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wild that we sent a huge number of guys to Iraq at the start of that war without rifle plates and now this is just how cops dress to frighten kitchen employees

submitted 12 hours ago • 115 comments

i didn’t predict this with data or sources. i predicted it by being extremely online

submitted 3 hours ago • 5 comments

The State Department is using Substack to post a lightly-veiled rewrite of the fourteen words: “On both sides of the Atlantic, we must preserve… our common culture, ensuring that Western civilization remains a source of virtue, freedom, and human flourishing for generations to come.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Might be time to repost this oldie of mine from the bad site (originally written in response to arnoldzwicky.org/2017/05/17/l... )

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

Ohh please.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade

submitted 1 day ago • 127 comments

been trying to figure out the feeling of the forced march to AI, a thing that no one wants or needs and will almost certainly make the world worse—the way it's being imposed from every direction, like someone just flipped a switch without asking—and I think I've settled on the leadup to the Iraq War

submitted 21 hours ago • 19 comments

If the next few years see Jake Tapper moving over to Fox "News," I will not be surprised in the slightest... he's well on his way already!

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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

submitted 22 hours ago • 143 comments

I am reluctant to criticize people with substance abuse problems... but I would seriously have to think twice before putting this guy in charge of anything more complicated than ordering a pizza.

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Trump to NYC: Drop Dead. (Weekly roundup of multiple separate ways the administration is trying to make life here more difficult: housing, transit, food aid, health, immigration.)

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Former police officer takes Email Job and immediately crumbles, describing the mere act of going to an office every day as a Herculean act of strength and discipline.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

it's cool that we managed to put machines on mars that can take and send pictures and i support space exploration as a public endeavor and public good, but holy fuck everything we've seen out there is so much uglier and less cool than our own planet

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

New York GDP per capita: $117.3K Florida GDP per capita: $73.8K Republicans want you to be poor

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

You may be shocked to learn that the answer to people's utter lack of faith in democratic institutions is not an esoteric conversation about building and zoning codes

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

The only ppl who think this is normal are the terminally online across the political spectrum who are no longer capable of understanding the fact that the most maladjusted people that they encounter online are not actually representative of the offline world writ large

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Mother Jones was a fearless fighter for workers’ rights, responsible for organizing miners across the US. We visited her birthplace in Cork, Ireland, to honor her tireless struggle with the working poor. Solidarity forever.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

New Yorkers — you can give the first-place spot on your ballot to anyone who strikes your fancy... but if you don't include Mamdani on your ballot (even in fifth place!), you'll be helping to elect a corrupt carpetbagger with a history of harassing women — keep the DREAM alive, and say no to Cuomo.

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The idea that the guy who ran the Silk Road online drug market might not just be pardoned, but then go on to share a stage with the Vice President... it would have been unimaginable under any normal regime, but apparently this is the world we live in now.

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This is superb. “There is only one system that has ever truly protected Jews over time, and that is liberalism” “Illiberalism always turns on Jews. There are no significant counterexamples. In the end, authoritarians protect Jews until they don’t.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

All Israel has to do to prevent the famine in Gaza from worsening is let the trucks filled with humanitarian aid cross the border. The new “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” is a biometric tracking program and public relations stunt run by US military contractors and disguised as an aid organization.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

I do not think a Democratic senator should be meeting with and shaking the hands of a man wanted by the international court for the starvation of two million people

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

Trade policy update.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

With Trump in the White House, I don’t know what any of us can do to stop this — but at the very least, we have a duty to acknowledge it, and not to look away.

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New York City deserves a mayor who actually lives in New York City, and who actually loves it and wants to help it succeed, rather than treating it as a short-term stepping stone to a future presidential run.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard." This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.

submitted 3 days ago • 178 comments

Saddened to find some of my childhood favorite sci-fi writers — Heinlein, Niven — on this 1968 list of supporters of the US war in Vietnam... I already knew their politics were not great, but it's disappointing to be reminded of how wrong they were.

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Shadi Hamid, not exactly a radical leftist, is calling it "genocide" in the Bezos-owned Washington Post. If you haven't started using the term, which at this point is considered factual by mainstream human rights orgs and scholars, it's probably not for a great reason.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

“If the Final Hour falls upon you while you hold a seedling in your hand, plant the seedling.” - Hadith of the Prophet Muhammad (narrated by Anas ibn Malik)

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 3 days ago • 71 comments

Grandpa was a coal miner. Dad worked at a Toyota factory. I have a job neither of them understood/understand. I desperately hope my kids have a job where I have to restrain myself from saying "that kind of sounds like bullshit."

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

“She means ‘fewer.’” - a Harvard graduate

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Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

submitted 3 days ago • 160 comments

The Israeli government is preventing food aid from reaching starving families, in order to achieve military and political goals — which is a war crime.

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Love the scare quotes, but how INSANELY safe must NYC be for the Post—the NEW YORK POST—to run a “screw it, even we have to say it’s kinda safe”?! Well, you know, “safe.” But still. “Post calls NYC safe” is a headline for the record books.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Elon Musk gets to drain government coffers via SpaceX because George W Bush decided to privatize space flight and Obama made it a priority to facilitate privatizing space Billionaires are policy failures and he is a very specific kind of policy failure

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Fascism sets in EXACTLY like this. Days go by. Nothing improves. The people wait with bated breath for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to help. Court orders, but no enforcement. Time passes. We become desensitized. Life goes on. Rights are chipped away. Life goes on. People die. Life goes on.

submitted 8 days ago • 119 comments

Angry men in MAGA hats, people shouting Islamaphobic nonsense—this is what happens when the first Muslim elected official to run for Mayor is gaining momentum. But we won’t let it distract us. Proud to stand w/ the @nywfp.bsky.social slate in Fort Greene Park yesterday.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

Open AI’s valuation is at $400 billion. They used about 190,000 books to train their plagiarism bot. Randomly saying 25% of their value comes from that stolen dataset, I think they owe the authors about $526,000 per stolen book.

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

Pansies still going strong in the sidewalk containers here on the Upper Upper West Side. #NYC

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In better news, I'm teaching a campaign embroidery class on Thursday! We'll provide all of the materials (like one of the campaign-themed kits seen below) and no experience is necessary. Spots are limited so reserve yours now! www.mobilize.us/katforillino...

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

You know what was an awesome abundance agenda? The Green New Deal.

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments