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I math-ed it out, and right now your DOGE dividend is on track to be $4.29. Let me show my work.

submitted 2 hours ago • 45 comments

So if you get that OPM email, my only advice is to recognize (1) it is asking you to give them an excuse to fire you (2) it will be processed by an LLM. If you want to leave, good luck to you, thank you for your service. If not, reply in a way designed to not give their LLM bot those free excuses.

submitted 1 hour ago • 46 comments

'provocative' is a fascinating euphemism for 'racist' here. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/w...

submitted 3 hours ago • 10 comments

This is 100% like something you'd see in our annual Information Assurance training -- see as in you fail if you say you would reply to this email.

submitted 1 hour ago • 4 comments

What were the worst food/restaurant trends of the 2010's? I'm thinking: -The "The animal and object" naming convention -Everything "small plates" -Comfort food with a twist, aka $17 grilled cheese -Enjoying bacon as a personality -Fake ivy walls with neon writing

submitted 172 days ago • 208 comments

sirota sephiroth-posted "we are going to go all the way to the convention with a plurality after the moderates fail to consolidate then dare them to blow up the coalition by not making me the candidate" and immediately thereafter the moderates consolidated. this is compared to murder

submitted 1 hour ago • 10 comments

Open season for spear phishing federal workers. Hopefully the various litigants representing workers are drafting new motions etc.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Also, this is a perfect example of the kind of bureaucratic layer that makes actually doing things in government sometimes hard! Do you a VA nurse spending her time providing health care or writing Elon an email about “What I Did Last Week”?

submitted 2 hours ago • 139 comments

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

submitted 2 hours ago • 56 comments

2025 is going to make us pine for the sanity, stability, and normality of 2015-2024 at this rate.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

This is what happens the goods (a college education, a home near good jobs and preferably with good schools for any kids you may have) necessary for an independent, dignified life (by mainstream social conventions) are near an all-time high. It dissolves slackers and romantics, and forges hustlers.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

In principle he could still survive but it's looking less and less likely.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

biden was a great president except when it came to what he imagined to be his area of expertise (foreign policy), his electoral proposition (he is a white guy everyone likes), and the most important thing he was called upon to do (permanently incapacitate donald trump)

submitted 17 hours ago • 32 comments

"We have nothing against Jews, we just hate Zionists" (vaguely defined) Now has its inverse version "We have nothing against Jews, we just hate anti-Zionists" (anti-MAGA Jews) This version is not put out by noisy yet powerless activists, but rather by the US government.

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

In Musk's case it's genuinely pretty sad b/c he used to be actually effective--but the problem with control freak startup types is that when they lose their edge, they tend to go absolutely fucking nuts. And that goes triple if they're using drugs for energy and focus.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

Kash Patel wrote a children's book series about King Trump.

submitted 5 hours ago • 6 comments

Like other aspects of our gerontocracy, SNL doesn't know when to retire for good

submitted 5 hours ago • 21 comments

"Major events in human history have been shaped by psychologically unstable white supremacists who are also addicted to meth" is an objectively true statement

submitted 5 hours ago • 3 comments

I don’t know anything about General Caine, but this doesn’t sound good.

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

BRB new campaign just dropped

submitted 17 hours ago • 15 comments

When we are doing faculty hiring, one of the biggest red flags is if a candidate is a jerk to the admin staff who are helping with all aspects of their visit.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

That said, it's definitely not "250 years" of non-partisan tradition. The US military was intensely tied up with partisanship during the Civil War, for example. Our nonpartisan military was in large part a creation of the (both civil and mil) government reforms of the late 1800s and early 1900s.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

My thoughts on last nights firings

submitted 7 hours ago • 11 comments

Rufo called me a groomer and sent his audience after my family because I said I was fine with my daughter going to therapy. CPS got called. It took months to get rid of them. My former colleagues thought it was hilarious and did nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

Luigi discourse is cursed, and frankly a sign of political infantilism

submitted 6 hours ago • 22 comments

Chief of Israel's Institute for Forensic Pathology: No evidence the Bibas mother and kids were killed in an airstrike. All were brutally murdered by their captors. N12.

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

Between this and his comments to the governor of Maine it looks clear that he is using unconstitutional coercion/extortion to compel policy outcomes at the state level that his office doesn’t give him the authority to dictate.

submitted 7 hours ago • 18 comments

it is not great to me that the entire right is adopting a trolling approach to the Hitler salute

submitted 10 hours ago • 27 comments

Yeah I think people are sometimes a bit silly about this tbh.

submitted 9 hours ago • 10 comments

The Menswear Guy now judging the German Chancellor candidates at the top of the page for a German newspaper

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Whoever wrote that line about “mired in diversity issues” should be fired

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

I listened to this today and it was really good. The best part was General Hodges pointing out that the North Koreans have the most masculine anti-woke army in the world and they’re getting slaughtered in Kursk. youtu.be/vXgyjXdx60o?...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

There’s no evidence that Dan Caine will not be an effective chairman of the joint chiefs relative to his peers, but it is certainly saying something to the services that we are replacing a highly qualified black man with a white man who literally lacks the command qualifications for the job.

submitted 9 hours ago • 38 comments

Mexican actor Eduardo Verástegui giving the Nazi Salute at #CPAC

submitted 12 hours ago • 140 comments

I hear a couple calls for resignations, so fwiw: I intend to take this country back from the Heritage Foundation, starting in 2026, and I hope the current staff of the NEH, NIH, and NSF will mostly still be in place.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

A lot of republican events are straight up dangerous for formal acts of protest, but going NIMBY-mode on townhalls seems like a perfect way to distort the calculus of GOP electeds

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments