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free hint to blue state govs: automatically offer jobs in your own state's security services to the various cops, prosecutors and armed forces members that trump is unfairly drumming out. you will need people with guns who hate trump for what is coming next, and... there they are

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

I'm becoming convinced that there is massive over-coverage of Elon Musk's machinations compared to Russell Vought's… Does it matter? IDK, but: Musk wants the coverage and Vought doesn't; if/when Trump and Musk fall out, Vought will still be ensconced; the attacks on NSF/NIH seem to be pure Vought.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The neat thing about “move fast and break things” is it’s a great motto for people who have no discernible skills and no idea what they’re doing, because it has a way of rephrasing their total ineptitude as genius on the move.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

I understand how this benefits Apple and Severence, but is this really a good campaign for ZipRecruiter?

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Credible death threats to politicians by right-wing extremists is a core part of Trump's authoritarian playbook, which is why Trump pardoned 1,500 credible-death-threat-making extremists on day one.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

If Elon isn’t careful he’s gonna accidentally fire Q

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

A good moment to remember the Russia thing was always real. Trump's goal is to help Russia and Putin, always has been. He's trying to throw our democratic allies under the bus and America as well. Again, the Russia thing was always real.

submitted 4 days ago • 233 comments

So frustrating that every time people start mocking (generative) AI, someone says “yeah but AI can find cancer.” This is the equivalent of “but water is a chemical.” Can the media stop using “AI” as an all-purpose term?

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

the democratic party raised enough money to fund one hundred regional party newspapers for four years and spent it all on ads

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

There's a small contingent of people online who get angry when you say this but: Wikipedia is unquestionably the most successful utopian project of the internet age, and its destruction would be a crime against humanity

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Donate to Wikipedia if you can.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

submitted 9 days ago • 558 comments

Ask DJT supporters “can you believe this guy?” Not to embarrass them, but to encourage them to put just a smidgen of distance between themselves and him. Encourage them to question at least some of what he says.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In kid cartoons, “From this day onward, the Atlantic Ocean is now the Ocean of King Freddie!” would be shorthand to indicate a mad, shallow, dangerously narcissistic monarch. The opposition should mock and deride anyone who compliments the emperor’s clothes.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The DOGE anti-waste guys keep trying to find the Pentagon, but they accidentally turn off 395 at Crystal City. It happens to all of us.

submitted 9 days ago • 122 comments

“It’s disgusting and, frankly, counterproductive to point out that I voted for this. To imply that I had personal free will and agency when I walked into a voting booth and picked Mayor Bomberman is insulting.“

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Vince McMahon's wife Linda spent at least $22 million in support of Trump's candidacy, including paying for his pre-election rally at Madison Square Garden. She got a cabinet position and her husband got his case dropped. www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

submitted 10 days ago • 29 comments

So far in the last 24 hours, Russia's gotten: - a sympathetic ear/voice installed as DNI - the release of a crime boss - Hegseth ceding Crimea to them - Trump offering a WH visit - The US acting as middleman rather than Ukraine ally

submitted 10 days ago • 251 comments

But Zach Everson complained and got it fixed! 👏 👏 👏 The price of information is eternal vigilance.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

submitted 10 days ago • 166 comments