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Really glad Democrats saved the fucking filibuster so they could NOT USE IT. Fucking cowards

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a liberal doing a boycott or a leftist doing a sit in or non violent occupation of a building all get called terrorists, a conservative shooting people or running them down with their car or blowing up a building is defined as let's not talk about that too much more of them might kill people

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In which the Department of Homeland Security struggles to answer a very simple question: "Is any criticism of the United States government a deportable offense?" (From NPR here: www.npr.org/2025/03/13/n...)

submitted 3 days ago • 220 comments

I have shared this story, this thread, before - but I think given the state of the world, it's worth telling once again. Maybe it can help, especially if like me, you make art, and you wonder what the use of all of it is right now.

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The President of the United States is vowing to disappear students from college campuses who say things the government doesn't like. There are not enough alarms for this.

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

Haven’t been seeing enough love for my favorite 2025 movie TIMESTALKER (directed by Alice Lowe). A woman repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, brutally dies, gets reincarnated, all while trying to break the cycle. + Jacob Anderson and Nick Frost! Streaming now!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

for context, the last time Columbia students were so mad at the school they seized a building, no one was expelled, and the school was so sorry it canceled classes for the rest of the semester and the Grateful Dead came and played in the center of campus en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Co...

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

the answer to every such question in this country is racism.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

I'll add it doesn't even matter if he does support Hamas (not that I believe he does) - everyone is entitled to due process. Everyone.

submitted 4 days ago • 36 comments

One of the best and highest uses of a government is to provide goods that are uneconomical to be produced locally but have massive surplus if produced at all. Particularly notable examples include: * disease and weather forecasting * basic science, esp in energy/health * natural disaster insurance

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Today's Skyjacks went up late but it is live!

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Too bad Uvalde Elementary didn’t sell Teslas.

submitted 5 days ago • 2877 comments

Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

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Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...

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NEW — Per Homeland Security & State Department sources, the Trump administration is staking its entire case to deport Mahmoud Kahlil not on whether he broke a law, but on Secretary of State Marco Rubio “personally” deciding Khalil would “compromise” US foreign policy.

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Hey remember when people said “we need a domestic terrorism statute” and people like me said “that would be super ripe for abuse for whatever lunatic is in power, would you want Trump to have that power” and you sneered at “slippery slope thinking”? Yeah, I remember, dipshit.

submitted 4 days ago • 95 comments

New Rap song I made about a reoccurring fantasy where I am a demon torturing billionaires in Hell for eternity. soundcloud.com/anechka-the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

This is the phrasing that has helped me break through to folks who don’t care about sports: If you allow leaders to exclude a group of people from a huge, powerful cultural institution because of who they are and what their bodies may or may not look like, you set an incredibly dangerous precedent.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

tesla car vehicles will have more legal protections than trans people

submitted 5 days ago • 174 comments

We're starting to see fossil-fueled vehicles replaced by zero-emissions alternatives. In 2024, 78,000 zero-emissions trucks were sold in China, encouraged largely by improvement in infrastructure: charging stations and battery swapping technology. buff.ly/gAkM32n #ShareGoodNewsToo

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SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration one day before ICE detained him. He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving. He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

submitted 6 days ago • 129 comments

When Hitler started ranting about the Jews from streetcorners in the 1920s, he was part of a long history of European anti-Semitism. But where in the world did this massive anti-trans campaign come from? I feel like it was invented out of whole cloth in the last five years.

submitted 5 days ago • 552 comments

whiny voice "I don't want measles! I don't want another great depression!" What happened to being tough. What happened to suffering and dying needlessly

submitted 5 days ago • 61 comments

Fatal crashes. A door blowout. Grounded planes. Inside the citizen-led, obsessive campaign to hold Boeing accountable and prevent the next disaster. A WIRED feature:

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This is a grave and sobering admission: they are not pursuing the “WELL ACTUALLY he broke the law during protests,” they are bragging that they are deporting people for protected speech.

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Every time I get a journalist call for comment now I close my remarks with “members of a government that believes it is not bound by the rule of law are not entitled to its protection.”

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EXCLUSIVE: Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

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NEW: Since rebuffing Trump's order barring transgender girls from girls’ sports, Maine has been investigated or pressured by 6 federal agencies: • Education • Justice • Agriculture • HHS • NOAA • Social Security With @bangordailynews.bsky.social

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youtu.be/J5fDMSI7UM8?... I have played a lot of Zelda over the years and I was listening to this record from 1992 and when I tell you I SQUEALED

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“If the federal government can disappear a legal US permanent resident without reason or warrant, then they can disappear US citizens too.”

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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

submitted 6 days ago • 67 comments

This is a very good and useful news story. It reports on DOGE’s understanding that people hate them and what they’re planning to fix it. It notes, in detail, that what they say they are doing (streamline/improving gov’t tech) was already being done by 18F, a gov agency they blithely destroyed.

submitted 6 days ago • 154 comments

The way it works is that you strip fundamental rights from targets with less political support that people will turn their consciences off to justify persecuting and then eventually the state can do it to anyone, that’s always been the plan bsky.app/profile/pbum...

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Several months after the start of a pilot program aiming to restore salmon runs, Chinook salmon could be found in the North Yuba River “for the first time in close to a century." This effort could double available salmon habitat in the Yuba watershed. buff.ly/l10cY7C #ShareGoodNewsToo

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

It always comes up whenever I showcase either an old website or something like Wii stuff, the we used to be a proper country etc, so a fresh heads-up that early 2000s web vibes are alive and well in Neocities and Nekoweb. Use them. Don't just throw around slogans and say you miss it.

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

they should build a giant helicopter from which to eject, from high above the sea and in groups of 2-300 at a time, white dudes my age who watch stuff on their phones or laptops at full volume in enclosed public spaces

submitted 7 days ago • 34 comments

Happy 29th birthday to the greatest game ever made. 🥰

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once again I have to invoke the specter of Ronald Wilson Reagan, who is in Hell now. under Reagan, the term "government spending" was effectively demonized. fuck you, Reaganite ghouls! spending money, on its people and their needs, is the function of government! public works are good! say so!

submitted 7 days ago • 182 comments

Secession. What they're describing is secession. www.wired.com/story/startu...

submitted 8 days ago • 1163 comments

You don't have to acquiesce to planned obsolesence! This article is for everyone who carries a crusty (but beloved) ancient Android in their pocket.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

If you're still in a place where decorum and civility matter more to you than the very real lives and deaths of marginalized people, right here and now, then you need to leave that place. Fast as you can. Fix your fucking Heart.

submitted 10 days ago • 30 comments

NEW: Within the EPA is a small program called IRIS, which measures the threat of toxic chemicals. Two new bills pose the gravest threat to the program’s existence since it was created four decades ago.

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So easy getting a measles booster! Went in for my spring COVID booster & it was trivial asking for a Measles (MMR) jab too! Places like Walgreens & CVS keep it on hand, & the vaccine is cheaper to make than the test to see if you’re still resistant so Doc recommends just getting it, no down side!

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

The initiative helped pressure the Chinese government to clean up the air in Beijing and was later expanded to dozens of cities around the world. Now, it’s been abruptly halted.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

New from me: The US embassy air quality monitoring program was an example of smart diplomacy: low-cost, automated, yet pressured the Chinese government to get serious about cleaning up its air and led to US-China collaborations on climate. The State Department ended it yesterday for budget reasons.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

JUST IN: The White House has been clear that it intends to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education, and that it will be McMahon's job to oversee that effort.

submitted 12 days ago • 291 comments