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Afrikaner refugee settles in Birmingham, says he already feels much safer. Birmingham’s murder rate is almost twice South Africa’s.

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“Earlier this week, The Onion ran a piece headlined “Sean Combs Asks for Quick Trial So He Can Get to Part Where Trump Pardons Him.” It may be on to something.” www.rollingstone.com/music/music-... By @cheyenneroundtree.bsky.social and me

submitted 5 hours ago • 85 comments

This video is perfect, especially when you learn it happened as this man was driving his Super Tough Man Truck™ into the parking lot of a business for "Self Reliance and Civilian Tactical Enthusiasts" www.instagram.com/p/DJc9S_MsXND/

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

US Healthcare is like if you took hell, and you poked it with a stick for a while and just hired the first 1000 flaming demons that came out to be in charge of who gets to live and die in this country.

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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.

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🧵The largest plantation in the South burned down this week. And the way white folks—especially wedding vendors—are mourning “memories” and “brides who won’t get to have their special day there”? It’s giving cognitive dissonance. Because let’s be real...

submitted 5 hours ago • 429 comments

listen guys stop virtue signalling, eurovision is for everyone

submitted 12 hours ago • 32 comments

This should be bigger news: ICYMI - Project 2025’s puppet master Russell Vought just replaced Elon as head of DOGE. People still in denial & believe Trump knew nothing about Project 2025, need to explain why he just handed the keys to the whole damn thing to its architect. He is the plan. Wake up.

submitted 11 hours ago • 178 comments

When anyone to the left adopts reactionary policies, they win over no one but convince a lot of people that the reactionaries are making sense!

submitted 13 hours ago • 5 comments

Moments like these are instructive. They demonstrate exactly how dishonest, dishonorable, and irredeemable these people are.

submitted 6 hours ago • 160 comments

GK Chesterton might be the pound for pound champ of banger lines in the history of the English language

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

The "One big beautiful bill" — I'm choking on those words — failed in committee. It didn't fail because cutting Medicaid is deeply unpopular, which it is. It failed because Republicans want to cut Medicaid more. Let that sink in.

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Great article on the worst kept secret in industrial music.

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Abolish ICE is the compromise position. We need to abolish the entire Department of Homeland Security, which was created after 9-11 with the express purpose of terrorizing immigrant communities, activists, and ordinary people in a sickening display of security theater that does not make anyone safer

submitted 10 hours ago • 85 comments

DEMOCRATIC PARTY: “We need to find a way to attract younger voters we lost and get back people who don’t think we’re taking threats to this country seriously.” DEMOCRATIC CONSULTANTS: “Understood. Got it. What if we demand women list their dating history before they’re allowed to run for office?”

submitted 6 hours ago • 59 comments

This has been true as long as I've been alive, by the way. When I was younger you dismissed Dems as "bleeding hearts," people whose ideas about "fairness" or "justice" were silly emotions that needn't be taken seriously.

submitted 6 hours ago • 2 comments

Again, Dems could’ve spent the 2024 campaign warning Latinos this is what Trump would do! Instead, they spent the 2024 campaign telling voters they’d deport Latinos even harder than Trump. And lost bigly anyway!

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"So even after Trump’s “climbdown” we’re still looking at a shock to the economy 7 or 8 times as big as Smoot-Hawley, the previous poster child for destructive tariff policy." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trade-...

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

folks, the marching orders went out on the signal chats and private text chains

submitted 7 hours ago • 13 comments

When Blumenthal tells you that KOSA has no free speech problems please remember that he also said thinks that Elon Fucking Musk is “the foremost champion of free speech in the tech industry.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

do any of these people actually know what medicaid is?

submitted 7 hours ago • 1141 comments

When I wrote that these folks were segregationists, the response from some quarters was that I was exaggerating or missing the bigger picture. But they are literally segregationists and increasingly open about that fact.

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“If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the second amendment people, maybe there is, I don’t know. But I’ll tell you what, that will be a horrible day.” --Donald Trump speaking about Hillary Clinton at a rally in Wilmington, North Carolina, 2016.

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he was boring, he didn't give them a lot of interviews, his white house didn't leak, and he left Afghanistan

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

A story of staggering hypocrisy, in two tweets.

submitted 11 hours ago • 82 comments

The president of the United States has claimed to be in dialogue with god. If he said that he was talking to god through his hairdryer this would precipitate a national emergency. I cannot see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive. ~Sam Harris

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Just for the record if the person who runs ICE says “hey send us your name and address, we are doing a reality show where we might award US citizenship” please remember that they’re just gonna file you in the “deport now” column.

submitted 19 hours ago • 41 comments

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

submitted 19 hours ago • 311 comments

politico wants trump to win and wants to help him rule us like a king.

submitted 7 hours ago • 15 comments

Soho, early 1980s. (photograph by me)

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Editor: You get the pictures for the air traffic controller story? Photographer: Sure did boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked. Editor: What

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About 60% of prostitution charges in the US result from a sex worker becoming the victim of a crime.

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it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am

submitted 9 hours ago • 88 comments

SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents I obtained. The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%

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My favorite running gag in Star Trek is whenever they tried to do a gay episode, but had to make the characters as trans as possible to get it on network television.

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

NEW -- Trump's White House is hiding the vast majority of the transcripts of his remarks. Why? The White House won't say... But maybe reading the following might offer a clue: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

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Wow. A federal appeals court ruled citizens don't have standing to sue the government for voting rights violations. Only the department of justice can bring lawsuits defending the Voting Rights Act. When the DOJ is a criminal organization, we're fucked. www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/p...

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Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

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Text from my son (13)

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Multnomah County health officials have confirmed an active case of tuberculosis at a Portland middle school.

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

what the chicken-fried fuck is this

submitted 23 hours ago • 64 comments

When I was the senior artist for Philips Media's Realtime 3D R&D group in the mid-90s, I said VERY loudly that "VR" would never have mass-adoption until they didn't have goggles or a headset involved, because NO ONE wants to wear clunky-assed shit for any extended period of time. 30 yrs later...

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conservatives want you to believe that watching porn harms vulnerable people… It does not. Don’t drink the koolaid.

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lol

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I don’t defend the excesses of state socialism. I support democracy and believe that all power should be vested with the people. But to attack socialist and communist states without the context that international capital has tried constantly to destroy them is ignorance at best and deceit at worst