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Republican Reps. getting harsh receptions in town halls could get them to follow the Constitution, asserting Congress’s power of the purse against the White House’s illegal firings and cuts, but will probably get Republicans to stop doing town halls.

submitted 2 hours ago • 14 comments

us: hey what if individuals had ultimate say over their gender them: we've dismantled the post office, letters now cost $39.99 Bezos bucks to mail

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Ad rates on X are comically low (and will be) because it simply does not have the user base advertisers want. You can force advertisers to spend there (maybe) but you can’t force eyeballs there. Digital bridges to nowhere.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’ve never understood the GOP’s positions on this. In every other country, the fascists love high speed rail!

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The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

submitted 4 days ago • 237 comments

The future of the Democratic Party will not be shaped by think tanks, pollsters, ad makers, or consultants. It will be shaped by people literally running as Democrats over the next few years. That’s why rebuilding the party requires aggressive candidate recruitment for principled authentic leaders.

submitted 4 days ago • 32 comments

Omg Sabrina Carpenter and Paul Simon - what would Carrie Fisher say?!?

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Make them enforce it. Just go "I think the inevitable lawsuit will make this a dead letter so fuck off"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show. But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

submitted 6 days ago • 763 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 6 days ago • 2978 comments

Fortunately, it was only an ugly impression

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

I can’t say I’ve thought about inflation that much since the US Attorney in the district you and I both live in had to resign because the President wanted to make a corrupt deal with the Mayor, backed by the threat of a dangling DOJ prosecution, to terrorize immigrants and people of color here.

submitted 7 days ago • 79 comments

Gov. Hochul: NYers are hurting & scared of what Trump-Musk are up to. We need leaders who fight, not traitors who profit from fascists. #MayorAdams isn't putting NYC first. He has broken his oath. But you have the power here. Hold #EricAdams to account—remove him ASAP. gothamist.com/news/will-go...

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

DOJ leadership has put all Public Integrity Section lawyers into a room with 1 hour to decide who will dismiss Adams indictment or else all will be fired. Sending them strength to stand by their oath, which is to support the Constitution, not the president’s political agenda. 🇺🇸

submitted 8 days ago • 1065 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 8 days ago • 440 comments

this man is 42 years old

submitted 8 days ago • 860 comments

Even if you don’t watch the show English Teacher, hope you'll read this. This is about more than 1 show, 1 guy. FX just renewed a show from a man facing allegations of assault. I have a LOT of questions about the implications not just for FX but for the whole industry www.salon.com/2025/02/12/f...

submitted 9 days ago • 33 comments

Billie Joe Armstrong voice “not gonna call it the Gulf of America” [power chords]

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

everyone replying to this post needs to log the fuck off and touch grass. Machine learning was a part of T&S for decades before you ever heard the term "generative AI". If you've ever complained about "all the bots on Bluesky, they should do something", the "something" you're asking for is ML.

submitted 11 days ago • 66 comments

The comments to this post tells me no one actually understands what it takes to moderate content at scale, and that it is one of the best and most important uses for AI (unless you think it’s awesome to cause mental health crises in poorly paid human raters) (also AI /= Gen AI)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

imagine being so bad at understanding your chosen religion that the head of that religion of 1.4 billion people personally subtweets you

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

This is like Kendrick and Drake if both of them were Drake.

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

gonna post this every day until the deadline: Feb. 14 if you want to vote in NYC's June primary YOU HAVE TO PICK A PARTY BY FEBRUARY 14 New York has closed primaries. if you're unaffiliated, you can't vote in June. if you're WFP or Conservative you *CANNOT VOTE IN DEM OR GOP PRIMARY

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

The idea that there should be a public debate about the appropriate medical care for a minuscule population of children remains one of the most absurd lies that these liberal transphobes, NYT edit board included, tell themselves. No there shouldn’t! It’s not an appropriate matter for public debate!

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

Why are all the Superb Owl ads the literal worst

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Had Cy Vance chosen to prosecute Ivanka and Don Jr. in 2012 we might not be in this mess. Instead, Vance got a $25,000 campaign donation from Trump's attorney, dropped the charges and, well, here we are.

submitted 13 days ago • 18 comments

"You wouldn't steal a car, would you?" "You wouldn't steal the Library of Alexandria, would you?"

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

I need every cis person that follows me to read this and genuinely think about it for a while, and I need them to understand that this is the explicit goal of this administration. If you’re trans, you know the stories like it already; spare yourself.

submitted 14 days ago • 23 comments

It is hard to even articulate how stupid and dangerous this is in this particular moment. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Schatz fired!!!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Bye bye loser

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Very disturbing thread. How is this not re-segregation?

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Support striking workers!

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Been saying this alot lately but in order for us to survive this mess, YOU HAVE TO LOG OFF. We must relearn to connect with people in real life. Its not just the only way we can get on the other side of this with minimal damage. Its the only way we can win.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that actual racism and discrimination divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

submitted 16 days ago • 508 comments

🧵I think we need to talk about waves hands wildly in all directions differently. I see 3 goals: -Dismantling democracy+systems of accountability -Advancing white supremacist policies here+abroad -Immiserating non-billionaires for financial gain Each action is toward those one/all of those goals.

submitted 19 days ago • 33 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 16 days ago • 1764 comments

I remember when Charles Manson opened the throttle on blowing through apparent legal limits, often with no clear public explanation for how his actions could be consistent with the rule of law.

submitted 16 days ago • 62 comments

can't wait for the swifty discourse about whether or not they should go nazi

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

is it good that the democrats don't know how to text each other before a vote that they need votes for

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

A lot of people want to blame Schumer, and I'm not here to defend. He could whip more votes. But Schumer largely reflects what his caucus wants. If you want stronger Dem leadership, one good thing you can do is get your own backbencher Dem on the right side of history.

submitted 18 days ago • 36 comments

Honestly what I think happened was that the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada both got on the phone and told Trump how huge and powerful and manly he was in nice, soothing ASMR tones for twenty minutes, and that's all it took because Trump just wants to be told he's a big big boy

submitted 18 days ago • 148 comments

Justin Trudeau: Master negotiator

submitted 18 days ago • 8 comments

I am extremely excited about this, though I think they missed an opportunity to simply cast Joel Kinnaman and let him use his native accent with a slight Russian twist deadline.com/2025/02/star...