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So many people have grown up to be the villains of our stories.

submitted 6 hours ago • 237 comments

Sure they're all criminals, but they're also dangerous, fucking morons.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

Honestly this is just incredible content.

submitted 6 days ago • 338 comments

Remember when there was a huge Republican uproar over Obama “indoctrinating children”?🤦🏻‍♀️

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A new report found that Elon Musk faced at least $2.37 billion in potential legal liability from 11 federal agencies on inauguration day. Many are now on DOGE's chopping block or have dropped their investigations into Musk's corporations. "Conflict of interest" is an understatement.

submitted 7 days ago • 186 comments

I've spent years reporting on how democracies die. And I've noticed something: by international standards, Donald Trump is really, really bad at destroying a democracy. And that should give us real reason for hope. www.vox.com/politics/410...

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

SCOOP: A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts, by @jakepearson.bsky.social

submitted 9 days ago • 28 comments

While you highlight it, please note is the product of local journalism, which has been carrying a lot of the burden in an environment where national outlets simply can't cover everything everywhere all at once. Support your local journalists!

submitted 9 days ago • 399 comments

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

submitted 9 days ago • 65 comments

Again, they're trying to take away our vaccines. From the head of the FDA, a gross misrepresentation of the annual process of updating a proven vaccine to target new disease strains. His plan would make it impossible to get seasonal flu and Covid shots, and of course he knows this.

submitted 9 days ago • 97 comments

Placement of stories and repetition of them ("drumbeat") is a more powerful influence than the content of them. The times is signalling, along with the neutral-framed headline, to everyone that they don't consider this story a big deal or scandalous

submitted 11 days ago • 11 comments

Substack apparently had a party for the WHCD weekend? Has anybody ever heard any saying about what it means when you have a bar where they don’t kick the Nazis out?

submitted 11 days ago • 32 comments

Trump’s wealthy donors will weather his tariff storm just fine – while you pay more at the checkout line. And don’t forget: they get a new round of big fat tax cuts, too. It’s government for the rich, by the rich.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue: ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant. The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge. This is ridiculous.

submitted 13 days ago • 721 comments

Same same.

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

How do we generate clocks in digital circuits? From relaxation oscillators, to crystals, to phase-loocked loops: lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/clocks/?1

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Even if you’re not autistic, you should be VERY worried about your private medical data being used to “track” anything.

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

If I see another article about birth rates that refuses to grapple with the way having children systematically disadvantages women I swear to god. There is no mystery. Stop pretending there is. We’ve got to do away with credulity for nonsense.

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

NEW: an SEC filing reveals that over 20% of Dominari Holdings common stock is owned by 5 Trump Org execs – including Don Jr. & Eric Trump - the two own 2.9M shares worth $13.4M Reporting on the recent Trump family and Trump Org partnership with Dominari, my latest: newstracs.com/don-jr-and-e...

submitted 16 days ago • 20 comments

Your friendly reminder that it is literally a federal felony punishable by up to five years in prison for the President, Vice President, or any employee of the White House to directly or indirectly ask the IRS to open an investigation into any specific taxpayer.

submitted 18 days ago • 255 comments

Yes, that very awkward wording suggests that Alito failed to refer the application to the full Court and the Chief stepped in and brought it "before the Court" before the planes could depart.

submitted 19 days ago • 56 comments

There's a temptation to romanticize the early internet as "good," and the current internet as "bad." This is overly simplistic. The early internet sucked for Black people, and women, and Black women. I was there. The reason I know so much about these fashy VC losers, is I came across them as babies

submitted 20 days ago • 24 comments

At this point, if I was any intelligence agency that works with its US counterparts, I would regard the US government as completely compromised.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

“The university was not formally notified of these actions by the federal government, nor have we received any clarification about why these visas were revoked,” said university spokesperson Amy Geduldig.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Sticker Mule is the Uline of stickers. Don’t use either ever. There are so many alternatives.

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

🧵 The ICE "Slave Ship" Fleet Until recently. it was relatively simple to track the ICE charter fleet from any online flight tracker: You just put "GlobalX" in a search window, and all their active flights would just pop up. But that all ended a couple days ago...

submitted 22 days ago • 29 comments

By defying the Supreme Court’s order to return Abrego Garcia from El Salvador, Trump is laying the groundwork to do the same to U.S. citizens. Now is the time to speak out — before there is no one left to speak. We are on a path towards dictatorship.

submitted 23 days ago • 332 comments

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

submitted 27 days ago • 180 comments

Look how that Overton window just sliiiiiides First it was "illegal" immigrants criminals Then it was it was simply immigrants Then it's lawful us residents/green card holders Now it's criminal us citizens GUESS WHO'S NEXT

submitted 29 days ago • 84 comments

Actually President Trump, some humans do know why we passed an income tax. It was a 40-year struggle — and a weird accident. Here’s the real history: www.propublica.org/article/hist...

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

OH: "I need you to understand that 'Gen X white boy hacker known by a three-letter initial with the social skills of a rabid Rottweiler and an unwillingness to grapple with technology built after 2005' does not narrow things down as much as you might hope."

submitted 34 days ago • 29 comments

Maybe voting for guy who was a complete disaster last time was a mistake?

submitted 35 days ago • 175 comments

At least now I understand how he bankrupted a casino

submitted 35 days ago • 201 comments

You know those stories about people who burn their houses down trying to kill a spider? That’s white people burning down America trying to eradicate anyone who doesn’t uphold white supremacy.

submitted 168 days ago • 1 comment

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

submitted 35 days ago • 169 comments

Trump is still pushing an unhinged fiction about the "glory days" of American protective tariffs, so I'll repost this CAMPAIGN TRAILS piece from last month: campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/

submitted 35 days ago • 16 comments