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the nazis weren't a unified evil but a conglomeration of interests, some overlapping, some conflicting, manifest in a single political party: billionaire industrialists, racial purists, religious extremists, dejected workers, all united behind a strongman they saw as the path to getting their way.

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I had to bring this here because it’s so good

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ABC News has now fully taken down the old 538 website, including all interactive projects since 2014. Aside from erasing history this prevents access to publicly released data, including raw polls, averages, model estimates & story dta. Totally unacceptable for a company (allegedly) doing journalism

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Secession. What they're describing is secession. www.wired.com/story/startu...

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Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

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Still grimly funny to me that 4 Supreme Court justices have ruled a President can cut anything he wants... ...except student loan payments

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Media literacy is one of the most important things that we spend absolute no effort to teach in America today. It is amazing. We just throw people into this ocean of bullshit with no tools to figure out what is real or how to dig into text.

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Join us on March 13th at 7:00 PM for a showing of Girl's State. The screening will be at the IU Cinema and will feature a Q&A afterwards with two of the film's subjects. The film is free but ticketed. Learn more and get your tickets at the link in bio.

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Secrets were spilled and minds were blown with Alexandre Philippe and @pattonoswalt last night. Don’t miss the duo on screen in CHAIN REACTIONS tonight at 7pm!

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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

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If you're a Democrat praising Reagan....look, I don't know how else to say this but you're actually a Republican then.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Oh, sweeties, I'll be walking gleefully in the desert of hypoconsumerism for far longer than 40 days on this one. Target, you're dead to me for life. Byeeeeeeee!

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It's critical to mention to those also trapped in the US propaganda bubble that Canada is taking US threats to its sovereignty extremely seriously and mobilizing for possible war.

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In case it’s not already clear: America is not only not the leader of the free world, it is no longer a part of the free world.

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literally every time I talk to friends

submitted 8 days ago • 176 comments

democrats are really going to convince themselves that “a return to normalcy” is what people want when its really “rebuild, investigate, imprison”

submitted 8 days ago • 170 comments

i want to see this energy and not a scintilla less

submitted 9 days ago • 84 comments

This whole thing was a deliberate set-up, and the real audience for it was not the American people. It was the global fascist movement.

submitted 9 days ago • 128 comments

Zelenskyy went into that nest of vipers and roasted them all. Good. They all exposed themselves, they demeaned themselves in a way that was undeniable. Perfect.

submitted 9 days ago • 106 comments

it’s a great time to remind everyone to keep your cats indoors. i don’t want to hear that shit about how your cat is desperate to go outside or is used to being out there. i had an outdoor cat i had to bring inside after 13yrs. i know how they are. she lived to 20. they’ll get over it & so will you.

submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

This whole country wants bad things for others more than they want good things for themselves.

submitted 10 days ago • 1604 comments

hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years

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Wanting to see the films of David Lynch on a big screen, especially now, is not a good enough reason to give Alamo a pass. They get by on people not paying attention to systemic, toxic issues and instead on the “experience”. Support another theater or watch them at home. Don’t cross picket lines.

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The Republican budget plan: -Cut SNAP by $230 billion -Cut Medicaid by $880 billion -Give $1.1 trillion to the top 1%

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 14 days ago • 1053 comments

there's a kind of troll who uses trolling as a means of grooming people into laughing at violence and abuse precisely so that they will accept real-life escalations with the same response

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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.

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Apropos of nothing: I’m genuinely not surprised at all that so many evil people turn out to be actually fucking stupid, because being evil has always been the easier option.

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Were I the richest person on the planet, I would simply stay at home and make pizza for my hundreds of rescue dogs, maybe watch a movie or two. But of course I am capable of happiness.

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We're in a coup, which means we're in a nightmare, which means we're all ramped up, so let me offer you some deep time, perseverance, and beauty, before you and I go back to the work.

submitted 18 days ago • 83 comments

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

submitted 19 days ago • 1061 comments

Firings are happening right now at the National Science Foundation. Essential staff are being cut. This isn’t about the budget. If it was, they’d be going after the military (17%) or state appropriations (38%). NSF is 0.7% of the federal budget. All federal employees make up only 4% of the budget.

submitted 19 days ago • 98 comments

In celebration of Black History Month, Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross shares eight recommendations for films by Black filmmakers. Read the list notes to see what Ross has to say about each selection: boxd.it/E6zLY

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@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 20 days ago • 723 comments

In my city there is one cybertruck and one DIY parody of a cybertruck and the parody truck has become a local celebrity. Meanwhile, I always wish I had some rotten eggs to throw at the tesla whenever I see it.

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

submitted 20 days ago • 857 comments

the GOP is a direct threat to poor people everywhere and the messaging against it should always highlight that fact

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Posted around NYC, Chicago, DC and other cities. Be creative. Do something!

submitted 27 days ago • 475 comments

saying "go birds" but just rooting for birds in general, hope they're having fun and not catching that flu

submitted 28 days ago • 30 comments

Every headline that does not say “illegal” or “unconstitutional” is a failure to convey to the public the stakes of what is going on.

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