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Not gonna pretend like I know anything about Carney’s politics because I don’t, but I watched his speech yesterday and he essentially told Trump to fuck off and now Trump’s speaking about him with a modicum of respect. I feel like there’s a lesson in there somewhere.

submitted 21 hours ago • 359 comments

Like most of the DOGE cuts, this is a good idea if: a) you have no idea how anything works, you're so profoundly ignorant you're not even aware of what to consider when deciding if an idea is good or bad but you like firing people; or b) you simply hate America and do not want it to succeed.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

“sell your product at a loss, or else” was probably not what the business people were expecting from President Business

submitted 1 day ago • 273 comments

Was supposed to finish my first full draft of my manuscript this week to hand off to my PI but I just couldn't make it happen. I read so much literature and have compiled things together but I still feel like things are lacking. So it is not done :\

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

With the White House using OpenAi to make racist propaganda in studio ghibli art style there has never been apt scene in anime history:

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

submitted 4 days ago • 309 comments

Disappearing people to avoid the jurisdiction of the court in which they were taken by the state is authoritarian to the core and runs afoul of the spirit of Article III, the Due Process Clause, and the principles that emerged from the Glorious Revolution and the American Revolution. Arbitrary rule.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

In light of all the AI slop, reupping this little chat I had with Ghibli's VP Atsushi Okui last week about using Princess Mononoke's original negatives to create the new 4K restoration

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 2 days ago • 705 comments

STOP FUCKING FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL RISK TO ANYONE FROM ANY DATA CONTAINED IN ANY OF THIS DO YOU WANT ME TO PUBLICLY POST MY 23ANDME DATA FILE TO SHOW THERE IS ZERO RISK INVOLVED HERE BECAUSE I WILL

submitted 4 days ago • 22 comments

fuck bark beetles all my homies hate bark beetles

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

God bless Canada!

submitted 2 days ago • 342 comments

Typical for America so not shocking to me. Found the callousness of how they discuss it and use emojis to be really gross though

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

On the left: Hegseth's message. On the right: the applicable CENTCOM classification guide provisions. This is all very plainly classified at the SECRET level. They all lied. They should all lose their jobs.

submitted 3 days ago • 319 comments

This EO is horrific and unconstitutional and the fact that it does not include a birth certificate as proof of US citizenship is a pretty strong signal about what they think of as the future for birthright citizenship.

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

"It’s not clear how or why Geier, who is not a physician and has an undergraduate degree from the Univ. of Maryland at Baltimore County, was chosen... "He was disciplined by Maryland regulators over a decade ago for practicing medicine without a license... www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 3 days ago • 1119 comments

JUST BECAUSE THE CLOWN CAR GOES VERY FAST DOES NOT MEAN IT ISN’T FULL OF CLOWNS

submitted 3 days ago • 57 comments

The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration admits he retaliated against the entire population of Maine—mostly newborn babies and their parents—because he thought the state’s governor had been rude to Trump in a White House meeting. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

Would a headline ever, EVER have called this a “mishap” if it had been done under Biden or Obama? No, absolutely not. And, for bonus, a Susan Collins-esque “learned a lesson” quote from the president, treating his national security advisor like a chastened 7-year-old.

submitted 4 days ago • 178 comments

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

submitted 4 days ago • 388 comments

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

submitted 4 days ago • 321 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, our analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 5 days ago • 400 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 4 days ago • 818 comments

NEW: Erdogan has banned protests in Turkey. He has threatened to arrest anyone attending one. This is the people’s response. Fighting for their democracy with another vast gathering in Istanbul tonight. #Turkey 🇹🇷 (🎥 Credit: Özgür Özel - Chairman, Republican People’s Party)

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

This is why we have to keep raising hell.

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

a second health bar appears above the vatican as the pope enters his next boss phase

submitted 6 days ago • 151 comments

My knee joints are aching which usually is an early sign I'm getting a fever 😩

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This week's and next week's Apothecary Diaries episodes feature one of my absolute scenes from the novel! It's even better seeing it animated!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 8 days ago • 168 comments

Kicking off 31 queer SFF books, 31 years, 31 days tomorrow! Some classics, some hidden gems, some is flawed/dated stuff I still think is worth reading. All I'd give at least a high B. Will post a comment, a blurb, publication info, SFF award noms, original & recent covers, & link to buy if in print.

submitted 29 days ago • 12 comments

$500 million in food assistance gone overnight www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Zuck said Meta is in a "partnership" with White House; Google is following suit. They are all that stand between you and Trump admin data grabs. Here's a resource collection of non-US services to replace email, search, docs, music, video, backups, and more: www.wired.com/story/trump-...

submitted 7 days ago • 65 comments

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 914 comments

This was always where it was going to go: when the President claims it can detain and remove anyone without judicial review or due process, they will try to deport and remove people without judicial review and due process. Straight up authoritarian dictator stuff.

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

"Why don't you buy a new centrifuge" Because everyone knows that any appliances in that shade of yellow will outlive you and your entire family, look at it

submitted 8 days ago • 73 comments