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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

submitted 19 days ago • 1139 comments

“Don’t use academic language” I’m not an academic. Academic prose is nothing like what I write. This anti-intellectual insistence on oversimplifying everything is what makes everything seem shallow. People long for a “real” that’s been trivialized away from our lives by everything being superficial.

submitted 23 days ago • 39 comments

Been thinking about this Zappa quote a lot lately.

submitted 22 days ago • 305 comments

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

submitted 28 days ago • 670 comments

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

submitted 33 days ago • 1976 comments

GOP PLAYBOOK First, they create the mess Then, they complain everything is a mess Then, they blame others for mess they created Then, they do everything possible to prevent others from fixing mess Then, propose the same policies that created the mess in the first place as a way to fix the mess

submitted 33 days ago • 2 comments

Education is the foe of ignorance. It's no great surprise that a party which thrives on ignorance wishes to abolish the government agency which enforces education standards. They want to make it easier to replace quality education w/their whitewashed version of history & self aggrandizing propaganda

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Fast food workers work hard. Retail workers work hard. Gig workers work hard. Everyone deserves a living wage.

submitted 68 days ago • 18 comments

The Pirates are having the kind of offseason a team has when it’s in Year 2 of a deep rebuild

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

I can't wait to check out our new Airport Terminal once it is completed!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

“The kicker is that, contrary to the promises of state transportation depts, new & expanded highways consistently fail to reduce congestion. Instead of smoothing traffic flows, the added asphalt compels more people to drive until gridlock is as thick as before.” Via @davidzipper.bsky.social in Slate

submitted 79 days ago • 10 comments

CONFIRMED: Libs got custody of the NFL in the national divorce.

submitted 82 days ago • 8 comments

Futility

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Some photos from across the country for the 50 States 50 State Capitols march today Feb 5 2025: I will add more photos from more cities as I come across them. (sorry, not able to credit photographers) Lansing MI Austin TX Denver CO Harrisburg PA

submitted 80 days ago • 170 comments

I'm sorry, but "they took over the whole federal payments system, fired the career staff, and won't let anybody see what they're doing" is not a situation in which you wait for more information. It's a situation in which you assume the worst. There's no explanation for it other than rampant crimes.

submitted 82 days ago • 512 comments

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions. DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law. DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

submitted 81 days ago • 4309 comments

RFK Jr. and his family stand to profit off lawsuits against vaccines. An HHS Secretary shouldn't have a financial interest in making our country sicker. I’m demanding RFK Jr. recuse himself from any work on vaccine policy while he has a financial interest in the outcome.

submitted 82 days ago • 893 comments

No. One. Voted. For. Elon. Musk.

submitted 82 days ago • 21 comments

He is shameless

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

REPORTER: Is there an acting FAA director? DUFFY: walks away (The FAA director resigned on the day of Trump's inauguration under pressure from Elon Musk)

submitted 86 days ago • 844 comments

He's unfit to lead

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Fascists need made-up enemies to distract you from what they, and their super-rich funders/bosses, are taking from you. They want you constantly mad, scared and distracted. And they love picking enemies that could help teach you to reason and see through through fascist lies.

submitted 90 days ago • 13 comments

MAGA sheep.

submitted 96 days ago • 94 comments

It’s a propaganda stunt. Trump initiated tiktok ban. It took 4 years to go through Congress and SC. Biden signed but said he’d leave enforcement to trump. Tiktok CEO meets with trump. Tiktok then removes its own app before ban takes effect… Casting trump as savior. Get it? Now move on.

submitted 97 days ago • 24 comments

Trump³⁴ is notorious for creating chaos/ problems then walking back in to act like a hero because he "fixed" 'em TikTok is one such example Trump lead the fight to ban TikTok because he feared the power of the app in his election bids. MAGA Congress & SCOTUS backed him GASLIGHTING 101

submitted 97 days ago • 22 comments

Don't be duped, It was Trump³⁴ in 2020 who called for the original fight to ban Tik Tok! He feared it would hurt his election chances Then the MAGA GOP lead Congress passed the bill to ban Tik Tok last Summer Trump³⁴'s SCOTUS majority upheld that bill last week time.com/7207995/trum...

submitted 97 days ago • 32 comments

It’s important to be clear that TikTok could have stayed up through the inauguration. Joe Biden said he’d not enforce the law. They made a choice to shut down and display a pro-Trump message. They weren’t forced to.

submitted 97 days ago • 168 comments

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

submitted 97 days ago • 169 comments

Fire Art Rooney II #steelers

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

For fans of chronically bad teams who look at the Commanders and find hope, the biggest change your team can make is to get a new OWNER. But as Jed York once said, you can’t fire the owner.

submitted 97 days ago • 87 comments

After launching the effort to ban TikTok in 2020, Trump will now take credit for eventually saving it, and TikTok is going along with it

submitted 97 days ago • 315 comments

THIS! 100% this…

submitted 97 days ago • 706 comments

It's a goal of mine to help make this the most famous, well-known and UNDERSTOOD quote about cities in history. Please share it as much as you can. #InducedDemand

submitted 98 days ago • 47 comments

submitted 101 days ago • 67 comments

The NY Post’s anti-congestion pricing propaganda war gets more absurd by the day. for context, a delivery truck pays a $21.60 charge amortized across an entire truckload of beer that’s approximately $0.0001 per can and that’s before even factoring in more efficient deliveries due to less traffic

submitted 104 days ago • 36 comments

TV Talk: Getting to write this kind of story -- taking viewers inside a soundstage to see how a show gets made -- is why I love my job. Go on the L.A. set of #ThePitt , the new @StreamOnMax Pittsburgh-set ER drama, via @TribLIVE : triblive.com/aande/movies...

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2025/1/5/243... This is a near perfect summation of how I feel about the #Steelers #nfl #hell

submitted 111 days ago • 0 comments

Once any space becomes less than 40% male, (straight) men tend to cede it entirely while shouting about how it “went woke”. Fascinating read:

submitted 115 days ago • 178 comments

More than half of Toronto drivers in a Universtiy of Toronto study didn't look for people walking or on bikes before turning right. Study used eye-tracking tech. Increasingly deadly vehicles plus irresponsible driving equals people being injured and being killed.

submitted 113 days ago • 24 comments

Public transit doesn't just need more funding - it needs reliable, annual funding. @pahousedems.com know when people can afford to get to work, our economy does better for everyone. More on how that would help Allegheny County👇🏾

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Agree or disagree?

submitted 114 days ago • 2484 comments