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It was a huge challenge for Trump to find a vice president who was as much of an asshole as he is. But Trump was up to that task.

submitted 18 hours ago • 15 comments

Raise your ✋ and repost this if you're participating.

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This is how I would respond to the email Musk has had sent to government employees (not legal advice). 1. Refused to violate the law. 2. Refused to violate the Constitution. 3. Refused to bow or scrape. 4. Refused to bend a knee. 5. Deleted this stupid email.

submitted 6 days ago • 636 comments

Most people probably aren’t tracking this but Senate Republicans just started an all-night voting marathon that will allow them to gut Medicaid and increase child hunger while giving handouts to billionaires like Elon Musk.

submitted 8 days ago • 713 comments

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

submitted 8 days ago • 862 comments

(Dentist whispering into my open mouth) it is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live

submitted 290 days ago • 16 comments

It's not doomscrolling, it's just artisanal nightmare farming

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

submitted 13 days ago • 198 comments

Goth valentines for what ails you

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Sometimes you just have to say “fuck you” with a flourish

submitted 23 days ago • 1677 comments

If you want a long, but very thorough, read on just how crazy dangerous the situation is with Elon, @brockm.bsky.social has laid it all out in a single article. Please read it. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/05/t...

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

This, by @jamellebouie.net, is by far the clearest and most urgent assessment of the situation I've read yet. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Really happy to be releasing my Tompkins Square records material under a new title “Where The Tide Ebbs And Flows” with all bandcamp sales going to the Madison County African American Historical Association (MCAAHA). You can read more about my intentions… danielbachman.bandcamp.com/album/where-...

submitted 40 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE full access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.

submitted 27 days ago • 6197 comments

The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 26 days ago • 819 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 28 days ago • 451 comments

Oh myyy, they are the very letter of it!

submitted 28 days ago • 1086 comments

Recommendations for trusted NGOs supporting the people of Gaza? There are many out there, but it’s hard to which ones are truly making an immediate impact right now.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The politics of dog walking are so weird.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

New: Meta employees are furious about a new policy that allows users to call LGBTQ+ people "mentally ill." Some have resigned in protest. Some LGBTQ+ employees have started saying they if they are 'mentally ill' they should get leave of absences from work www.404media.co/its-total-ch...

submitted 50 days ago • 394 comments

David Bowie dropped his final masterpiece Black Star exactly nine years ago today. Still wild to me that he hid his illness so completely that we were all blindsided just a couple days later

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

These boops were made for Walken

submitted 61 days ago • 7 comments

Today's funny word is the German “kummerspeck” which describes some excess weight gained from emotional eating. Literally “grief bacon.” 🥓

submitted 84 days ago • 20 comments

Tl;dr on Pete Hegseth, Trump's pick for the Department of Defense: - Accused of raping a woman. Forced her silence with an NDA. - Preyed on female staff and attended work events drunk. - Ran a veterans nonprofit so far into debt they nearly went bankrupt. This is disqualifying.

submitted 84 days ago • 115 comments

Lee: When Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was up for confirmation or when VP Harris was added to the ticket, they called them DEI hires. They want you to believe that Harvard graduate with over 20 years of experience is not qualified but Fox personality is qualified to run the DOD

submitted 100 days ago • 1196 comments

More 2024 Faves continued: Memorials: Memorial Waterslides (Fire) Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings: Woodland (Acony) Jessica Pratt: Here in the Pitch (Mexican Summer) And more to come as I think of f them, I’m sure. Share yours! What have I missed?

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Ok, it’s a bit premature, but tell me your fave physically released albums from 2024. I’ll get the ball rolling: Beautify Junkyards: Nova (Ghost Box) Dummy: Free Energy (Trouble in Mind) Pye Corner Audio: The Endless Echo (Ghost Box) The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Fiction)

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment

I see a lot of you still sharing posts from the obviously fake Count Dracula account, so please be aware: - the real Count would never post during daylight hours in Romania - his full given name is Vlad, not Vladimir - he does not actually say “blah” and would never write it out in a post

submitted 100 days ago • 175 comments