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The administration has removed an image of actual disabled people from ada.gov and replaced them with a stock photo of a flag

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

In case you're wondering... it's been 17 days since a reporter was added to a Signal group chat where our government officials were sharing war plans. And nobody has been fired... Don't stop talking about SignalGate

submitted 7 days ago • 325 comments

How much of JD Vance is pure invention? 🧵 I turned to genealogy, as I often do when I want to understand someone. He claimed in his book that he's of "Scots-Irish descent". Tonight I took a look at his tree. Of course, online trees are subject to many errors. 1/

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

david brooks writing that the left "purged" conservatives from universities takes some real balls when people like david brat famously hold professorships in ayn randonomics endowed in perpetuity by like a third-generation scaife mutant

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

Of course we can move clothing production back to the US. Why do you think we've insisted on locking the minimum wage at $7.25 for all these years? by Mitch McConnell, Mike Johnson, and Donald Trump

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

Lawyers have a duty to defend our Constitution. It is an absolute outrage that, in order to curry favor with Trump and continue making their billions, giant law firms like Paul Weiss have abrogated their responsibilities. Thanks to those defending democracy. We will remember.

submitted 11 days ago • 105 comments

Nutlick and The Weak Beef for new band name of the week.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

#resistancegenealogy

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 19 days ago • 232 comments

Was thinking about ChatGPT images feel so worthless and something occurred to me. I am not a trained artist (not fishing here!), but I love making pictures of family—in part bc of the process, but also the reaction they engender. If I pressed a button they’d look better but…they’d have zero value.

submitted 19 days ago • 253 comments

Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies. In Denmark: - Health care and college are free.   - The starting wage is $22/hr. - Paid parental leave is 1 year. - Paid vacation is 6 weeks.   - All workers get pensions.

submitted 19 days ago • 452 comments

"We bombed an entire neighborhood to get one guy, dropped an entire building where his girlfriend lives!" "🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏"

submitted 22 days ago • 520 comments

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

Let me state unequivocally: I do not believe @schumer.senate.gov is the literal impersonation of spineless cowardice, a craven husk of flaccid ideals masquerading as the floppiest invertebrate, a writhing worm awaiting the boot. But he all too frequently has created that impression via his actions.

submitted 27 days ago • 63 comments

Mexico's President Claudia Sheinbaum has formally recognized Palestine as a state and welcomed the Palestinian ambassador Nadya Rasheed. Claudia is Jewish herself and a strong advocate for Palestinian rights.

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

When 18F was "deleted" by Musk, we told you: We’re not done yet. They can fire us, and delete our website, but they can't destroy our ideas. 🧵 of 18F resources for making civic technology serve the people, 1/7

submitted 28 days ago • 7 comments

Unless you wear a red hat.

submitted 30 days ago • 1032 comments

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

submitted 30 days ago • 2593 comments

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

submitted 31 days ago • 1041 comments

I've seen internalized misogyny plenty of times but it is W I L D to see a female GOP rep out here using rape language

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Cat's Eye Nebula - From Goddard Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/7GLbNG

submitted 33 days ago • 47 comments

Just thinking about what the US looked like before the EPA existed

submitted 35 days ago • 703 comments

submitted 43 days ago • 27 comments

Just saw a job opening for a senior software developer job at Neuralink and… it doesn’t even pay that well. What’s the point of working for a Bond villain if you’re not even getting a salary bump, makes no sense

submitted 43 days ago • 11 comments