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News seemingly quiet about this story. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/26/w...

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New from the Congressional Budget Office: “Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2025 to 2034.” This edition finds total annual costs have jumped to $65.9 billion—up $13.5 billion or 26% since CBO’s 2023 report. Projected costs over the next decade are $946 billion, up $190 billion since 2023.

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Two headlines in the New York Times today.

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I don't know if this is the best humpback whale breaching footage of my life, but I SAID IT WAS when I took it! 🦑

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This is literally a quote from the satirical comic strip "The Wizard of Id," which focused on a "tyrannical, dwarfish monarch...ruling a rundown and oppressed shabby kingdom." economicsociology.org/2015/08/28/r...

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Ok, with all of the right-wingers who are now fleeing a sinking ship…. Glad they’re no longer on board. If they’re willing to help, fine. If they’re asking people to forget what they did, not fine. Simple as, at least for me.

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

Textile artwork by UK textile artist Rachel Wright, machine embroidered on calico #WomensArt

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We hope you guys find this interesting. ‘Guy,’ meaning “person,” comes from Guy Fawkes. Boom.

submitted 11 days ago • 65 comments

We got them as a wedding present. We opened them one time and that was because we broke our only two shot glasses and needed something to use for the rest of the night so yes we have our life together

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FFS I got death threats about making Optimus Prime the wrong kind of truck when I wrote the TRANSFORMERS movie. Do the job or get out of the way.

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if you lived through the lead up to the iraq war then you know that this is the most delusional thing anyone has ever said

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there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

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I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do

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Just signed up for the Taco Bell 50k. Wonder if there is a 100k option. tacobell50k.com

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whoever did this belongs on Rushmore (via www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2...)

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Russia is still committing war crimes pretty much every day.

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The regional center of Ukraine - Sumy - after the Russian attack: 21 dead and 83 wounded, including 7 children. The strike was right in the center of the city after people were returning from Sunday church service.

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#Cowards

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I suppose I owe it to all of you who are new and absolutely appalled at my views on travel to let you know that I've been like this for a long time and have rules I expect you all to follow: www.thebulwark.com/p/the-six-ru...

submitted 17 days ago • 170 comments

This is a very good point that I haven't seen made yet. It's not just Trump that is undermining trust in the US. It is also the inability of US institutions to stop him. And even if you make that "inability to stop him so far," it's already too far to maintain trust.

submitted 17 days ago • 76 comments

anyone who's ever run a community above a certain size can tell you that you either ban like 20 assholes or lose 20,000 normal people. allowing 'different voices' is a losing strategy.

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COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

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Imagine not realizing who looks bad in this scenario

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Not much to investigate lol

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Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong mentions the key factor that the WH ignores completely - US surplus in export of services

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I feel like videogames actually do provide a pretty accurate representation of real life right now because a lot of videogames are like “THE WORLD IS ENDING” and then you just collect herbs and pretend nothing is wrong

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The Prime Minister of Israel has a warrant for his arrest by the International Criminal Court for war crimes. He visited the President of the United States in the Oval Office yesterday.

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Dear God

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When China is posting Ronald Reagan on main while the Republican Party abandons all his principles, you know you fucked up.

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Reprised from the other place, by demand: As a specialist in chemical and biological warfare, take this warning from me. Never get in a pool in Las Vegas. Don't even touch the water. (Or hot tub).

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