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Good thread... disappointing number of "why does it matter" responses. The lack of interest in facts and information by "well meaning" "good" folks is as bad as those who simply consume mis- and dis- information as fact.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

"If you’re the first lawyer who cites a nonexistent case because of ChatGPT, that’s on ChatGPT. If you’re the 100th, that’s on you." IF YOU'RE THE FIRST, THAT'S ON YOU!!! WHAT THE FUCK??? IF YOU'RE A LAWYER WHO CITES A NONEXISTENT CASE BECAUSE OF CHATGPT YOU DESERVE TO GET CAPE FEAR'D.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

maybe this person should just write their own fucking novel

submitted 13 hours ago • 19 comments

Prayers for an “allergic reaction.” But mockery and hateful conspiracies for murder victims who aren’t in your tribe. With no apology or remorse. Fake Christian, small man.

submitted 12 hours ago • 1629 comments

America's secret police just detained a guy who might be Mayor of New York City and his NYPD escort. We have to abolish ICE. That should be the baseline Democratic Party position.

submitted 20 hours ago • 77 comments

From the AP: Lander replies, as he's being handcuffed, "I'm not obstructing, I'm standing right here in the hallway." "You don't have the authority to arrest U.S. citizens asking for a judicial warrant," Lander said as he was led away down a hallway and into an elevator.

submitted 20 hours ago • 40 comments

This photo. ICE is a gang.

submitted 20 hours ago • 677 comments

thanks as ever to @travisview.bsky.social and the qaa boys for making a drive entertaining, and please count me in when you start the butlerian jihad.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

can't wait to combine my two favorite things to lower my blood pressure later - listen to analysis of right wing thought and sit in DC area traffic! thanks @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Look, another dangerous Marxist

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

does he ... does he think the UK is still part of the EU?

submitted 1 day ago • 472 comments

This one is so completely plausible that it’s not really satire.

submitted 1 day ago • 40 comments

yeah the alex jones listening, trump voting, anti-lgbtq preaching leftists. seriously what the fuck

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

There are vape shops with more integrity than the White House

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

clears throat violently i TOLD you these guys were running the country here is what they want. in detail bookshop.org/p/books/wild...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I need to say this clearly and for posterity: They are laying the ground work for an Ernst vom Rath moment, where the actions of a single trans person are offered as an excuse for a pogrom to use the full force of government to eliminate trans people as a "national security threat".

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

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This is jaw-droppingly stupid.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This would make this at least the 2nd shooting in recent years from someone who was a fan of Infowars. The 2016 Pizzagate shooter was also a known fan of the far-right conspiracy theory outlet. www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/a...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Targets included Democrats, abortion providers and NO KINGS rallies. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

BTW—I don't want police to kill guilty people either. I'm just always fascinated how police can arrest white mass murderers like Vance Beolter alive & unharmed—but can't help but kill unarmed and innocent Black citizens like Philando Castile and George Floyd. The complexion for protection is a trip

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

BREAKING: Minnesota shooter Vance Boelter has been arrested alive. He faces 4 charges of 2nd Degree murder. The two counts for killing Rep. Melissa Hortman & her husband bring a max of 40 years prison. And the two counts for injuring Sen. John Hoffman and his wife bring a max of 20 years prison.

submitted 2 days ago • 81 comments

Deeply frustrating article. Also, I'm pretty sure Tate's own lawyer argues that Tate is playing a character and doesn't actually mean the most extreme stuff he's saying. Research on the manosphere which doesn't contend with the way it weaponises irony is genuinely worse than useless!

submitted 2 days ago • 13 comments

Beyond the fascist terror, and the destruction of the American traditions, he’s got the phrasing all wrong: “ICE officers are herewith ordered, by notice of this Truth” —pure nonsense. It should be: ICE officers are hereby required and directed, and for so doing this Truth shall be their warrant,….

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Democratic senators need to stop pretending that GOP senators are their “good friends across the aisle” and realize many of them are just lying sociopaths who are actively fanning the flames of violence against them.

submitted 2 days ago • 169 comments

Given the fact that Republicans are actively pushing the insane lie that the deaths are on Democrats’ hands it really is important that political leaders and the press make this case clearly.

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

as someone who hates public praise and public acknowledgment this would be worse

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

try to imagine being such a horrible asshole that millions of people in every corner of your country and in other parts of the world throw a giant "we hate you" party on your own birthday

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

and as long as they don't explicitly claim it, it's only STOCHASTIC terrorism, not state-sponsored

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

submitted 3 days ago • 522 comments

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

submitted 2 days ago • 259 comments

Just a shameless liar. He’ll push the line that this was a leftist until the evidence the other way — registered Republican, homeschooling preacher, anti-abortion with a target list of Democrats — becomes too overwhelming, and then he’ll argue “we shouldn’t politicize this”

submitted 2 days ago • 74 comments

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

submitted 2 days ago • 3044 comments

After the murder and attempted murder of politicians in Minnesota, I can’t help but think about the Trump admin’s moves to strip funding and shutter programs that were meant to try to preventing these sorts of horrors. Not saying they would have prevented this one, ofc, but man… that’s a choice.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments