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This is exactly the right tone when privileged people suffer minor or temporary consequences standing up for powerless people. It’s still about the powerless people. ICE is Gestapo trash.

submitted 1 day ago • 45 comments

Yes! Writing is thinking. Why would I want to give up thinking?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

This is bravery and decency. This is what people upset about this administration want. If you really believe this stuff is wrong, and you have a public profile and principles and want to say you're a leader, then get out there and do the damn thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

Fun fact to remember: the actual Luddites weren’t ignorant. They weren’t against all technology. They were skilled craftspeople - expert weavers - who recognized the machine looms as a lower-quality output than what they could make, and who rebelled against their replacement with soulless slop.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Pet theory for the latest Mission Impossible: Hunt never got out of the box. He’s in there from the moment he dons the mask, all the way through to the end credits and beyond.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Mike Lee is the way he is because there are zero consequences for being a lying sack of shit

submitted 2 days ago • 138 comments

Crackpots are nearly always hyperselective sour grapes credentalists. By necessity they make a show of contempt for an academic “establishment” in which they’re incapable of achieving any distinction or recognition. Until the second some guy with a proper degree goes batty; then they’re drooling.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

It’s hard to escape the dawning realization that part of the goal of Google’s AI Overview is to simply eradicate the concept of anyone else having any kind of website at all. Why click on a link & explore when Google told you the answer & you didn’t know it was wrong?

submitted 3 days ago • 38 comments

The stupidest people are in charge because we couldn’t prosecute a political crime because it would look too political.

submitted 3 days ago • 419 comments

A senator celebrating the murder of political opponents should be expelled. Not debated. Not excused. Expelled.

submitted 3 days ago • 615 comments

When right-wing reactionaries say that they 'support Biblical teachings', they mean the obscure and ambiguous stuff tucked somewhere in the back, not the big blaring headlines about humility and loving your neighbour.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

One side screaming dehumanizing language and the other side continuously trying to do a bipartisan with the people screaming at them seems to be getting a lot of people killed.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

As a 52-year-old, I grew up with domestic right wing terrorist organizations threatening violence daily, and blowing up buildings and killing people periodically, throughout my whole political life: it was the anti-abortion movement.

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

The radicalization of the American right is THE story of US politics over the last four decades and political reporters are still not allowed to talk about it

submitted 3 days ago • 159 comments

today is a good reminder that, even as they try to tear this country down around our ears, they are clowns who should be laughed at

submitted 4 days ago • 21 comments

Any person in uniform wearing a mask and refusing to be properly and reliably identified should be assumed to be the same kind of murderer we’ve seen in Minnesota.

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff “Cheery was aware that Commander Vimes didn't like the phrase 'The innocent have nothing to fear', believing the innocent had everything to fear, mostly from the guilty but in the longer term even more from those who say things like 'The innocent have nothing to fear'.”

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Sad but not shocking to see the things that people paying attention predicted would happen under RFK Jr are, in fact, now happening. Cheers to all the media folks that help sanewash this man and the academics who provided the useful “chronic conditions” quotes.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Chatbots now answer every question by searching the web. Meanwhile, with increasing frequency, the top search results are error-ridden pages generated by chatbots.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Framing like this should be considered a form of misinformation. Antisemitism in America in 2025 overwhelmingly emanates from the political right. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 57 comments

No Kings includes Draft Kings

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

Josh Hartnett briefly placed his hand on my back to get past me to the bar at Nick & Eddie’s. I haven’t showered since

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I know it's been said but I keep getting re-infuriated about RFK Jr doing his thing, like we had this vaccines thing settled, they rule and they were working and all we had to do was NOT put the worst possible person in charge of the country's public health apparatus.

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

I am pivoting from video, I no longer trust anyone whose whole deal is just riffing thoughts in front of a camera or mic. We’re going full Writers Only from here on out, if your thoughts are so good you can take the time to write ‘em down for me

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I guess we needed a better plan than "win all future elections"

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Right now you are either on the side of the shouted question or the snapping handcuff, and it is very clear which side is correct.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Yeah theres paid agitators at protests The police

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

this is a good wake up call for elected Dems to realize what’s happening and what’s going to happen not generally, not in the abstract, but to them personally shut it all down and start acting like you’re in immediate danger, because you are

submitted 6 days ago • 221 comments

LLMs are a vivid reminder that we already live in a planned economy. Investment is not directed by decentralized market signals, but by the conscious choices of a small group of people. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forget...

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

These are great tips for having productive individual dialogue, but it's also important to note that anti-vaxx influencers have a massive campaign funding them, and that is hard to combat! www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

These amorphous virtues of gentility that certain people love to invoke — nonviolence, civility, respectfulness, peacefulness, maturity — are worse than empty without accounting for differential power. A power differential is the difference between me running into a car, and a car running into me.

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

leftists: that thing you teach us in school to be terrified of is happening historians: that thing is definitely happening star wars: here is a beat-for-beat breakdown of how the thing happens, but with pew pew lasers. we know you watched it news outlets: these protesters are out of control

submitted 7 days ago • 100 comments

Just wait until people concerned about foreign flags find out about Lindström, Minnesota...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Literally all I’m asking for is for elected Democrats to treat the unpopular evil stuff as being unpopular and evil, because when they don’t, that signals to everyone that it’s not all that evil and it becomes less unpopular

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

real bummer finding out that literally everything was on the honor system this whole time

submitted 8 days ago • 425 comments

Absolutely right.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this

submitted 9 days ago • 390 comments

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

submitted 9 days ago • 86 comments

I'm wildly exhausted with how many people actively covered for these sociopaths. Aquiescence to power and status quo led people to say patently illogical statements that somehow Bobby wouldn't act exactly as he had for years.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

this is, in fact, how democrats should respond to Republicans

submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

The thing is, when there is no penalty for lying to Congress, serial liars are going to lie to Congress.

submitted 9 days ago • 37 comments

Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

submitted 10 days ago • 162 comments

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

submitted 10 days ago • 382 comments