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Every day we learn anew just how much classified ads were perhaps the load-bearing pillar of American hegemony

Me 8 years ago: Can you imagine how crazy it would have been if Twitter existed during WW2? Or the Great Depression? Me 8 years from now: Hey, remember Connecticut?

I got the tariff But I didn't get no tax relief

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

If our democracy dies, this is its epitaph

Not even a controversial statement to say that if white people wanted this to stop badly enough it would. Not even a controversial statement to say that among the voting populace it is white people's fault it's gone this far. And if you're white and that offends you it's because a hit dog hollers.

It's weird to have elected leaders who say they want to crash the economy, reinstate segregation, strip human rights and create a perpetual underclass and then have people ask why are they doing this are they bad at economics ?

I did not make this and don't know who did, all the same - lmao

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

The question of if a country could fuck itself harder than the UK did with Brexit has today been answered.

Revealed preferences theory suggests that Wall Street executives value their ability to call their subordinates gay at approximately 8 trillion dollars

Yes, the stock market may be tanking and our national security apparatus has never been more vulnerable and we're on the verge of both economic collapse and war, but it was all worth it to keep pronouns out of email signatures.

Microsoft Engineers: we have invented “shift+ctrl+v” which will paste text in the appropriate formatting to its context where it is being pasted Unwashed masses: amazing! This will revolutionize workplace efficiency. It works in Outlook right? Microsoft Engeering: no

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...

A mother and two children loss their lives yesterday on Ocean Pkway in unbelievable tragedy. Harder to accept is, like gun violence, traffic violence is deadly and overwhelming preventable...this loss of life and injury was preventable. We need prayers for the family... and much more

The reason that the US is locking up tourists for weeks in hellish detention centers rather than letting them book tickets back home is because the detention centers are owned by corporations. They are charging the taxpayers fortunes to cage these people, and making bonanzas off their suffering.

Amen!

if, ten years ago, your entire understanding of politics was that the right wing wanted to destroy everything because they were evil, you had a more accurate and more predictive analysis than functionally the entire American media and political apparatus

One problem with the idea of reserving due process for law-abiding people is that due process is how we figure out which people are law-abiding.

really sucks how the White House has basically become rapist wakanda

boy this is really testing my deeply held belief that we are all entitled to imagination, fantasy, and a rich and private inner life

I've been thinking a lot about that bumper sticker which says "everything looks like a conspiracy theory when you don't understand how anything works" and folks it's pretty obvious to me that the people in power right now have absolutely no desire to understand how anything works.

dressing matching to present a "unified front" except it's 4 different colors so no one will even notice is like, the ultimate Democrat move. i couldn't write something this perfect

"democrats plan to color coordinate to communicate opposition" is the biggest loser shit i've ever heard. School Spirit Week-ass action. "I do not give facebook my permission"-ass action. are they hitting themselves in the head with hammers at every DNC event

Apparently the reason the left "always loses" is because some of us are annoying and put people off. The far-right, of course, are a bunch of cool chill guys that are fun and normal 24/7.

There's such a disparity between the message cybertruck drivers think they're conveying to the world vs the one they actually are which is "it's very easy to sell dumb things to me"

This *gestures expansively* is the worst fucking way to teach civics.

I came out this morning and found this flyer on my Honda Odyssey. Just because I own a Honda doesn't mean I condone the man's actions or agree with all of his political beliefs, and I'm a little offended at the idea that I should be held responsible.

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

I’ll say it: this is a good idea that should have been done years ago. Next, they should strike more dollar coins and stop printing dollars.

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

Has there *ever* been a policy that's been as immediately successful as Congestion Pricing?

they can take over the entire country but they can never actually be cool and it will eat at them forever

One thing I’ll miss about Biden being President is we won’t get any more of those fun posts from conservatives about how an ordinary family trip to Chili’s costs 140 dollars with a receipt that shows 110 dollars worth of alcohol purchases

Hey man sorry to hear about all your political turmoil. Would it help if I scrolled around on the computer all day and drove myself insane?

my biggest regret in the last decade was not doing PPP fraud

Some have been so numbed to the creep of power that they keep asking what if this turns violent. Friends, it is violent.

“it’s probably a black person’s fault this bad thing happened” as a reflexive explanation is just a racist statement, there’s not a level of substantiation that makes it not racist bsky.app/profile/pgou...

I just wish #yall would signal boost the Black people who are telling you this is Jim Crow more than you signal boost the non-black people who are saying it's Nazi Germany. I know why you won't though. . .

I'm generally pro-regulation, but what drives me crazy about e-bike regulation conversations is that we never talk about the crazy shit we allow cars to do. Top speed of 200MPH? That's fine! 0-60 MPH in 2 seconds? No problem! Bumper that hits pedestrians in their torso/head and kills them? Legal!

The administration is not targeting immigrants with violent records. They're targeting the immigrants who are easiest to get: those who show to court and follow the rules. It's a great way to ensure that undocumented people stop coming to court. They're also already ensnaring U.S. citizens.

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.