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One of the brilliant things our current iteration of oligarchs did is get people to conceive of free speech as being able to call your coworkers slurs rather than using it to say stuff like why are my tax dollars subsidizing your billionaire ass

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

Elon Is Stealing From You. This isn't complicated or clever. He bought the Oval Office to direct taxpayer cash into his own pockets. Scooby Doo villain level stuff.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

He just told two and a half million people they can’t work from home any more

submitted 25 days ago • 290 comments

climbing the ladder and pulling it up behind them is a parlor game for these ghouls

submitted 26 days ago • 29 comments

This moment continues to feel like February 2020 for fascism: smart people who pay attention are freaking out, your average sea cucumber-like American is either totally unaware or blithely assuming everything will Be Fine.

submitted 28 days ago • 112 comments

Kendrick Lamar deserves to win the very first Nobel Hate Prize

submitted 28 days ago • 229 comments

Bringing my pinned Tweet along with me as I migrate here because this still matters & because we cannot normalize what Trump intends to do to DOJ. Justice should never be a political tool for presidents & their pals.

submitted 101 days ago • 715 comments

this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 174 comments

the library is having a book sale. a cow / milk for free situation if I’ve ever seen one

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

The main beneficiaries of the Department of Education are disabled kids (IDEA) and working-class and poor Americans (Title I, Pell Grants, work assistance), so of course Trump wants to do away with it.

submitted 32 days ago • 100 comments

submitted 35 days ago • 1029 comments

unfortunately for these folks the odds are that they aren’t going to go after violent criminals at all — too hard — and going to go exclusively over the easiest targets, which are law abiding workers

submitted 35 days ago • 794 comments

Sen Tim Kaine (D-VA) speech about Trump Admin. "buyout" idea for federal workers "He's tricked hundreds of people with that offer. If you accept that offer and resign, he'll stiff you just like he stiffed the contractors. He doesn't have any authority to do this. Do not be fooled by this guy"

submitted 40 days ago • 150 comments

deadder.substack.com

submitted 63 days ago • 241 comments

The new Republican House began with an obvious lie advanced in the service of Christian nationalism, so we’re off to a great start

submitted 65 days ago • 155 comments

Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post cartoonist Ann Telnaes announces she's quit the paper because her editors wouldn't print a cartoon going after Big Tech and media oligarchs paying tribute to to Trump A new low in mainstream media's post-Trump meltdown anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

submitted 65 days ago • 138 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 83 days ago • 1121 comments

The best kind of feature journalism: the writer disappears entirely, and brings you into the lives of their subjects as you were in the room with them. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/15/u...

submitted 85 days ago • 20 comments

some goober in mesopotamia invented agriculture and now I have to have a credit score, how is that fair

submitted 106 days ago • 76 comments

You may not be aware that over the last 50 years, the Supreme Court has chipped away at your Miranda rights case by case, rendering them weak and ineffective. You no longer have the right to remain silent, to an attorney, not with the foece you used to. Time for a history lesson. /🧵

submitted 108 days ago • 132 comments

It's all tied together and don't let them trick you into thinking it's for safety

submitted 108 days ago • 327 comments

me: they really nailed it when they called those puddings snack packs executioner: those are your final words? me: snack pack executioner: snack pack. yeah it’s definitely catchy. ok see ya

submitted 109 days ago • 2 comments

of course once the build the infrastructure to do mass deportations they aren't going to let it go to waste. they'll find other targets.

submitted 121 days ago • 336 comments

until the day i die i will never understand how this wasn’t the end of it

submitted 129 days ago • 227 comments

I think this point by @jvl.bsky.social is the key. I was trying to think of a way to say this in my writeup and didn't get there. www.thebulwark.com/p/bezos-kill...

submitted 135 days ago • 23 comments

the distinguishing quality of every MAGA degenerate — like the current Virginia AG — is their absolute contempt for real public service and their willingness to destroy people who try to honor their commitment to the public good www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 143 days ago • 12 comments

Trump, like Vance, has now made clear that the standard that will apply in his sweeping effort to deport immigrants isn't legality but whim. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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submitted 162 days ago • 29 comments

Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops. “Handing your phone to a police officer grants law enforcement a lot of power over some of your most intimate personal data.” [theverge.com]