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oh wow: every historian on the historical advisory committee that oversees FRUS was fired at the end of April

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

How to get yourself quoted in dozens of lawsuits.

submitted 9 hours ago • 36 comments

Damn. That paragraph is gnarly.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

(Reuters) - Germany's foreign minister threatened unspecified measures against Israel on Tuesday and said Berlin would not export weapons used to break humanitarian law, as he and Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered their most severe rebuke yet over Gaza @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 15 hours ago • 35 comments

Manufacturing for thee, but not for me

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

This would be ridiculous if it weren’t so malicious.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

Openly and lawlessly persecuting a private organization for standing up to the authoritarian leader

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing.

submitted 2 days ago • 114 comments

you know it’s a load-bearing component of the social safety net but I feel like I’m still learning HOW load-bearing. I didn’t realize until Trump started plotting to cut it that it’s like …. literally the only way we have nursing homes

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Ugly, ugly stuff. They're collapsing the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest integrated healthcare system in America.

submitted 3 days ago • 33 comments

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

submitted 4 days ago • 10 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 4 days ago • 46 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?"

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 6 days ago • 344 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 6 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 6 days ago • 22 comments

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

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Brutalist Academia

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

So old I remember...

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

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 6 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 6 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 7 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 7 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 7 days ago • 124 comments

Song of the Lower Classes - Windborne

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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 7 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 8 days ago • 353 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 8 days ago • 797 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 9 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 8 days ago • 508 comments

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

submitted 9 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 9 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 9 days ago • 1 comment

As ever, scratch a transphobe, sniff a racist.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

That's good to know.

submitted 11 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 103 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 11 days ago • 112 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 13 days ago • 2326 comments

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

submitted 13 days ago • 96 comments

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

submitted 14 days ago • 252 comments

*crab-walked

submitted 14 days ago • 408 comments