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Edward Coristine wants you to forget all about Big Balls.

submitted 10 hours ago • 9 comments

The. Republican. Party. Wants. To. End. American. Science.

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

THEY F*CKING TOOK THE ICE CREAM MAN! The photo says it all. Masked ICE goons grabbed Enrique Lozano in front of a Culver City, CA church. A Community Coalition helped the family identify the abandoned cart, locate his belongings. For 20 years, loved in the community. "Hardened criminals" - my ass.

submitted 13 hours ago • 119 comments

To the end of my days, I will not understand why industries that rely on this research are not losing their minds

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

Taking $ meant to help the population and using it for mass incarceration is kind of the essence of authoritarian priorities and goals.

submitted 12 hours ago • 30 comments

most accurate headline of the day. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

So this is an ominous banner: "Effective July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park, MD, will become a restricted-access federal facility with access only for visitors with a legitimate business need. It will no longer be open to the general public." www.archives.gov/college-park

submitted 12 hours ago • 4 comments

Starmer plans to waste money & make the UK a more dangerous place by getting nuclear capable aircraft, while cutting welfare benefits because they are unaffordable. Obviously not a left policy but actually never a policy of the Labour right either... www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

What the fuck are we doing here @housedemocrats.bsky.social. You fucking cowards. Shame on you www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 13 hours ago • 27 comments

Opinion | The Iranian people deserve better than a corrupt government run by religious fanatics. by Pete Hegseth

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

OK, here is your one-minute primer on the whole concept of "trickle down economics," from the obituary of Fred Smith, the founder of Fedex. I mean, if you still can't see it, I have no hope for you.

submitted 2 days ago • 103 comments

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice" Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments

“Let’s just say that I fear we’re going to be partying like it’s 1899 again, when few vaccines other than the smallpox vaccines existed and what have long been vaccine-preventable diseases ravaged huge numbers of Americans.”

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Trump lawlessness loses 95+% in front of judges from across the political spectrum because these courts feel restrained to abide by law & precedent. The Roberts Court has never felt legally constrained & is clearly committed to the project of negotiating the arrival of fascist dictatorship in the US

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

hat trick here: a) building a racist concentration camp b) in a globally unique and highly vulnerable area of nature c) using disaster relief money no kings, no petty princes

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

President Trump's first bombing campaign against Iran was a great success. We have now discovered a new Iranian nuclear site: directly underneath a high school in Gaza City. by Benjamin Netanyahu

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission. They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again. And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

submitted 3 days ago • 166 comments

Not sure it's the best choice of words for the BBC World Service to use, suggesting we visit the BBC News website to hear more on the 'fallout' from the strike on the nuclear facility.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I, for one, am shocked that the org whose core business is remixing everyone else’s work ran into an intellectual property issue.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“Forget about intelligence” is a pretty good mantra for this administration

submitted 2 days ago • 804 comments

Trump is once against arsonist and fireman. If he hadn't pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal (which our own State Dept. certified Iran was in compliance with), we wouldn't be here.

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

submitted 3 days ago • 51 comments

Can't wait to see what rainy day they're holding back impeachment talk for. When Trump nukes San Francisco they'll be like "why weren't we briefed"...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 3 days ago • 660 comments

My only working explanatory hypothesis right now is that billionaires and authoritarians Literally thrive on human misery; that if people aren't suffering then all their money and power don't actually sustain them, and that cruelty & sheer horror are the only things that flow through their veins.

submitted 3 days ago • 56 comments

illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president

submitted 3 days ago • 443 comments

Depressing time to be a law professor whose entire job hinges on law existing and being meaningful in some way

submitted 3 days ago • 29 comments

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

submitted 3 days ago • 816 comments

So it was #2

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

We have to view US tech companies as potential hostages - or active agents - of a semi, or full hostile US Government. This is a critical illustration of that. Irish government and public agencies need to take note.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Still true: Britain is a success story Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well Multiculturalism is popular Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration Nostalgia is increasingly weird Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

the takeaway from this is that, for all practical purposes, stephen miller is the acting president of the united states. trump is just play-acting as the boss, as he did on the Apprentice. (gift link) www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 3 days ago • 298 comments

Yeah, no, sorry, until AI is disconnected from plagiarism and environmental disaster as policy, it will not be viable, even for “good” applications, and at the moment, tech bros aren’t interested in “good” applications. They’re interested in people putting critical thinking in hock.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Here’s the thing. There are over 18,000 law enforcement agencies in the USA. Many of us have been tracking the right-wing capture of law enforcement for years and years. We’ve been talking about it. It’s well known.

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

he is monitoring your posts in real time so he can telephone god and get the list of sins in early

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

1) this is heartbreaking 2) I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a parent right now. How do you explain to your kid that they or their friends could be snatched at any moment, despite having done nothing wrong, and thrown in what is essentially an unregulated prison?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Personally I am unfamiliar with any legitimate activity that requires switching license plates, which by the way is illegal.

submitted 3 days ago • 562 comments

The threat to the @iaeaorg.bsky.social Director-General is despicable. (I presume Iran is laying the groundwork to withdraw from the NPT and terminate its safeguards agreement with the @iaeaorg.)

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

I wish people would stop describing things that are indisputably provable as a matter of fact as "controversial." People not liking a fact doesn't mean the fact is controversial. Reality is not malleable around our beliefs and it shouldn't be. We need to stop acting like it is.

submitted 4 days ago • 47 comments

I just have to say, as a historian of the Reconstruction-era Klan, that masked paramilitaries are very bad and masked vigilantes are even worse and there are causal links between the two and none of this is good for democracy.

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

Virtually unrestricted nuclear launch authority and doubly so after purge and then emplacement of sycophants. EVEN IF THERE WERE so-called adults in the room… …USA nuclear launch process is designed to be quick & easy & responsive to the ostensible President.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

Its funny that these are also two people that the automod correctly banned as soon as they joined only for them to be manually unsuspended.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

If you are too young to remember the Iraq War, you'll hear "no one protested" and "no one knew they were lying." Millions of people knew they were lying and protested. The press not only did not want a record of mass dissent; they did not want a record of mass knowledge of lies.

submitted 8 days ago • 235 comments