve the public good rather than protect investor profits. (The vast majority of startups also fail, something the United States cannot afford to do.)”

submitted 2 days ago • 228 comments

As always, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social is a real one.

submitted 2 days ago • 176 comments

Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

submitted 2 days ago • 1346 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

More DOGE-level math:

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's getting to be a real molotovs and heads-on-pikes kinda vibe this year.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I keep seeing "Why aren't the Americans striking" and "Because our healthcare is tied to our jobs" and it never gets less true or less depressing

submitted 3 days ago • 83 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Rep. Jasmine Crockett exposes near $1 billion in new contracts for Musk in just 2 weeks: "This is nothing more than a money grab. He's not out there trying to save money for the American people, he's lining his pockets."

submitted 3 days ago • 96 comments

It's always projection

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah sure RFK. ADHD people are a “dire threat” assuming we can manage to put pants on today and stop scrolling. It’s over for you bitches if I can hyperfixate on you.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Just remembering how when planes would crash in Iran or Russia we used to say "This is what happens in autocracies, because they give important jobs to the leader's cronies instead of competent people."

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Bolsonaro is formally charged over the coup attempt.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

!!!! “Compared to non-flossers, people who flossed experienced a 22% lower risk of an ischemic stroke, a 44% lower risk of a cardioembolic stroke, and a 12% lower risk of AFib….” www.heart.org/en/news/2025...

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

They are happy to offer tabulation services via Starlink upload using new functionality of X, the everycrp app...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

RFK's brilliant idea to steal kids and send them to "farms" is just orphan trains (not called that at the time, and most of the kids were not orphans), which we already did, and which resulted in stolen urban children being used as slave labor in rural communities.

submitted 4 days ago • 17 comments

I worked on this story for a decade and he just said it out loud on Fox News

submitted 4 days ago • 171 comments