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submitted 22 hours ago • 61 comments

Nietzsche: “If you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you.” 2025: “What kind of nerd only /gazes/ into the abyss?? You gotta put your whole body in there.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 86 comments

If you had a 15 year old who said this to you and seemed to believe it, you’d be up all night panicking about what it’s going to cost you in tutors to get them into the 2nd-to-last ranked public university in your state.

submitted 7 hours ago • 174 comments

The purpose of a democratic political system is to channel the will of majorities and limit the rise of tyranny. But, our system channels the rise of tyranny and limits the expression of majorities. Authoritarianism is here because our system failed. The system is the foundation of the problem.

submitted 6 hours ago • 8 comments

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

submitted 6 hours ago • 856 comments

I love Brad Lander and hope he refuses to listen to the “consultants” who forced Tim Walz to tone this kind of talk down

submitted 6 hours ago • 96 comments

Centrists : “We can vote out fascism” Fascists:

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

I made my own currency out of Indian flat bread, but the bank wouldn't take it. I said that was naan cents. 🥁

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

the mainstream media line on major cities for several years has been that they are on the precipice of collapse due to Democratic mismanagement. now that a socialist has won an election, suddenly NYC is in great shape and about to be ruined.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The Free Press corner of the media elites are clearly out of touch. I suggest they do some soul searching after this loss. Go to some city diners. See how the Mamdani voting people really live.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Under grilling by Jon Ossoff, Russ Vought repeatedly refuses to admit that it was a mistake to fire the federal employees who oversaw the safety of the nuclear stockpile (a mistake the administration acknowledged when they had to scramble to hire them back)

submitted 3 days ago • 477 comments

"The tool allows users to upload an image of a police officer’s face to search over 9,000 LAPD headshots obtained via public record requests."

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

When you voted for a thing but now feel like that's not the thing you voted for even though the guy you voted for said he would do that thing and the thing is happening just like he promised.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

VEASEY: You've credited the 12 steps in your recovery. What's step 4? RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12? RFK JR: We try to help other addicts VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12?

submitted 4 days ago • 572 comments

My latest for the New York Times:

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

One of the SpaceX fan cams caught a crane collapse at Starbase in Texas. This kind of thing only happens from a completely unacceptable safety culture failure and I'd be shocked if there wasn't a death here

submitted 4 days ago • 278 comments

This is dark

submitted 4 days ago • 550 comments

No Tax on Tips Is a Deceptive Ploy; Congress Should Raise the Minimum Wage Instead Over the next 10 years, the Raise the Wage Act would have a total benefit to affected workers of $700 billion, compared with about $39 billion from “no tax on tips” in the House bill.

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

Totally

submitted 5 days ago • 108 comments

Thinking about my favorite anti-war cartoon

submitted 6 days ago • 42 comments

What a privilege to live on this beautiful, bounteous, perfect planet. We really ought to look after it better. Imagine being so complacent, or so desperate to fuck off to Mars, that you can't simply cherish what's staring you in the face.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

6/21, Los Angeles: A neighborhood volunteer documenting ICE was stopped by agents in an unmarked car, surrounded, and threatened by masked agents while they filmed him on their phones.

submitted 7 days ago • 770 comments

A boomer senator saying that nobody should pay more than $100k to go to med school when the median cost at public university in 2025 is $286k really sums up the state of American politics right now. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

I am one of the millions of straight white American men who are being forced to walk on egg shells at work. In my case it’s because I work on the peeling line at the hard boiled egg factory, which was the only place I could find a job as a serial sexual harasser

submitted 7 days ago • 24 comments

Elon doesn’t like the answers Grok is giving about a disinfo specialist, so he says he will reprogram it 👇🏽 This is the propaganda machine they want to poison Memphis for? @MemphisHoller

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

bishop pham activating latent irish catholic sleeper cells within my body through based epigenetics

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

jesus christ

submitted 8 days ago • 90 comments

Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.

submitted 10 days ago • 260 comments

Ladies and gentlemen...the Democratic Party! www.levernews.com/dems-crypto-...

submitted 10 days ago • 33 comments

John Fetterman, everybody

submitted 11 days ago • 283 comments

I know I keep saying this, but Trump's official White House photographer, Daniel Torok, is really bad at choosing which photos to publish. He always picks unflattering photos and I love it. This one of Hegseth almost feels Nixonian.

submitted 12 days ago • 34 comments

Mike Lee has genetics that fall into the absolute bottom of the gene pool. He comes from line of filth that includes a mass murderer.

submitted 12 days ago • 82 comments

The private equity firm that owns Instant Pot took out a loan for $450 million in 2021 and paid $345 million of that as a dividend to its investors and management team. Two years later Instant Pot declared bankruptcy.

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

Not only are they the snowflakes. They (Republicans) are all pedophiles too. Change my mind.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Via Sam Stein on twitter

submitted 11 days ago • 141 comments

as of midnight today, it is 13,813 days until we meet the Vulcans. this message is from your (not always reliable) acting First Contact Day countdown to April 5, 2063. let us help one another to live long, prosper, and ensure that our spirit remains undiminished

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 17 days ago • 1458 comments

The real enemy of this administration is cosmopolitanism. Whether in Los Angeles or South Africa, multiracial pluralistic democracy is a threat to them because it means their “us or them” model of the world is wrong. So they stir up trouble on purpose and gleefully lie.

submitted 18 days ago • 138 comments

This is what every great catch makes you say but I really feel like this is maybe the best catch of this kind that I've ever seen.

submitted 18 days ago • 99 comments

At no point in this entire article of 16 paragraphs does ABC mention that another cop killed this cop by shooting her in the back. Nor does it mention the name of the cop who killed this cop. Nor does it mention that the civilians involved never fired at them. ABC might as well be state media.

submitted 19 days ago • 244 comments

Gamers: don't listen to the people trying to tell you that $80 isn't too much for a video game. It is too much. And they're doing it on purpose because they don't respect you or the gamer community. They're all laughing at you, and the only way to fight back is to "level up" by embracing communism

submitted 19 days ago • 68 comments

Yeah I guess LeBron putting up a 22.6 PER is pretty special, but it's not that impressive when you compare him to people rolling out of bed and firing off something like this at age 86.

submitted 20 days ago • 112 comments

Time to reshare my "Don Draper pitches Jared Leto" memes.

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Earlier today ICE agents hit someone with a car and tear gassed a neighborhood, sparking several fires and disrupting businesses. Immigrants, by contrast, did not.

submitted 20 days ago • 101 comments

Don’t play into this dude’s game. You will never, ever oppose fascism in the perfectly appropriate way to please him. This is the same guy who made fun of pro-choice protesters because he thought they were overreacting since Roe would obviously never be overturned.

submitted 20 days ago • 260 comments

Surely all the outlets breathlessly posting about Kilmar being charged as a migrant smuggler and brought here to Tennessee will also post about this part…

submitted 22 days ago • 44 comments

note that this completely inverts the public justification for the deportation scheme. they claim they’re deporting criminals, but they deported Kilmar without knowledge of a crime, and now that they supposedly found one they’re bringing him BACK.

submitted 22 days ago • 136 comments

if i did this i would tell NO ONE

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments