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Schumer needs to step down. This is deeply embarrassing.

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Roko's basilisk is just Pascal's wager for guys who are not legally allowed within 1,000 feet of an elementary school

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The moment of truth is here. The further we get down the road the clearer the answer to the q is re: are we gonna be able to come back from this “Just days later, the Trump administration has reached that line and is prepared to blow right through it. The constitutional crisis is here.”

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Meep Meep

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It's funny thinking back to the argument that Dems couldn't get rid of the filibuster when they were in power because they'd miss it once the GOP was in power.

submitted 5 days ago • 72 comments

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submitted 6 days ago • 195 comments

Time to transfer your prescriptions.

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'Did you even say thank you?'

submitted 17 days ago • 229 comments

The Daily Show generation largely became media-literate cynics who thought knowing was doing. I went to an Indecision 2004 watch party: we drank, we laughed. When it was clear Bush was winning, I got drunker and tried to chat my way up someone’s skirt. It didn’t work. Neither did watching.

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Opinion | The mainstream media is so broken that even throwing a Heil Hitler salute at a major political conference won’t get you any coverage. by Steve Bannon

submitted 25 days ago • 28 comments

“We are in the midst of a constitutional crisis right now. There have been so many unconstitutional and illegal actions in the first 18 days of the Trump presidency. We never have seen anything like this.” —Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of University of California, Berkeley law school. Time to stand up:

submitted 36 days ago • 49 comments

Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.

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They are seeking to criminalize integration efforts across public life. We must be clear eyed and direct about what’s happening here. We have not witnessed this blatant of a comprehensive governmental attack on integration since the Civil Rights Movement. slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 41 days ago • 170 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 42 days ago • 1750 comments

I wonder what’s going to actively kick off the new “secession crisis”, and what state will be the first to try and piece out? Got my money on CA or WA.

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Perhaps bonghits will solve this constitutional crisis

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Our beloved Canada is under threat. The threat comes from the president of the US—a convicted felon and known predator. But the threat is also being driven by the hate algorithms of oligarchs like Elon Musk….

submitted 46 days ago • 1008 comments

Reading this hits pretty hard, because there have been times where I’ve coasted on my rescue inhaler because of formulary changes or the previous inhaler was simply discontinued. 22. I just. Fuck these ghouls. Social murder is real.

submitted 47 days ago • 2 comments

ARE YOU SUPPORTIVE OF THESE ONESIES Bless you old man

submitted 48 days ago • 51 comments

RI to ICE: stay the fuck out of our schools

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if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools

submitted 49 days ago • 933 comments

“I want a party that understands that morality is not the same as following a list of rules that the opponent declines to follow.” -Kelsey McKinney defector.com/the-old-rule...

submitted 55 days ago • 8 comments

one reason democrats should cut the “we just want to work together” shit is that you lose the opportunity to do things like, for instance, hold a loud press conference on the fact that trumps ICE thugs arrested a veteran www.newarknj.gov/news/mayor-r...

submitted 54 days ago • 450 comments

God now I just want poutine and healthcare

submitted 67 days ago • 2 comments

my latest @teenvogue.bsky.social my heart broke watching Pasadena, Octavia Butler's hometown, where her middle school is named for her, burn. 5 schools have been damaged. "Octavia knew"—so did Mike Davis—from studying history. denialism and targeting libraries got us here. what will we do?

submitted 67 days ago • 31 comments

Man Succumbs To 7-Year Battle With Health Insurance theonion.com/man-suc...

submitted 68 days ago • 96 comments

This is one of the more important columns I've written lately: The California fires are a stark reminder that climate is switching from an economic and tech problem to a destabilizing political challenge. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/california...

submitted 69 days ago • 33 comments

in approximately 5 years, a megachurch will have ads for sports betting apps during the intermission

submitted 73 days ago • 185 comments

When some asshole has the 🍒s to say, "Your body, my choice," to me. My response:

submitted 76 days ago • 355 comments

You People Made Me Give Up My Peanut Farm Before I Got To Be President

submitted 78 days ago • 31 comments

Our seventh most-read story of this year: When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. Read more (published October) ⬇️

submitted 80 days ago • 162 comments

I rewatch this regularly Credit: Tim Robinson's I Think You Should Leave

submitted 82 days ago • 7 comments

December, 34 AD: “I miss Jesus.” “I’m gonna bring a tree into the house. He would’ve loved that shit.”

submitted 87 days ago • 77 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u...

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

The Arrest of Christ, German artist, 1480-1495, 📸 by @1ontapdigital

submitted 89 days ago • 422 comments

Child care remains the most fascinating part of the economy to me

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"Historian Timothy Snyder has referred to this as 'obeying in advance,' or 'anticipatory obedience' — leaders, politicians, and institutions either fear what will happen if they resist, or think they can benefit from fascist takeover and so comply without a fight."

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A rabbi, an insurance company CEO, and a Baptist youth pastor go on a cruise together. The ship hits an iceberg and begins to sink. The rabbi, “we have to save the children.” The CEO,” fuck the children.” Youth pastor, “do you think we have time?”

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Insurance Company Celebrates 50 Billionth Fucking Over Of Customer theonion.com/insurance-co...

submitted 97 days ago • 92 comments

An upsettingly concise reading of Where We Are Now

submitted 98 days ago • 21 comments