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Hah, if you answer "NO" on Odell Brewing's age verification they redirect you to Disney's website 🤣

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What truly fills me with despair is how Americans are fine with this — even happy about it, enthused at any degradation of immigrants. Is a Republic made up of such people worth preserving?

submitted 4 days ago • 159 comments

To be clear: the United States Government deployed this family to a country with substandard healthcare with the promise that help would be on the way if they ever needed it. Now, Donald Trump twice denied this woman a potentially life-saving, embassy-requested medevac.

submitted 6 days ago • 88 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 6 days ago • 2288 comments

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: an administration (and its supporters) who believe that they are not limited by the rule of law have no moral or philosophical claim to the protection of the rule of law. “The law is whatever we say it is” warrants the same in response.

submitted 11 days ago • 146 comments

BREAKING: We are suing DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management to stop the brazen and illegal data sharing of federal employee data with the “government efficiency” group.

submitted 12 days ago • 64 comments

My go-to example of this is that Einstein’s work on understanding gravity is required for maps on your phone to work. But the important point is that there are indeed many such cases.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

I’ll never understand people who celebrate hurting other people. How can you watch someone suffer and be proud of yourself? It’s disgusting.

submitted 15 days ago • 9 comments

Taking a break from the doom-scrolling to share a nice moment from this evening. Got in the car with kid A, who has her learner's permit; she turns on her music and she's queued up Fade Into You by Mazzy Star. Love seeing her discover some of the great music from my youth. (And vice versa)

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 19 days ago • 1757 comments

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

submitted 21 days ago • 155 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 24 days ago • 575 comments

On Day 3 as SecDef, Hegseth had Milley's photo removed from a wall at the Pentagon, canceled Milley's security detail, and launched an investigation into Milley for treason. The fed. government's top priorities now are to advance Trump's interests, smite his enemies, and indulge his grievances.

submitted 25 days ago • 22 comments

Not everyone can fight Trumpism and Trumpists directly. But remember this: kindness, decency, and fidelity to American values are defiance in the face of Trumpism. So be kind, decent, and faithful, particularly to the many kinds of people despised and attacked by Trumpists. That’s revolutionary./1

submitted 34 days ago • 142 comments

oh wow The Library of Congress has a trove of images “free to use and re-use” that are in the public domain - and they’re fantastic

submitted 43 days ago • 88 comments

i don’t understand how, psychologically, a person gets to a place where they interpret sign language as some kind of attack or imposition on their life. like, what the fuck is wrong with you?

submitted 44 days ago • 2407 comments

Wash your dang hands! Norovirus Outbreaks Are Rising Nationwide, C.D.C. Says www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/w...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

TFW your kids are old enough to wake themselves up for school with alarm clocks, but young enough still to want to use them to wake themselves up early on Christmas 🤣 🎁 🎄

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Saw Interstellar on IMAX last night and it was such a great experience. I've seen it many times and it only occurred to me last night that their continued use of combustion engines feels like one of the least realistic aspects of the movie because of all the dust

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Look bringing back polio sounds bad. But it’s a small price to pay to get rid of pronouns in email signatures and black women in star wars.

submitted 72 days ago • 887 comments

Wrote about what’s behind conservatives watching movies and shows warning about the dangers of fascism and somehow coming away thinking the fascists are the good guys, and they should follow their example www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 80 days ago • 228 comments

Hunter Biden needs to do time because no one is above the law. Here's why I'm ok with dropping all of Trump's 91 indictments.

submitted 83 days ago • 53 comments

Playing Tony Hawk Pro Skater tonight and really hoping that someday I can ask Tony Hawk if anyone has ever told him he looks like Tony Hawk.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

TIL: 1) a Hand (for measuring the height of a horse) is standardized at 4 inches; 2) Nick Fury's tombstone in Winter Soldier has text from Ezekiel 25:17, Sam Jackson's character's infamous prelude to violence in Pulp Fiction

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After trying Mastodon and then Threads, both of which were ok, I'm really enjoying Bluesky. Explored the developer documentation a little bit and it seems like a very powerful protocol and platform. I also set my handle to my personal domain for portability - super cool stuff.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like so many people still don’t know about Slow Horses. One of my favorite shows on TV right now. Gary Oldman is perfect in this role.

submitted 100 days ago • 243 comments

I don't want to sound alarmist or anything, but I'm not sure it's a good idea to skip FBI background checks and bury congressional ethics reports about nominees to the most important posts in the federal government.

submitted 100 days ago • 834 comments