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submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

Elon Musk is such a menace to society. Lock this weirdo up already.

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

They don't because they don't talk to or listen to their constituents. They only listen to the consultants who are trying to make them like the GOP was 40 years ago.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We are being governed by unserious people.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Has anyone, in the history of government, EVER, “accidentally” cancelled ebola protections? Nuclear protections? Bird flu experts? Seems like inefficacy is the #1 export of DOGE.

submitted 16 days ago • 15 comments

Yes, this Cabinet — with a Fox & Friends drunk, a Real World airhead, a former heroin addict who beheaded a whale, a dog killer, a Russian stooge, a scandal-plagued wrestling executive, etc — this Cabinet is LITERALLY the best America has ever had. Thank you for that insight, Elon. Smart as ever.

submitted 17 days ago • 256 comments

If you didn't cancel your WaPo subscription after Bezos spiked the Kamala endorsement, this would be the next best time to do so.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

This may be the dumbest fucking use of an LLM yet.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

submitted 20 days ago • 1053 comments

Born on this day in 1868, W.E.B. Dubois was an American sociologist, author, socialist, historian, and civil rights activist. Dubois was the first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard University, and one of the founders of the NAACP in 1909. #BlackHistoryMonth

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 28 days ago • 5651 comments

The Drag and Trans community put on a street show of resistance in front of the Kennedy Center arts center in response to Trump’s Trans Community erasure policies and his takeover of the Kennedy Center Board. #TransRights #HumanRights dcmediagroup.us/2025/02/14/d...

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem

submitted 39 days ago • 587 comments

Can JD Vance be a Catholic while lacking every Christian virtue? Ross Douthat drops by to explain.

submitted 32 days ago • 44 comments

I don’t know about y’all, but I’m starting to think the only thing that kept the planes from crashing before was diversity.

submitted 32 days ago • 268 comments

Acceptable.

submitted 33 days ago • 4 comments

That “HE GETS US” ad is funded by an extreme right wing org. Using Johnny Cash’s cover of Depeche Mode’s “Personal Jesus” - a scathing critique of right-wing televangelists preying on the unwary - is a spectacular self-own.

submitted 33 days ago • 81 comments

Sigh. What must it be like to live in a country where your government cares about your lives?

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

I actually wish the media would stop using "DEI" and "diversity hiring" and just get to the essence of the thing and ask: "Are you saying that this crash was caused by desegregating the races?" And see what happens.

submitted 44 days ago • 324 comments

I know consumer choice doesn't have that much power but please recognize that buying books to fight/cope with the Trump administration from Amazon undercuts your own goals. Local indie, Bookshop.org, local library, book exchanges with friends & family, Better World Books, Biblio. You have options.

submitted 50 days ago • 11 comments

The cruelty is the point. The hatefulness is the point. The freedom to abuse is the point.

submitted 51 days ago • 282 comments

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

submitted 52 days ago • 152 comments

The most important part of this gif, which I fear may be all too applicable starting tomorrow, is the third line. The politics of today suck. The policies of today are going to suck more. But the only thing that ensures their on-going suckiness is doomerism.

submitted 55 days ago • 3 comments

I hope that the meteor really destroys everything. I don’t want future archaeologists to know we were saying stuff like this

submitted 63 days ago • 607 comments

Listen, did you ever had a bad boss, a terrible person, at a job that you can't, for whatever reason, quit? Did you learn to delay, obfuscate, frustrate, and otherwise fuck up that person just to the line where you could keep your job? Congratulations, you have the tools to resist authoritarianism!

submitted 120 days ago • 29 comments

This is a core strategy to my writing process.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

the way we're socialized to see violence exclusively as interpersonal—& not see state violence (policies that create poverty/kill), structural violence, institutional violence—is very deliberate. same with panics about "crime"/shoplifting vs how much corporations steal from every single one of us

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

Don't limit the political perspectives you read, instead have an open mind and read the political perspectives served to you by the algorithm controlled by the billionaire right-hand man of the billionaire president-elect of the United States of America

submitted 113 days ago • 101 comments

I've been reminding loved ones who are despondent that these rightwingers are NOT all powerful. It's OK to be scared but important not to allow that fear to distort reality. There are TENS OF MILLIONS of people who are not in support of what these people are planning to do. That’s BUILT IN.

submitted 119 days ago • 103 comments

The next several years will be harrowing, so celebrate every win that comes along.

submitted 121 days ago • 0 comments

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. but do they enable great things that people want? Also no. but are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative enough

submitted 194 days ago • 69 comments

"Press Forward will invest $20 million in solutions that make it easier to start and sustain local news outlets." Deadline is Jan. 15, 2025.

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments