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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 To Open Evil Tomb Of Batibat

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The current administration has more successfully destroyed US science and the scientific enterprise than the hypothetical nuclear weapons program in Iran.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

I’ve been busy over the past month trying my best to step away from the world a bit. Building a shed is something that has given me one of the better escapes I’ve had in a while. This one is a combo of new and recycled wood from another old shed.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 30 days ago • 1298 comments

Violation.

submitted 47 days ago • 5 comments

Murphy: "He's going to these 3 countries for a simple reason: These are the 3 countries that are willing to pay him. Traditionally a president might go first to Canada or one of our European allies, but those countries aren't willing to write Trump a check."

submitted 47 days ago • 162 comments

Two of the offices without senior officials are Houston and Tampa, which, whew, that’s not good. A slow moving catastrophe that won’t be widely understood until it’s too late.

submitted 58 days ago • 83 comments

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

submitted 59 days ago • 568 comments

A little late in posting these, but my husband and I had a chance to join a 50501 No Kings protest this past week. Do what you can when you can and never stop resisting! 🇺🇸 #50501Protest #NoKings #CivilResistance

submitted 65 days ago • 1 comment

Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 69 days ago • 754 comments

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

submitted 74 days ago • 6939 comments

Don’t look up. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/c...

submitted 80 days ago • 113 comments

Happened to browse ClearSky and found myself on some really wild lists with tens of thousands of blocked users for reasons that seem...completely unrelated to who I am or what I interact with. I should probably just not look at that stuff, because I start to wonder, "what did I post to cause that?"

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

The government is slashing public health jobs, gutting vaccine programs, and fueling a measles comeback. This is not reform—it’s sabotage. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

submitted 83 days ago • 835 comments

I’m sick to death of people saying we’re “descending” into fascism. The fascism is ALREADY here. THIS IS WHAT IF FEELS LIKE. And if you’re not feeling it, it’s probably because you’re one of the “good Germans.” @michaelharriot.bsky.social explains

submitted 109 days ago • 514 comments

That's just it, right there. They don't believe in the public good at all, and that is morally reprehensible to me in such a visceral way.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

This is all incredibly bad. Services and agencies we've relied on for a functional, modern society--and critically for consumer protections--are just being gutted under the pretense of cutting waste, fraud, and ultimately increasing efficiency. Utter bullshit.

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

OMB director Russ Vought has officially begun carrying out his section of Project 2025. Technical thread to follow, but it’s really important - this is a major path through which the Trump administration will illegally impound funding, refusing to carry out some of our spending laws.

submitted 128 days ago • 36 comments

You have to wonder how many actually believe the wretched shit they say as speakers…because it’s clearly bullshit.

submitted 128 days ago • 0 comments

The ‘west’ is over. In the Trumpian era, Europe is on its own | Alexander Hurst

submitted 128 days ago • 31 comments

Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"

submitted 131 days ago • 1085 comments

I am not making this up: Republicans have introduced legislation… to increase your bank fees.

submitted 131 days ago • 1190 comments

The CFPB is one of the American people’s best defenses against waste, fraud, and abuse. Demolishing it will, of course, lead to more waste, fraud, and abuse.

submitted 138 days ago • 1358 comments

As Trump’s marauding continues, America's last defense is the federal courts. But the big story here (which hasn’t received the attention it deserves) is that the Trump regime is ignoring the courts. Where will this end? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-to-do-about-a-lawless-president

submitted 139 days ago • 251 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 139 days ago • 3810 comments

David Roth on a billionaire dipshit's takeover of the federal government:

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: The "cognitively irresponsibility" presidency "Cognitive irresponsibility is a giveaway that a leader is an authoritarian ... they don’t want to have to persuade the nation. They want to make a policy, and when we ask why, they say, 'Because I said so.'"

submitted 142 days ago • 362 comments

Shameful time we are entering. I will never forgive the decision some people made to reelect that charlatan.

submitted 158 days ago • 0 comments

latest column is on the dipshit curtis yarvin

submitted 158 days ago • 193 comments

This is how you do it...

submitted 158 days ago • 1019 comments

Good god, that doesn’t belong in the middle of any sporting event. Was really hoping to/actively trying to avoid that disgusting person today.

submitted 160 days ago • 1 comment

"I predict that by the 21st century, our society will have made so much progress that we won't need to talk about race anymore. In fact, the people who still talk about racism will be the real racists! Isn't it ironic, don't you think?"

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Given Trump’s alliance with right wing “Tech Bros”, this 2013 article about the philosophy fueling some of the Tech Right is extremely important. It’s also really clear and easy to read. 1/ techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/g...

submitted 167 days ago • 9 comments

The new Teddy Ruxpin looks like he has been on a nine day Coke bender and is about to vomit in the back of an Uber

submitted 167 days ago • 24 comments

It's the weekend, baby

submitted 170 days ago • 10 comments

A flawed, yet insightful man. theintercept.com/2015/07/30/j...

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

This frustrates me more than anything about how the election was framed by the reporting: they’re NOW telling the truth about claims republicans made, but didn’t bother doing so when it would have actually been useful to call out the lies instead of pretending to be unbiased.

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