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Most Americans have no idea that anything unusual is happening. This is probably the weirdest I’ve ever felt as an observer of politics, aware that the whole world is locked into a new order and equally aware that I can’t talk to the average person about it.

submitted 6 days ago • 58 comments

I think the reason people are frustrated with Democratic leaders is that they expect these elected representatives to act like a real disaster is happening, which it is. Four-day weekends and bratwurst junkets in Munich kind of undercut that

submitted 7 days ago • 135 comments

so special ed programs are getting gutted because their internal documentation used the term "transition" when talking about helping disabled kids enter the working world. they're literally striking at that word wherever they see it.

submitted 6 days ago • 408 comments

for a while Musk really did seem like the most relatable billionaire. yeah, if i had that kind of money I'd want to go to space and make sports cars, etc. Turned out that was just PR, and what he really wanted out of life was to be seen as funny by teenaged Nazis on the Internet

submitted 7 days ago • 122 comments

hakeem jeffries' wife packing up to go stay at her parents because she asked him to wash the dishes and he stood in front of the sink throwing his hands in the air and saying "what can i do, the water isn't even on"

submitted 9 days ago • 214 comments

First they came for trans people, and I did not speak out- because I avoid 'identity politics'. Then they came for the Palestinians - but I don't do 'purity politics'. Then they came for everyone but me - but I was waiting for the midterms. Then they came for me- and I was quite shocked tbh.

submitted 14 days ago • 64 comments

two things: 1. do actually call Republicans too if they represent you, you don’t have to tell them your political views, you can just express concerns about how the policies are hurting you 2. lol lmao keep calling, they have upped their obstruction in response to being yelled at so keep yelling

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

The silver lining to this colostomy bag is the Democratic Party has four years to figure out a real Israel-Palestine policy that doesn't oscillate between wagging a finger or supporting genocide or terrorism. Until then, Trump owns this dumpster fire. I'm sure they'll use that time wisely

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

The H5N1 is mutating and spreading. The new D1.1 genotype, which is more dangerous to humans, has been found in dairy herds in Nevada. The risk of an H5N1 pandemic is rising.

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

I mean. I didn't. Shit was creepy to me even as a kid.

submitted 17 days ago • 29 comments

ICE Argues Migrants In Camps Are Free To Die At Any Time theonion.com/ice-arg...

submitted 17 days ago • 76 comments

Disabled people shouldn't have to prove their disability to you for you to not act like an asshole online.

submitted 17 days ago • 12 comments

I’m kind of embarrassed that the anarchists never came up with “send out an official email blast instructing the Feds not to renew the lease on any office space” as a means of abolishing the state. Incredible.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Angry man: Why are their tampons in the men's restroom? How will I explain this to my children? Librarian: One reason why we do this is so that a man who has a spouse, partner or daughter with a menstruation emergency can grab one without having to ask Angry man: It just makes no sense!

submitted 18 days ago • 137 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 18 days ago • 79 comments

What could possibly go wrong???!!!

submitted 18 days ago • 59 comments

so much of the success of the current takeover of the US Government depends on whether they can execute in a way that allows normal people to continue to live relatively normal lives and I don't think anyone involved understands that, which does not bode well for us or for them

submitted 18 days ago • 28 comments

Right after Trump won in November I thought to myself "the United States is going to be pretty unrecognizable in 4 years to those of us who are old enough to remember the before times." At the time I thought I was being overly dramatic. It turns out I was probably too optimistic about the timeline.

submitted 18 days ago • 21 comments

liberals love to complain when there’s protests under democratic presidents and then love to complain when there is not immediately larger protests under a republican president. the throughline is they don’t participate in either of them

submitted 18 days ago • 86 comments

The Palestinians and their supporters didn't create our current predicament. It's a convenient, counterproductive deflection to lay the blame at their feet, and given the degree of destruction and suffering they've endured, it's also sadistic.

submitted 18 days ago • 247 comments

BREAKING: Representatives of Elon Musk’s “DOGE” have gotten into the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, where they have accessed key payment and contracting systems.

submitted 18 days ago • 139 comments

people should probably stop listening to anything these democratic strategists have to say considering where their strategies have gotten us

submitted 18 days ago • 140 comments

Why hasn't Elon been arrested?

submitted 18 days ago • 57 comments

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submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Imagine going back ten years and telling people that a convicted Trump would be president for a second term after a coup attempt and Elon Musk would be seizing control of the government while endorsing the building of concentration camps and doing a seig heil. They would lock you up in an asylum.

submitted 18 days ago • 38 comments

I like how members of the new administration trivialize the field of psychiatry and conditions like ADHD, depression, and anxiety while self-medicating with alcohol, heroin, ketamine, cocaine, Adderall, etc.

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

picture of a 17-year OPM veteran with coke-bottle glasses and a pocket square young anarchists, this man is your friend! he fights for freedom!

submitted 19 days ago • 19 comments

Can't believe this unelected nazi is currently doing the most unprecedented illegal financial coup in US history and barely any mainstream media is talking about it

submitted 18 days ago • 34 comments

I know you’re going to tell me that I’m an idiot but I really am surprised that my former friends who became Musk fans aren’t waking up to reality right now.

submitted 19 days ago • 788 comments

Honestly the real nightmare scenario from the Elonjugend seemingly having full access to all Treasury payment system is that they simply fuck up the "paying off the US debt" pipeline, because a default on Treasuries is simply the "obliterate the entire global financial system" button

submitted 19 days ago • 16 comments

From the Naval Forces training under the #Syrian Ministry of Defense. ⚓

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

submitted 19 days ago • 67 comments

Was listening to NPR on Trump's insane demand to seize control of the Panama canal & the host was skewering the former Panamanian director of the canal with credulous questions about Hong Kong based firms with financial interests in the canal. NPR's sanewashing fascist expansionism; we're so cooked

submitted 19 days ago • 4 comments

Everything about the young guys at DOGE is reminding me of the time that I, as a middle school/high schooler, was tasked with cleaning up the family computer, deleted a bunch of nonsense looking files, and then the family computer stopped working.

submitted 19 days ago • 127 comments

I worked on this stew for three days and it was absolutely worth it.

submitted 19 days ago • 151 comments

it needs to be said that while democratic elected officials are trying to get into the USAID building which was shut down by musk, CNN and MSNBC are showing the entirety of a trump press conference.

submitted 20 days ago • 484 comments

I assume we've checked whether Sabrina Carpenter is real or not.

submitted 20 days ago • 228 comments

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

submitted 19 days ago • 457 comments

sorry for posting so much recently, things have never felt this disasterously bad in the united states before

submitted 20 days ago • 142 comments

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

submitted 20 days ago • 458 comments

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

submitted 20 days ago • 505 comments

The thing about the Colombia, Mexico, and Canada traffic posturing is that if Trump is going to back off when countries do what they were already doing and claim victory to prop up his flaccid ego, then maybe that will be a vector of humiliation and national degradation but not total economic ruin.

submitted 20 days ago • 68 comments