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My first apartment in 1994 was $350/month. Adjusting for inflation, that apartment should now rent for $744/month. It actually rents for $1500. Greed and inflation are hurting the kids, not their Starbucks lattes.

submitted 2 days ago • 971 comments

How can you have imposter syndrome when you see who’s running the country? On my worst day, I couldn’t tank the economy this badly if I tried.

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

It turns out a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster does not make for a good President.

submitted 6 days ago • 909 comments

A reminder that there is no human being in the United States whom it would be legal to disappear to a Salvadoran prison without due process of law.

submitted 8 days ago • 194 comments

worth reiterating that in literally any other context a 10% tariff on Japan alone would be getting wall to wall financial news coverage, would be considered the largest trade war escalation in modern American history and the dumbest economic policy move by a President in decades

submitted 8 days ago • 124 comments

people who say change takes time are full of it imo. when i was born the berlin wall had been up for 16 years. growing up it just felt like it would be around forever. a month before my 12th birthday it fell and germany unified. change requires a good, quick shove.

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

“Just calm down and let people enjoy chatgpt.” Sorry, no. I find it creepy that folks are treating a machine that mimics human speech as their friend / therapist. It is feeding you lies. It is destroying your thinking abilities. Shut it off. Talk to other humans. Go outside.

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"Love a cat, not a cop" Seen in Adana, Turkey

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

File impeachment articles that are just direct quotes from the Declaration of Independence

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

submitted 10 days ago • 2851 comments

So by paying our taxes, we pay for a Central American dictator who runs the 116th-richest nation in the world to build five more supermax concentration camps slated to be filled with our countrymen and wholly innocent legal permanent residents of the United States? Is that right?

submitted 9 days ago • 719 comments

Wiggle wiggle wiggle #earthquake

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Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation? Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

submitted 10 days ago • 16 comments

We're almost out, we just have to hold on for a few more years and we can fix things

submitted 12 days ago • 98 comments

Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process. This is not lawful.

submitted 11 days ago • 2365 comments

“I’ve been disappeared because a rainforest killing plagiarism machine picked me out of a hat”, coming to a dystopia near you

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

47's beef with China is personal, based on his own business dealings, and I cannot believe we gotta bear the brunt of this shit because grown ass people don't understand why addressing conflicts of interest with corporate titans who want to run the country is important.

submitted 13 days ago • 81 comments

It is so crucial for us as a species to finally learn the lessons of Reconstruction and Nuremberg because if we come out the other side i do NOT want to be doing this again in 20 years

submitted 13 days ago • 41 comments

The day is coming and I mean very soon where any speech deemed “a threat to national security” by any citizen will be subject to censure and prosecution. That anti terrorism loophole is going to be everyone’s downfall. Everyone.

submitted 13 days ago • 23 comments

No, Mr bond, I expect you to squish that cat.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Can we finally ignore the "deep state" weirdo conspiracy theory nonsense now? If there really was a deep state in the USA, they'd have taken charge by now.

submitted 13 days ago • 47 comments

BREAKING: New national sales tax of 10-145% on virtually everything Tax started by Trump, and Republicans in Congress refuse to stop him There — THAT is what the tariffs really mean

submitted 13 days ago • 58 comments

The aurora on the drive home from Walmart in Fairbanks, Alaska always hits different…

submitted 14 days ago • 56 comments

Imagine you are Jay Powell right now. You were about to get a softish landing and cement your legacy as one of the greatest central bankers if not civil servants of all time. Then out of nowhere some lunatic sets the economy on fire and you are fighting another crisis.

submitted 14 days ago • 70 comments

Best cat video of the day

submitted 14 days ago • 380 comments

Rescue dogs and cats need to be spoiled to the point where they never remember the times they weren't loved.

submitted 14 days ago • 28 comments

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

submitted 14 days ago • 609 comments

The hard truth is that there are some products you just can't make in America. These must be imported from elsewhere. Like chocolates, for example. American workers will always become overwhelmed by the speed of the conveyor belt. They'll end up shoving the sweets into their mouths and blouses

submitted 14 days ago • 153 comments