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submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Big Balls’s past gets more scrutiny — including the internship where he was terminated. “You’re willing to risk our entire network to a 17-year-old?” one frustrated executive asked the company’s CEO in 2022. “Are you for real right now?” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/02/21/p...

submitted 3 hours ago • 46 comments

why are newspapers calling the DOGE terminations "layoffs"? they don't meet any definition of the term

submitted 35 minutes ago • 0 comments

Every time someone complains that "the postal service is losing money" what they're actually saying is "the postal service should lower the quality of its services and also charge more."

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

AP sues Trump White House, alleging ban on its journalists at major events amounts to unconstitutional retaliation by the federal government for free speech. White House spox: AP's leaders have "rotted... peanut-sized brains" My updated story for NPR: www.npr.org/2025/02/21/n...

submitted 13 hours ago • 17 comments

I am pleased to announce that Whitman-Walker has returned a trans care resource, now under “primary care.” I am told the decision was to update today and that it is a case of bad timing, but also confirmed the reason why it was removed was fear of the Trump admin. Still. I am very happy it’s back.

submitted 12 hours ago • 22 comments

"2 Palestinian children were shot in the back & killed by #Israeli forces.... Ayman Nasser al-Haymouny, 12, was killed in Hebron while 13-year-old Rimas al-Amouri was shot in the Jenin governorate... www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/... #BDS #Israel #IsraelNews #News #Palestine #Palestine #WorldNews

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

Study finds that Meta and X Approved ads containing anti Muslim and antisemitic hate speech ahead of German Election techcrunch.com/2025/02/21/m...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

"U.S. negotiators pressing Kyiv for access to Ukraine's critical minerals have raised the possibility of cutting the country's access to Elon Musk's vital Starlink satellite internet system, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters."

submitted 15 hours ago • 149 comments

Hunter Schafer announced in an 8+ min video that her new passport misgenders her, presumably because of Trump's announcement that the US govt only recognize gender as assigned at birth. she (rightly) connects it to fascist history, like Nazis burning the Institute of Sexology in 1933 @teenvogue.com

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 17 hours ago • 33 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 16 hours ago • 418 comments

Welcome to affirmative action for white male mediocrity, which has a long, long history but is all ramped up and shouty and sulky right now.

submitted 14 hours ago • 18 comments

I am starting to wonder what these mass government firings are going to mean for military recruitment. Vets often have trouble transitioning into the civilian labor force, but it helps that they have a huge leg up in the civil service. Does smashing it disincentivize enlisting?

submitted 14 hours ago • 24 comments

The U.S. government sure has some interesting ideas about what men typically look like, tbh!

submitted 22 hours ago • 14 comments

Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Egg prices have now surpassed $8 per dozen.

submitted 19 hours ago • 76 comments

Told you that we’d see a lot of these chucklefucks again: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

NEW YORK (AP) — Dow tumbles 748 points, and S&P 500 has worst drop in 2 months after discouraging reports on the US economy.

submitted 20 hours ago • 117 comments

Sure would be nice if the U.S. continued funding stuff like “vaccines for pancreatic cancer.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 17 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 23 hours ago • 77 comments

men who dressed like this from 2008 - 2012 had preppy menswear blogs

submitted 19 hours ago • 476 comments

Usually when states go to court alleging federal coercion in violation of the 10th Amendment there is not a literal video of the President doing it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 125 comments

President Trump's executive order that the federal government recognizes only two sexes, male and female, is disrupting the lives of some trans, nonbinary and intersex people applying for passports.

submitted 18 hours ago • 62 comments

“We had to erase trans people or we couldn’t get our federal funding” Fuck the federal funding. You fight, you sue, you do not become complicit in our mass erasure. We are all in this together, and we all go down together. I will not allow us to be jettisoned or erased.

submitted 19 hours ago • 139 comments

This is a stunning betrayal by Whitman Walker in DC. You CANNOT jettison the trans community to protect yourself. It’s shameful. I got my name changed at WWH. I have promoted their research. Now they are capitulating to save gay people at trans people’s expense by trying to erase us.

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

“Shortly after Friday’s exchange, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it launched a Title IX violation investigation into Maine’s Department of Education and one of its school districts.”

submitted 18 hours ago • 228 comments

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE

submitted 21 hours ago • 61 comments

BREAKING: The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing the First Amendment.

submitted 20 hours ago • 322 comments

1/ Judge Ho bringing in Paul Clement to serve as the Amicus attorney to present arguments regarding the DOJ's motion to dismiss the charges against Mayor Adams, citing a Supreme Court case approving a court bringing in Paul Clement to serve as amicus counsel to argue a position abandoned by the DOJ

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

here is the thing about the “argument” that democrats should have run roughshod over the law when they had the chance: it is much easier to break the law to destroy a program than break the law to create one.

submitted 23 hours ago • 130 comments

Just got invited to debate birthright citizenship at a T10 law school. So this is where we are.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

I was at a punk show in 83 where a skinhead jumped up on stage and gave a Nazi salute. The bass player hit him with his bass, knocking him into the crowd and 150 people collectively hauled his ass out of the venue and threw him in the mud. This was the right and only appropriate response.

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

It’s journalistic malpractice — to the extent that’s a thing any more — to talk about this Ed Martin letter without clarifying that every expert, other than administration hacks, thinks that Garcia’s statement was not remotely plausibly a true threat. It’s simply ludicrous.

submitted 1 day ago • 57 comments

American Pundits: It was an exuberant and controversial gesture of uncertain significance… Actual Fascists: It’s a Nazi salute.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments