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(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 5 days ago • 258 comments

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 7 days ago • 2945 comments

‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

submitted 15 days ago • 310 comments

Oops 😬

submitted 20 days ago • 1038 comments

If Joe Biden fired 100 FAA employees and a plane crash happened just a few hours later, Fox News would bring Lou Dobbs back from the dead with wall-to-wall coverage blaming it on Biden.

submitted 28 days ago • 207 comments

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

submitted 29 days ago • 3791 comments

“DEI pilots or DEI air traffic controllers?” commentary from bluechecks was on X within a few minutes of the AA5342 Potomac crash news breaking. The influencers and crowds know the playbook.

submitted 28 days ago • 97 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 30 days ago • 1664 comments

People on Facebook will be like “I don’t trust CBS News” and then repost something from “Dr Pornography”

submitted 31 days ago • 30 comments

The truth of January 6th can't be erased. Watch the pardoned criminals brutally attacking police inside the Capitol and see what some call 'patriotism.' No spin, just facts. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/revisiting...

submitted 34 days ago • 1036 comments

The “free speech defenders,” ladies and gentlemen.

submitted 37 days ago • 1737 comments

Before becoming president, Jimmy Carter placed his peanut farm into a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest Trump was asked about the billions of dollars he made from his shitcoin. His response: ‘That’s peanuts for these guys,’ referring to a couple of tech billionaires standing next to him

submitted 37 days ago • 71 comments

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 51 days ago • 131 comments

Think of the time being wasted by diplomats and experts in Europe and Latin America, as they start planning how to counter American attacks on Panama or Greenland. Time that could be spent thinking about a unified response to Russia and China.

submitted 50 days ago • 183 comments

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

submitted 54 days ago • 1093 comments

January 20, 2025

submitted 54 days ago • 559 comments

Giants fans watching Nabers win this game

submitted 60 days ago • 53 comments

Kind of interesting that Google has simply stopped being embarrassed by this sort of thing

submitted 61 days ago • 98 comments

Sports betting apps have ruined the purity of watching football. It shouldn’t be about rooting for individual players in order to make money. It should be about rooting for individual players in order to win at fantasy and taunt my friends.

submitted 61 days ago • 60 comments

Make it make sense.

submitted 65 days ago • 426 comments

Also, courage is contagious. I continue to stand against American fascism in the hope that others will take heart, too.

submitted 67 days ago • 700 comments

@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social do your thing!!

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Blue Baby: Blitz over Britain, by Edward Burra, 1941, 📸 by @JordanHerald5

submitted 68 days ago • 8 comments

Top Russian General Killed By Bomb theonion.com/top-russian-...

submitted 69 days ago • 23 comments

Fascinating murder data from the Real Time Crime Index: * NYC murders down 8% year-to-date * San Francisco down 37% * DC down 32% * Philadelphia down 41% * Atlanta down 10% * Baltimore down 28% * Detroit down 14% * New Orleans down 37% * Cleveland down 30% Etc. realtimecrimeindex.com

submitted 72 days ago • 89 comments

What the fuck is going on!?!?

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Time flies!

submitted 75 days ago • 172 comments

This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy

submitted 83 days ago • 1915 comments

A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.

submitted 87 days ago • 681 comments

It’s kind of incredible how long we’ve been forced to accept social media platforms that are openly hostile to their own users, suppress political content, and throttle third party links.

submitted 87 days ago • 655 comments

This is all the Russians have been able to take in almost a year, at the cost of about 1500 men A DAY. You heard that right, 1500 PER DAY

submitted 88 days ago • 1255 comments

They should just rename vaccines “supplements” so everyone will like them.

submitted 95 days ago • 83 comments

Anyone who is anti-vax is pro-death. Period. The science and data do not lie. And they don’t care about your podcast.

submitted 95 days ago • 568 comments

When people tell me 'you have to listen to the voters! the voters are never wrong!' these are the kind of stats I think of.

submitted 95 days ago • 123 comments

I just got a push notification for an Elon tweet… on one of my Twitter accounts that doesn’t follow Elon. Just next level neediness and insecurity.

submitted 95 days ago • 558 comments

When Russia threatens escalation. When Russia blames the West. When Russia screams escalation. Remember one thing.

submitted 99 days ago • 5 comments

“In 2022, YouGov asked “What percentage of Americans do you think are ___?” The results were hilarious. Trans: 21% Muslim: 27% Jewish: 30% Black: 41% Live in NYC: 30% Gay or lesbian: 30% The errors are off by orders of magnitude. The trans estimation by 2,000%.” www.thebulwark.com/p/americans-...

submitted 96 days ago • 232 comments

There have been a lot of times where I feel like we need to have honest discussions on the left about what has worked and what hasn’t, share observations without judgement, but it feels like there isn’t much space for it. I think it’s holding us back. I wonder how and where we can accomplish that.

submitted 97 days ago • 2103 comments

A lot of folks are giving up in advance. Capitulating before a single skirmish. Well, not this old warrior. I’ve seen much worse from the U.S. government in my day. I’m concerned for our country, but not a bit scared of these miscreants. I’m ready to do my part. Who’s with me?

submitted 99 days ago • 6392 comments

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

submitted 100 days ago • 262 comments

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If we listened to this Pod Save America host we would have rejected women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement

submitted 102 days ago • 141 comments