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This piece is actually fine and the furor it has generated (typical online "they don't want you to have nice things" kvetching) misses the fact that the ubiquity and low prices of eggs are due to factory farming, a moral, environmental, and labor disaster. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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TODAY: A hearing will be held in a lawsuit from USAID employees against Elon Musk and DOGE for unlawfully using extreme power to dismantle agencies and access sensitive information, calling it a “government takeover.”

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

OK, so what is the date that Trump and senior officials in his Admin are responsible for what they are doing? How long are they always going to blame the Deep State for their own screw ups and incompetence? Another month? Six? When do they accept accountability? Ever?

submitted 14 hours ago • 644 comments

Qanon basically came true. a cabal of pedophile sex traffickers has seized control of the state news.sky.com/story/andrew...

submitted 1 day ago • 183 comments

What are we supposed to take away from graphics like this? Does it change perceptions to re-label "federal timberland" to "national forest" or change a massive amount of "cow pasture" to "bureau of land management, mixed use"?

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

honestly think this makes a very good point about the difference between the way Trump was broadly expected to govern and the way Musk is governing

submitted 15 hours ago • 16 comments

these terminations are good evidence that this is just wanton destruction by deranged ideologues. there is no rhyme or reason other than whatever makes sense to a bunch of zoomer nazis and their bosses and enablers

submitted 14 hours ago • 226 comments

Terrific resignation letter by Anneliese Dodds, this.

submitted 14 hours ago • 34 comments

a few years ago if you said "college republican clubs are hotbeds of white supremacism and enthusiastic support for rape" people looked at you like you were wearing a barrel on a street corner and if you said it today most people would still do that because the newspapers won't print it

submitted 22 hours ago • 83 comments

Trump goons discovering that "the Epstein files" are a MacGuffin they made up themselves and now have to blame each other for supposedly withholding is a marvelous development

submitted 1 day ago • 154 comments

Men do not need to put on a dress and go into a public restroom to abuse women and children. They usually just go home.

submitted 15 hours ago • 14 comments

When the top 10% of your earners account for half the national spending, yeah, the “wealth effect” is going to count. (via B of A/Hartnett) 🇺🇸

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

How it started/How it's going

submitted 15 hours ago • 355 comments

Whoa okay ease up on the ambiguous legalese jargon there judge

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Not just deserve. Weather monitoring, disease management, and food safety are services we pay for from the government that are being stolen from us.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

It also begs the question of “are my tax dollars being used for anything beyond paying Trump and Musk to persecute everyone who isn’t a cis straight white man, which includes myself?”

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They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

submitted 1 day ago • 4673 comments

Me to American Railroads who refuse to put up some dang wires.

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Social Security Administration is going to cut its staff in half. Housing and Urban Development is going to be cut by 84 percent. Hundreds of workers who keep the power grid humming in the Northwest were fired...fired people working to prevent bird flu and to safeguard the US nuclear arsenal.

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday that Trump is living in a Russian-made “disinformation space” as a result of his administration’s discussions with Kremlin officials. Zelenskyy said he “would like Trump’s team to be more truthful.”

submitted 9 days ago • 30 comments

This is an astonishing story. Trump's personal lawyers, now in government, are trying to find any prosecutor take on a case to stop payment of $20 billion in funds by claiming there is fraud. The fact that career prosecutors are resigning rather than do so tells you how weak the case is.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

This is the dumbest incoming Recession in the United States history.

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Annual US flu deaths regularly exceed motor vehicle deaths. W/o the partial protection that flu vaccines provide those numbers will rise. I leave it to experts for proper estimates of how many people a vaccine-less year wld kill, but I'm confident in this: Trump/RFK Jr. threaten a ton of US lives.

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in the middle of all this don't miss the incredible story where in the great state of Minnesota a PhD student has been expelled for using ChatGPT to write his papers and is now suing the school using court filings written by ChatGPT

submitted 2 days ago • 66 comments

Bring back damocles swords

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How could that Trump voter have believed electing him would make IVF free? She must've been into fringey alternative media, maybe saw it from some influencer, professional media outlets would never oh no.

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The formalization of pedocon theory is that sexual violence is baked into conservative understanding of hierarchies and sexual violence from outside it is seen as actually bad. Hence trans panic but no Southern Baptist preacher panic, or all those “I’ll kill my daughter’s boyfriend” jokes.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

Evergreen reminder

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They, the viruses, welcome our new brain worm overlords.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I see so much of the “how trump is building a new world order” and I’m just like.. dawg what if the navy doesn’t exist next year cause doge decided the fuel contract was woke and cancelled it

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

ah, as always, elon has his eyes on the prize: making it impossible for the government to enforce civil rights law

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

We’re witnessing a Brexit-level instance of completely unnecessary economic destruction. A country that’s not hit by any shock, but simply chooses policy self-harm.

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

"If the plan goes through, hundreds of billions of dollars of public assets will be spent or leveraged to buy a million Bitcoins, allowing the tiny minority of Bitcoin moguls to finally cash out their holdings into real money." prospect.org/power/2024-1...

submitted 84 days ago • 49 comments

Class war? You’re already in it! You except only one side’s throwing punches, and your side’s been convinced fighting back is unAmerican.

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Sounds like Verizon will have itself quite the tortious interference claim.

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I know this is eugenicist warfare against the people, meant to kill massive numbers of disabled, elderly, sick people, but I don't understand how nazis believe they're somehow exempt from pandemics/global warming. I guess the plan is create a cave of capital,. Dr. Strangelove style.

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A pro-Russia content aggregation network is churning out at least 3 MILLION pieces of propaganda per year, all on sites that are virtually unusable by humans. So what's the goal? We explore the idea that it might be to flood LLMs with pro-Russia content: static1.squarespace.com/static/6612c... 1/

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Reminder: Of all the fentanyl seized by US authorities in 2024, 0.2% came from Canada. More here: www.cnn.com/2025/02/03/p...

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Hairdressers better watch out because bao places are coming for their title of “most fond of having a bad pun business name”

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Comparing The Economic Recovery Since the Outset of the Pandemic Across Major Industrialized Countries #econsky

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What does it mean for something to "not be news?" "Not news" means something that's routine —an old story. On the other hand, "not news" can mean a story that the news doesn't want to tell.

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Bars.

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President Donald Trump said 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico are on track to go into place next week, and said he would impose an additional 10% tax on Chinese imports

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From four months ago 👇

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