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alright let's do this: call-your-reps scripts for people whose reps dgaf

submitted 72 days ago • 71 comments

COULD A NEWSPAPER PLEASE PRINT THE NEWS

submitted 69 days ago • 7 comments

Trump illegally firing the youngest, fittest US Forest Service firefighters after a few weeks of bullshit about how the LA fires were caused by government incompetence is quite a thing.

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

Watching all the “Give Elon a pass on the Nazi salute, he’s autistic” people suddenly coming for the 504s of disabled children is giving serious whiplash.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Hear me out: A social media platform for women only. And maybe, carefully vetted men.

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

In 2022, Peter Thiel's "house philosopher" envisioned a second Trump administration led by a "CEO" who would be tasked with destroying the government. He wrote down a blueprint. Welcome to the New Reality. www.thenerdreich.com/reboot-elon-...

submitted 77 days ago • 51 comments

In Survival of the Richest, @rushkoff.com suggests that the billionaire class is fully invested not just in profiting from civilisational collapse, but in consciously and actively hastening it. What we're seeing now is wholly in keeping with this thesis.

submitted 77 days ago • 5 comments

the Federalist papers describe at length the Founders’ efforts to avoid what’s literally happening right now

submitted 78 days ago • 15 comments

They think the only great part of America is that white men got to rule it. And they pretty much still do. But one Obama was too much.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

An important, essential column. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 77 days ago • 49 comments

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

submitted 79 days ago • 149 comments

good on *one fucking va congressman* to make a move here. if the commonwealth’s entire caucus isn’t arm-in-arm with him today (given the number of virginians working in opm, usaid, etc., not to mention the national stakes) that’s a disgrace

submitted 79 days ago • 19 comments

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

submitted 81 days ago • 1013 comments

trump is unique in that his depravity creates the very cynicism he feeds on. it is necessary to uphold the idea that we are capable of better even if that belief is counterfactual. which is why we need to tell the bureaucracy that their work is valued and that they are holding the line for us.

submitted 83 days ago • 27 comments