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submitted 14 days ago • 57 comments

Though many claim to embrace both the Golden Rule and Jesus' command to love others as they love themselves, an army of self-identified faith-filled Americans seem incapable of asking a seemingly elemental question: "What is it like to be someone else?" johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/is-america...

submitted 15 days ago • 142 comments

If the justice system is gutted, and replaced by a regime where cronyism makes adherence to laws optional, who will want to hire skilled lawyers trained to counsel clients on complying with the law? That's a question lawyers thinking about joining Trump's attack on the rule of law should be asking.

submitted 19 days ago • 76 comments

Janet Mills was elected the first woman DA in ME history. Elected 1st woman AG in ME. Won election to state House, reelected 3x. Then 1st woman Gov - won by 20 points. Then reelected in 2022 by 13 points. In other words, far more popular in ME than Trump will ever be.

submitted 16 days ago • 434 comments

Too simple to even try and cover his tracks.

submitted 16 days ago • 184 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 300 comments

Thread. Stay in the game.

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

This made the rounds earlier today and is quite good.

submitted 18 days ago • 14 comments

Oops. Bye Eric

submitted 18 days ago • 13 comments

Elon Musk wearing a baseball hat in the Oval Office reminded me of right-wing outrage when President Obama hoisted a selfie stick

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

I love how naive MAGA people are for believing that Trump will release the Epstein files, when he's all over them.

submitted 28 days ago • 106 comments

Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal.

submitted 29 days ago • 186 comments

submitted 31 days ago • 731 comments

Irony on steroids Is sitting on the Supreme Court Bench and his name is Clarence Thomas a DEI appointment and a crusader against DEI

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

The irony of people doing this fake virtue signaling (after an entire campaign rife with fainting spells over the cost of eggs), is that their political deity is famous for manufacturing his clothing outside the US and for failing to pay American contractors.

submitted 37 days ago • 1298 comments

@adamschiff.com: Kash Patel "rose with lightning speed through the first 4 years of Trump because he was the guy who would say 'yes' to Trump when everyone else said 'no.' ... That's the ticket to progress in Trumpworld, which is the bigger the sycophancy, the faster you rise."

submitted 39 days ago • 186 comments

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

submitted 39 days ago • 4411 comments

Agreed. Cynicism is NOT intellectually superior. It’s unoriginal, boring, and privileged.

submitted 38 days ago • 167 comments

Yes, he is your party’s president and leader. You have supported him in the past and you support him now. He is tangibly hurting people in Maine, and you will prattle on, act concerned, and do nothing. You will own everything he does to hurt Mainers and everyone else.

submitted 39 days ago • 2307 comments

Guess they didn't background check any of the j6 pardons. Shocking

submitted 40 days ago • 904 comments

We updated TrumpGolfTrack.com to include the price of eggs and gas per your request. And a nice little home screen icon. More to come 🤣

submitted 42 days ago • 923 comments

Literally happening as we speak

submitted 42 days ago • 73 comments

The cruel religion, fierce Nationalism, and rising hostility toward marginalized communities on display in America right now, is the fruit of a toxic selfishness that needs to horde resources, opportunity, and benefit for fear it will be left without. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-need-am...

submitted 41 days ago • 91 comments

Mike Johnson represents a state whose largest city was built below sea level behind levees sandwiched between the ocean and a massive river on hurricane alley, but he doesn’t want to give aid to CA because their policies invite natural disasters.

submitted 43 days ago • 1147 comments

The U.S. President spends Holocaust Remembrance Day on the links. I know this gets old, but imagine if Obama did it. Or Biden. Or a President Harris.

submitted 43 days ago • 53 comments

"...Veiled Racism: Victim blaming, racist jokes, Euro-centric curriculum, tokenism, cultural appropriation, racist icons. Minimization: White saviour complex, "not all white people", not believing POC experiences..." shop.mrwelltravelled.com/collections/...

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

As well as misspelling the name of Colombia, Donald Trump is going to push our allies into the loving embrace of China. But don’t say we didn’t tell ya. We did

submitted 44 days ago • 678 comments

Ketamine is a hell of a drug.

submitted 50 days ago • 3857 comments

This post is a reminder that just because a social post makes you feel good, it doesn't mean it's true.

submitted 52 days ago • 20 comments

I plan to debut a pun that's so awful at this presentation that they might be forced to rescind my doctorate.

submitted 51 days ago • 9 comments

To quote Frank Zappa, "There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

submitted 51 days ago • 8 comments

Bellingcat is currently working with universities to develop open source investigation courses in various fields and creating student-led investigative hubs at those universities, which seems well timed.

submitted 51 days ago • 30 comments

Best lede I’ve read in awhile. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 54 days ago • 20 comments

I can’t actually says the words I think about this, suffice to call it despicable poison.

submitted 55 days ago • 510 comments

Alito’s Gore Vidal question is a real comedic gift and I have no choice but to thank him for it.

submitted 55 days ago • 80 comments

They use the term to mean “b*itch” and “<ethic/racial slur>”. That is quite literally its meaning.

submitted 57 days ago • 235 comments

I don't think I have ever seem a norm go from widely accepted to completely irrelevant as quickly as the importance of minimizing conflicts of interests

submitted 57 days ago • 162 comments

He orchestrated a coup. It failed. He was a convicted felon. He rose to power on a wave of divisive propaganda and hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric. He promised to make things great again. He threatened to annex his neighbors. I'm referring, of course, to Adolf Hitler.

submitted 58 days ago • 323 comments

Wow, fantastic article! Shocking and very thought provoking.

submitted 60 days ago • 14 comments

More than 100 years after its initial review that blamed Black men, the Dept. of Justice just released its report on the 1921 Tulsa race massacre The report says the attack “was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence”

submitted 60 days ago • 481 comments

Apparently the way to get journalists to pretend your hack shop is a serious scholarly institution is to threaten them with “war,” as serious scholarly institutions routinely do.

submitted 60 days ago • 38 comments

Under the weather

submitted 60 days ago • 4 comments

Exactly right.

submitted 60 days ago • 97 comments

Flashback to 2020: CA official: "If we ignore the science and put our head in the sand... we're not going to succeed together protecting Californians." Trump: "It'll start getting cooler. You just watch." "I wish science agreed with you." Trump: "I don’t think science knows, actually."

submitted 60 days ago • 615 comments

Pro tip: live your life in such a way that millions of people do not dance in the street when you die.

submitted 63 days ago • 46 comments