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It's a death cult. These people are psychopaths. And they already have blood on their hands.

submitted 2 hours ago • 4 comments

the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession

submitted 3 hours ago • 118 comments

The first measles death in the US in a decade -- the tragic, preventable death of a child whose parents chose not to protect them with vaccination -- should spark an immediate nation-wide campaign to ensure all children are protected against preventable diseases. Anything less is unconscionable.

submitted 10 hours ago • 821 comments

METROPOLIS: Billionaire entrepreneur Lex Luthor completes acquisition of Daily Planet, overhauls Opinion section with bold vision of freedom and liberty

submitted 11 hours ago • 0 comments

Top tier multiple pet owner feeling: when you go to sit on the couch and they all get excited and start trying to find a place next to you

submitted 11 hours ago • 19 comments

The Trump admin is using a reality show aesthetic to desensitize people to the consequences of its “mass deportation” program by treating the suffering of deportees as entertainment www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 11 hours ago • 29 comments

They don't believe it because they're the ones in a media bubble.

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SCOOP: Elon's favorite anon data expert, who's been appearing on NewsNation in sunglasses, isn't a govt. spending expert but rather a senior employee at an AI lending firm that's battled the CFPB for years. Me at @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 12 hours ago • 69 comments

I think a big part of what's happening with billionaires like Bezos is that they saw that Elon Musk became a mask-off fascist and paid virtually no price for it, leading them to (probably correctly) think they could do the same.

submitted 12 hours ago • 28 comments

Bluesky moderators deleted the AI protest video @marisakabas.bsky.social obtained of Trump sucking Musk's toes broadcast inside HUD office, called it 'non-consensual explicit material' www.404media.co/bluesky-dele...

submitted 13 hours ago • 98 comments

Striking how easily you can get millions of people to vote for a boot on their own face just by lying to them about the boot going on someone else's face.

submitted 13 hours ago • 120 comments

At some point alot of people in the news decided that every American political event happens in a dimension absent of any question of morality and can only be spoken about in terms of who scored a “political touchdown” and not 150,000 additional children going hungry because that’s “fair”

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

I wrote a post about the Klan 100 years ago and how the grip they held on the US seemed impossible to break, but people fought them anyway. And it’s been read by tens of thousands of you (!!!). I guess people want stories of hope right now. dansinker.com/posts/202…

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Elon Musk and his 19-year-olds have now disrupted the approval of medical devices that save lives. Every member of Congress bears a responsibility to stop this right now.

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Good story here. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

The expert: All these plane crashes aren't actually statistically worrisome Me: Oh good, so I shouldn't worry? The expert: No, you should worry lol www.theverge.com/planes/61743...

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Hegseth joined a church whose leader preaches that slavery produced "a multi-racial society which has existed with such mutual intimacy and harmony." This context helps explain his laser-focus on pushing Black leaders out of office. www.salon.com/2025/02/25/s...

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The DC US Attorney, a 2020 election denier who referred to the DOJ as "Trumps' [sic] lawyers," is refusing to charge a GOP Congressman with domestic violence despite a police referral & clear evidence of assault. Our law enforcement has been taken over by criminals. www.alternet.org/trump-prosec...

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

good. more repercussions for people who do nazi salutes in public, please.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

As a reminder, Hakeem Jeffries (currently on a book tour) and the Democrats haven’t found a “pitch they want to swing at yet.” Trans rights wasn’t it. www.teenvogue.com/story/hunter...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It is far past time for Google to stop prioritizing Twitter in their search results. When I search for the name of an athlete, to check the status of an injury, one of the first things I see should not be bogus "parody" stories from random accounts tying that athlete to sex trafficking.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I sure would love it if we could understand campaign finance less as “bribes” and more as info that clarifies the character, shape, and norms of coalitions.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Time to start putting some DOGE-bros in jail for contempt

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BTW, over the last few weeks @kottke.org has made a conscious pivot to covering all the crap going on at the federal level. As our major news sources, including social media, is jostling over who can bend the knee the quickest and lick boots the shiniest, it's a good time to support independents.

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To make yourself less valuable to Meta, @lastweektonight.com recommends EFF's Privacy Badger extension and Surveillance Self-Defense guide to disable mobile ad tracking on your phone: www.johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

If you put a cardboard cutout in a suit no one would even notice hakeem jeffries was missing.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Oh NO. Lmaooo. Dems. Please fucking clean up your own house. Maybe now we know why Kamala's campaign went all in on Cheney and stopped saying weird. We had literal voting Republicans running her campaign.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Bigotry on the march.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

There's a certain kind of stupidity, a weaponized, arrogant stupidity, that merely being exposed to it makes you stupider. This is that kind of stupidity and I'm sorry for exposing you to it but I just have to say that OF COURSE DATA CAN LIE EVERYONE WHO EVER TOOK A STATISTICS CLASS KNOWS THIS JFC

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If you think the headline is good, you should read the copy.

submitted 2 days ago • 338 comments

summer 25

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we can say it while the msm wont "Trump is enabling crime and replacing effective law enforcement with unhinged fanboys." www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

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You're plugged in and have heard comparisons of DOGE and Gamergate in passing. I took a deeper dive — but still a short, breezy read — explaining how it goes much deeper than a comparison. Gamergate was whiner boot camp. DOGE is the Loser Invasion. www.salon.com/2025/02/24/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

I bought a dozen duck eggs since they now cost the same as chicken eggs, and I’ve been enjoying them in stir-fries and sandwiches. Today, I made myself duck-egg carbonara. This must be what it’s like to be filthy rich, making duck-egg carbonara every day…

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

submitted 3 days ago • 751 comments

The antidote to doomerism isn’t blind optimism, it’s a strident, rebellious, unflinching belief that we are right, we are righteous, and we will win. Listen to @dansinker.com dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

STEP BROTHERS is, in my opinion, good. boxd.it/8VCEu9

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The unions ran into standing issues with some of their earlier litigation but these wrongful termination cases are going to be like Jordan dunking a basketball for them

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Trump told Noem: "'I want you to do [ads] for the border ... I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.' She recalled: 'I said, "Yes, sir, I will thank you for closing the border." ... In that ad, we thanked him for closing the border.'"

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

By accepting Trump’s anti-Black premise and regurgitating the narrative that equates anything Black as DEI, the NY Times has become part of the propaganda machine

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Heroic Dog Saves Family Of 5 From Herb-Roasted Chicken theonion.com/heroic-...

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this money would pay for more than a thousand civic technologists working on nice things like DirectFile, easy passport renewal, etc

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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