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by the age of 30 you should have at least 5000 PDFs in your downloads folder

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Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

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i am a professional politics knower and without passing judgment on today’s little argument i will say that i agree with this. no one is entitled to a seat and if someone feels they could better represent the area they should go for it.

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Crypto is poised to secure major legislative wins after years of frustration. Kirsten Gillibrand, the newly minted Senate Dem campaign chair, is a big reason why. "Without her, it doesn't happen," said longtime partner Cynthia Lummis. GIFT LINK ! www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 126 comments

One reason the Democrats are not inspiring much confidence as an “opposition party” is that their leader supports a fascist crackdown by his own political opponents because it aligns with his personal support for an apartheid foreign government.

submitted 21 days ago • 59 comments

this administration is speed running us into multiple disasters, some of which may be catastrophic

submitted 22 days ago • 135 comments

IMO Democratic leadership seriously underestimated the degree to which Biden 2020 voters' demand for a return to normalcy was above all a plea to get Donald Trump out of public life, & Joe Biden's elderly decline became synonymous with the party's inability to follow through on that mandate

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Team Normal Standers strikes again.

submitted 27 days ago • 304 comments

1. This is illegal. The President merely cites Article II of the Constitution to remove civil servants. 2. It is part of a pattern of building a personalist legal infrastructure by making sure key lawyers are loyalists who will say yes to further illegal acts. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

yep. and this is the basic problem with trump being psychologically incapable of perceiving a positive sum relationship. everything is a dominance game for him.

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An underrated part of this video is you can watch the Dow go down in real time in the bottom right

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

Spending taxpayer money to buy fucking bitcoin is so evil

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

One thing that the "left" (defined very broadly) can do to build a counter movement (to the participatory dynamics on the right) is to seize, model, and provide diverse opportunites for participation — so that everyday people can have agency in writing the story of who/what that movement is.

submitted 35 days ago • 21 comments

In this Ohio diner, it was a tradition: steak with ketchup, a can of diet coke, then go on camera to scream at an ally for being "disrespectful" on tv. But now the woke mob is taking all of that away.

submitted 37 days ago • 74 comments

There are two kinds of Republican: the crazed and the cowardly

submitted 46 days ago • 7 comments

One extremely divorced man makes it the entire world's problem

submitted 52 days ago • 4 comments

Musk's calling it a "judicial coup" because Judge Amy Berman Jackson entered a two-day administrative stay to consider the sudden firing of the Special Counsel who, by statute, has a 5-year term and can't be removed except for specified reasons, none of which were even mentioned by the notice.

submitted 54 days ago • 121 comments

Carol has so many faces. I love this one.

submitted 55 days ago • 184 comments

Two thoughts: -It is darkly funny to watch a senator essentially vote to abolish the formal power of Congress and then humbly petition the new emperor for amnesty. -I expect we’ll see more of this as people suddenly realize how dependent red states are on federal largesse.

submitted 56 days ago • 29 comments

They are already claiming legislative power; next they will attack any parts of the judiciary that dares disagree with them.

submitted 56 days ago • 66 comments

Vought has now been confirmed: I described him to the NY Times as Trump's Thomas Cromwell. Read this thread to understand why he is the confirmation that may matter most. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

submitted 58 days ago • 29 comments

future climate modeling in America should take into account that the government has lost the mandate of Heaven

submitted 60 days ago • 7 comments

Goldman Sachs: “the stove is burning hot. Our hands are burned. Surely he will turn the stove off.”

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

Thinking about this quote from Hayek for no reason

submitted 63 days ago • 8 comments

Slowly flipping a coin that says “Neuralink required for social security payments” on one side and “National zygote IQ database” on the other.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

My cuddliest buddy #CatSky

submitted 66 days ago • 121 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 66 days ago • 830 comments

“Steely.” “Unapologetic.” “Punchy.” “Unflinching.” “Twisting the knife.” “Wasted no time.” “Betrayed no fear.” [Also had no idea if 72 million Americans had been kicked off Medicaid.] www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/u...

submitted 67 days ago • 256 comments

Dems can: -oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn -deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings -vote no on all cloture -force quorum calls at every chance It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

submitted 68 days ago • 253 comments

We have been in this bizarre spiral my entire life: 1. Democrats ignore right-wing radicalization to focus on economic issues. 2. Right-wing media accuses Democrats of being out-of-touch leftist elites. 3. Centrist media repeats right-wing framing. 4. Democrats double down on economic issues.

submitted 68 days ago • 118 comments

How are Democrats responding? Well, earlier today, they just unanimously voted to advance his DOT secretary.

submitted 68 days ago • 16 comments

Ripping the copper out of the walls in search of the little DEI gnomes

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

This is 100% why the "weird" attack line was so powerful: all these right-wing weirdos want is to be considered the default.

submitted 69 days ago • 153 comments

One of the things we got around to is how the current fusion of tech capital with state power is an attempt to emulate China based on a misunderstanding of what actually made China succeed.

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Dying in a mental asylum in 2004 because I went back in time to tell people that The Apprentice would lead to the end of medical research, the Civil Rights Act, and birthright citizenship.

submitted 73 days ago • 75 comments

Ventura County strawberry workers are harvesting in heavy smoke from the Hughes Fire. We remind workers their employers have to provide them with respirator masks if the AQI exceeds 150. Stay safe! #WeFeedYou

submitted 74 days ago • 226 comments