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young men don’t need a “left Joe Rogan” they need sports betting regulation

submitted 21 hours ago • 67 comments

We have completely lost the meaning of “performative” as linguists & philosophers use it. Performative speech is language that enacts real change – so Van Hollen’s action was arguably performative, & that is good. But now the word is often used to denote an empty performance, the opposite meaning.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Minor annoyance, but I keep hearing elected officials say “flaunting” the law when they mean “flouting.”

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As a historian I have to remind you that King George III was nowhere near as dangerous or unstable as the guy currently in charge of the nation conceived in liberty

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

The last person to notice the building is on fire doesn't deserve a prize. Especially if he's been excusing arsonists for decades.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Notably, in his media availability in El Salvador, @vanhollen.senate.gov truthfully keeps saying that Abrego Garcia was "illegally abducted" and "disappeared" instead of the more antiseptic, and factually incorrect, "deported."

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Some serious flashbacks to Al Faw Palace in Baghdad

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Andrew Cuomo's policy paper on affordable housing, released this weekend, was written with the help of ChatGPT and was released rife with typos, in some parts devolving into unintelligible gibberish. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

PSA: If your library card gives you access to Kanopy, you can stream Soundtrack to a Coup d’État for free www.kanopy.com/en/product/1...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

His first day he freed these people from prison. It should be the prism through which everyone, media especially, reacts whenever Trump declares someone a criminal or a terrorist who deserves the gulag with no due process.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. BRING HIM HOME! Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador. SMART General President…

submitted 8 days ago • 280 comments

I missed this in the deluge of terrible things happening everywhere www.njspotlightnews.org/2025/04/nj-l...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

submitted 8 days ago • 98 comments

This is where the name of my newsletter, Degenerate Art, comes from. It's a reminder that these people will replace meaningful human endeavor with hate, emptiness, and propaganda wherever they can—while others go on making art and living their lives, despite everything.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 9 days ago • 2343 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is, in addition to very obviously denying people benefits and clearly excluding the vast majority of seniors, a violation of federal law on accessibility, especially since X requires users to log in and agree to the terms of service to see published content.

submitted 10 days ago • 106 comments

Grants from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) were slashed overnight as Trump and Elon Musk’s DOGE continue their decimation of arts and culture funding. According to the union representing workers at IMLS, “terminations are estimated to number well over a thousand.”

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

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I've finished my extremely basic normie tariff discussion. Here's what it looks like.

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

You don’t get to vote for the snake and hope to miss the venom

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

DOGE has gutted a small federal agency that provides funding to libraries and museums nationwide. In communities across the US, the cuts threaten student field trips, classes for seniors, and access to popular digital services, such as the ebook app Libby.

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Gonna repeat: Democrats love to ask how Trump voters can be so stupid. And yet, 50% of New Yorkers are supporting Cuomo who is a serial sexual harasser, got thousand killed during COVID, and orchestrated GOP control of the NY legislature.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

Today, as Duke’s Khaman Maluach, of Rumbek, South Sudan, prepared to play in the NCAA Final Four, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced his department “is taking actions to revoke all visas held by South Sudanese passport holders...”

submitted 15 days ago • 59 comments

The reason the IRS has no data-leaking API is not because they don't know how to schedule a "hackathon." Instead it's because the API: 1. Likely violates the Privacy Act of 1974 2. Is not within the IRS's mandate 3. Would be a huge target for attacks against the privacy of all Americans

submitted 16 days ago • 11 comments

Just found out my 71 year-old former boss was at the NY protest with a “Fund Elmo, Fire Elon” sign 😭

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Ian Mains, a cybersecurity consultant and former Army warrant officer from Aurora, Colo., said he was protesting for the first time." Many stories like his today. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

Big Balls

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Love to get an email Fidelity with the subject line, “Your team is here for you.” Like they think I’m out on a ledge.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

The Senate seat Schumer holds has only had 3 people in it over the last 70 years

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

submitted 17 days ago • 572 comments

Elon Musk and the DOGE dullards have terminated funding to the New Jersey Council for the Humanities. This will hurt all New Jerseyans. This action is lawless. DOGE is openly violating statutes that require such councils. How can you help? See here: njhumanities.org/neh-is-being...

submitted 18 days ago • 9 comments

let’s see who has the unfortunate task of ringing the opening bell tomorrow … ah perfect

submitted 18 days ago • 630 comments