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there are, in fact, a ton of positive role models for masculinity out there and if teenage boys choose the whiniest and most hate-filled versions that's at least somewhat on them

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BREAKING: A federal judge in D.C. permanently blocks Trump’s executive order targeting law firm Perkins Coie. The president appeared to punish the firm for its election work representing his political opponents. Background: www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Seems like we have bigger foreign policy priorities than attempting to interfere with domestic politics in Germany.

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new heresy just dropped

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

So incredibly stupid.

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Didn’t need to open this to know it was about Notre Dame in Niles.

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BRING BACK THE DRAFT

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the dems rhetoric of "we hear and see you" to arabs and muslims and material policy of brutality abroad and silencing and cracking down on those at home makes people like fetterman who don't even bother with the "we hear you and see you" part inevitable, because it's not like they're gonna curb it

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A good and righteous world would end the careers of everyone who suggests double-blind testing of gender affirming care in the press. "Are you genuinely incompetent?" would be the question. "How the FUCK do you think that would even work? You utter nincompoop. Get out," they would say.

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thinking for no reason about all the early COVID shortage profiteering

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You can tell he's a sincere and devout Christian here.

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You can staff up ICE as your personal junta if you shutter your embassies, kill your research, and poison your poors.

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My condolences to any Oklahoma student who hoped to attend college out of state

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The language is identical to everything he's said about puberty blockers and abortifacients. The general public has a bit of a choice here. Either unite in telling people like RFK Jr. and Ken Paxton to let medical professionals do their jobs or lose everything from vaccines to toothpaste. Your move.

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A Glock handgun was stolen from a room full of cops at a Chicago police station after being turned in at a gun buyback event. Then the gun was used in three shootings, newly obtained police records show.

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The irony of Marco Rubio backing deportations under the Alien Enemies Act is stunning. His own parents could’ve been targeted under the same law. No empathy. No principle. No leadership. Just blind loyalty and ambition. He should resign in disgrace.

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In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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“World attempts to solve a crisis of human authenticity that Sam Altman’s own work at OpenAI is accelerating, creating a feedback loop where the harms of one system justify the surveillance of another…”

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Always funny to me that Yarvin is held up as the great intellect of the New Right and then when he argues for stuff it's this - here's some etymology for a synonym of a word you're using, so we gotta have a tyrant -- checkmate libs. Behold the philosopher.

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“According to Sánchez and the attorneys, Sánchez started crying, saying she couldn’t leave her baby. The officers told her the child could visit her in Cuba.”

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David Lynch’s work is right wing in that we’re all going to be mud besotted sleep paralysis demons living in the dumpster behind a diner very soon because of Republican Ingenuity.

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In a move that raises very serious First Amendment issues, ICE executed a major splashy operation in California aiming to arrest a guy for posting fliers with names, pictures, and apparent phone numbers for ICE HSI agents. I am struggling to think what possible law posting that info could violate.

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ICE’s “mistakes” seem very intentional. What happens if we: - Deport the wrong guy? - Lock up people indefinitely for no crime? - Disobey court orders? - Exile citizens? - Break into the homes of citizens and steal everything? This is a campaign of testing the boundaries and desensitization.

submitted 3 days ago • 19 comments

The only thing I'll say about the AI/search engine discourse is that search engines (most notably google) have gotten appallingly bad. For certain queries I've had better results with Deepseek using its live web browsing function, but you have to get it to give you footnotes/links.

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Harvard Law professor Michael Klarman gave an inspiring lecture about the need for lawyers to protect democracy. I was honored that he noted the attacks and threats aimed at me. His words serve to steel my spine and make me more committed than ever to fighting for democracy. Thank you professor.🙏

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Relative of a family friend got swept up by ICE. The reason? He had a disagreement with his manager. Manager called ICE. ICE picked him up in front of the entire undocumented staff, as a fucking warning.

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Palantir? The Defense Contractor? founded by peter thiel who still has a 4.5% stake? that palantir? unlikely cheerleader for trump? Palantir? www.ft.com/content/d26e...

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Thousands of protesters have shown up to march and protest against Donald Trump in Chicago on May Day. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

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Trump replaced the physical bribery palace of the Trump hotel with a virtual one and it’s doing orders of magnitude more business.

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The US is now officially in stagflation -- with a shrinking economy AND above-average inflation First time we've been in stagflation since Jimmy Carter

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As an anthropologist, if the only thing I ever did all day was remind people that before the privatization and commodification of land humans had way more free time and peace of mind, it would still not do a dent in how deep this myth has burrowed into people's colonized minds like a parasite

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Every time the question of COVID school closures comes up I am forced to remind the world that 21,000 people were dying of COVID a week in January of 2022 and that the FDA didn't approve the vaccine for kids 5-11 until October 29th, 2021.

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feeling good about my decision

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The story of Chicago's population decline is a story about children. Since 1970, the adult population has been relatively stable and may even be rebounding. But the drop in children is remarkable; it seems to be in freefall. People under 18 make up 86% of the city's total population loss.

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the media is going to assist in making youth transgender care illegal and then they’ll move onto their next goal of making it illegal across the board. anyone going along with this is a fascist

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Elon Musk may be stepping back from the federal government, Julia Angwin writes, “but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the U.S.”

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Happening now: it's May Day in Chicago and thousands of workers have hit the streets for a march from Union Park. The crowd is fired up. SEIU members here chanting, "no Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!"

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Lot of people are pointing out that this guy tweeted out child sexual abuse material but are missing the vital context that he also put his watermark on it

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i realize the title is a bit counterintuitive but the answer is that you cannot as an individual guarantee your food is safe. we can, as a collective, push back HARD on dismantling food safety regulations, and put pressure on an unpopular administration to keep our food from killing us.

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Are we not gutting the regulatory standards? This admin is acting in 5 different directions without any sort of coordination.

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These guys have surely read more sci-fi than me, how did they get the morals exactly backwards?

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Any company that can replace a tariffed product with an American made is going to flourish. Can’t get tomatoes or avocados, twinkies and Ho-Hos are made in US bakeries and are the perfect replacement !!! Pay no attention to the price increase. They never go bad !

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extremely difficult to figure out if this bizarre answer is more rooted in racism or dementia; even more difficult to figure out which one would be worse

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Pew found majority disapproval — 53 percent — of Trump ending federal DEI just about a week ago. Granted, I'm sure they didn't poll members of The New York Times Editorial Board.

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This is nonsense. Chatbots can’t solve this problem. When faced with a friend deficit on this scale, the solution is obviously friend tariffs.

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I understand that everyone has their own objections to Bill Belichick's beautiful and normal relationship. Mine is that his previous type was age-appropriate North Jersey divorcees. He should be going to dinner at 615 with someone named Donna, not entangled in a conservatorship scam by a Jordon.

submitted 3 days ago • 87 comments

Come on

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holy fuck. glad i got my summer ordering out of the way. gonna be second hand stuff for winter shopping i guess.

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