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The Springfield bullshit nudged us into a new frontier of lying. It isn’t just that they don’t back down from the lies. It’s that every lie is increasingly exaggerated to the point of absurdity. Shameless lying is a demonstration of your loyalty. The more shameless the lie, the more loyal the liar.

submitted 18 hours ago • 68 comments

Trump is owned by Putin #trumpisincompetent #putinownstrump #themagasarestupidasfuck #republicansarefascist

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 307 comments

Mexico and Canada just gave a masterclass in handling Trump: let him brag, give him a face-saving win, and walk away having conceded nothing. The Big Picture unpacks how this strategy could keep him in check on the world stage.

submitted 25 days ago • 168 comments

ginny organized a whole coup for you and you don’t remember her name??

submitted 27 days ago • 120 comments

🚨Trump’s trade war is spiraling. Canada is hitting back with massive tariffs targeting US goods, from whiskey to Teslas. Prices are about to soar and the US has become a global pariah. Catch up on all the fallout in Ron Filipkowski’s weekend bulletin.

submitted 29 days ago • 248 comments

The vast majority of Senators & Representatives do not understand what their lives are going to be like after Trump/Musk muck up and/or steal large payment streams to states, local gov'ts, contractors, and individuals, while every sector gets hit with a tariff tax. Their constituents will be feral.

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

So. The Potomac Crash It wasn't DEI. It was DOGE. Not your first crash, right, Elon Musk?

submitted 32 days ago • 57 comments

There is no evidence that this disaster was related to diversity efforts, "lowered standards," people of color, women, or people with disabilities. But Trump doesn't care. He MUST blame anything bad on those things, because his bigotry compels him and his cult eats it up

submitted 32 days ago • 12 comments

A state court judge in Baton Rouge ruled in favor of LSU Prof. Ken Levy and ordered LSU to reinstate him to his classes. www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/...

submitted 32 days ago • 9 comments

NEW DEVELOPMENT: Judge orders LSU to reinstate law professor sidelined for political comments, @piperhutch.bsky.social reports. lailluminator.com/2025/01/30/j...

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

Only a tiny minority of biologists think human sex is binary, and they're all neo-liberal propagandists. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

int. Kremlin agent 1 (sets down bong): what if agent 2: (giggling) agent 1: what if we get trump to buy, like... agent 2: (stifling laughter, holding back tears) agent 1: ...fucking greenland agent 2: (fully crying) agent 1 (opens gmail): who's the dumbest senator euromaidanpress.com/2025/01/13/d...

submitted 49 days ago • 9 comments

U.S. voters elected a felon and prevented further prosecutions of him for his many crimes. Heaven help us all.

submitted 49 days ago • 257 comments

Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report of his investigation into Trump’s criminal efforts to overturn the 2020 election are now public. It is a damning record, one truly for the history books, and answers a number of key questions about the charges. My write-up: https://buff.ly/42cZBAU

submitted 49 days ago • 31 comments

Good Paul Krugman piece on the relationship between the dollar and the US trade deficit: "the trade deficits of the 80s arguably marked the point at which the hollowing out of U.S. manufacturing really got going." open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

submitted 55 days ago • 13 comments

Here’s my column on Meta’s black queer AI character Liv and the crappification of the internet: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 55 days ago • 38 comments

DEVELOPING STORY: Nation’s first ‘severe’ avian flu patient dies in Louisiana lailluminator.com/2025/01/06/a...

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Lazarus (the comic book) will be back in only a few more months!

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

"Sen. John Kennedy's shameful abuse of the victims of NOLA's terrorist attack: The state's junior senator should apologize to victims and their families for exploiting their pain to help Trump spread racist lies about immigrants," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

submitted 61 days ago • 3 comments

Mike Johnson is still suggesting that "the wide open border" had something to do with the attack in New Orleans, which was perpetrated by a guy from Texas

submitted 60 days ago • 564 comments

Having switched from Moodle to Canvas in 2024, this hits too close to home

submitted 62 days ago • 8 comments

I'm an atheist. The gods need to stop sending me portents and omens. freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hna7...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This post-attack news conference in New Orleans is the worst, least reassuring one in our history. It sounds like the briefing in "Airplane" except that was a satirical movie This is a bunch of idiots from all parties in essence saying 'we had impregnable defenses but the terrorist drove around em'

submitted 61 days ago • 58 comments

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

submitted 62 days ago • 2207 comments

If my constituents had just been slaughtered in a terrorist attack I wouldn’t be cracking jokes for the cameras but that’s just me.

submitted 61 days ago • 291 comments

Almost too metaphorical to believe.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

Tell him, Mark!

submitted 62 days ago • 1069 comments

"Ramaswamy smeared all Americans, including Trump-supporting white ones, as lazy and mediocre — tropes usually associated with anti-Black racism."

submitted 64 days ago • 169 comments

"In the aftermath of Trump’s win, there's been little discussion about these egregious attacks on democracy. Analysts have instead focused on whether Harris should have run further to the left or further to the right or further in some other direction."

submitted 67 days ago • 97 comments

This guy is stark raving mad. Hopefully President Musk will ignore his ravings paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trumps-gre...

submitted 68 days ago • 113 comments

Happy Festivus everyone. Always amazed this crazy episode birthed a real celebration that seems to be enjoyed by so many around the world. So may your feats be strong and your grievances few. Enjoy.

submitted 71 days ago • 968 comments

This sums it up, yes.

submitted 72 days ago • 733 comments

Would you trust this man with your nation's science policy? freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2...

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

Shawn Anglim is pastor of First Grace United Methodist Church in New Orleans. He's one of my heroes. We should all seek to be more like Shawn and his amazing congregation. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 New Monmouth Poll finds that 36% of Rs won't be "bothered at all" if Trump "suspends some laws and constitutional provisions." This data should dominate every Sunday show and won't likely even get a mention. To every elected R that legitimated the Big Lie: this is your legacy. 👇

submitted 79 days ago • 58 comments

Buried lede: could end HIV if they charged $50 per dose and not $42,000

submitted 81 days ago • 52 comments

The non-response to Sandy Hook was the real blaring warning signal, don’t ya think?

submitted 81 days ago • 3 comments

I've seen a child with tetanus, I've treated near fatal infections after chicken pox, and I've pronounced children dead from COVID whose parents refused to have them vaccinated. We have lost our minds... and are about to lose so many of our precious children.

submitted 81 days ago • 1222 comments

am amazed anyone believed him on this and of course they'll give him a pass b/c they can't admit they bought his lies www.newsweek.com/trump-walks-...

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

Donald Trump's pick to lead the federal government's international news agency is an unhinged conspiracy theorist who lashes out at the press, hobnobs with far-right and antisemitic extremist outlets, and has criticized Fox News as “a globalist network.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/kar...

submitted 82 days ago • 77 comments

metaphor alert

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

"Kid killers: When it comes to deadly diseases, lies about vaccines kill, so let's call Jeff Landry and Ralph Abraham what they really are," new by me. open.substack.com/pub/robertma...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

Nice critique of SCOTUS's interpretations of the second amendment by the Hawaiian Supreme Court in this case. www.yahoo.com/news/critiqu...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Homeboy stopped the wrong lady (H/T @agirlhasnopres.bsky.social )

submitted 83 days ago • 2137 comments

Amazing. They simultaneously argue that puberty blockers have devastating effects AND that no one will be able to distinguish them from a placebo.

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments