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Pretty wild that a large portion of the media doesn't have this front and center. Steve Bannon throws a seig heil at CPAC and it's gotten very little news. Are the media afraid of the "but these are jokes" type? Media/political types are you really afraid of this guy?

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

We need to stop the pretence that the US is a democracy. “If we don’t stand up against the rapacious forces of corporate evil, our souls will die.” Essential, compelling interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning US journalist Chris Hedges aje.io/tzame1

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Here’s a lie printed in the newspaper

submitted 11 days ago • 29 comments

this strikes me less as an honest diagnosis and more as self-exonerating excuse for not doing maximum delay and obstruction in the senate right now.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

Sexual Assailant Surrounds Himself With Girls While Signing Decree Allowing Genital Inspections perfect hed @susanrinkunas.com

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

people think i'm joking when i say Happy Feet Two (written/directed by George Miller, starring Elijah Wood and Robin Williams) is a great movie do yourself a favor and watch it this weekend

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

As a socialist and trade unionist, I feel it is incumbent on me to say, this is fucking stupid. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/b...

submitted 17 days ago • 54 comments

not a cell phone in sight. just ppl living in the moment.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The absolute glee some are displaying in blaming Palestinians, and people who protested on their behalf, for their own ethnic cleansing is a strategic error (obvs you target the decision maker), a political error (obvs you need those votes), and a moral error (obvs fix your hearts or die).

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

turns out i'm actually channeling the CEO mindset when i blow my rent money on analog synthesizers and going out to eat

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

redesign of the piece that has gotten me restricted/suspended at least 4 times 😇

submitted 75 days ago • 29 comments

So if I’m understanding today correctly, the world’s richest person Elon Musk, whom no one elected, is taking over federal payment systems and employee data while the federal employees who investigate and prosecute public corruption are being fired en masse.

submitted 22 days ago • 476 comments

the president does not have anywhere near the authority to do what he did in that order. this rollover is pathetic.

submitted 22 days ago • 34 comments

googling "how to communicate with my subconscious reddit"

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

finally complete - my client asked for a back piece that celebrated transness and the ecstasy of decay & decomposing meaning becoming something new and exquisite. eight sessions across two years. thank you very much for everything. inspiration in the comments —-> #qttr #transtattooer #transtattoo

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 24 days ago • 5 comments

With Guantanamo back in the news following President Trump's executive order, readers have asked me to reprise a few articles. So, back by popular demand: We crunched the unclassified costs of the prison -- staffing it, feeding everybody etc. www.nytimes.com/2019/09/16/u...

submitted 24 days ago • 11 comments

Because there is only one reporter still covering Gitmo full time, he can just make things up about the place, and no one even knows. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

If you're affected by the NIH intramural procurement pause, or by study section/grant review cancellations, and you'd like to talk for a story in C&EN, please reach out. (Signal username in bio)

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

adam scott kinda looks like if someone tried to draw tig notaro from memory

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this—so I won't say it. Because I don't know who needs to not hear it, either.

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

As corporations fall in line, recognize they never held these principles in the first place. They were marketing strategies and protections against lawsuits or boycotts. We have to move beyond looking for businesses to fight for us and recognize we’re in a class war and have to fight for ourselves.

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

author of the book 'American Psychosis' sees Americans doing American-style historical revisionism on American history "Getting some serious soviet vibes from this"

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Hi #neuroskyence — I'm tracking how these NIH changes might affect neuroscience funding, particularly for diversity-related grants. Has your application/award been affected? Have you gotten any guidance on that? Let me know.

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

if a potential romantic partner doesn't remember Verrit, they're too young for you

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

And to make it clearer for the “well actually” crew, nothing has thwarted discrimination. From…. D E I to the EEOC. They’ve been cosplaying justice while we continue to live with the realities of discrimination in every facet of life. My 101 yr old gma, my 88 yr old dad, me at 62 and my son at 35!

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

"The Chinese government will have your information." Oh no, what are they gonna do? Spy on me without a warrant? Use my location data to charge me for paying for an abortion? Bring racketeering charges against me for protesting a facility where cops train to shoot civilians? Sounds scary.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

one week left of rich pundit jerkoffs blaming leftists, trans people, asylees, & other marginalized groups for things sucking ass before making a huge pivot to being valiant warriors against fascism (with shirts about that for sale) and eagerly boosting leftist causes as something they always loved

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments