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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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NO ONE should be sent to El Salvador, you baby-brained losers. My God.

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Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

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I'm teaching Toni Morrison's "Racism and Fascism" piece next week. I plan to focus on her argument that people who engage in fascist behavior often do it because it's fun and thrilling.

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

Holy shit “Greg Pearre, a career civil servant who led an IT team working on the agency’s data systems, was removed over his opposition to a DOGE plan to cut off immigrants from key financial services”

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

if you are looking for a politics that fights for the conditions in which families can flourish you are looking for feminism. if you have ended up in “pro-natalism” you have taken several wrong turns and are surrounded by racists and eugenicists. turn back immediately and reflect on what happened

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

"As we unload your consumer electronics at the port of entry, let's SPIN THE BIG WHEEL! and see what your tariff will be today!"

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3 days ago RFK Jr. told the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation, claiming it was a neurotoxin (this is a lie). Turns out he also just eliminated the CDC’s entire Lead Program, and now lead poisoned children in Milwaukee are just on their own. Lead IS a neurotoxin and harms brain development

submitted 4 days ago • 875 comments

"We will never use this agency to censor scientists who disagree. If scientists are censored, we can't have excellent science." -NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya. 9 days ago on Fox and Friends.

submitted 5 days ago • 44 comments

Again, you can tell who the Good Guys are because they’re the ones getting caught sneaking into elementary schools, lying that the kids’ parents sent them. bsky.app/profile/prem...

submitted 5 days ago • 114 comments

Here’s the best way to understand what’s happening. Trump genuinely wants to impose a 19th century mercantilist model that would crash the economy and destroy the global trading order but the idea is just so colossally stupid and destructive, he can’t actually do it. So we get this.

submitted 6 days ago • 236 comments

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

submitted 6 days ago • 436 comments

Every damned word of this 4-graf brief, except “By WSJ Staff,” should scare the bejeesus out of you this morning. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 6 days ago • 219 comments

“McDonalds workers in Denmark make more than Honda workers in Alabama” is such a key point. It’s the institutions, stupid.

submitted 7 days ago • 206 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 8 days ago • 79 comments

“This is not what we voted for.” Yes, yes, it is. You just didn’t think it could destroy you, too.

submitted 8 days ago • 313 comments

I often think about this chart and how warped americans’ perceptions are about literally everything and the huge hand fox news has played in it by demonizing tiny tiny percentages of people (from today.yougov.com/politics/art...)

submitted 9 days ago • 64 comments

We need A LOT MORE PEOPLE in our groups, campaigns, doing mutual aid etc... Bring your nerdy, cringe, loser selves. Revel in being uncool. Join other people who are doing things in community [mostly quietly and without fanfare]. We need many more people.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

LTO-9 tapes are 18TB, cost under $100 each, and last for 30+ years making them the most efficient cold storage solution on the market, which every competent IT professional knows, but no im sure you can just dump all of that essential data in some shitty budget cloud storage service lmao

submitted 9 days ago • 153 comments

I get the stock market is bad but the equivalent has already happened to foreign aid, research funding, and public health. Everyone didn't freak out because there isn't some ticker on the news measuring the number of cancer researchers and Ebola prevention experts being fired.

submitted 9 days ago • 49 comments

"DOGE is eliminating the government's tape backups because they're too stupid to know why they're important" is the generous interpretation, when what they might actually be doing is stealing all the money and trying to destroy the records of them doing so.

submitted 9 days ago • 183 comments

Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 10 days ago • 313 comments

It's not manufacturing jobs you want, it's a stable job with a middle-class wage, retirement, affordable health insurance, and worker protections that you want. Which isn't naturally tied to factory jobs, but it is naturally tied to union organizing.

submitted 10 days ago • 163 comments

There is an article to be written about how the primary currency of conservatism is abuse. It’s about who you abuse to get more power, how you abuse that power once you get it, abusing people who help you keep that power, & abusing people with the power you have, then going home to abuse your family

submitted 11 days ago • 73 comments

ChatGPT ass presidency

submitted 11 days ago • 717 comments