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The reply email inbox for this “what did you do last week” email is [email protected], so, you know, definitely don’t send them any unrelated messages that would interfere with their ability to carry out Elon’s dumbass bullshit

submitted 4 hours ago • 251 comments

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

submitted 7 hours ago • 210 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 8 hours ago • 158 comments

I would love to see someone do some deep reporting on who Hegseth killed in combat, and under what circumstances, because there's a nonzero chance that guy is a murderer and a war criminal

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=46Ku...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

Today is the #DayOfRemembrance commemorating Executive Order 9066 and the government's mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII. Eight years ago, I wrote about visiting Manzanar, what life was like in the camp, and how the National Park Service plays a role in teaching civil rights.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Hegseth about to put the frag back into supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Every day this garbage pit of a nation shrinks to a shameful new low. It's going to take decades to wash the stain out

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Roses are red Go talk to your bookie

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

In retrospect, perhaps the entity that should have been drowned in a bathtub was Project 2025

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Reviewed the killer new Civilistjävel! album on @fergusjones.bsky.social's FELT label pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

A golden intro to this Christopher Walken profile www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

You know, camps, to help them concentrate

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

1/ Protests are taking place at state capitols and city halls and other civic spaces today, most begin at noon local time. They have already started out East. #50501movement www.npr.org/2025/02/16/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 59 comments

JFC

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

A great piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social, who advises, "Go march in the streets this week. Now’s not the time to sit around and wonder what you can do. Now is the time to get more hardcore, everywhere." On this Presidents Day, go forth and protest. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/revolution...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

Congratulations to my good friend @bencardew.bsky.social on the 200th episode of his @linenoisepod.bsky.social podcast, which we started together in 2017 as an excuse to drink wine and chat tunes, and he ended up building into a veritable empire linenoise.substack.com/p/line-noise...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

So many times this

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Massive, meaningful changes in governance done as a result of a ctrl-f for the word "transition." No one will ever believe how stupid this shit was.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments

I'm hardly the first person to say this (see thread below), but episode 4 of Severance was visually *stunning*. An extended tribute to Brian Griffith's photography for Echo & the Bunnymen's Porcupine, with a smidgen of Anton Corbijn mixed in for good measure

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

submitted 6 days ago • 497 comments

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

submitted 7 days ago • 538 comments

Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla to protest “President Musk” and donated the money to NPR. “There comes a time when you have to decide who you are willing to align with,” she writes.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

I welcome the arrival of Elon Musk's 13th child, as it's just upping the chances that he'll die of patricide

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I wish the Times would cover the complete dismantling of the federal government with a fraction of the urgency they gave such greatest hits as “Biden is old” and “Hillary sent an email”

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment