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Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

submitted 20 hours ago • 504 comments

hard not to feel intensely irritated at people like this but on the other hand a big chunk of people, probably most, are just never going to become politics obsessives. even basic political literacy requires a healthy information environment www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 1 day ago • 103 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 474 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 13 days ago • 5657 comments

She's right and we should call her colleagues and say so.

submitted 17 days ago • 66 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have developed a nasal COVID-19 vaccine that BLOCKS transmission of the virus. This suggests vaccines delivered directly to the nose or mouth could play a CRITICAL role in containing the spread of respiratory infections. Phase I clinical trials HAVE BEEN APPROVED! 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 17 days ago • 204 comments

Republican members of Congress aren’t assessing right or wrong, they’re assessing if the propaganda machine is holding up as the consequences start to appear. They may act in self-preservation if they start to believe that their media ecosystem won’t protect them.

submitted 20 days ago • 13 comments

There are a bunch of “that’s what they voted for” in the comments and I am once again reminding you that kids did not vote for anything. Kids cannot help having dipshit parents, and kids will be the ones suffering. I understand that excising empathy feels better but come ON, y’all.

submitted 21 days ago • 108 comments

Senator Schatz, @schatz.bsky.social, rejects idea that Dems should wait for Trump to touch 'most popular' programs to fight. "I'm not going to just wait until they touch the ACA. That's the kind of pundit-brain, poll-tested bullshit that got us into this mess." www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

submitted 22 days ago • 199 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 28 days ago • 4414 comments

Elon Musk does not give a single shit about how much money the government spends. Everything he is doing is to reduce its power to regulate all his shit-ass businesses. This should be in the first paragraph of any story about it.

submitted 29 days ago • 30 comments

Dear the Media, When something bad happens in an area under the executive branch's purview, and the White House goes "uh... a Black or gay person must've done it," you do not need to accept that. You're allowed to follow up in pursuit of the factual reason, not the bigoted excuse. Love, The public

submitted 29 days ago • 35 comments

PSA: My only active social media accounts are here and on Mastodon (@[email protected]). I do not use Twitter/X, and the pathofshrines account name there is no longer under my control

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Look, if no one else is going to do it, I'm still going to call out that Brendan Carr appears to be directly violating Trump's new executive order that promises no federal employee will seek to infringe on the speech of private entities. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/24/b...

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

submitted 36 days ago • 2540 comments

Yup, @jamellebouie.net has this exactly right. What these guys are celebrating/pursuing/yearning for is not masculine energy, it's adolescent energy. Drinking Red Bull, crushing Call of Duty, refusing to clean your room. It is indescribably pathetic. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/o...

submitted 41 days ago • 691 comments

Better idea: pass a comprehensive data privacy bill that applies across the board... and maybe DON'T mimic Chinese authoritarianism by creating a "Great Firewall" of apps that aren't allowed to operate here. You can actually fix things AND not abuse the 1st Amendment in one shot!

submitted 45 days ago • 105 comments

There are laws it’s moral to break and then there’s laws where it’s morally okay for stuff to happen to the people who pass them.

submitted 61 days ago • 119 comments

In this fascist era, we already have people incapable of celebrating progress or positive development and who reflexively greet any instance of it with suspicion and cynicism: fascists. Do what fascists can’t do: Celebrate progress.

submitted 63 days ago • 11 comments

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

submitted 63 days ago • 338 comments

The main argument for a Strategic BItcoin Reserve seems to be that Bitcoin holders worry about an impending shortage of greater fools and need the US government to act as the greatest fool of last resort.

submitted 69 days ago • 292 comments

House Minority Whip Katherine Clark on the looming government shutdown: "And what for? Because Elon Musk, an unelected man, said we're not doing this deal and Donald Trump followed along." We all know who's running the show, and it's not Donald.

submitted 71 days ago • 239 comments

i am convinced that these people are death worshippers who want to spread as much disease and sickness as possible (i also think this is all tied up in eugenic beliefs about the “survival of the fittest” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

submitted 78 days ago • 2856 comments

A deep dive into the digital footprint of Luigi Mangione, a man radicalized by pain. shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ce...

submitted 81 days ago • 109 comments

Folks I’ve been tracking the Syrian revolution for 13 years. I don’t consider myself a Syria expert but a political scientist I am aware the country has staggering challenges. Please let Syrians celebrate for one goddamn day. They endured 54 years of this.

submitted 82 days ago • 24 comments

Twitter is a private site. When run by relatively normal people it had the First Amendment right to ban whomever it wanted to ban. Same story when it was taken over by a needy sociopath. Bluesky is a private site and can moderate and ban as it likes to express the owners’ values.

submitted 82 days ago • 47 comments

Let me tell you a story – one of the more haunting I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism. It’s about greed, death and denial. It took two years to unravel one doctor’s myth, a hospital’s complicity in creating it, and a documented trail of suspicious deaths…🧵

submitted 83 days ago • 130 comments

My cofounder wrote up our experience with collaborative editing at @momentdev.bsky.social www.moment.dev/blog/lies-i-... Surprisingly, CRDTs do not give a good human experience, and we believe collaborative editing is a Human Computer Interaction/UX problem.

submitted 84 days ago • 3 comments

I was preparing to pitch an op-ed on the nationwide protests calling for President Yoon's resignation, aiming to provide global context amid the limited international coverage. Given the urgency, I’m sharing it now. I didn’t expect events to escalate this quickly. #SouthKorea #Democracy

submitted 87 days ago • 213 comments

“Positive social change results mostly from connecting more deeply to the people around you than rising above them, from coordinated rather than solo action… Our largest problems won’t be solved by heroes. They’ll be solved, if they are, by movements, coalitions, civil society.”

submitted 90 days ago • 48 comments

no better evidence that we’ve got a couple trillion-dollar squatters holding the internet back than the fact that a company with 20 employees can make a better platform than Meta

submitted 99 days ago • 204 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

submitted 99 days ago • 327 comments

Let's talk about peeing in space. Several people, in response to my NY Times essay, have said that women couldn't go into space because we lacked the technology for them to pee in space. www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/s...

submitted 100 days ago • 68 comments