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submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

Hey if you're suddenly an unemployed CIA field operative and you're feeling like you got a raw deal, DM me I have a couple ideas I want to run by you

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

What Elon is doing is straight up illegal. He has no authority to go through line by line and shut off funding to organizations he dislikes. He's intentionally trying to destroy civil society.

submitted 28 days ago • 389 comments

the NYT needle but for the mandate of heaven, or lack thereof

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

my little brother was one of the fatal fentanyl overdoses that is being used to justify tariffs on Mexico and Canada, and I can't think of a more cynical and disrespectful exploitation of a tragedy that has touched almost every family in this country

submitted 30 days ago • 266 comments

one of my strongest held beliefs is that we will not fix any of our most serious problems unless we are willing to hold a Nuremberg for social media executives, funders and engineers

submitted 30 days ago • 108 comments

I don't get the sense that U.S. journalists have a good sense of who to talk to when basic government functions are being ripped out. Gutting the administrative state is not a standard beat. A short thread with some starter suggestions for who to read/talk to. Please - people add more in replies!

submitted 30 days ago • 78 comments

This is what Trump wants to take from you.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Those doomsday clock guys need to either do it or pipe down

submitted 32 days ago • 42 comments

until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive

submitted 32 days ago • 16 comments

You should.... probably read this. www.thebulwark.com/p/influence-...

submitted 32 days ago • 13 comments

trans rights forever

submitted 33 days ago • 46 comments

I will posting this forever if I have to

submitted 34 days ago • 4 comments

The X-Men movies really captured the "fight for a world that hates and fears them" but fell short on the other X-Men story tropes like "scientist makes mutant dinosaurs" or "Cyclops's family is fucked up" or "professor X wants space pussy"

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

submitted 53 days ago • 578 comments