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Directs plays. Teaches college. Drinks red wine. Never gets quite enough sleep. A tad swear-y. Fan of C#minor. Believes that as a rule movies are ten minutes too long, and that not letting Nazis into your choir or your echo chamber is a good thing.
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No fights are the wrong fight to pick. Pick every fight. Fight these fascist fuckers every time about everything. Fight them even when they aren't fighting. If they run away, chase them and keep fighting them until they beg to stop and then fight even harder.

submitted 8 days ago • 48 comments

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2698 comments

Remember, if you see anyone *else* reporting from the Oval Office or Air Force One, that person is a spineless scab.

submitted 9 days ago • 60 comments

Going forward, I'm calling all bodies of water Gulf of Mexico. Long Island Sound? Gulf of Mexico. Lake Placid? Gulf of Mexico. Chattahoochee River? Gulf of Mexico. My half-full tumbler of Perrier? Gulf of Mexico.

submitted 11 days ago • 53 comments

If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent, Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.

submitted 12 days ago • 41 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

Musk killed these people.

submitted 12 days ago • 12 comments

Elon Musk is a terrible president.

submitted 20 days ago • 1695 comments

#caturday

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Anxious Nation Waits For Democratic Party To Do Something, Anything In Face of Republican Assault On Life And Liberty

submitted 26 days ago • 192 comments

Correct answer.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Republicans are the ocean drowning us all; Democrats have largely chosen to be the weight tied to our ankles that we have to rid ourselves of before we can start the work of swimming to the surface.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

Welcome to the last day of the Before Times.

submitted 35 days ago • 244 comments

Therapist : You suffer from generalized anxiety. Me: What the hell does that mean? Therapist: It could mean soooooo many things.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

submitted 37 days ago • 787 comments

I wrote about the coming fascist oligarchy, the billionaire scam upon which it rests, and the nature and purpose of game we need to play in order to become people of opposition. Transforming the national spirit, expanding the scope of possibility. Part 1. www.the-reframe.com/demolishing-...

submitted 36 days ago • 12 comments

Ahhh, the last weekend before school starts, but instead of school, it's fascism

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

I’m starting to forget what things were like pre-2016.

submitted 36 days ago • 147 comments

submitted 42 days ago • 3 comments

I hope that the meteor really destroys everything. I don’t want future archaeologists to know we were saying stuff like this

submitted 43 days ago • 611 comments

Just been told I've won the record for the world's longest fishing line. I'm still reeling!

submitted 52 days ago • 28 comments

for the potato fears not death

submitted 54 days ago • 585 comments

Sandal watches his sister eat. meanwhile, he has never eaten before in his life. so many years with no food. life is injustice and suffering, it is no surprise cats are being radicalized.

submitted 56 days ago • 55 comments

Yes that’s the main benefit but there are other reasons to do it.

submitted 59 days ago • 36 comments

Same

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

It’s really hard to pick a favorite but

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

my wife keeps talking about her step count and it sounds like her mom married a dracula

submitted 65 days ago • 6 comments

My biggest issue with AI evangelism in our industry is that it treats creativity like a problem to be solved, and not an adventure to be had.

submitted 410 days ago • 53 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 71 days ago • 314 comments

“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.

submitted 72 days ago • 316 comments

Reader, I googlied him

submitted 72 days ago • 127 comments

I guess every tech titan decided spontaneously to give Trump’s inauguration committee a check for $1 million as opposed to this being some kind of protection racket or tribute. I think that’s it, the spontaneous thing.

submitted 72 days ago • 183 comments

Greedy fascists…

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

People celebrating Luigi Mangione, the health care CEO assassin, need to understand that vigilante killings are not celebrated or in any way condoned in the United States. We are a civilized country that values the lives of its citizens.

submitted 76 days ago • 2257 comments

Cancelling $4T in taxes for 815 billionaires but not $1.7T in student debt for 40M Americans is the modern version of let them eat cake.

submitted 75 days ago • 43 comments