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On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

Don’t fall for this crap and don’t let people you know fall for it either. He’s committed dozens of serious crimes he needs to be prosecuted. It may take until 2028, but it’s going to happen.

submitted 12 hours ago • 0 comments

Enjoying the European Gymnastics Championship Mixed Team finals! It’s an interesting format with lots of potential for strategic depth. There are 3 rounds, gymnasts choose which apparatus in each (no repeats). First round, the top 8/16 teams advance, then scores reset. Second determines 1/2 & 3/4.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

holy shit lolololol

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

Top tier troublemaking of good trouble.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This guy is like one of 4 Americans who actually went and got their REAL ID and immediately they said it was a fake. Just so everyone knows when they toss your ass in a truck it won't matter what passport or identification you have they'll throw it in the street and you're gone

submitted 5 days ago • 366 comments

The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.

submitted 5 days ago • 240 comments

The political theory behind IRA was roughly as follows: We have lost control of the information landscape and can no longer win rhetorical or purely political battles; however, if we make substantive policy progress that directly touches voters' lives, they will notice and reward us.

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

It's only a gestapo if it comes from the Staatspolizei region of Germany. Everything else is merely sparkling secret police.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

@tantacrul.bsky.social I just watched your video about Dorico from 5 years ago and was struck when you said that you reached for Sibelius for a commission. I wondered if, after 5 years of doing design for Musescore, what software would you use if commissioned today? If it’s changed, when?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 19 days ago • 631 comments

Disappearing an elected official.

submitted 19 days ago • 101 comments

Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised. A gift from the content gods.

submitted 20 days ago • 92 comments

ah, an exactly wrong take the reason mon mothma becomes the figurehead of the rebel alliance and that the alliance gets catalyzed is because Ghorman protesters are radicalized and armed and pushed into accelerationist action by a terrorist leader this isn't subtext it's text

submitted 20 days ago • 46 comments

I mean, this is genuinely ridiculous. It's a novel being played out live on a football pitch.

submitted 22 days ago • 13 comments

I like this analysis but I think the reason is just that some people like the attention they get from having dumb takes.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Breaking: federal district court orders North Carolina to certify state supreme court election for Democrat Allison Riggs & rejects Republican attempt to overturn election and throw out thousands of votes. Huge victory for democracy & fair elections www.courtlistener.com/docket/69489...

submitted 23 days ago • 45 comments

Just passing along some friendly advice on how to approach potential changes to the Australian health care system @drruthmitchell.bsky.social

submitted 24 days ago • 107 comments

Stripe already has a way for iOS developers to dodge Apple’s payment system

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This is a big deal—not just a process-based ruling, but a holding that Trump’s Alien Enemy Act proclamation is substantively invalid on its face. This will obviously not be the last word, but it’s a really important step in the AEA litigation.

submitted 27 days ago • 62 comments

Somewhere along the way, The Verge stopped being a great tech news site and became one of America's most important news outlets, full stop.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Yes, this is a genuine 1949 DC Comics illustration printed on book covers distributed to schools in the US.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

submitted 30 days ago • 1336 comments

Providence City Councilor Justin Roias: “Yesterday, ICE tased & detained a Providence resident with a pregnant U.S. citizen wife & a green card interview that same day.”

submitted 32 days ago • 77 comments

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

submitted 32 days ago • 562 comments

Tennis Balls xkcd.com/3080

submitted 34 days ago • 79 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 34 days ago • 617 comments

The FBI just arrested a sitting judge.

submitted 34 days ago • 436 comments

hell yes @davidpierce.xyz

submitted 37 days ago • 23 comments

Aidan Li - Pommels DV: 5.6. Score: 14.466 youtu.be/aX5ct6VRZYg?...

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I disagree with Joe Rogan on many things, but here he is articulating an important point and I am glad for it!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

I have various concerns about Dem strategy on immigration, but it's unambiguously good for people like Rogan who have credibility with Trump voters to be criticizing Trump on this — CVH should see if he can get on the show.

submitted 38 days ago • 23 comments

After January thumb surgery, first horse routine of year for Fuzzy Benas came in NCAA finals. Enormous pressure, but he more than met the moment If you'd asked even week ago if could do this, I'd be skeptical (he's still in soft brace), but Fuzzy told me he had this…And he did Definition of clutch

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submitted 40 days ago • 555 comments

🚨UPDATE: New evidence filed by the ACLU last night shows that the Trump administration is going forward with more Alien Enemies Act deportations in seeming violation of the Supreme Court's clear command that people be provided a "meaningful" opportunity to seek judicial review.

submitted 41 days ago • 70 comments

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 44 days ago • 716 comments

Dear Media, 🗞️ A felon defying court orders to return people he has disappeared is illegal, anti-American, and against EVERYTHING millions of people have laid their lives down to protect in this country. 🗞️START FUCKING REPORTING IT THIS WAY AND GIVE THIS HORROR THE WEIGHT IT DESERVES. -Thank you

submitted 44 days ago • 62 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 44 days ago • 122 comments

You are not worried enough about this

submitted 44 days ago • 206 comments

I feel like “President of the United States suggests he would deport American citizens to prisons in El Salvador” should be fairly big news

submitted 44 days ago • 82 comments

The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.

submitted 44 days ago • 996 comments