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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

👇🏻

submitted 3 days ago • 1368 comments

I’m not sharing that shit even to dunk on it but just gonna state for those who are interested in tactics, what the White House Twitter account is doing is memetic antagonism (whether they know it or not) which is intended to make it impossible to respond without helping them bond with each other.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Heartbreaking.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

I read both Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents quite recently. They are stunning and heartbreaking and all too real. And they made their way into one of my recent divrei Torah... velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2025/01...

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

“The very fact that I am having to publish this anonymously in a country that has the right to free speech written into our Constitution is an indictment of what is happening. Like all federal employees in the US, I took an oath to the Constitution, not to a president…” 🧪 www.bmj.com/content/388/...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

These are wise words. Enterprising people quote 'em.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

In response to Trump’s assertion, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” we say: The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

submitted 7 days ago • 211 comments

“We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests.” -FDR, 1941

submitted 7 days ago • 536 comments

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

submitted 8 days ago • 504 comments

SpaceX CEO Elton Musk is now reported to be auditing NASA, a federal agency with which he is in direct competition. THIS IS AN ACTUAL CRIME. And not in the sense of like "that ought to be a crime!" but LITERALLY A FEDERAL CRIME that he is just doing in public www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

this here. plenty of definitely malicious to oppose before we aim our ire at the dissapointing.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Wise words.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Mr. Rogers said "look for the helpers," but his advice was for CHILDREN. If your ass is grown your role is to BE the helper. I wish I could find the person who said this originally, but it's been too long.

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

I am proud of all the people who DIDN'T understand Kendrick's performance taking the time to LEARN more about the cultural impact & significance. We see you. We thank you. We appreciate you.

submitted 12 days ago • 960 comments

This is a room where we turn very modest salaries and budgets (and lots of coffee) into new knowledge, life-saving innovations, and technology that feeds business growth. It's literally the loom that spins hay into gold but these numpties are suddenly worried about the cost of hay.

submitted 12 days ago • 240 comments

Hell yeah lawyers

submitted 12 days ago • 47 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 12 days ago • 3913 comments

I got fucking death threats for writing science fiction some dickheads disliked.

submitted 13 days ago • 173 comments