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UPDATE: I've written a deeper dive on these numbers and what's driving this unprecedented judicial pushback. open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

submitted 10 hours ago • 8 comments

“Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary at the Department of Defense who has come under fire from Democratic and Republican lawmakers for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, has been promoted to the department’s press secretary, the Pentagon announced.” jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...

submitted 11 hours ago • 41 comments

It absolutely tracks that after 30+ years of decimating the humanities & suburban parents shouting "YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO MAJOR IN STEM THAT'S WHERE THE JOBS JOBS JOBS ARE" the financial sector's now going "uh...we could really use some halfway literate English or history majors up in this joint?"

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This is so depressing www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 346 comments

Los Angeles's Deputy Mayor for Public Safety called in a bomb threat to City Hall last year in an attempt to frame pro-Palestine organizers.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I believe this means the sun will set over the entirety of the British Empire tonight for the first time in several hundred years. Chagos is the dot below India on this map. Sunset in the Pitcairns (dot in the Pacific) will happen ~40 minutes before sunrise in Akrotiri and Dhekelia (dot on Cyprus).

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

No empire lasts forever however powerful they appear at the time.

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Brutalist Academia

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

So old I remember...

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actually I did wake up for a bit around 6 am when the cat was dashing around the apartment madly because he got his head caught in a paper bag handle and panicked. Surprisingly he did eventually stop in front of me and let me take care of it for him.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

But you want to know something cool and weird and perhaps distressing? The plural of series is series. The possessive of the singular series is series's; the possessive of the plural series is series'.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

Everyone watch this video!!! It's perhaps the funniest Star Wars thing I've ever beheld and needs to be seen by many.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

trump did not seem to recognize this was an insult, he was like "why don't you have a plane, i want plane"

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 3 days ago • 125 comments

Song of the Lower Classes - Windborne

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A beautiful piece by the great Mexican artist Remedios Varo.

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Trump in November: “I am not looking for retribution, grandstanding or to destroy people who treated me very unfairly, or even badly beyond comprehension." Trump, today:

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 4 days ago • 346 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 4 days ago • 795 comments

Sharp piece on a trend I've increasingly observed among the Christian right, with the support of certain allies in the Jewish world: Defining liberal, non-Orthodox Jews as not really counting as Jewish at all, and therefore concluding that it is impossible to be antisemitic against us.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Ashli Babbitt was a domestic terrorist who attempted to overthrow our government via a violent insurrection at our nation’s Capitol. The administration agreeing to pay her family $5 million of taxpayer money is disgraceful.

submitted 5 days ago • 506 comments

I spend at least four hours a day washing my hands.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

A lot of people are sitting scratching their heads wondering how Starmer can repeat Great Replacement, say the 14 words in 11 and refer to an "Island of Strangers" when it's quite easily explained by the fact that he's surrounded by radicalised individuals.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Clearly we must retvrn to the true history of our Christian forefathers (i.e. interpreting any and all historical events as punishment for the nation's sins)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

As ever, scratch a transphobe, sniff a racist.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

That's good to know.

submitted 7 days ago • 15 comments

You: They did the math. Me: ᵀʰᵉʸ ᵈⁱᵈ ᵗʰᵉ ᵐᵒⁿˢᵗᵉʳ ᵐᵃᵗʰ You: What was that? Me: Nothing. Me three hours later in a whisper: ᴵᵗ ʷᵃˢ ᵃ ᵍʳᵃᵛᵉʸᵃʳᵈ ᵍʳᵃᵖʰ

submitted 100 days ago • 49 comments

Trump admits (1) the company thrived during the last year of Biden’s economy and (2) will be bearing the brunt of tariffs in Trump’s economy

submitted 7 days ago • 113 comments

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

submitted 9 days ago • 2330 comments

Lead Republican tax bill writer says the quiet part out loud. This “big beautiful bill” CUTS health care for millions of people.

submitted 9 days ago • 95 comments

Wow. Listen to Bruce Springsteen kick off his European tour, talking about what is happening here.

submitted 10 days ago • 251 comments

*crab-walked

submitted 10 days ago • 408 comments

ME IF I WERE A SENATOR: When did you graduate from clown school? TRUMP APPOINTEE: I... did not go to clown school. ME IF I WERE A SENATOR: So you're a self-trained clown?

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

Yn the D&D Game: DM: "You see an hbogoblin." Playere: "Do not you meane a hobgoblin?" DM: "No, it ys tryinge to get you to wacche The Sopranos."

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

"Imagine the auto industry without 3D printing. NSF funded that. Artificial intelligence? NSF. MRI machines that help doctors diagnose you? NSF. Doppler radar technology that makes aviation safer by conquering wind shear? NSF. Duolingo‘s underlying programming? NSF. The internet itself? NSF."

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Founder folk were so worried that the American people would see them as bigger than life (NO KINGS!) that they insisted that portraits & statues of them were actual size—no bigger.

submitted 10 days ago • 61 comments

Tl/dr? White men dropped to 56% of tenured faculty at Harvard in 2023 fr 64% in 2013. Accusation fr govt is this results fr discriminatory pressure to diversify (ignores inc. diversity of pipeline.) “Other universities “should not assume that this is a one-off.” www.chronicle.com/article/facu...

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Of all the awful stuff in this reprehensible bill, the fact that your children stop being considered dependents at SEVEN may be the most horrifying detail.

submitted 12 days ago • 62 comments

Read the whole thread, because this is wild. A book from an academic press that was cancelled and never printed by the press has been found being sold in multiple locations--and not as a print on demand version.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Can anyone explain to me how "Trump donating the brand new Air Force One to his own presidential library right before leaving office, so he can continue to use it" is any different from THE PRESIDENT STEALING AIR FORCE ONE

submitted 13 days ago • 159 comments

Everyone’s going to correctly focus on the ethics problems, but Air Force One is supposed to also be a secure communications platform, right? Nobody sees the issue here?

submitted 13 days ago • 21 comments

What George Lucas got right about the original trilogy, but has never managed to replicate since, is that I was a little kid when those came out

submitted 14 days ago • 63 comments

The foreign emoluments clause was written to prevent exactly this. Blatantly unconstitutional

submitted 13 days ago • 756 comments

But remember, you can only have two dolls and five pencils

submitted 13 days ago • 142 comments