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Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression

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I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action. She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound. This is what bans do.

submitted 22 hours ago • 583 comments

Any trolls that think I’m a turncoat country boy can A) watch this clip, and then B) kiss my ass youtu.be/gxYk7Ht6-Xk?...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Dawn Staley is the GOAT!!!!!🏀🏀🏀

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

My god this is outstanding!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1087 comments

I’m not sure he’s smart enough to realize it;or if he even cares about actually governing, but Trump is in a pickle. He already hired the brightest of his idiot sycophants & has no bench/B team. Who can he replace Hegseth with?Think of how many incompetents there were in his first administration….

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Have the DOGE boys cancelled a single Elon government contract yet? Still no?

submitted 8 days ago • 186 comments

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

submitted 10 days ago • 884 comments

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar Goals

submitted 9 days ago • 152 comments

Hey, an occasional reminder: Should you be fighting fascism here in the US? Yes, you should! Are you the one who decides how best you can do that? Yes, you are! Should the people who decide that you're not doing it right (i.e., the way they want you to) fuck off into the sun? Yes, they should!

submitted 13 days ago • 302 comments

This Paul Weiss capitulation is the most disgraceful action by a major law firm in my lifetime, so appalling that I couldn’t believe it at first. Any lawyers at that firm—partners or associates—who don’t promptly resign will defile their moral and professional reputations beyond repair.

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"C'mon people now, Smile on your brother. Everybody get together and love one another right now." Jesse Colin Young, a prolific musician known as the voice of The Youngbloods' era-defining "Get Together," died on Sunday at his home in Aiken, S.C.

submitted 16 days ago • 22 comments

It's been a long Monday but now at least you're getting a nice cat picture out of it so that's something

submitted 16 days ago • 224 comments

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position. Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

submitted 18 days ago • 2791 comments

The framework of Adverse Childhood Experiences has been used for decades. Science writer @preetisimransethi.bsky.social joins us to talk about where it came from, and how it might change.

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

“Just about the only thing I don't see God in anymore is the people who try to tell me who God is” I wrote an essay on the rise of Christian Nationalism. If you don’t like to read, here’s me reading it for you!

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 22 days ago • 520 comments

It’s truly insane that the economy is in a free fall and the president, who doesn’t drive, is spending his time giving a PR boost to the car brand of his billionaire buddy.

submitted 22 days ago • 490 comments

The PERKINS COIE law firm spits hot fire in its suit against Trump’s executive order aimed at punishing the firm. Strongly recommend reading the first 10 paragraphs of the “WHAT THIS CASE IS ABOUT” section. (h/t @mikescarcella.bsky.social) fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldoc...

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments

obsessed with this picture of a seal looking up

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Warren Buffett, still the smartest billionaire in the room (for what that's worth these days)

submitted 23 days ago • 30 comments

A quick post-cruise refresher from me before I do any serious delving into any particular current events: Fuck fascists Fuck -phobes Fuck wealthy sociopaths Fuck immigrant-haters Fuck sexists Fuck anyone who wants to invade Canada and/or Mexico Fuck vaccine deniers Fuck this administration Etc, etc

submitted 23 days ago • 297 comments

Facts

submitted 25 days ago • 562 comments

Of course www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 27 days ago • 157 comments

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

submitted 28 days ago • 2059 comments

The Trump team is really weird because it is a bunch of rapists going "We need to defend women!" and a bunch of criminals going "We need to take down all these criminals!"

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped. American voters:

submitted 30 days ago • 469 comments

This scrum of pot-bellied, sunken-chested betas trying to bully an all-black clad badass Eastern European wasteland survivor while dressed like Men’s Wearhouse mannequins is peak cinema.

submitted 33 days ago • 3373 comments

The mistake is to think Zelensky could have salvaged this. Trump admin just doesn’t want to support Ukraine. Period. There was also never going to be a peace agreement. That’s been clear but everyone has been pretending otherwise. There can be no confusion now.

submitted 33 days ago • 137 comments

In the words of my man Thomas Paine, you know why they call it nobility — no-ability.

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110 of 363 Taxpayer Assistance Centers and 5 of 10 call centers are going to be shut down, per a meeting that just happened at the IRS. During tax season.

submitted 34 days ago • 134 comments

How it started / How it's going

submitted 35 days ago • 49 comments

Ohio’s J.D. Vance Rebuked by the Pope, Denounced by NATO Allies, Ridiculed for Bizarre Rant - Cleveland Scene

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Firing SBA employees, including veterans, loan, and disaster assistance staff, deserves an explanation. Ranking Member Markey led a letter from committee Democrats to demand answers.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

One of my best friends is from a sleepy, wealthy small town in the south-west of Germany. He said, so many of my parents’ neighbours are rich and bored, with little to complain about, and they’ve radicalised themselves at dinner parties and online. In their aimlessness, they’ve bonded over hate.

submitted 39 days ago • 317 comments

Right, Linda McMahon?

submitted 39 days ago • 16 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 38 days ago • 589 comments