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This is very noticeable among students as well. Especially international students are increasingly reluctant to speak, even inside the classroom, because they are - understandably! rightfully! - frightened they might get punished by the regime. It is heartbreaking and it makes me so fucking angry.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Commercial AI seems so far like the functional equivalent of a Trump press secretary or mouthpiece like Karoline Leavitt or Kellyanne Conway: packaged by social algorithm, ferociously glib, preening with overconfidence, and never short of answers. (1)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Still an evergreen truth that everything Trump touches dies. Now he’s finally gotten around to the stock market, the bond market, and the global economy. But at least the GOP is on track to renew tax cuts for billionaires!

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 4 days ago • 3203 comments

What makes anyone think the pause will last 90 days? Why would there be any confidence in that at all? Do you really believe there could be one day - let alone 90 - without absurd drama, anarchy, outrageous lies, flagrant lawlessness, cruelty and corruption? And more to the point, total flip-flops?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like there’s going to be too much stunned shame and disappointment in America going forward to continue playing the national anthem before baseball games and like events. It would be like mocking the sham country we’ve become to bear witness to the lost pride we once felt from our anthem.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Trump wants to make black lung disease great again. wapo.st/3DXUdbu

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

The humoring, pandering & coddling of this president is sickening and truly "like nothing we've ever seen before." Historians will write bestsellers about it in time, because the more every strata of society bends the knee and sucks up to him, the more clearly he belongs in an iron-clad prison cell.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

You know how Trump likes to watch his cabinet secretaries and other top dawgs fight with each other while he stands back and quietly enjoys the bloodletting? Well, now he’s doing that to the whole country.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

submitted 10 days ago • 574 comments

Remember Aristotle's theory of drama, which all begins with Character. Character determines Action, which in turn unfolds as Plot. Plot is revealed as Spectacle. Now apply Aristotle to the Spectacle of Trump's Tariffs, and reverse engineer it all.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The tariffs are just another distraction so Trump & MAGA can get on with dismantling democracy while the world is preoccupied with economic armageddon.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

We been tariffied

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Watching the human parrots close ranks around Trump while they struggle and strain to stay on his absurd message is like watching the NPC’s in a violent video game launch themselves into the fray to become background fodder.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.

submitted 12 days ago • 675 comments

Bravo, Booker. Amazing performance.

submitted 12 days ago • 115 comments

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

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