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At the second annual Cybertruck Rodeo, drivers said they’re confused that the public doesn’t appear to separate Elon Musk’s divisive politics from his company’s products.

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Just to remind everyone: this is our fucking money--locally raised tax dollars--that Congress simply won't let our government spend, for no reason other than spite. This is why DC needs statehood. But also, this is just petty, petty bullshit by House Republican leadership.

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This makes 2 innocent people (Kilmar and Andry) who've been sent to the CECOT based on sloppy testimony from cops who were later disgraced. Andry's accuser: www.jsonline.com/story/news/i...

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I am reading Careless People (the book Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to read) and “Careless People” was definitely the most diplomatic title you could have called this. Thoughtless or fascist or incredibly stupid and cruel people would have all been more appropriate. What a shit show.

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A beloved pet tortoise named Myrtle has been reunited with its family in Kokomo, Miss., weeks after disappearing during a deadly tornado outbreak.

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Has the ADL released a statement about this yet? Or are they that committed to never criticizing a Trump supporter?

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took a few days off for my brain and one pretty alarming observation i have is just how easy it is to not hear about the bad stuff that is happening if you don't explicitly dip into specific information streams (not a new problem but feels orders of magnitude more siloed than even 2-3 years ago)

submitted 3 hours ago • 105 comments

Just starting out on Bluesky, so this will be my first. I’ve been posting a bunch of absolutely crazy stories about GOP Rep. Cory Mills on Twitter—he’s like George Santos, but it’s far more serious. Some folks have compiled them on ThreadReader. Here’s the first. threadreaderapp.com/thread/19108...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

living through the rise of fascism lets me know how much of it occurs just because people don’t want to appear alarmist

submitted 4 hours ago • 22 comments

Blue Jay pumping the breaks 📸🪶

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It cannot be emphasized enough how complicit these anti-trans "centrist" pundits are in the current administration's wildly successful campaign to harm trans people in any way they can.

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It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers how lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

submitted 4 hours ago • 114 comments

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

submitted 8 hours ago • 34 comments

scammers are using LLMs to take up all the slots in community college courses in San Diego as part of a financial aid scam. Hard to see a way this doesn't eventually kill remote learning for these colleges. Huge deadweight loss generated by LLMs.

submitted 4 hours ago • 27 comments

David Waldman has had the right idea for a long time. bsky.app/profile/kagr...

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Legal research is hard, kids.

submitted 5 hours ago • 95 comments

also hilarious that his unedited solo blog posts are straight up better prose without some schmuck NYT editor making them more pretentious and turgid

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He's going to start a war against Greenland (or wherever) and if you say "I don't think we should do that" you'll be charged with sedition and rendered to a Salvadoran gulag.

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Genuinely perfect encapsulation of Trumpism, if we do something bad, it's your fault for not stopping us. We should all take that to heart. bsky.app/profile/jwmu...

submitted 6 hours ago • 80 comments

I wrote this on February 12 in response to someone asking me what Trump being elected might mean for Major League Baseball. I wish MLB wasn't this fucking predictable, but here we are. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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In past years this sort of billionaire publicity stunt probably would have been brushed off but in 2025 it seems much more an expression of contempt for the non-rich, our problems, and our futures. Lavish reality shows by the rich, for the rich as fascism paves over everything else.

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Old enough to remember when 30 campus speaker disinvitation attempts were a grave threat to free speech

submitted 7 hours ago • 43 comments

There are over 18,000 types of lichen in existence. My personal favourite is ‘village bench lichen’, which devotes its entire existence selflessly to gradually making communal public seating more furry and comfortable.

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

If it comes to a choice between Trump's ego, obsessions, and whims vs the full faith and credit of the USA, which do you think he'll choose?

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DOGE officials engaged in a security breach from the National Labor Relations Board, likely taking data "on unions, ongoing legal cases and corporate secrets" unrelated to efficiency, and then tried to cover their tracks. If they are doing it here, no reason to assume they are not doing it elsewhere

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

4Chan was hacked, its source code was leaked, admin emails were leaked, AND a lot of registered users used their real names and .edu email addresses. Lotta CHUDs getting exposed to sunlight today.

submitted 9 hours ago • 787 comments

And this doesn't even take into account using debt as a cudgel. "[Country I don't like] holds a lot of our debt. They are bad people and won't get made whole." And before you say "that's not how treasuries work," well he doesn't know how anything works. I mean, look at tariffs.

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An astronomy professor colleague of mine once relayed trying to explain to his students why it was important that they actually write their class reports themselves. “The point is not to teach ME about neutron stars,” he said.

submitted 9 hours ago • 37 comments

I replaced the camera on splash mountain with an x-ray machine and I’m diagnosing people as they get off the ride

submitted 9 hours ago • 57 comments

Brace yourself: We're going to see a slew of Rose Garden announcements from Trump that he's gotten tariffs some specific country down near zero. But the reality is that in most cases, that's where we already were three weeks. ago

submitted 9 hours ago • 19 comments

I've said this a couple of times, but until news coverage of the trump administration makes clear "the doj and fbi will not prosecute republican crimes, or crimes by people they favor," journalists are lying to you

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

submitted 8 hours ago • 453 comments

Donald Trump has been President again for around 3 months. He has no concept of debt as an obligation (or really of any obligation for himself). It's almost certain to happen in the 44+ months left in his term.

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The Trump administration announced Friday that it was terminating a historic settlement aimed at improving wastewater treatment services for Alabamians in majority-Black communities harmed by raw sewage.

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The Trump Effect in Canada: Since Trump’s inauguration, Liberals doubled their votes in polls (from 22% to 44%) and are now set to win an outright majority of seats.

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Over the past 20 months, North Korea reportedly sent 64 shipments to Russia, delivering nearly 16,000 containers and millions of artillery rounds for use against Ukraine, with the most recent shipment occurring on March 17. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...

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* REUTERS POLL -- 15 OF 32 STRATEGISTS SAID THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT US TREASURY MARKET SAFE-HAVEN STATUS @reuters.com

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The UK should be very careful when negotiating a ‘trade agreement’ with the US given that normal trade obligations such as the WTO or other FTAs seem to have no relevance for the current US Administration. You make deals with lawless actors at your own peril. bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

When there was only one set of footprints in the concrete, that’s when Sid Grauman was carrying you.

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Our seed corn is disappearing but we have too many bloody shirts.

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It appears things are rough at Allmusic.com. They have a donation appeal. "Asking For Your Help: Advertising is no longer able to cover our operating costs."

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

submitted 20 hours ago • 672 comments

Someone once said NextDoor is the social network for dogs if they could type. It’s always “what’s that noise?” and “who’s that stranger?” which is exactly what I imagine my dogs would text other neighborhood dogs.

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