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Their abject cruelty is only matched by their maddening incompetence.

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2020 was the worst missed opportunity to rethink policing since the Kerner & Knapp Commissions. 5 years have passed and there is no lasting or meaningful improvement in policing. All of Obama’s 21st Century policing recommendations and the post-Floyd reforms turned out to be largely gestural & CYA.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Keep defending your public services!

submitted 22 hours ago • 7 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

submitted 23 hours ago • 82 comments

A small museum says all but one sponsor of a Girls in STEM event backed out, fearing retaliation from the Trump administration over "DEI." Evan Kruegel reports for @nexton9news.bsky.social. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zg1n...

submitted 1 day ago • 62 comments

Important 🧵: Stanford political scientist uses data to show DOGE is attacking “liberal” agencies, not focusing on waste & inefficiency: “The hardest hit agencies are those that regulate industry, protect public health, and expand access to education.”

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 2 days ago • 987 comments

Umberto Eco put together a now-famous list of 14 attributes of fascistic states. I'm going to discuss each of them in hopes this helps ppl understand that fascism is not just a buzzword. We're going to go through these by theme, so strap in. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

How all these “live free or die” yahoos aren’t grabbing pitchforks and torches over this is … unsurprising because they’re also rabid misogynists who want to control every aspect of a woman’s life.

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Amazon replaced a human whose job was to write pithy and informative movie summaries with a useless chatbot that couldn’t even make it to the second sentence before melting down. This isn’t “robots making our lives better,” it’s “robots taking our jobs, screwing up, and making everything worse.”

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 4 days ago • 765 comments

time to dig up the @adamkotsko.bsky.social tweet

submitted 6 days ago • 73 comments

the twitter approach to downsizing is going great I see

submitted 6 days ago • 513 comments

Everything is horrible, but I had long ago assumed that Leonard Peltier would die in prison. Sometimes things can surprise and not always in the horrible way.

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 6 days ago • 410 comments

People aren't "addicted" to antidepressants. People take antidepressants to stay alive.

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AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

submitted 8 days ago • 853 comments

Trans activists like Marsha P. Johnson and Silvia Rivera played crucial roles in the Stonewall uprising. This is insulting on several levels. www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Scroll down to "Was this page helpful?," click no, and then dazzle them with your eloquence! It's fun!

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Sylvia Rivera

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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 8 days ago • 519 comments

Pillaging Medicaid to pay for armored Teslas.

submitted 9 days ago • 355 comments

Pope Francis Calls US Catholics to Listen to Jesus, not Trump, on Immigration | In his papal letter he exhorted the faithful of the Church "not to give in to narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters."

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

submitted 9 days ago • 1153 comments

Click on the magnifying glass icon in your browser bar, then select "DuckDuckGo" as your default search engine.

submitted 10 days ago • 695 comments

Don’t you hate it when your boss brings his kid to work and you end up babysitting?

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