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Whenever I hear people "moderates" talk about being in-between 2 "extremes", it really bothers me. Because I don't see it that way. I feel like everybody is falling victim to misinformation on a massive scale. The American left is not "extreme" at all.

submitted 22 hours ago • 141 comments

So a wannabe DOGEr at Brown Univ from the conservative student paper took the univ org chart and ran it through an AI aglo to determine which jobs were "BS" in his estimation and then emailed those employees/admins asking them what tasks they do and to justify their jobs. bloat.brownspectator.com

submitted 1 day ago • 247 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

submitted 4 days ago • 460 comments

I have been (and am) "hard NO" on Blank Check for Musk. What's strongest case *for* Senate Ds letting it through? Obviously not Schumer op-ed Try this by Martin Longman/Progress Pond. (It's a pick-your-poison argument.) I'm still "No!" but it's worth reading. www.progresspond.com/2025/03/14/f...

submitted 5 days ago • 29 comments

How can judges fight bad executive orders if the courts are shut down because the government is shut down?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Bay Area. Ahem. 3/22. www.cityarts.net/event/senato...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I have to say: Chuck Schumer is a weak man and a fool. This was the one cudgel Dems had. Now it's up to the courts which we new from the beginning were at best going to slow some things down. There's 18 hours left to somehow bring additional pressure to bear. It will be really hard to do that.

submitted 6 days ago • 742 comments

New Yorkers: Call Sen. Gillibrand’s office to vote NO on cloture and NO on the Republican Spending Bill. They vote in the morning. ☎️: (202) 224-4451

submitted 6 days ago • 1082 comments

"It's the Giants, 3.... ...the A's should still be in Oakland, 1."

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

At some point all of us, globally, who can't stand the direction of travel in this bullshit universe will have to truly ask ourselves precisely this question: how do we make this stop for good.

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

Good time to bump up this memo from November. I’ll revise it a bit tomorrow, but it’s pretty spot-on as is. “Managing Financial Instability in 2025” docs.google.com/document/u/0...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/red-a...

submitted 23 days ago • 72 comments

So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.

submitted 26 days ago • 161 comments

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 29 days ago • 1515 comments

I keep thinking about this art exhibit I saw several years back in which the artist took a grand piano and applied a sledgehammer to it, repeatedly. How horrifying it was, to see such violence being wrought onto something so elegantly assembled.

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

This actually explained a lot of what’s happening to me. Scary stuff.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

A group of anonymous authors has published this well-sourced memorandum on Musk and the Neoreactionary movement. Please share widely. The threat is not well understood. Take a moment to read the one page executive summary now; then call Congress. america2.news/content/file...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

submitted 120 days ago • 43 comments

🚨BREAKING: Musk is trying to shut down USAID as the agency was investigating its oversight of a public-private partnership involving equipment from Musk's company. Various USAID webpages mentioning Musk's company are now not accessible on its website.

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

I've spent a lifetime on political messaging. I've written more political scripts than I can count. My advice to Dems (that I honestly could rarely get people to do) is to name-call. We need name-calling. It's not enough to say what's happening is bad. Who's responsible and what do you think of them

submitted 44 days ago • 75 comments

one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses

submitted 44 days ago • 195 comments

“Theirs is a logic of destruction. It is very hard to create a large, legitimate, functioning government. The oligarchs have no plan to govern. They will take what they can, and disable the rest. The destruction is the point” snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 45 days ago • 5 comments

this is insane. the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing flood level waters from reservoirs and… reflooding the Tulare Lakebed to appease Trump? “Hernandez had already notified managers on the old Tulare Lake Bed to expect possible flood water” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

submitted 47 days ago • 26 comments