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This past week, the Chinese learned 1) exactly where Trump's pain points are; 2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches; and 3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president. Highly useful information.

submitted 16 hours ago • 139 comments

Climate deniers in Trump administration be like.

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

Republicans in Congress can end this any time

submitted 1 day ago • 105 comments

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."

submitted 1 day ago • 102 comments

the answer to “what would you have done in germany in 1933” is, for a disturbing number of people, “cooperate eagerly”

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Huh.

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The guy who taxed penguins is telling the world "Don't be Stupid!"

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

THIS. #HandsOff

submitted 4 days ago • 214 comments

Your tariff rate is half your age plus seven. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 21 comments

You can totally see how this mf bankrupted a casino.

submitted 7 days ago • 836 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 8 days ago • 1027 comments

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

submitted 9 days ago • 111 comments

"Powerlessness is an alibi. Hopelessness too. I want to ask, what specifically are you going to do? What’s your 'I am Spartacus' move to protect the more vulnerable?" writes Kaveh Akbar.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 12 days ago • 859 comments

Five years ago today, most historical UK monthly rainfall observations were not available to scientists. But the 66,000 pieces of paper containing the data had been scanned. With covid lockdown approaching we saw an opportunity to transcribe the data. #RainfallRescue began... 🧵

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

“he brought up the embattled USAID in what he clearly thought was a slam dunk: “When USAID sent hundreds of millions of dollars to central Africa, didn’t you ask, ‘why didn’t you send it to 7D? (the Seventh District),” he asked. There was an immediate and resounding “no” from the crowd.”

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

Being snatched off the street for your opinions. I'll say it again. We are deciding, right now, whether the aspirations we hold for this country are finished. Whether we're going to let these hoodlums and grifters throw what's left of the American idea into the garbage for their own profit and gain.

submitted 14 days ago • 222 comments

Doomerism is libs' and lefties' way of obeying in advance.

submitted 14 days ago • 252 comments

"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." – Seamus Heaney

submitted 16 days ago • 23 comments

Over 80%!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight, hours after the Paul Weiss news broke, an associate at Skadden Arps sent a firm-wide email: "Please consider this email my two week notice, revocable if the firm comes up with a satisfactory response to the current moment...We do not have time. It is now or it is never..."

submitted 20 days ago • 309 comments

The way to stop him is to refuse. These people were simply too cowardly to do that. bsky.app/profile/radl...

submitted 20 days ago • 96 comments

If I give the bully my lunch money every day eventually he will die of old age

submitted 20 days ago • 63 comments

Jeezus.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is worth 2.5 minutes of your time. DHS Deputy Secretary Troy Edgar unwittingly makes the case that they have nothing on Mahmoud Khalil. And — perhaps wittingly — he leaves the impression that if they can come for Khalil they can come for any noncitizen who opens their mouth.

submitted 27 days ago • 18 comments

Sure, eggs are expensive but Trump has made stocks affordable for everyone.

submitted 29 days ago • 32 comments

“Undeterred, Marocco and DOGE threatened a security guard with a lawsuit and told the building’s property manager that they would bring in U.S. Marshals and the Secret Service unless they were given access to USADF. Their threats were unsuccessful.”

submitted 34 days ago • 39 comments

Way better than that other thing happening tonight.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

submitted 39 days ago • 194 comments

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

submitted 40 days ago • 739 comments

Loud, noisy, and so Trin 💅 Trinity Rodman’s @washingtonspirit.com kit reaction didn’t disappoint!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Overwhelmingly the biggest saving that Musk has delivered to the American people is that they can now buy Tesla stock much more cheaply.

submitted 41 days ago • 53 comments

How many books is too many books?

submitted 43 days ago • 23 comments

Reporter: If you could speak directly to Elon Musk, what would you say? Rep. Jasmine Crockett: Fuck off.

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I appreciate this response from Ed Yong on why he requests that people mask at his events. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 46 days ago • 36 comments

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 46 days ago • 40 comments

Mr. Coffee-style glass carafemaker=Just give me the fucking coffee Keurig=I am too distracted to bother actually tasting the coffee Insulated Krupps/euro carafe maker=I decided to upgrade after first real job have not thought about coffee since That elaborate science-experiment one=I am insane

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments

I think it’s reasonable to assume that what the Trump regime is doing to Ukraine now is related to how they view, and will treat, states & cities they consider either enemies or not of use to them.

submitted 47 days ago • 16 comments

Best Jersey ever. #Canpoli #Canada #Hockey

submitted 48 days ago • 76 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 49 days ago • 74 comments

Great thread.

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

They’re good people.

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Villa Borghese by Willem de Kooning, 1960 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137442

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