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Celebrate International Women's Day by interrupting men with your unsolicited opinions and taking credit for their work. If they get upset about it, be sure to tell them that they sound hysterical and should smile more.

submitted 2 days ago • 372 comments

who is the leader of the democratic party now? chuck schumer hasn't said anything in a month. jeffries is all over the place talking about how anyone who expects anything from the democrats is a naive asshole. half the house reps are online complaining that their constituents want them to work

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

NO. It would be illegal. The Department was created by Congress. He can’t close it unilaterally. Speak plainly.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

Nuking 230 is something Zuckerberg explicitly supports precisely because he knows it would give MegaCorp social media with an army of lawyers a huge advantage over smaller competitors, like this place. There really are no anti-230 takes based on an accurate understanding of what 230 actually does.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

NEW: The National Advisory Committee on Microbiological Criteria for Foods is (or was) an advisory committee housed within the USDA which provides outside expert advice to advance food safety across the US and across different levels of govt. It was ordered disbanded this afternoon.

submitted 3 days ago • 581 comments

People keep asking "What do you expect Democrats to do? They're in the minority." As Trump plans to try and dissolve the Department of Education, here are 6 tangible and practical and meaningful things Democrats can do to work to slow and stop him: www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-to-o...

submitted 3 days ago • 15 comments

I would simply not disband security services before the Ides of March

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Why? Because Maine’s governor Janet Mills told him to his face she would obey federal and state law, not his bullying edict, and he snapped at her like he did at Zelenskyy and she said see you in court. So, being a thin-skinned hateful savage, he’s now collectively punishing/antagonizing Mainers.

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

Counteroffer: we nationalize SpaceX and you go to prison

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

I'm no expert but "The richest man on the planet is stealing from you" feels like something to lean into

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

I’ve been critiqued for my appearance all my life—mostly by men who wouldn’t survive 5 minutes under the same scrutiny. But I love my self-expression & no troll is changing that. It makes me effective for the people. Ladies, wear what you want. The haters will have to adjust.

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

Normally, I would just calmly block this person and keep it rolling. But to have this fucking blase response like I'm overreacting? Oh, hell nah! I'm going to drag your ass! How ignorant this person be? Even if this bill doesn't get passed just PROPOSING this bill sets a dangerous precedent.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

To misquote Detritus, this isn’t bullying, it’s just shouting. Well deserved shouting. Every restaurant that wants to reduce employee wages by $4 an hour deserves to be shouted at until they dig a hole and pull it over themselves. Also, the legislators (supposedly Dem) who proposed this BS

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Because we have broken tax laws, the private equity firm can now profitably destroy this business, leaving everyone worse off except them.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

This, from 2019, still lives in my head rent free

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

brynn is a national security expert who has spent the last idk decade warning of a mass trans genocide in the United States, among many other bad things

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Absolutely not. This would give Trump the ability to pressure companies to remove content he doesn't like even more so than he already does.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

This is the dumbest take I've seen all day, and I had a student argue today that the earth is flat. Can Dems please stop making it embarrassing to have voted for you?

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

NASA managed to build and launch rockets very successfully for decades and then we decided to outsource rocket building to private companies so they could do a worse job at greater cost.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

without section 230, you could have a world where bluesky is liable for me calling this man a clueless, tech illiterate, fascist enabling motherfucker

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

I recognize that this is not funny at all, but it is also hilarious that Donald F. Trump just issued an executive order where Section 1. Purpose states (summary) “I am engaging in retaliation using the office of the presidency against Perkins Cole, LLP, the law firm, because they pissed me off.”

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

submitted 3 days ago • 237 comments

Growing signs that US policy has moved on to regime change for allies. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

submitted 3 days ago • 121 comments

I feel like the country would be better off if we all treated executive orders as elevated Truth Social posts and not The Law, because they aren’t the law

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

I get death threats from time to time and I still do my job. “Without fear or favour” means something to me. If you can’t handle receiving death threats, that’s fine. Nobody should have to. But you have to step out of the role and cede to somebody who can.

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submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

This is simultaneously funny and horrifying. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 3 days ago • 210 comments

"several federal judges in the Washington D.C. area had received pizzas sent anonymously to their homes, which is being interpreted by law enforcement as a form of intimidation meant to convey that a target’s address is known." www.reuters.com/world/us/jud...

submitted 4 days ago • 138 comments

Gavin Newsom used the 1st episode of his new podcast to torpedo his viability as a 2028 presidential candidate. Having Kirk on to talk about trans rights is like interviewing Andrew Tate about sex trafficking. Newsom didn’t even try to push back when Kirk started calling trans women "young men".

submitted 3 days ago • 105 comments

JUST IN: The head of the US African Development Foundation is suing Peter Marocco and DOGE — and he is describing in detail the standoff in which he blocked DOGE from entering the agency's offices. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 172 comments

This is so profoundly strange from @slotkin.senate.gov. The Harris campaign ran one of the most aggressive outreach efforts to moderates, independents, and soft Republicans in recent memory!

submitted 3 days ago • 577 comments

Any Dem leader who thinks they can lay low and hide, wait for Trump to screw up and then take advantage in the midterms is a blithering idiot who needs to resign before they do any more damage.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

i am once again saying that if you allow polling to define rights, you don't have any real rights at all

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

In just over a week the United States government is going to shut down and never resume the same work again, condemning millions to suffering that has not been contemplated — let alone experienced — in generations. And Democrats are talking about how one of their members wasn’t polite enough.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

The Grifted Age

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Nicely done, Georgetown Law

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

An excellent model for colleges and universities to follow.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

submitted 4 days ago • 944 comments

Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, etc.

submitted 4 days ago • 193 comments

This is literally the problem: We NEED to be rude. We need emotion. These fuckers are destroying democracy & hurting people; our elected Democrats should be pissed. When they're not, they're essentially gaslighting the rest of us. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 3 days ago • 165 comments

When I first read MLK as a teen his goals seemed so...basic. Asking folk to support the text & the spirit of the Constitution, to stand up against the KKK & other white supremacists, to give folks jobs they were qualified for. 15 year old me didn't grasp passive-aggressive white fragility.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Couple points to make: • It’s boneheaded to volunteer in writing to a law school that one’s hiring policy includes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. • There’s no definite content to the phrase “teach and utilize DEI” except for racial animus. • Ed Martin is only the interim US Attorney.

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

The US Attorney in Washington DC is investigating Georgetown Law School, demanding that "if DEI is found in your courses or teaching in anyway [sic]," the law school should "move swiftly to remove it" Federal prosecutors don’t control the classroom. This is a dark abdication of the First Amendment.

submitted 4 days ago • 330 comments

When I’m trying to explain the dangers of Elon Musk gutting the same agencies that regulate his companies, I could not come up with a better example than “stripping the CFPB of its authority to regulate digital payment systems like the one X plans to roll out soon.” www.theverge.com/news/624904/...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

@lethalityjane.bsky.social: I recall some discussion from you a while back (maybe over on the Bad Place) about training for new officers on giving clear orders — “commander’s intent,” “desired end state,” etc. Could I impose upon you for pointers to additional materials on this? PM is fine. Thx!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

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