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Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

This is why I keep talking about the last ten years as a metastasizing misinformation crisis. Why on EARTH would you think Trump would do anything thoughtfully or strategically? If the media is giving people this impression, it is lying to them

submitted 1 day ago • 88 comments

You know what I didn't want them to do? Fast track all of Trump's fascist nominations so they could be confirmed as comfortably as possible for the Republicans. But they did that and no fireside chat makes up for it.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.

submitted 3 days ago • 234 comments

AOC has them sputtering mad because she’s educating people on constitutional rights. You don’t see them freaking out at Jeffries for talking about egg prices.

submitted 4 days ago • 270 comments

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

submitted 5 days ago • 259 comments

People who decide to do this—during a time that open fascist hate is normalized and empowered and all opposition is suppressed, framing the real problem as attaining a base level of awareness of others and taking basic steps to include those others in their language—know exactly what they are doing.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

i am 100% of the belief that simply forcing take-writers to answer the question "who specifically said this and why are they significant" would result in substantially fewer bad takes circulating in the world

submitted 5 days ago • 177 comments

a ctrl+F approach to abolishing wokeness is going to be catastrophic. i'm trying to find journal articles about the history of city govt DEI programs & most of the search results are about like, morphological diversity of microbes, taxonomic diversity in fossils, diversity jurisdiction in law, etc

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Tommy Tuberville blocked military promotions for months while his party was in the minority and he can’t read or write

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

it's genuinely crazy how Bill Kristol is meeting the moment more than most elected Democrats and the entire liberal media apparatus

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

“Saving democracy” is not the same thing as saving people.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

If your first instinct is to tell people you agree with to give up fighting, ask yourself why. What do you hope to accomplish? Who benefits from your efforts? Do they share your values? If not, why are you doing their work for them? You have to fight your demons so you don’t battle your allies.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 7 days ago • 1168 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

your identity in a capitalist society

submitted 215 days ago • 119 comments

i wrote about the NYT's latest op-ed on birthright citizenship: why it's stupid, and why its implications are bigger than one clause

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

I am alway saying this: Women hate food and love cocaine. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

submitted 7 days ago • 40 comments

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

submitted 8 days ago • 273 comments

A haunted house but it’s just the Democrats whispering “Trump doesn’t care about inflation” and “what about the price of eggs” while a horrifying demon slowly devours you

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Yes, we let a rich idiot nobody elected destroy the entire government, but it was that or make rich people pay taxes so that poor people could go to the doctor

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

The Democrats' "we can't do anything, stop bitching" response to being the minority party is exactly why they're the minority party in the first place

submitted 10 days ago • 13 comments

There's an entire enormous industry of establishment voices who spent years, and enormous effort, convincing us that the left, in the form of undergrads & corporate HR departments, was a threat to American freedom equal to that posed by the fascist right.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

They don’t think it will make Medicaid better. They don’t care about the debt. They want to break things & stop helping poor people. Why are you so bad at journalism?

submitted 12 days ago • 17 comments

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

submitted 13 days ago • 160 comments

[guy who made a billion dollars secretly feeding you lizard meat] I think I speak for all honest hard-working Americans when I say we need to shut down the Department of Checking What Kind of Meat That Is

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

No one has tried this before, let's see how it plays out.

submitted 14 days ago • 939 comments

The Silicon Valley billionaires & techno-feudal lords who are waging a capitalists' coup right now are rebelling against the people & the "free market" for rejecting them & the tech they need us to become dependent on. They're taking over the government to ensure we have no more choice in the matter

submitted 14 days ago • 53 comments

it is singularly critical that all of this mess isn't pinned on trump or musk. this is the republican party. as they systemically destroy countless lives, the entire party must pay the political cost for there to be any chance of recovery. harder to build than to destroy. dems will need numbers.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Notable that Elons crew of incels and edgelords are full fledged men for the purposes of being given the keys to car to run the govt. But for the purposes of being accountable for their actions they’re just kids from good families with youthful indiscretions.

submitted 15 days ago • 175 comments

we have moved rapidly from “this loser never would’ve made it through the background check for a security clearance” to “this guy’s laptop is a crime scene”

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

okay get fucked

submitted 15 days ago • 35 comments

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

submitted 16 days ago • 1712 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 16 days ago • 508 comments

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

submitted 16 days ago • 168 comments

This is what revisionist history looks like, in real time. And this also is why it might appear that archaeologists and historians have to dig deep to discover the existence of powerful women and marginalized groups -- because their legacies are so often erased.

submitted 17 days ago • 33 comments

Hungry, hungry guillotine www.inprnt.com/gallery/thou...

submitted 17 days ago • 99 comments