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this is what the budget cuts to nasa would do btw

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

Just saw a comedian say "If vaccines caused autism then America would have trains" and I almost spit out my drink.

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

More Than a Dozen U.S. Officials Sold Stocks Before Trump’s Tariffs Sent the Market Plunging www.propublica.org/article/us-o...

submitted 6 days ago • 91 comments

We’re open, and we’ve got books! - Michael

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

And the earlier novel coronavirus that caused so much death and destruction in the early 20th century.

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Web 2.0 is going great.

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WYDEN: Did you promise any tax promoter you would help them if you got confirmed? LONG: I can answer that with an affirmative no W: So you didn't meet w/ anybody when you were in town for the inauguration & promise help? L: Not that I can think of. And I had food poisoning W: We have it on tape

submitted 13 days ago • 499 comments

“if we don’t leverage the full faith and credit of the United States government to pretend imaginary crimebucks are actual money, somebody else will” ok so we have gone from “if everybody else jumped off a cliff would you do it too” to “I’LL BE DAMNED IF I LET ANYBODY JUMP OFF THIS CLIFF BEFORE ME”

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"'"I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first. This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious. No excuses,'" Buscaglia said." 1)THIS IS NOT BACKGROUND! THIS IS MAKING UP ENTIRE BOOKS! WHICH ARE THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE ARTICLE!

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

“Autistic people have to be eradicated from society/sent to camps because they miss social cues and make neurotypical people uncomfortable” meanwhile neurotypicals are self lobotomizing & farming all their relationships off onto chatbots but that’s a-ok

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Some of the youth are trying to save us.

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Angelina shared this from Madera CA. We were transplanting tomatoes & there was a wind storm. A dust devil formed. It caused a lot of dust and dirt to get into our faces. This is one of many things we - the ones that harvest the food that goes on everyone's table - endure. #WeFeedYou

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“Can’t 86 him? 25th him.” — Founding Fathers, probably.

submitted 16 days ago • 423 comments

yes. this.

submitted 16 days ago • 756 comments

so the members of congress just stopped going to el salvador and not a single person who was illegally sent there has been returned and that’s just how it is now?

submitted 19 days ago • 312 comments

🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 21 days ago • 493 comments

Tapping the "Andor" sign for the folks in the back:

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

NRA in 2020: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2021: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2022: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2023: "We need guns to resist tyranny!" NRA in 2024: "Ya know, tyranny's not so bad."

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Impossible to communicate to people that once you decide that a group more vulnerable than you can be sacrificed in the name of your own safety or interests that you have already entered into an tacit agreement that you can also be sacrificed in the interests of a group less vulnerable than you.

submitted 26 days ago • 115 comments

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

submitted 26 days ago • 597 comments

Even if you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d still need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented. His argument fails even on its own terms.

submitted 28 days ago • 833 comments

Sometimes it feels like we all live in an enormous car and they keep yelling “we’re defunding the brakes!”

submitted 30 days ago • 107 comments

The "problem" with so-called illegal immigration is that the US has unjust, unenforceable laws that let employers exploit migrant workers. Many sectors rely on migrant workers and our laws should reflect that reality and make sure the people who come here to do necessary labor are proctected.

submitted 30 days ago • 33 comments

I hate when people try to explain Zuckerberg's weirdness as "autism" because he might in fact also be autistic, but damned if he isn't weird as hell. I know a shit ton of autistic people and none of them are weird like that. That's not autism-weird, that's Zuckerberg-weird.

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

WIth everything else you kind of forget that the president of the united states is a crypto scammer

submitted 30 days ago • 133 comments

The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion. Two decades on, it has generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more. If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.

submitted 31 days ago • 55 comments

love when people get caught using LLMs for some important analytical task "to save time" and then they're like "don't worry we rigorously vetted the results." man....you either saved time OR rigorously vetted the results, but i promise you didn't do both

submitted 32 days ago • 22 comments

I’m so confused by the folks who said that raising the minimum wage would increase the price of every day goods while also being okay with tariffs raising the price of every day goods… I reckon they are okay paying higher prices as long as it doesn’t help anyone making a minimum wage.

submitted 32 days ago • 688 comments

every gender transition is a statement in favor of human possibility and freedom and i’m tired of hearing it talked about like it’s some kind of disease

submitted 32 days ago • 111 comments

You don't have to care about the Founders. We should have as little reverence for them as they themselves had for all the hallowed things they left behind. Less actually, because they are dead. We are here. They are not. What kind of America do we, the living, want to have?

submitted 33 days ago • 107 comments

Welcome to the fight. But to be fair, these are clearly performances not cabinet level meetings where the president conducts the nation's business.

submitted 33 days ago • 255 comments

where … does the ring go

submitted 33 days ago • 59 comments

personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

submitted 34 days ago • 975 comments

Today would be a great day for Chuck Schumer to announce he’s stepping aside as Senate Minority Leader and isn’t going to run for reelection when his term ends. Agree?

submitted 35 days ago • 754 comments

I think that the tariffs debacle is going to be more destructive than I can imagine right now and I feel like I'm in a slow motion dream walking in drying cement.

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I'm sorry but people really have to stop pretending that individuals being mean to other individuals "causes" fascism. NO. Oppressors have oppress marginalized people AS A KEY COMPONENT OF FASCISM. There's just a lot of confusion in the land and we need clarity.

submitted 36 days ago • 23 comments

I am so over the media's framing of these kinds of issues. Who effing cares if the Trump administration wants to "make" Canada a state? The correct framing here is: "Is the United States' position that it will no longer be adhere to international law when it comes to Canada?"

submitted 36 days ago • 379 comments

the most important rule of American civics, which should be taught in schools, is that any candidate who asks for your vote by promising to harm the social position of a group you don’t like will deliver by harming you, too, even if they harm others more so you feel like a relative victor

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment