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RFK Jr is such a piece of shit www.hhs.gov/press-room/m...

submitted 3 hours ago • 28 comments

Just heard I've gotten tenure and been promoted to Associate Professor. Thanks to all my mentors and collaborators over the years for their support and kindness!

submitted 3 hours ago • 7 comments

"Molly Put the Kettle On" brings me back to sitting in my mentor Joe Thompson's parlour and falling into a trance state of playing with him. Justin Robinson and I recorded this at Joe's home in Mebane, NC with Justin “Demeanor” Harrington on bones.

submitted 9 hours ago • 31 comments

Between the budget cuts, the collapse of tourism, the mass layoffs of federal employees, and the destruction of federal contractors, DC's economy is frankly screwed.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

As far as I'm aware, the first documented spike in data leaving an agency after DOGE infiltration. Extensive forensic evidence. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

submitted 7 hours ago • 32 comments

Gang databases are automated suspicion machines full of lies and hearsay. Garcia was disappeared in large part because of an entry made by a suspended PGPD detective who said that dude was obviously a part of NY-based MS-13 Westerns (he's never been to NY) because he was wearing Chicago Bulls stuff

submitted 5 hours ago • 2 comments

This is totally appropriate on their part, and yet so sad. And true for academics from every other country, too. My connections with colleagues from around the world are one of my favorite, and most productive, aspects of being a scholar. The more we are isolated, the worse it will be for the US.

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There are plenty of anti-racist and left critiques of HR flavored diversity initiatives, but you can critique those initiatives and also decry the lack of Black or Brown representation in many distinct fields or positions of seniority in corporate America. Like the lack of Asian representation in

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

““We need to treat antifa and BLM like terrorist organizations. We need to use the tools of the federal government, the FBI, the US Marshals—go after them like organized criminals and terrorists,” Kent said in a 2021 conversation with the podcaster Tim Pool about the group’s leaders.“

submitted 6 hours ago • 5 comments

And it does matter because Matty sets the terms of “centrist” discourse in a lot of spaces and his takes are habitually indifferent to racism if not explicitly anti-Black, specifically. Saying Trump isn’t a racist because he’s had 2 black cabinet members is just “I have a Black friend”…lazy as hell

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There are fair/generous readings of Matty on stuff, but he has a track record of whitewashing Hanania’s gutter racism, downplaying the openly racist rhetoric and policies of Trump et al, and remains an explicit enemy of Black activists, in particular, on questions of police brutality and crime.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

this yglesias post is insane, the whole thing is him trying to square the fact that he quite obviously believes in hanania-style scientific racism and thinks trump isn't racist-racist with the need to not agree with nazis

submitted 8 hours ago • 106 comments

the one interesting thing about this is that the slate star codex guy having some dim awareness of responsibility instead of just waiter this isn’t what I ordered

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

White people are outrageous. But notice how they hide the face of the ones who want the posters down.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I think his followers know it’s a con and see the public claim of powerlessness as epic trolling, not weakness.

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

Morning inspirational quote, especially made for @jamellebouie.net

submitted 12 hours ago • 14 comments

These people can not be trusted and furthermore we really need some sort of study done on this kind of cultural pathology.

submitted 12 hours ago • 31 comments

BREAKING: The man who authorities said scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night and broke into the Pennsylvania governor's mansion where he set a fire had planned to beat Gov. Josh Shapiro with a hammer if he found him, according to court documents. apnews.com/article/josh...

submitted 1 day ago • 209 comments

“All I wanted for the rest of my days was to smugly walk around Harvard in my lifted-heel cowboy boots while owning the libs and raking in speaker fees from the rubes and it was just lovely and such fun and now you’ve gone and ruined it, absolutely ruined it”

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

I have never looked up any of their performances, but they're on a couple of my Disco as Self Care playlists. This is both shocking and exactly whay I expected.

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This. And also, why wasn’t Abrego Garcia flown back to the U.S. on Bukele’s plane?

submitted 1 day ago • 25 comments

Draymond the only Black man in the world who can make a salt n pepper beard look nasty

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

RFK Jr.: "Pharmaceutical drugs are the third-biggest killer of Americans." This is straightforwardly false. The original claim is that MEDICAL ERROR is the third leading cause of death in the US. That is also a lie, based on terrible science: gidmk.substack.com/p/medical-er...

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

I’ve gotten used to not knowing what tariffs are going to be in the near future, but not knowing what tariffs are in the present is an interesting plot twist

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Rory McIlroy currently poised on that knife-edge of uncertainty where it’s not clear whether he will be a tournament-winning British golfer or a disappointing Irish golfer.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

www.reddit.com/r/comedyheav... I yelped when I saw this

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“commonsense facts about sex and race”

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"It's Charlie." "Who?" "Your neighbor, Charlie." "Who?" "Charlie." "Who?" "From next door." "Who?" "This is getting old, Matt." "Sorry man, what's up?"

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

I know that CBP has had trouble implementing and collecting these tariffs, but do we have any indication on what has actually been collected thus far?

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'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

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Trade in any Tesla this month and Rivian will give you up to $13,500 in lease incentives — including a new $3,000 Tesla bonus. riviantrackr.com/news/rivian-...