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Pooka [poo·ka]: From Celtic mythology. A fairy spirit in animal form. Always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. Benign but mischievous. Ancient hag. Grows apples, pets cats; not rabid, often childish.
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they voted for harris, because rural voters are not a bigoted monolith despite what you've been led to believe. but even if they didn't? they'd still deserve fucking mail service

submitted 1 day ago • 31 comments

The answer depends on whether you use quotes or not. We’re all going to die.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

That’s My Nagus! Coming this fall on CBS!

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Every time one of these reveals happens, I think about how the FBI put out a report **in 2006** warning that white supremacists were actively taking over US law enforcement organizations, and no one did a damn thing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

The student who ripped this sign down did more for trans people than most of our politicians.

submitted 22 hours ago • 26 comments

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

submitted 11 hours ago • 120 comments

All politics is economics. If the Supreme Court Citizens United decision grants more political power to those with more money, then to defeat them, it is essential that we target the sources of their wealth. Yes, that means you should sell your Tesla and get off X. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

submitted 14 hours ago • 22 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 13 hours ago • 181 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

Now is the time to make subversive art. Get weird with it. Get scary. Fuck it: they wanna outlaw it all anyway so be as honest and genuine as you possibly can.

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

And we got finger-wagged by a New England journo "expert" for not staying in our lane and sticking to our knitting (his words) and leaving hard stuff to (paywalled) NYT and Wapo. So we were right, and we did the right thing, and we didn't need anyone's permission to make our own news decisions.

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

submitted 21 days ago • 28 comments

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

FFS - Anthony is so right. All of the others should have stood up and left. Or turned their backs. Or shouted at him. Fuck decorum. DON'T LET HIM HAVE ANY MOMENTS OF PEACE.

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Trump is quickly losing popularity, his programs even moreso but the most unpopular thing in American politics right now is the do-nothing Democratic party leadership. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If your toilet has a QR code to scan in case a user needs more resources, your biological man sign is raising more questions than it answers.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

How it started. How it’s going

submitted 1 day ago • 265 comments

the fact that this is just a straightforward retelling of yesterday's events without hyperbole

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but yes let's all keep laughing at cis dudes' joking that one of the EOs declared all americans women at conception because it's so funny, that ironic incorrectness, even as actual identity documents of trans people get rewritten and removed

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Hey, just so you know: my cats and my 97 instagram followers think I’m pretty cool, so.

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New: Trump and those around him aren't acting like they're testing the boundaries of criminal law. They seem to be crossing them whimsically. What do you suppose people like that will do if and when they start to think their impunity might be at risk?

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

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there's enough psychic damage radiating off of this screenshot to power a nuclear reactor

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

He’s in his Pickle Rick phase.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

My warmest greetings go out to the wonderful people who built their careers sniffing out “Ukrainian Nazis” under every stone in Ukraine for tasty headlines that fueled Russian war propaganda on this-is-why-Ukraine-must-be-dealt-with, only to get Nazi salutes normalized in their own country.

submitted 1 day ago • 84 comments

Parker is right.

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Canadians, if you want inspiration, remember: every high-speed rail project you complete will be that many more than the United States ever accomplished.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

See a fungus, post a fungus

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Susan Collins chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee and has the power to push back against the Trump-Musk misuse of federal funds. If you live in Maine and are ... concerned? troubled? worried? ... let her know and let her know often.

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

For that matter—have Republicans ever been punished for overplaying theirs? They ended Roe and the consequences were nothing but a slightly smaller than expected House majority in 2022.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

i can tell you quite clearly: the democrats did this because the polling told them not. trans rights polls poorly. and honestly, not standing up for these rights because of fucking polling is one of the most craven, cowardly things democrats have done since the pro-segregation democrats of the 60s.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Today FIRE is promoting Ilya Shapiro’s new book, accepting at face value his posturing as a hero for pushing back against “illiberalism” in academia. Meanwhile:

submitted 3 days ago • 37 comments

Titties and spear.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 334 comments

No matter how bad things get, they will almost certainly get worse. And then, even worse. There’s no bottom is what I’m saying.

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A USAID contracting officer (who for obvious reasons is not disclosing her identity) says a company named after its founder Philip Green almost got its federal contract cancelled because the fools at DOGE thought it had something to do with "green" energy. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 25 comments