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The best way to confront a bully about the misinformation he is spreading is to confront him in front of everyone. Macron just did that.

submitted 9 days ago • 3315 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 1053 comments

well done, @chriswarcraft.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 663 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 13 days ago • 1575 comments

Public libraries are amazing! Did you know you can borrow a book from any library in the country and return it to any other library? Did you know they have subscriptions to huge amounts of national and international media that you can access?

submitted 19 days ago • 200 comments

my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 88

submitted 19 days ago • 18 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 19 days ago • 1607 comments

if I were writing stories about the gov "firing thousands of probationary workers" I would probably rewrite as "firing thousands of new hires -- who are often on a status called "probation" --" because I think the general understanding of "probation" is "in trouble for something they did"

submitted 19 days ago • 85 comments

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submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Absolutely YELL at your reps. It doesn't matter that the employees are being called back; it shouldn't have happened in the first place. Call them now.

submitted 19 days ago • 17 comments

Starting the new season of Love Is Blind

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

A Secretary of Defense who knew what he was doing would have read that speech before he gave it and then made sure to coordinate with the White House and NSC before reversing some 80 years of U.S. policy and leaving Europe in the lurch while the biggest war since the 1945 was underway.

submitted 19 days ago • 175 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 19 days ago • 6079 comments

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

submitted 19 days ago • 1086 comments

READ Danielle Sassoon's letter to AG Pam Bondi, via @nytimes.com: "Rather than be rewarded, Adams's advocacy should be called out for what it is: an improper offer of immigration enforcement assistance in exchange for a dismissal of his case." static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics...

submitted 20 days ago • 394 comments

If you’re wondering if you’re in a constitutional crisis and that the republic could collapse at any moment, you are.

submitted 22 days ago • 1022 comments

Thank you everyone for joining us IRL and via zoom! I’ll share a recording of the event in the coming weeks. 🦃

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 22 days ago • 983 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 23 days ago • 3894 comments

As long as there is demand, Stringer Bell will find a way to fill that demand.

submitted 30 days ago • 558 comments

Yes. Do not assume that everything is some kind of four-dimensional chess. When you see cruel and stupid, believe your eyes.

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

February is not only Black History Month, it’s also National Back Up Your Dataset Month! March will be Stockpile Potatoes Month, followed by April, which is Take to the Woods and Booby Trap It Like an Ewok Month.

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."

submitted 31 days ago • 708 comments

STEPHEN MILLER: Does anyone believe that an unaccountable career bureaucrat should be able to approve vast sums of money for the projects that they personally agree with? JAKE TAPPER: I'm literally asking about Meals on Wheels. I don't know what you're talking about.

submitted 36 days ago • 1294 comments

Anyway, my mom is really sick and in the hospital and it is absolutely terrible to be here and heartbreaking and I just want to say that. And these people here in FL are oblivious to like… news. Just yukking it up in the sun.

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s show was my last at CNN. My closing message: It’s never a good time to bow down to a tyrant… don’t give in to the lies. Don’t give in to fear. Hold on to the truth… and hope.

submitted 36 days ago • 8291 comments

I’m still stuck on the baby chicks in a blender situation 2025 has already jumped the shark

submitted 36 days ago • 203 comments

The thing to understand about Trump is like in his first term, he doesn’t want to govern. He doesn’t want to learn. He wants to campaign and look good. Republicans know this. So there are battles going on right now to take control of the actual process of governing.

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Permanent mood.

submitted 44 days ago • 487 comments

um

submitted 44 days ago • 7212 comments

Biden's farewell speech to the military: "Let me close with a final request. I say it not as your president or commander in chief. I say it as a man who spent 50 years of his life serving his country in a different way. Remember your oath."

submitted 48 days ago • 391 comments

What would I ask? "What was your analysis of the Houthi Bombing in October? What counsel would you give POTUS regarding next actions?" "What should the US strategy be in Syria ?" " How would you counter Chinese aggression on the south China Sea ?" "How would you assure civilian oversight of DOD"

submitted 50 days ago • 1590 comments

a friend texted me this and I felt I should share it

submitted 51 days ago • 22 comments

Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they can talk is "to make sure the monastery cats know when it's mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them."

submitted 53 days ago • 234 comments

my dad goes to a bar with his friends every friday and he makes a list of discussion topics pt 84

submitted 54 days ago • 21 comments

Oh wow, they rang a farm bell 39 times at Carter’s funeral because you ring the bell at the end of the day as a way of saying “your work is done, it’s time to rest.” That’s so beautiful!

submitted 60 days ago • 23 comments

People make time for what they want. Read that again and again and again.

submitted 60 days ago • 19 comments

How is this child more self aware of where things are going than most adults?

submitted 61 days ago • 6 comments

When I worked in the hotel industry, the big chains were using ancient-ass property management software (Hilton's OnQ was from 2004 and Marriott's FOSSE is literally MS-DOS based with no mouse input) and I've been thinking about this more and more lately. Because it worked fine.

submitted 62 days ago • 373 comments

It truly is. (TW)

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submitted 64 days ago • 59 comments

1 January 1939 | A French Jewish boy, Leon Guterman, was born in Paris. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 20 August 1942 in a transport of 1,000 Jews deported from Drancy. After selection he was murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 64 days ago • 25 comments

Of all the people mourning the death of Jimmy Carter at age 100 this week, few could say that he changed the course of their lives more directly and consequentially than the Americans taken captive by Iranian militants at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

submitted 64 days ago • 27 comments

Tell him, Mark!

submitted 64 days ago • 1069 comments

DAMMIT NPR. I spent nine months upgrading over TEN THOUSAND desktops at a F500 client. The grand total was over SEVENTY THOUSAND applications upgraded. Y2K "didn't live up to the hype" because the industry busted ass to duct tape everything first.

submitted 67 days ago • 581 comments

In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

submitted 68 days ago • 222 comments