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1/ Trump and Musk aren’t just replacing government officials. They’re replacing competence itself. Their goal isn’t efficiency—it’s destruction. Because when experts are gone, corruption thrives. Let’s talk about why authoritarians fear expertise.🧵👇 #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

The lead prosecutor in the Eric Adams case has resigned over DOJ's order that the case be dismissed. "I expect you will eventually find someone who will be enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 10 days ago • 310 comments

Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫

submitted 10 days ago • 1277 comments

Google Calendar has removed key cultural events from their site including: • Pride Month • Black History Month • Holocaust Remembrance Day • Jewish Heritage • Hispanic Heritage • Indigenous People Month

submitted 11 days ago • 520 comments

turned on the Superbowl for a moment only to see a commercial for Jesus (yes, that Jesus) that used the Depeche Mode song "Personal Jesus" which was anything but an endorsement of Jesus, I feel like I'm perpetually losing my mind. Jesus.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

Snoop and Tom Brady: say no to hate Kendrick: actually

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

To be clear Elon Musk spent more money on Super Bowl adds praising himself for closing USAID than money he actually “saved” by closing USAID. People all over the world will die because of this fun game he is playing with our government because he is bored.

submitted 12 days ago • 21 comments

The half time show is when the Gen-Xers and Millennials discover that they are the Boomers now.

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

I’ve gotten death threats from extremists for writing about extremists. Especially for mocking them. Maybe you shouldn’t take an oath to support and defend the constitution if you’re going to stop as soon an incel from Fort Wayne sends a misspelled email.

submitted 12 days ago • 119 comments

Kendrick Lamar is playing with fire right now having streetlights as part of his set with all those Eagles fans looking for something to climb on right now

submitted 12 days ago • 15 comments

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

submitted 16 days ago • 1765 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 17 days ago • 1757 comments

Donold’s supporters don’t care if they lose their jobs or their freedom as long as he is performatively ‘owning the libs.’ That’s how much they have been taught to hate you.

submitted 16 days ago • 1071 comments

Sh*t is so wild that we’ve already moved on from Marco Rubio cutting a deal a few hours ago to export American citizens to El Salvadoran prisons.

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

submitted 20 days ago • 312 comments

it continues to be remarkable to me how vehemently alt-wellness / MAHA acolytes will rail against the financial interests of the medical field / pharma as if undermining trust in public health isn't a wildly lucrative business itself

submitted 21 days ago • 7 comments

cannot be said enough that for a decade a critical number of americans have simply refused to accept that he means what he says

submitted 20 days ago • 1270 comments

Draw your own conclusions, but Donald Trump is not behaving like a leader who expects democratic accountability for himself or his party next year or in 2028.

submitted 20 days ago • 926 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 21 days ago • 186 comments

From a census employee

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

Senate needs to respond to mass firings of Jan 6 attack prosecutors by rejecting Trump nominees. Have a spine and stand up to this autocratic effort to rewrite history and embolden political violence. Block Bondi and Patel.

submitted 21 days ago • 243 comments

Well this is somewhat encouraging www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

A distraction gimmick would imply strategy and planning, he's just running around the West Wing screaming "TARIFF" at anything that moves

submitted 26 days ago • 67 comments

the thing most people, and most notably white people but this applies across the board, is that resistance to oppression is neither a marathon nor a sprint but a diverse and multi-faceted effort, much of which will result in no victories whatsoever but you do it anyway, the little things

submitted 30 days ago • 21 comments

The folks obsessively posting about egg prices for the past few years have gone strangely quiet just as egg prices hit an all-time high.

submitted 30 days ago • 1265 comments

This is a pattern we’ll see over and over. Trump makes things worse, then takes great credit for making the problem he created better. Never really fixing things, just putting on a show to glorify himself.

submitted 34 days ago • 74 comments

With David gone we gotta pick up the slack. We all gotta get weirder

submitted 37 days ago • 22 comments

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

submitted 38 days ago • 379 comments

Senator: I’ll speak in his defense because to err is human. Who among us hasn’t shown up drunk to work? Who here hasn’t cheated on their wife? Hegseth: Please stop helping me Senator: Who hasn’t taken off their pants at the zoo?

submitted 39 days ago • 657 comments

There is nothing more insane than Mike Johnson - from the state of LOUISIANA - setting the precedent of conditioning disaster relief on political concessions. Louisiana.

submitted 39 days ago • 1334 comments

On the one hand, pushing Hegseth's nomination first may beat down Senators and lead them to capitulate on RFK and Tulsi, too. On the other hand, it will make it crystal clear that Senate Republicans are willing to put the US at grave risk to avoid Trump yelling at them.

submitted 39 days ago • 86 comments

So here is the thing: You know how lottery winners often end up bankrupt because they have no idea how to handle so much money at once, and make all sorts of bad choices? Well, fame is a lottery win, except instead of money you suddenly get (relative) power and access. Guess how people do with it.

submitted 39 days ago • 54 comments

The best way to know if an author or artist you love is secretly a terrible person is... you can't. There are no magic tricks here. Awful people who successfully manage to be awful for years are good at hiding the fact they are awful. All the average person can do is deal on a case by case basis

submitted 39 days ago • 54 comments

low-key one of the most insidious dumb guy beliefs of the last few decades to gain widespread purchase has been this notion that demonstrating pro-social behavior in the hope that others would notice and mirror it, one of the fucking building blocks of any kind of society, is somehow ‘fake’.

submitted 44 days ago • 489 comments

i am so honored by this and i am so sorry for your buds. please send them best wishes and love from CHUCK HIMSELF. sometimes it feels strange to talk on the power of art in dire situations but honestly is it an important part of pushing on in hard times and i am so moved by this message

submitted 45 days ago • 2 comments

Stop framing abolishing fact checking as an embrace of free speech! Fact checking is speech!

submitted 45 days ago • 15 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 45 days ago • 619 comments

Blocking anyone who is mildly sus immediately and without particular emotional engagement is obviously the best way to go but once in a while it would be nice to have a block option that ALSO produces an animation of the profile being flushed down a toilet or maybe the text melting gruesomely away

submitted 77 days ago • 1080 comments

Your screen was looking a little dirty so we thought we’d clean it 🫧🧽 #dirty

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

An academic study found that on July 13, 2024 — the day Musk endorsed Trump — there was a systemic change across Twitter resulting in massive increases in reach for Musk and other accounts supporting Trump. This should be a scandal.

submitted 97 days ago • 234 comments