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NASA is being told to cancel 19 active missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE hiring/retention budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.

submitted 18 hours ago • 58 comments

I know I'm not the first person or even the millionth person to point this out; it's not even the first time I have said it, but this is what actual First Amendment violations look like and the fact that none of the supposed free speech warriors are saying anything about it tells us everything.

submitted 7 hours ago • 40 comments

I had a blast in my game just now! And check out the final game whilst supporting those good good kitties!

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

submitted 23 hours ago • 142 comments

All due disrespect but any Democrat who is asked about the thing Mamdani never said and gave a reasonable answer to with anything other than "rather than address something he never said lets talk about how Republicans are canceling medicare" or literally any one of a million other things is insane.

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

It’s Saturday. The day Senate Republicans try to figure out how to take away Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for billionaires, but hope nobody notices. News Flash: people will notice.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

This is a no-brainer. @schumer.senate.gov must do everything in his power to delay and disrupt the upcoming vote on Trump’s Tax Scam. Tell your Democratic senator to make this vote as painful as possible for the GOP: indivisible.org/resource/cal... For NY residents: indivisible.org/resource/cal...

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Watching The Bear this season I’ve occasionally been like I’ve lost track of who is related to whom and how, so I really appreciate that the show stops sometimes to give the dialogue equivalent of a power point slide about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

If you're forgetful like I am, you can set Bluesky to remind you to use alt-text. Settings -> Accessibility and it's right there. Tick a box and help out disabled users.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

hey remember when a rich ceo died then when they caught the suspect they made a circus of it like they found osama bin laden and charged him with terrorism but less than weeks ago two democrat lawmakers and their spouses were shot as literal assassination to shift control and everyone already forgot

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

hey cis friends, your friends, family, and followers are the ones who most need to read this spread the word, willya plz

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

We're about to run our next game for the #charity #meowrathon #stream! Magical Kitties Save the Day! with TallHalfling! meowrathon.com/meowrathon-2... @atlasgames.bsky.social @rileysilverman.bsky.social #ttrpg #kittens #dnd

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

Sometimes when I watch The Bear I like to imagine that an actual bear is somehow loose in the kitchen. It’s just out of frame and they’re all trying to just ignore it but that’s why they’re so tense.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

www.dublinlive.ie/news/world-n... He wasn’t just refused entry. They took blood samples and strip-searched him. They even threatened him with 5 years in prison for his phone password. All because he had a meme on his phone.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Episode 17: Throw Killsphere from the Train K-OS tries to derail a data train. Chase lives the dream. Trip hits the brakes. BB gets her hooks in. Killsphere crashes out. Listen now: www.patreon.com/posts/131761...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Mamdani’s fantastic win is a reminder that we should focus on kitchen table issues: Economy, healthcare, telling creepy billionaires to go to hell and weep on the bonfire of their hideous riches

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.

submitted 8 days ago • 50 comments

As Stephen Miller is ramping up massive surveillance and detention state focused on immigrants, he has a financial stake in Palantir, a key ICE contractor. Scoop by @schwellenbach.bsky.social: www.pogo.org/investigatio...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Just @ me, Jesus.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Referendum scam petitioners are out at the Studio City farmers market. I stood by one and made it clear that I would try to stop anyone else from signing and they eventually left the area but I suspect they’ll be back.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Using AI to strip the prose of its style and art. It’s the same as if you took Starry Night and turned it into just a stock photo of stars above a village.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

really sums up the media’s coverage of the Trump presidency

submitted 7 days ago • 234 comments

I wrote about something six justices of the Supreme Court never did—the real lives of actual trans kids and what we all owe them now autonomy.substack.com/p/we-name-ou...

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

submitted 8 days ago • 1645 comments

Clockwork.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

submitted 8 days ago • 1001 comments

This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.

submitted 8 days ago • 1115 comments

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

submitted 8 days ago • 659 comments

Trump's National Park Service removed references to trans people from the Stonewall National Monument, so @mxs510.bsky.social and @edidin.bsky.social brought out trans flags today!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The Frozen broadway version is my favorite Frozen. I just finished the D+ pro-shot and while I have some gripes about cuts done for time, overall it was a delight to re-experience it for the first time in forever (since early 2020).

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

the lesson of this isn't that tucker carlson is actually good but that you should ask these people basic factual questions instead of bullshit about politics

submitted 12 days ago • 767 comments