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The fact that Obama cannot be elected again should free him to say as much as Pritzker is--and indeed to do a lot more. Instead, he's decided to swan along with his clearly dogged ambition to become a billionaire, hoping no one notices or cares.

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so, arresting judges should be more than enough reason for complete obstruction at in the house and senate. complete obstruction. anything you can do. interrupt proceedings, deny consent, holds on nominations. everything.

submitted 3 days ago • 68 comments

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

submitted 5 days ago • 526 comments

Must say, I'm finding The Crown to be way better than most people credited it. Each episode is a structured, thoughtful, tightly wound little play, with a plot that's usually (not always) disconnected from the previous episode. It's funny, self-consciously Shakespearean, sometimes very weird.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Chihiro from SPIRITED AWAY is the most millennial-coded character in fiction: - forced to beg in order to get worst job in the entire universe - incompetent at work due to being coddled by pig boomer parents - immediately starts dating her manager - quits after two days to move back home

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

coming soon: cops who first inspect your genitals on the way into restrooms and then pistol whip you if you try to wash your hands before going out

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I keep seeing people comparing this to Watergate, but this is much worse

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

This is archetypally impeachable. Trump’s innovation is to just announce it publicly, so it gets framed as a controversial political choice instead of what it is: a crime against the Constitution.

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Feels like pure shit, just want @juskewitch.bsky.social back

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I'd say more precisely that we have people going all in on the idea that self-discipline is about having what it takes to dunk your head in a bowl of ice water every morning rather than having what it takes to treat someone different from you like a human being.

submitted 4 days ago • 62 comments

I don’t think it’s in good faith to pretend the extremely narrow use cases that require an expert to read the results of an LLM and the attempts to push LLMs into wide, popular, and frivolous use are the same.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

As @jamellebouie.net has been saying, they are absolutely trying to bring back segregation.

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Toxicologist here! This will improve the health of zero Americans. Current synthetic food dyes are not causing health problems, and are often times used because they are actually safer than natural food dyes. Reminder that guns are the #1 cause of death of children but we are going to ban food dyes.

submitted 5 days ago • 209 comments

there has never been a better time to join the "Hit the Guardrail at 80 mph and flip your Tesla on Purpose" movement

submitted 5 days ago • 165 comments

It's just a little heartening to remember that this Evangelical psycho shit was all over the second W. Bush administration, that they were its last hangers on then, too.

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submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

This is fascism. This right here. No one who says it’s not deserves a moment of your respectful consideration.

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If a liberal president governed this way — arresting right-leaning writers from abroad, attacking conservative institutions and threatening their tax-exemptions, trying to force adherence with liberal cultural values — people would be dead already.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

wow, cool. a whole month to celebrate losing human trafficking, rape, selling off your own children like they're cords of lumber, eating shit in a civil war, and being insufferably pretentious about all of it

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NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present. “This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

Anyone who “instinctively likes” Hegseth needs a fucking lobotomy.

submitted 7 days ago • 169 comments

To this point, the spouse of a friend goes on truly fantastic rants about philosophy of mind, Roger Penrose, quantum physics, etc., reminding me of nothing so much as a conspiracy theorist. He's done a lot of reading--but he hasn't done the reading, if that makes sense.

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The MS-13 claim comes from a 2019 police report citing an unnamed informant and Abrego’s Bulls cap. It didn’t hold up; he was protected from deportation by a Trump-appointed judge with an above-average denial rate. The cop was later indicted, pleaded guilty to misconduct and fired wapo.st/3YASCze

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