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America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

submitted 1 day ago • 1470 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 254 comments

TIL that after the shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson UnitedHealthcare approved many life-saving medical procedures it has been holding out on because of sudden internal panic and public scrutiny. So, Luigi (innocent until proven guilty) probably saved more lives than he took.

submitted 5 days ago • 312 comments

Sure, let’s dissect the mental and physical acuity of the former president who sought to make lives in America better while minimizing the reality of a deranged arsonist dismantling the country we’ve known and loved. What a failure to meet this moment.

submitted 6 days ago • 1117 comments

Great question

submitted 7 days ago • 1233 comments

this is it right here i think “moderate” voters describe themselves that way bc it feels smart and reasonable but what they really want is someone that fights for meaningful change that will improve their lives

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Left-wing concerns: - healthcare is too expensive - the planet won't be habitable in 100 years - civil liberties are being eroded Right-wing concerns: - a fictional mermaid is being played by a black actress instead of a white one - a lady has blue hair - there's a guy with a foreign-sounding name

submitted 13 days ago • 5 comments

“Art of the Deal" means "Americans pay more while the UK gets a discount.” Such winning.

submitted 14 days ago • 551 comments

Illinoisans deserve dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination. I'm issuing an Executive Order to safeguard the rights of those with autism in our state as Trump's administration threatens those very freedoms.

submitted 16 days ago • 82 comments

It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts

submitted 16 days ago • 119 comments

At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

submitted 17 days ago • 69 comments

I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda

submitted 19 days ago • 320 comments

You don't have to care about the Founders. We should have as little reverence for them as they themselves had for all the hallowed things they left behind. Less actually, because they are dead. We are here. They are not. What kind of America do we, the living, want to have?

submitted 23 days ago • 107 comments

I could be wrong about this but I really think most Americans do not want to be forced to “do their own research” about food & drug & product safety and would rather that the government agencies that have been sorting that all out for them for decades not be obliterated in the name of “efficiency.”

submitted 24 days ago • 612 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 23 days ago • 1972 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 24 days ago • 976 comments

Interesting that if you shop at Whole Foods, a lot of money is spent making it feel like a place that respects workers and embraces progressive values, but it is not. Costco just feels like a warehouse but they treat their workers pretty well and has rejected anti-DEI BS

submitted 26 days ago • 576 comments

McBride: If we summon our hope then we will find the light and turn this moment into what a friend from Florida once called a slingshot moment.. where we are pulled backwards but the tension and pressure of being pulled backwards ultimately propels us to destinations that we have not yet been

submitted 26 days ago • 179 comments

Van Hollen: And it's also important that people understand this case is not just about one man. It's about protecting the constitutional rights of everybody who resides in the United States of America.

submitted 35 days ago • 337 comments

How in the fuck do we live in a world where so many Americans care deeply about the Constitutional amendments which promise them the right to bear arms but not at all about the Constitutional amendments which promise them the right to due process under the law? #NewsCorpse

submitted 37 days ago • 21 comments

This is the kind of thing that, if true, leads to life sentences for treason

submitted 37 days ago • 3468 comments

Says the guy whose charity was shut down by the state of New York for making illegal campaign contributions.

submitted 38 days ago • 1391 comments

still calling him "ms-13" despite knowing its a flat out lie really reminds me of "theyre eating the dogs" and its just so freaking depressing and gross and infuriating

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

DOGE was never about savings. It was always about surveillance. Over the weekend, we released new details—and now whistleblowers are coming forward too. What’s becoming clearer by the day: DOGE isn’t a government efficiency program. It’s a data weapon aimed at the American people.

submitted 38 days ago • 225 comments

Here is Senator Rubio (2017) calling on the Chinese government to provide due process protections to prisoners and calling on the U.S. not to send anyone there unless China proves is it abiding by int'l human rights law - standards Secretary Rubio is helping the US and El Salvador violate today.

submitted 39 days ago • 59 comments

🏆 @rollingstone.com wins the Headline of the Day Award This is how it’s done. At least someone understands the assignment. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 39 days ago • 913 comments

Darth Vader being “gracious” and “not fake.” Everything we’ve ever not liked about him is absent in this scene.

submitted 41 days ago • 280 comments

I once again had the thought “man I hope I don’t read a bunch of stuff on Bluesky that bums me out, I’m getting tired of that” and once again had the thought “oh wait that’s not really a Bluesky thing that’s just the problem with the world right now”

submitted 42 days ago • 13 comments

It doesn't have to be like this. We could have a city that isn't bleeding low income and middle income people of color. We could have a city where corruption isn't coin. We could have a city with funded parks, public libraries, public schools and FREE TRANSIT. All of these things are possible.

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

The U.S. is the only major country on Earth that does not guarantee workers a paid vacation. When a husband, wife & kids are unable to spend any time together on vacation, that is not a family value. It's an attack on everything a family is supposed to stand for. Unacceptable.

submitted 43 days ago • 658 comments

The tariff debacle has no more to do with wanting to return manufacturing to the US than his attacks on universities have to do with sincere concerns about antisemitism. These are mere pretexts to hide darker agendas of greed and grievance, power plays and corruption.

submitted 44 days ago • 35 comments

It always boggles my mind that I, a journalist, am expressly forbidden from trading stocks, but members of Congress, with vastly greater knowledge of market-moving news, are allowed to profit by front-running markets, and so may profit by in essence stealing from the public they represent.

submitted 44 days ago • 403 comments

No. You’ve been watching stock market fraud.

submitted 44 days ago • 3044 comments

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

submitted 44 days ago • 1249 comments

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

submitted 45 days ago • 108 comments

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies. They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

submitted 47 days ago • 520 comments

People are making jokes because individual people are not in control of what's currently happening. Fire off the jokes if that helps you deal with what is a clusterfuck.

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments

Imagine being so hated that people all over the country march in the streets to say how much you suck.

submitted 48 days ago • 109 comments