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I wish the New York Times were capable of journalism as relevant, clear-headed and up-to-the-minute as indie rock band "the Mountain Goats"

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Kidnapping. Capturing a person against their will without due process is called kidnapping. Transporting them to another country without due process is called human trafficking. A squalid extrajudicial prison for people found guilty of no crime is called a concentration camp.

submitted 7 days ago • 118 comments

I've never been a Treasury secretary, so what would I know, but I reckon transparently lying about easily checked facts won't calm fears in the market, or the broader population.

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

*sigh* what stupid made up bullshit rumor caused the market to briefly bounce back this morning. what was it this time

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 6 days ago • 381 comments

i’m here today to announce my new plan to introduce an additive to gasoline cars that makes the exhaust just reek. just stink like hell. burnt vinegar and rotten fish.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

NEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.

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HAPPENING NOW: Judge Boasberg holds a "show cause" hearing on whether the government defied his orders when it deported Venezuelans accused of being members of Tren de Aragua to a nightmarish Salvadoran prison

submitted 12 days ago • 35 comments

pico knows. pico is judging. pico is disappointed.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

You don't have to understand basic economics to understand this is insane but this is fucking insane.

submitted 12 days ago • 13 comments

Trump take Easter

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

*whiny voice* "I don't want measles! I don't want another great depression!" What happened to being tough. What happened to suffering and dying needlessly

submitted 35 days ago • 64 comments

If we were still in 2017 Resistance mode, the Wordle today would be "COURT" and some Lincoln Project guy would be like "Wordle is OUT of fucks to give 😆"

submitted 13 days ago • 10 comments

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller March 31,1960

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

who could this be

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Remember Harris - High Prices Trump - Low Prices

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

the fuck is this, ABC

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Paid protesters and out-of-state agitators

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hello ok i am awake what did i miss tell me every thing

submitted 20 days ago • 1664 comments

this bird is rad as hell

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Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

submitted 26 days ago • 2947 comments

my grandmother had the exact same house dress

submitted 27 days ago • 10 comments

All I want is burrito

submitted 27 days ago • 212 comments

oh shit. he’s here.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Yo @durbin.senate.gov, no one is picking up your Senate phone and you don’t even have a voicemail. Vote no on cloture and the spending bill or I will do whatever it takes to make sure the next Senator from Illinois has basic constituent services set up during business hours.

submitted 34 days ago • 1096 comments

when you stub your toe on the corner of the couch the couch should also feel pain. it should feel 50% more pain than you

submitted 34 days ago • 9 comments

Bluesky needs to start an exchange program where it swaps its annoying scoldy users for nutcases posting right wing grievance content about the Titanic

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments

girl on date with me: So where are you from me: i live in a cave and eat bugs girl on date with me: Wow a cave? Like a hole in the world? me: the world is the hole

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments