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Well, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?

submitted 29 days ago • 1733 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 38 days ago • 618 comments

House Republicans have just passed the so-called SAVE Act, a dangerous piece of legislation designed to strip millions of Americans—especially Black, brown, young, and marginalized voters—of their right to vote.

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

submitted 81 days ago • 188 comments

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

submitted 85 days ago • 247 comments

Combat vet, Carrier pilot and astronaut. He flew 39 combat missions in Desert Storm from the USS Midway. After that he was a test pilot for the Navy and then became an astronaut with his twin. Leon owns companies that blow shit up.

submitted 84 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Rubio confirms USAID is officially closed. It marks the US’s transformation from a global force for democracy to a vulture state. The pitch is now cleared for China & Russia. A foreign policy own goal for the ages and an unmitigated catastrophe for millions.

submitted 84 days ago • 55 comments

“…a crucial but little-noticed part of Trump’s first round of executive orders…tasking the secretaries of the Dept of Defense & Dept of Homeland Security to submit joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”” & martial law www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

Gen Z cultural exchange: they all know Rick Astley, and now he's done a cover of Chappell Roan's Pink Pony Club. (A banger, I might add) www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vF2...

submitted 90 days ago • 11 comments

Supreme Court rules Clean Water Act doesn't require clean water. Shout this loud and clear to your neighbors. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 90 days ago • 22 comments

The Budapest Memorandum (1994) saw Ukraine give up its nuclear arsenal in exchange for U.S., UK, and Russian security assurances. Today, as the U.S. halts aid under Trump, it abandons those commitments, signaling to the world that American promises are worthless. A betrayal of global trust.

submitted 90 days ago • 16 comments

Breaking: Trump agrees to surrender Ukraine to Russia in exchange for returning Alaska to Russia.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

It should be noted that the strength of a liberal democracy is defined by how it protects the rights of its minorities, especially its most marginalized.

submitted 92 days ago • 31 comments

Just in case it wasn’t clear enough… MAGA = Nazis

submitted 97 days ago • 145 comments

Holy shit. This is scary. Senator Chris Murphy just revealed on the Senate floor that Republicans now have the votes to cut $2 trillion in services for seniors on Medicare and kids on Medicaid. Tomorrow is the House’s vote. $2 TRILLION IN CUTS. The worst part 👇

submitted 98 days ago • 751 comments

I’m shocked that Patel didn’t keep his word

submitted 98 days ago • 52 comments

Hawaiian crows are extinct in the wild and are found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a small group, safeguarded in captivity, has been released in the forests of Maui.

submitted 99 days ago • 39 comments

GET YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND LEGAL DOCUMENTS IF YOU EVER WANT TO VOTE AGAIN www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

submitted 103 days ago • 3 comments

Winston Churchill was right: "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried.” Too many Americans have fought and died defending democracy. We must stand with our European allies against the authoritarianism of Putin and Trump.

submitted 103 days ago • 219 comments

They briefly mention at the end that we need to move on from old WW2 geopolitics and that's basically why trump is working with Russia for a "new world order" and era of new alliances. Sounds like a trump/Putin team up against America and our longtime Allies. youtu.be/X-vbrOcCfN4?...

submitted 102 days ago • 7 comments

There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

submitted 102 days ago • 41 comments

OVERNIGHT: Donald Trump’s media company, citing President Donald Trump’s executive order, sues a Brazilian judge who is involved in the potential prosecution of Donald Trump’s political ally Jair Bolsonaro.

submitted 103 days ago • 135 comments

While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent. SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

submitted 105 days ago • 261 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 107 days ago • 374 comments

"The federal government is the largest employer in greater Kansas City." www.npr.org/2025/02/08/n...

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

You know what I like to do in my terminal late at night? I try to find my way through an infinite maze. 🧌 minotaur: Multiplayer SSH game, beware of the minotaurs! 🎮 ssh frittura.org -p 2020 🦀 Rust & @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/ricott1/mino... #rustlang #ratatui #tui #ssh #game #terminal

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submitted 131 days ago • 1836 comments

Elon Musk | American History X I cut the clip. You decide.

submitted 133 days ago • 77 comments

X nuked links to a Spectator article by @jsweetli.bsky.social laying out evidence that Adrian Dittmann is NOT Elon Musk but a German 20-something man in Fiji, and to a blog by @crimew.gay and @ryan.staticnoi.se detailing their research. All three received a 30-day bans from the platform.

submitted 148 days ago • 24 comments

Live your life in such a way that your assassin would not become an instant folk hero.

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submitted 148 days ago • 438 comments

Happy Treason Day, Democrats! Have fun not storming the Capitol!

submitted 147 days ago • 116 comments

You can substitute most recipes by ordering a pizza

submitted 151 days ago • 4 comments

Oh the populist right-wing authoritarian is interested in territorial expansion you say? Well that’s a new one !

submitted 160 days ago • 633 comments

Dear world, Our incoming president is an unhinged lunatic. He is fronting for a deranged oligarch who wants to establish a new world order of megalomaniacal oligarchs. Sorry we screwed up. Again. Please protect yourselves accordingly. Sincerely, America

submitted 160 days ago • 339 comments

Shocking….said absolutely nobody

submitted 164 days ago • 23 comments

Reminder Superman is not a power fantasy, he's an altruism fantasy. The idea of someone with godlike powers using them solely for good (with an antagonist who is a billionaire, who by definition do the opposite) was dreamt up by Jewish kids in the 30s and its just as if not more relevant now.

submitted 165 days ago • 73 comments

Gerry Connolly, 74, wins recommendation to lead House Oversight panel. Connolly 34 to AOC 27 @aoc.bsky.social expected to ask full house dem caucus to vote tomorrow. Make the votes public! I’m so done with old, white men. Come on. We’ve learned nothing.

submitted 168 days ago • 145 comments

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

submitted 168 days ago • 666 comments

Follow your dreams, kids. If Robert Kennedy can be health secretary, you can literally do anything. Can't swim but wanna be a lifeguard? Do it. Blind sharpshooter? Awesome. First person to walk on the sun? Fuck yeah playboy, go get it

submitted 168 days ago • 21 comments

tis the season to be thankful and love one another! except the billionaires. fuck those guys

submitted 168 days ago • 2 comments

Once you realize that he considers his customers his enemies this makes a lot more sense.

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submitted 169 days ago • 191 comments

Well okay then. This squirrel outside my window has a whole burrito in its mouth.

submitted 169 days ago • 19 comments