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FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 1965: After five years and seventy million dollars we have invented a new type of plastic that prevents communists from being able to climb ladders too fast FEDERAL RESEARCH LAB SCIENTIST IN 2025: My cure for cancer was shelved because it might benefit Hispanics

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chat is it good for a dictionary to be mad at you

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I literally reported this Wednesday.

submitted 11 hours ago • 142 comments

Oh, a rare correct thing from Musk's idiocy and ineptitude.

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Our failure to vehemently and with prejudice eradicate Confederates and complete Reconstruction is basically what taught the Nazis and has led to today. America has been in the grips of white supremacy for its entire existence.

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W.E.B. Du Bois on the white takeover of southern public schools after Reconstruction. Not a coincidence that the chapter, "Back Towards Slavery," follows his analysis of the eventual dedegration of the public school system. Attacks on education are vital to (re)instituting authoritarian rule.

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Yeah, that should go well. patch.com/massachusett...

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I mean, they've already openly gone against socialists/communists/antifascists, trans people, and the mentally and physically disabled. Jews have historically been next on the Nazi list.

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Every. year.

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Man he really called it

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My old law firm did this for a while for "accountability". Took hours every week to write down details of every little thing we did and every case we touched because maybe we don't file two cases this week but work on 6 cases to file 4 next week. I stopped after two months, no one ever got on to me.

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Weird how a black man with 40 years of service and the rank of General counts as a "diversity initiative" pick, but Trump's pick to replace him, a guy with only 34 years in the service who would be the first chairman not ranked general/admiral and the first retired at confirmation, isn't.

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Seems like a waste of money to spend money getting rid of something already built and helpful, but I'm not a genius businessman who bankrupted a casino or lost billions tanking Twitter.

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The NYPD and our criminal mayor accidentally Brady violating this guy out of a conviction because they can’t stop publicity hounding would absolutely be the most fitting end to the entire saga.

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

in the trump administration, “merit” is pronounced “white” like how strom thrumond said it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 232 comments

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

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Someday people will forget that not everything in every store was behind a stupid locked cabinet that you have to hunt down an employee to open. You used to just be able to go to Walmart and toss a Nintendo controller into your cart with the Chex mix. It was called shopping and it was great

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I guess we shouldn't be surprised anymore .... but it still blows my mind how consistently they do PR for Trump. He could literally put Putin in charge of the military and they'd print his press release about it.

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"It's kind of been sad, because I've been trying to prove to people that it's a really awesome truck that's not falling apart, and then mine starts to fall apart, so it's just... Yeah, it's kind of unfortunate and sad."

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Feeling a bit mushy today.

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Trump pardoned the sentence of arguably the single biggest drug trafficker in American history on his second day in office!

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That’s rich, coming from the guy who used his power as a federal judge to start making (at least) interns and clerks sign nondisclosure agreeements because he was afraid of being outed as a sexual harasser.

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Go KKK, lose payday

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Target's shareholders lost $15 billion of net worth in their holdings of Target common stock when Target announced they were dropping DEI initiatives.

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I'm pretty sure MAGA folks say they like Rage Against the Machine because they heard the lyric "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" and assumed it was about, like, moms or dentists.

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I think even the most ardent accelerationist would be surprised with the velocity of the enshittification of America currently happening... And that velocity combined with Trump's love of militant machismo, makes me think we may just see some violence in response in the coming years.

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The dumbest of all possible Nazis.

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

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There’s not a word in this story about the corrupt nature of this dismissal. Not a concern voiced, not a question raised, not even an acknowledgment that he’s the president’s biggest donor and he’s acting as an unelected, unconfirmed tyro wielding unchecked power over spending and the civil service.

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But it's my understanding that the Jan 6 insurrectionists were all good people politically maligned despite their peaceful actions and have been justly freed by Donald.

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Everything about this situation is perfect on-brand grotesquery down to the screen name of the detective

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Fun fact: Trump has no goddamn business acumen and someone who works for the IRS (outside of data entry or writing) should be able to know that.

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I don't watch hockey and normally I somewhat root for America, but I'm so very very glad we lost, especially after Trump decided to say shit. It sucks for the athletes, but I truly hope we continue to lose so much so the Nazis can't do their performative ownership of excellence and athletic talents.

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In the 20th century your staff would clip out little stories about you from the newspaper but this also works.

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"Free speech absolutist"

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This is even more unconstitutional than usual. Article I gives Congress the power to establish the post office. It cannot be "dissolve[d]" by the Executive.

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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

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