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submitted 3 days ago • 82 comments

Forget about the entirety of Trump's first term, someone hasn't been paying attention to the nature of his appeal. No one who's been paying attention to the last eight years of Trump thinks he was going to go over anything with a "fine-toothed comb".

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

idk but I’m thinking the guy impressed by Trump’s “business acumen” is someone the IRS probably could afford to lose

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

The Democratic Party says it wants to build itself around organized labor, at a time when it can offer labor nothing legislatively. Unions CAN use their influence in the party for something useful though: to install left wing leadership, before it's too late. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

This is what pisses me off about all of this. The rise of the NSDAP came as a result of losing the bloodiest war fought in European history. The return of MAGA is the result of boobs in video games being too small and not being able to go to Applebee’s for a few months in 2020.

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Tesla has a de facto federal tax rate of 0.4% over the last three years, rather than the 21% nominal federal corporate tax rate. Eliminating tax breaks from executive stock options & accelerated deprecation could have yielded an additional $2.2B in tax revenue over that same period. Jus' saying.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Democrats: we can't do anything because in order to properly wield power, norms and traditions say first you need to say the magic words in sixteen different languages only spoken by the Senate Parliamentarian Republicans: We just reincarnated Hitler and cloned him just because

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

No! If you watch an old video of Elon, like this 2010 tour of SpaceX, it's obvious that he is physically and mentally almost a completely different person. He's dweebier and more earnest, but his cognition and speech are also way more fluid and coherent. youtu.be/0lJWmhpextE?...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Fictional villains: my motivation involves a complex backstory around lost love and a deep yearning to be understood Real life villains: being cruel makes me feel like a big strong man

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Wrote about how easy it is to claim you saved taxpayers billions when you just make shit up. But also how this is the Twitter Files all over again. The dumbest people don't know what they're looking at so it must be a conspiracy www.techdirt.com/2025/02/19/i...

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

This study's title sounds like "US cities are bad because they foster inequality." But they find that the problem began in the mid-20th century, which happens to be when cities started planning for cars. So the problem isn't cities. The problem is cars. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

Most of the people quoted here are Republicans afraid of death threats from their own party leader. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

This is just to say I have fired the bureaucrats throughout your government Even the ones that were probably keeping planes in the air Forgive me I am not very smart So efficiency Much savings

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Numerous Teams Express Interest In Aaron Rodgers Playing Elsewhere theonion.com/numerous-tea...

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

Elon Musk is murdering people.

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Except on the West Coast.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 6 days ago • 499 comments

the 4 Nations is yet more proof that the no. 1 thing for answering "is this sporting event good?" is "do the best players care about it?" if they care, we will care

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

if i were a politician who already had two assassination attempts by my own nutty followers, i dont think id want to ban antidepressants!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I've always said that NYT (and other headline writers) live in a strange and terrifying world totally alien to us. A sentient legal case attempts to provoke a government agency. Bullets, cars, and other things -- of their own free will -- attack unsuspecting humans. Everything is alive and hostile

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

looking back, AOL had it right. 30 hours of internet per month was the right amount.

submitted 8 days ago • 213 comments

Why Bluesky is the new "it" place for American urbanists. (Not necessarily a good thing, if that means it's an echo chamber!) www.planning.org/planning/202...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

Musk Signals Willingness To Bid More Than $97 Billion To Acquire Respect

submitted 9 days ago • 120 comments

The shockingly small Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2025 makes it official: the Hall's changes to the induction process were a mistake. www.morganwick.com/2025/02/cant...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

I've always been a news junkie. I WANT to watch news...but right now watching news is like stabbing yourself in the head with a fork.. the demented child keeps saying demented things, and everyone has to act like he said something worth listening to.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Fox did an awful lot of "United We Stand" content before the Super Bowl and then their own and operated affiliates ran a Kanye commercial which directed people to a tee shirt with a swastika on it.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Fox allowed Kanye West to buy a Super Bowl at pointing to his Yeezy website where he’s selling swastika branded t-shirts, because of course we’re in the new Nazi normal

submitted 12 days ago • 68 comments

Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.

submitted 12 days ago • 724 comments

I do think it’s funny when the car companies are like “we may be divided but now more than ever, I think we can all agree: car ❤️”

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

If only Andy Reid had said Bundlerooski a few more times

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Not paying indirect costs for research is like not paying musicians for rests.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Can't wait for 2026's live-action The Wild Robot

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

this is crazy. why would people pay for good journalism? I thought what people wanted was breaking news regurgitated with big images and a staff of 300 people that get laid off in two months

submitted 17 days ago • 57 comments

The stove yearns for hands….

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments