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It’s actually shocking how much happiness having friends over for like 3 hours generates versus Doing Phone

submitted 15 hours ago • 5 comments

Oh my god, Eric Adams is going to accidentally free Luigi. Amazing.

submitted 19 hours ago • 53 comments

This, a conversation between two very different people, Bret Stephens and Masha Gessen, is interesting www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

Political scientists right now:

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

It seems almost unavoidable at this point that we are headed for a deep, deep recession. Just based on 200K+ federal firings & pullback of contracts, the March employment report (to be released April 4) seems certain to show bigger job losses than any month ever outside of a few in 2008-9 and 2020.

submitted 4 days ago • 1053 comments

is this bad?

submitted 4 days ago • 271 comments

A feather in Trump’s cap.

submitted 4 days ago • 35 comments

I wish more people understood this. I know a woman who worked for the NPS for checks notes 18 years and was fired on Friday because she was put into a new classification last June.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

submitted 6 days ago • 540 comments

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

submitted 5 days ago • 609 comments

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

submitted 5 days ago • 2403 comments

“Elon Musk is not the leader of DOGE — the mysterious Trump administration operation overseeing an effort to break and remake the federal bureaucracy. In fact, he’s not even technically part of it at all, the White House said in court papers Monday night.”

submitted 5 days ago • 178 comments

Physically incapable of taking responsibility for his own actions.

submitted 5 days ago • 745 comments

Just say no to Molotov-Ribbentrop II.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

Spoiler: They won’t be embarrassed. People will often forgive you for being wrong. They never forgive you for being right.

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

If a woman had 13 kids by four different men, used ketamine and spent all her time running a shadow presidency, I’m not sure our society would celebrate her.

submitted 7 days ago • 326 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 7 days ago • 5664 comments

I just want to add that this book, designed to persuade me of the truth of Originalism, is what finally convinced me it was a hermeneutic of cynics, hacks, and intellectual mediocrities.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Imagine accusing "female" and "non-white" baristas of being less qualified while using the phrase "Starbuck's workface" in a federal pleading.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

The fact that Trump is so senile and listless makes be both less concerned about any sort of durable authoritarianism surviving him and much more concerned about an acute catastrophe happening

submitted 11 days ago • 74 comments

Are the optics of Musk holding court in the Oval Office while Trump sits quietly in the corner of the frame supposed to persuade us that Trump is in charge

submitted 11 days ago • 219 comments

The always amazing Judith Butler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

The policy lead for CDC's H5N1 response has abruptly resigned. Sources tell me CDC's response to the bird flu pandemic has been severely hobbled by the chaos of the past two weeks.

submitted 17 days ago • 312 comments

so, like…

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

"..a full-blown coup, as elite technical units aligned with media oligarch Elon Musk moved to seize key systems at the national treasury, block outside access to federal personnel records, and take offline governmental communication networks." - Garrett Graff

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."

submitted 21 days ago • 707 comments

lol to the wine shop email celebrating the end of dry january like a drug dealer hanging out at the rehab center gate

submitted 21 days ago • 3 comments

There are so many things going on here, but, man, the way he nonchalantly lumps Robert E. Lee in with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln is fucking top notch

submitted 24 days ago • 119 comments

This is the acting FBI director, who calls himself The Drizz.

submitted 24 days ago • 214 comments

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

submitted 29 days ago • 1981 comments

“Who goes Nazi” from 1941 harpers.org/archive/1941...

submitted 29 days ago • 67 comments

Congrats. You played yourself.

submitted 29 days ago • 491 comments

(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,

submitted 33 days ago • 43 comments

NEW: "Pardons for January 6th would mark the first time in U.S. history that the leader of an insurrection pardoned insurrectionists. Globally, though, this brand of clemency is not original." Here's what happens when authoritarians pardon paramilitaries: www.thebulwark.com/p/get-ready-...

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

He's running.

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

In order to have a diversity of opinions at the big newspaper I own, we are very excited to announce that along with our tradition of publishing bad opinions by huge morons we will also be adding even worse opinions by evil idiots

submitted 35 days ago • 12 comments

Roseanne Barr is in a new MAGA rap video. I apologize. I never promised you a rose garden.

submitted 36 days ago • 848 comments

A useful theory of presidential power is that a president can do anything he cannot be prevented from doing.

submitted 37 days ago • 12 comments

Enraging. Who ARE these people???? Democrats have voted for all disaster aid for every state including her own! President Biden approved every request. Are they stupid or are they liars? Or both?

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America’s allies should be deeply concerned about Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing. America’s enemies, meanwhile, are almost certainly laughing in amazement at their unexpected good fortune. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

submitted 39 days ago • 220 comments

If you want to run our intel agencies and your defense for paling around with an authoritarian adversary is "I accidentally got tricked into going to Syria," that may not absolve you the way she think it does

submitted 41 days ago • 59 comments