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as others have noted there's a connection between these deaths and right wing "Antifa" paranoia. musk designed and advertised this thing as apocalypse proof which in his smooth brain meant "able to protect riders from dangerous hordes of poor rioters". this also makes rescuing passengers impossible

submitted 90 days ago • 144 comments

Archivists recreate pre-Trump CDC website, hosting it in Europe. 🔗 www.404media.co/archivists-r...

submitted 104 days ago • 13 comments

i barely thought about Elon Musk until the Trapped Thai Schoolboys Incident, upon which it became extremely apparent he was both stupid and insane

submitted 116 days ago • 64 comments

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

submitted 116 days ago • 404 comments

I'd vote for them. Can't possibly be worse than what we've got now. And almost certainly more qualified than anyone at DOGE

submitted 119 days ago • 0 comments

I hope that if Dems ever take back the white house, they have the political will to just put the government back together through executive power and not depend on congress to restore it.

submitted 120 days ago • 46 comments

I don’t disagree and am not letting Dems off the hook but in terms of what was predictable, it didn’t take long for a (prior incarnation) Democratic Party to take back power after literally doing a civil war that appalled an already barbaric international community for its scale and sheer brutality

submitted 122 days ago • 12 comments

Hard to see this any other way than that the Confederacy played the long game and finally won. At least temporarily. We have a white supremacist government.

submitted 123 days ago • 8 comments

Stop Getting Kettled On Bridges!!!!! Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

submitted 123 days ago • 4 comments

I’d expect we’ll see a lot more of this.

submitted 123 days ago • 82 comments

BREAKING Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson just issued an order preventing the Trump administration from: 1. Deleting CFPB data 2. Firing CFPB employees 3. Transferring money from CFPB's reserve fund Right after the order was issued, nearly all CFPB employees were placed on administrative leave

submitted 123 days ago • 178 comments

All these articles about Democrats moaning over their messaging issues make me tired. You know what's more important than messaging? ACTION. Don't TALK about the price of eggs. Tell people "MEET US IN THE PARK - WE'RE GIVING OUT FREE EGGS. THAT'S RIGHT - FREE EGGS FROM THE DEMOCRATS!"

submitted 123 days ago • 97 comments

I legit just assumed this was commentary on duck penises.

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When Musk talks about “democracy,” he really means “freedom,” and by freedom he means his ability to do as he please - which he thinks is in line with “the will of the people” because he sees his interests as identical with those of humanity itself as he is “chosen” to take us into a better future.

submitted 123 days ago • 12 comments

the city ronald reagan chose to launch his "state's rights" based 1980 presidential campaign from, which by total coincidence was also where three civil rights activists were murdered by the cops and KKK 16 years earlier:

submitted 124 days ago • 5 comments

I am embarrassed to admit this but this tweet was what made me realize that actually I did not know what executive orders COULDN'T do

submitted 126 days ago • 3 comments

i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!

submitted 126 days ago • 166 comments

“Wow, a lot of people are angry at us. It couldn’t possibly be our fault.”

submitted 126 days ago • 12 comments

This is going to make the termination lawsuits far more interesting.

submitted 126 days ago • 22 comments

Never misses

submitted 126 days ago • 72 comments

i am really starting to think that staffing your crack rugpull squad with dishonorable groyper fascists and skipping the background checks might cause some problems

submitted 130 days ago • 8 comments

I just confirmed this with a VA employee, Veterans Affairs VPNs for workers are down right now www.reddit.com/r/VeteransAf...

submitted 131 days ago • 1 comment

This happened to me in Trump 1.0 when I called in and the dude said, “wow lots of calls about this issue today!” and I asked how many is a lot and he said “Seventeen!” Motivates me to pick up the phone every time.

submitted 131 days ago • 20 comments

On Arrakis, you think God is a worm. But in Reformed theology, God thinks a worm is YOU!

submitted 131 days ago • 5 comments

YES! YES! YES! MAKE THEM OWN THIS COUP!

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submitted 132 days ago • 52 comments

It will never be safer to stand up for your country

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Illinois Gov. John Peter Altgeld SPEECH AT UNVEILING OF SOLDIERS ' MONUMENT. [Delivered at Jerseyville , May 30th , 1893. ] 130 years ago politicians were paying lip service to veterans benefits. The GOP has never cared about veterans except as meat for the war machine.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

this is literally it. If rule of law no longer exist The only redress of grievance is through direct kinetic contact . a modern Civil War, which I would argue we are already in and have been for a number of years is not defined violence until the coercion /misinformation breaks down.

submitted 133 days ago • 1 comment

Lawsuits are great, but this is time-sensitive and Musk has been free to ignore the law with impunity. Legislators need to take a cue from South Korea and get in there. Nothing that happens in Congress matters if this B-tier supervillain is the one who actually controls spending.

submitted 133 days ago • 0 comments

This is very good. Clear and succinct.

submitted 133 days ago • 82 comments

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

submitted 136 days ago • 60 comments

Every single fucking state government run by a Democrat should do this. Fight the fuck back already.

submitted 137 days ago • 47 comments

Matthew 5:43-47 (part of the sermon on the mount)

submitted 138 days ago • 105 comments

Nothing but respect for MY president www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

submitted 137 days ago • 10 comments

In Nov. 2020 Chuck Todd was the first TV host to put an election denier, Sen. Kevin Cramer, on the air to say the election was stolen. He signaled to every journalist that it was OK to put them on air, normalizing them so they could plan Jan 6 Not a single writeup of Todd leaving NBC mentions this

submitted 137 days ago • 59 comments

This is a 5 alarm fire. They're going to pull down all publicly available data, studies, guidance, etc that involves LGBTQ people so when the worst happens to us, no one will know. They're actively trying to erase us. gizmodo.com/cdc-ordered-...

submitted 137 days ago • 119 comments

"Such as your mother" is an actual verbatim punch line from the Talmud

submitted 137 days ago • 2 comments

I think we can all agree that the definition of limited conservative government is when an unelected billionaire interferes at every level and juncture

submitted 137 days ago • 15 comments

I think it’s really interesting how many of the DEI comments made by the administration are about disability and the headline says DEI and folks here assume it’s a comment about race. They’re coming for everyone but let’s be precise where we can. The ableism is LOUD and aggressive from these folks

submitted 137 days ago • 11 comments

I understand there is very little appetite right now to criticize the Democrats now that Fascism Is Here (tm) and it's thanks to non-Harris voters but this is exhibit A, no?

submitted 138 days ago • 0 comments

Out today in @foreignpolicy.com: I wrote about what will happen if there is an H5N1 pandemic with Robert F Kennedy, Jr. in charge of safeguarding the health of Americans. If H5N1 begins spreading human to human, the deaths will be counted in millions.🧵👇 foreignpolicy.com/2025/01/30/r...

submitted 138 days ago • 28 comments

Remember when pundits told us Trump was “better prepared” this time around? Well, his actions and words have created more chaos faster WH now saying that his order to stop federal spending & that they later rescinded “remains in full force and effect and will be rigorously implemented” (!!!)

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

this era of trump destroying every institution in the name of being anti-woke and ending DEI will usher in an even more woke era than ever thought possible

submitted 138 days ago • 141 comments