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useful fact: JIS screwdrivers work in Philips screws just fine. Philips screwdrivers will destroy a JIS screw in short order. this leads to lots of stripped screws on old ham radios

submitted 2 hours ago • 17 comments

Responding to Trump II by repealing S230 is like responding to Pearl Harbor by shooting down your own airplanes.

submitted 7 hours ago • 4 comments

They hate non-Tesla EVs. This will give Musk a monopoly on both charging stations & EVs

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

CARTOON OF THE DAY

submitted 4 hours ago • 123 comments

there are literally no more quiet parts

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 comments

Today’s Oaxaca, Mexico wall art. The world understands.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

MSNBC , a supposedly “liberal” news channel, getting rid of all their non-white anchors.

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 13 hours ago • 94 comments

y'all overseas yellin at us when the call is coming from inside the house so now what

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MSNBC cancelling Joy Reid's show is disappointing but not surprising. All of these media companies are going to walk back any progress they've made with diverse programming over the next few years. We need to maintain the Black communications pipelines we've already created.

submitted 3 hours ago • 8 comments

⚡️GERMANY: Musk/Vance’s far-right AFD pals come in 2nd in a high turnout election, losing to Friedrich Merz’s conservative alliance. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

submitted 2 hours ago • 30 comments

As promised, here are the slides I shared with students to convince them to NOT use chatGPT and other artificial stupidity. TL;DR? AI is evil, unsustainable and stupid, and I'd much rather they use their own brains, make their own mistakes, and actually learn something. 🪄

submitted 6 hours ago • 75 comments

He's openly admitting they're going to use the military to do illegal things and fired all the lawyers so no one will stop them. They will use the military on US civilians and they will give the order to shoot. The question is whether the rank and file listen.

submitted 4 hours ago • 88 comments

I want to, again, bring to light this post and interview by Dean Obeidallah.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Great job people! Foot traffic in Target is down by 3.9%. Over that same time foot traffic at Costco has increased by 4.6%. They are feeling the consequences of their policies & actions! Keep it up!!! Hit them where it hurts the most ! The wallet!💙👍

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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Here is the Email address for PBS NewsHour in the event you’d like to share your thoughts about them giving a 12 minute interview to a guy (Michael Knowles / The Daily Wire) who has called for the eradication of trans people.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

submitted 2 days ago • 295 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

Accurate.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 2 days ago • 2440 comments

This is how dictators talk.

submitted 1 day ago • 136 comments

I simply don't trust men who don't have a favorite female artist or female led band. Yes bro, it's very weird you don't have a stellar lady in your main music rotation. And no, don't say it's a "guilty pleasure," own up mofo & be proud Primarily pertains to the dudes who listen to a lot of music.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

The way she spoke to him was like an adult to a misbehaving child and I think that works?

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

when you roll over for the fascists in charge to keep your federal funding

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Always with the quid pro quo. The narcissist psychopath is incapable of feeling empathy for anyone and his "cabinet" is now full of people with similarly disordered minds. It's truly heartbreaking to watch Zelenskyy try to save his country from the wolves that now beset them on all sides.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Since I am no longer a political reporter I no longer have any hesitation in saying a lot of voters are, and pretty much always have been, stupid.

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Every utterance is a confession

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Example 4,210 of why no one who cares about our democracy should be giving any sort of quote or story to the NYTimes

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

With temps in the 20s tonight, NASCAR will heat the Cup garages. Truck and Xfinity teams will put their impounded cars in their haulers after qualifying. Temps that cold overnight concern engine builders.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.

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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

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“I just wanna say trans people are beautiful. We are never going to stop existing. I’m never gonna stop being trans, a letter on a passport can’t change that, and fuck this administration.”

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

IndyCar News: Sebastian Wheldon will drive the pace car for IndyCar's season-opener at St Pete. Susie Wheldon, Sebastian's mom & wife to the late Dan Wheldon, will wave the green flag. This year is the 20-year anniversary of Dan's win in the inaugural running.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

This is how the Tea Party started, after all. They just showed up and talked angry shit for a summer & then they got a lot of money from conservative donors, ran candidates for the next Congress and voila, the groundwork laid for takeover of their party. It is far from impossible to do. Hint. Hint.

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

In case I haven't mentioned it before, I love Dalton Kellett.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

I am so ashamed to be an American right now.

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

RFK Jr.’s CDC just pulled a flu vaccine campaign in the middle of the worst flu season in 30 years. 29 million illnesses, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths—including nearly 70 children. Public health shouldn't be political. Get vaccinated.

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“That I’m gonna have to be that parent again that’s gonna be like opening the bedroom door hoping that she’s still alive,” said an anonymous parent through tears. Accessing gender affirming care is life saving. This is so heartbreaking 💔

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Trump is trying to win over the police forces of the country by giving them full immunity to do what they please with American citizens!

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Can we all agree that MSM, with a few notable exceptions, is treating Trump's "admin" as if it's normal, when it's clearly not? They're not doing enough to beat back the lies/propaganda. 🤔THOUGHT: What if every resister on BlueSky were to write a letter to the editor of their local newspaper⁉️ 1/2

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Our Black middle school had a NASA-approved mission control center. Lost funding yrs ago - conservative school board members. An elementary school here had a whole microvillage run by students - banking, groceries, businesses, everything. School got torn down 🙃 But this BS is allowed to thrive lol

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Maddow: All of this absolutely historically unprecedented. No president has ever come out of the gate with numbers like this ever before. And it is across the board

submitted 2 days ago • 267 comments

The Senate has confirmed Kash Patel, who has published an enemies list identical to Trump's, to serve a 10-year term as FBI Director. He will be a major cog in Trump's vengeance machine to silence and intimidate critics. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/kash-patel-in-his-own-words

submitted 2 days ago • 223 comments

What the fuck are we even doing here? Like, why so much word soup to avoid calling a nazi a nazi?

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