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The conception of personal liberty and free markets that will underpin this direction will of course be antithetical to actual liberty and functionally free markets.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Kings keep saying "Anyone but Steph." Meanwhile, "anyone" has been scoring.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

none of pointing out anything matters none of it the people who drank the koolaid, believe EVERYTHING their king and jester tell them and the king and jester know that so they spout their lies all day long what an infuriating timeline

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Re: Victor Wembanyama: A deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a clot that develops in one of the major veins of the body, usually in the lower extremity. Brandon Ingram also developed a DVT in his shoulder, missing the final 19 games of the 2018-19 season.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

How could this go wrong 🤔

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

early executive orders show a startling trend: nearly 65% mirror proposals from Project 2025—a 900-page right‑wing blueprint to reshape government and boost presidential power. #Trump2025 #Project2025

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Wherein Elon says the quiet, corrupt part out loud: He intends to steal the private IRS data of his political enemies. How soon before he does the same to his economic competitors? Or you?

submitted 11 days ago • 695 comments

On the one hand, my lifelong Republican neighbor and retired cop who broke with the party over Trump is incensed about what's happening. On the other, he's exiled from his church and has lost most of his friends (had a beer on his porch tonight.) That's a cost most guys his age don't want to pay.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

I get that they’re doing this mostly as a weird flex to look tough to their base of incel losers. But if they actually got this — ten new states full of voters who hate Trump, with 20 senators and who knows how many House members — it would absolutely end them.

submitted 14 days ago • 273 comments

middle school kids at a military base have shown more resistance to the trump administration than senate democrats

submitted 17 days ago • 11 comments

JD Vance mansplaining Catholicism to the Pope is the exact vibe of these MAGA weirdos. He’d mansplain hitting a baseball to Tony Gwynn if it could score him political points with racists.

submitted 17 days ago • 22 comments

A big part of the problems we’re in right now is the seemingly self-imposed requirement of taking (or pretending to take) obvious bullshit as sincere. It’s merely annoying in sports. In real life, well…

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Every single Democrat needs to read this right now

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

FROM SHAMS: New Golden State Warriors star Jimmy Butler has agreed to a new two-year, $121 million extension with the franchise through 2026-27, sources tell me and @WindhorstESPN. Butler is declining his 2025-26 player option for this new $121M deal.

submitted 23 days ago • 24 comments

how did the dodgers miss out on luka wtf

submitted 27 days ago • 26 comments

After seizing power in 1933, Hitler reshaped German media. Under Goebbels, newspapers, radio, and film were transformed into propaganda instruments. Strict censorship and centralized control silenced dissent, ensuring Nazi ideology dominated public discourse. It redefined all media control entirely.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I hate to say this, but it seems clear that Trump has an insatiable appetite for new groups to blame in order to distract from what they are really doing and not doing. The only thing that gets the US out of a hole this deep without significant bloodshed is a New Great Depression

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 28 days ago • 510 comments

Well said, Pete Buttigieg

submitted 29 days ago • 974 comments

Do not worry. Trump and his daddy Elon Musk are in the process of firing even more air traffic controllers to keep us all safe.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

you know what this wholesale destruction of the federal bureaucracy reminds me of? “Debaathification!” it reminds me of the immediate aftermath of the Iraq war or rather the beginning of the occupation.

submitted 32 days ago • 274 comments

This is totally amazing when you remember that Trump didn't even know anything about Project 2025

submitted 33 days ago • 14 comments

TL;DR: There’s no new intelligence. A China hawk lab leaker took over the agency and decided to make this the position, with “low confidence.” How unexpected.

submitted 34 days ago • 141 comments

That about sums it up. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...

submitted 37 days ago • 13 comments

For the record, absolutely nobody i’ve talked to here in Germany is confused by Musk’s “awkward gesture.” “Oh, the guy who wrote the op-ed endorsing Allianz für Deutschland threw up a Hitlergruß? I am schockiert.”

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

That's a trick question, right?

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

this is the bit most people don't get, they assume there is a "computer" - a thing that does math, understands logical relationships, the most basic shit - under the plagiarism machine but there isn't! that isn't what it does!

submitted 41 days ago • 5 comments

The signature Steph Curry screenshot -- glaring at the opposing crowd (or opposing team's bench, in other cases) to gloat about making a shot... while the ball is still in the air

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Costco has said repeatedly that diversity makes them money. In this Costco is unique. Not that diversity makes companies stronger and better - there's a ton of data on this. But that they aren't so racist that they're willing to leave money on the table to be racist.

submitted 44 days ago • 29 comments