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Worth tracking these data closely.

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

submitted 16 days ago • 1091 comments

“Europe will be consulted – but ultimately excluded – from the planned peace talks between Russia, the US and Ukraine, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine has revealed.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Here's the acting head of FEMA just unliterally deciding that Article I is fake earlier today. The Constitution is not in effect.

submitted 22 days ago • 93 comments

We’ve become used to right wingers throwing tantrums every time black people are on tv in something everyone is watching (the olympics, superbowl, ect) but it’s actually fucking weird and we shouldn’t act like that’s a normal reaction

submitted 23 days ago • 88 comments

Bloomberg: The Justice Department is scaling back enforcement of laws governing foreign lobbying transparency and bribes of foreign officials, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on her first day. news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

NY’s finest going full Adam West Batman on the speed-camera-avoidance gadgetry for their personal vehicles.

submitted 56 days ago • 12 comments

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

submitted 56 days ago • 677 comments

Believe it or not, that's only a fraction of the number of NYPD cops who clocked more than $100K in overtime this year.

submitted 72 days ago • 8 comments

This is really damning. NJ State Troopers, unhappy with a report on racial bias incidents, just stopped doing traffic enforcement, and seemingly weren’t on the roads (as evidenced by a vehicle from a fatal hit and run being abandoned for hours before anyone noticed).

submitted 87 days ago • 112 comments

in other "look at where this guy comes from" news, Elon Musk's father just did a lengthy podcast episode that opens with the host saying "I bet the last time you had this many black people in your house someone was trying to rob you" youtu.be/KH1U5x8LXgs?...

submitted 99 days ago • 158 comments

UPDATE: Hours after this @propublica.org story published, Lincare announced internally that “effective immediately, Greg McCarthy is no longer Chief Operating Officer. Greg is leaving Lincare to pursue other opportunities.”

submitted 100 days ago • 15 comments

This is bad

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

the thing about being a political junkie is you have extremely difficult time conceptualizing how someone could be totally ignorant of politics but i would strongly encourage you to imagine the kind of person who googled “did biden drop out?” on november 4th and then cast a ballot on november 5th

submitted 107 days ago • 483 comments

Check your carrots. The CDC warns of a bad E. coli outbreak across at least 18 states with one death identified so far.

submitted 107 days ago • 61 comments

Ryan Girdusky to Mehdi Hasan: I HOPE YOUR BEEPER DOESN'T GO OFF

submitted 127 days ago • 205 comments

Nope. Not this time. Suck it up and print the actual quotes. That’s what reporting means. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/u...

submitted 128 days ago • 3 comments

weird how no one is saying we shouldn't prosecute Eric Adams and should instead let voters decide

submitted 160 days ago • 39 comments

Nazis have worked deliberately for more than a decade to create the impression that marginal, wildly unpopular racist positions are widespread and normal, and that effort has actively captured the Republican presidential ticket and the guy who owns Twitter, and has passively captured the press

submitted 164 days ago • 21 comments

Barnard College updated their 'Standards for Community Conduct' in light of protests against the genocide of Palestinians. They're now forbidding almost any form of individual or collective protest or public expression of opinion barnard.edu/college-poli...

submitted 174 days ago • 21 comments

The editor in chief of the National Review just said the N word in regards to Haitians and Megyn Kelly ignores it.

submitted 170 days ago • 187 comments

“Denaturalization.” They’re going to strip people of their citizenship and deport them. They’re going to deport US citizens.

submitted 172 days ago • 135 comments

In another case of voter intimidation, Ron DeSantis is sending investigators to the homes of people who signed a petition to put abortion on the ballot in Florida newrepublic.com/post/185704/...

submitted 178 days ago • 72 comments

Trump is out there telling interviewers that Democrats are executing babies after birth and doing gender reassignment surgery on children in schools. Shouldn’t this be news or something?

submitted 182 days ago • 33 comments

Feels bad that you can just talk about how you’re breaking the law like this on Instagram these days, seems like we shouldn’t be so accepting of this level of antisocial behavior from people who can very easily kill other people.

submitted 189 days ago • 23 comments

So the megalopolis trailer guys used chatgpt to give them critic quotes, chatgpt made stuff up, nobody checked it, and now they've had to pull the trailer

submitted 195 days ago • 9 comments

If you’re a white teenage boy who travels across state lines to gun down two BLM protesters in Kenosha, that’s justifiable homicide and you get to walk free If you’re a black teenage girl who finally kills the man who’s been sex trafficking you in Kenosha, you’ll get sent to jail for 11 years.

submitted 198 days ago • 65 comments

Negril had one of the nicest outdoor dining setups in Brooklyn. It was designed by Rockwell Group. Today, thanks to our car-brained mayor and City Council, it's being torn down so it can become three or four parking spaces.

submitted 203 days ago • 37 comments

Police have been on a work slowdown for 5 straight years, with the direct impact of deadlier roads and a softer impact of reactionaries screaming that crime is up because of policies they don't like, rather than police work stoppages www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 219 days ago • 14 comments

Scientists say we basically have an HIV vaccine, but Gilead is charging over $40,000 a year for it and won’t yet allow a generic version that could be made for as little as $40 (which still includes a 30% profit).

submitted 225 days ago • 65 comments