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Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 11 days ago • 374 comments

These questions are so helpful. I have a related practice around speaking in meetings (also applies to posting): Is the thing I’m about to say useful? Am I the right person to say it? Is this the right time? What are my honest to goodness intentions? What are the likely consequences?

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Something I started doing early in the pandemic, when info was spotty and ppl were panicked, was to ask myself these questions about my beliefs and actions: Where is the evidence I’m right? Where’s the evidence that I’m wrong? If I’m wrong, who gets hurt by my mistake?

submitted 11 days ago • 7 comments

What many USians INCLUDING progressives simply refuse to take in is that the U.S. criminal punishment system is OPPRESSIVE and not actually "broken."

submitted 14 days ago • 38 comments

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 guys I think we might have an actual fix for the fucking Gemini pop-ups the setting to control it is buried in your Gmail, not your Google Drive THANK YOU TO THE PEOPLE’S HERO

submitted 14 days ago • 22 comments

Joe Biden relitigation is catnip for the press because it gives them a chance to avoid saying difficult things about the present situation we are all in while also getting to talk about themselves

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

Opinion | Sorry, liberals, but the Founding Fathers believed United States should be a fascist Christian ethnostate.

submitted 20 days ago • 26 comments

surprising news for many of you: Abortion is not a sin. It’s not even talked about in the Bible (except for how to do it)

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Yoooooooooo, @nytimes.com, if you don’t want your highly paid executives to be dragged behind horses after being tarred and feathered, let’s see the same energy you approached Biden’s mental capacity and Hilary’s emails with because FUCK YOU YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING FUCKS YOU FUCKING SHITS FUCK YOU

submitted 20 days ago • 28 comments

"but it's easier with AI" Go to the shore. Take off your shoes. Walk barefoot into the wet sand. Feel the cold burn prickle your legs. Call out to the gods for a test of worth. Submerge in the brine. That fight to breathe again is the same as to create. Your humanity in a harsh world is the point.

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

submitted 23 days ago • 953 comments

For everyone who was like “Google search is getting worse,” we were absolutely right.

submitted 24 days ago • 320 comments

I’ve been the recipient of lots of good advice in my life, but the best of it was from the late, great Lynn E Alden, and it’s ideally imagined it in the voice of a salty old lesbian with a smoker’s rasp: “Anything you do to make people uncomfortable, honey, that’s a favor you’re doing them.”

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I think professional writers can get fixated on writing as an end product that we hope will have certain qualities—dexterity, clarity, originality, elegance, etc. But writing can also be a tool that enables someone to think, or a process by which they discover something.

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

Anti-Zionism is anti-semitism? Sure that makes sense. How you pray and what religious beliefs you hold is exactly the same as supporting apartheid and genocide. Can’t even tell them apart; last time I tried to pray the rosary I got confused and bombed a children’s hospital.

submitted 34 days ago • 54 comments

Woman Reminds Self Not To Catastrophize After Spotting 4 Skeletal Horsemen On Horizon

submitted 37 days ago • 84 comments

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

submitted 37 days ago • 1391 comments

If plainclothes policemen can’t grab random people off the street and deport them to a foreign death prison, do you even have a country anymore? This Federalist Society judge says no.

submitted 40 days ago • 42 comments

I know I’m not a genius Democratic operative who is paid $400k a year to oversee 6 straight swing district losses to used car salesmen but maybe mentioning how the GOP moved heaven and earth to grant asylum to sex trafficker Andrew Tate would undermine their messaging on immigration a bit

submitted 42 days ago • 37 comments

The media doesn't want you to see that it's not a jail, it's slavery.

submitted 43 days ago • 1276 comments

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

submitted 46 days ago • 287 comments

Thinking about interviewing Monica Cosby for Let This Radicalize You and how she explained that in prison she and her friends celebrated every holiday and even made up holidays because under soul crushing conditions, conjuring up joy is survival work.

submitted 46 days ago • 11 comments

Nation Can’t Believe It On Harvard’s Side

submitted 49 days ago • 97 comments

I do keep thinking about how all the people who took to the pages of Harpers or the NYTimes to talk about how I was a threat to men's due process rights for inviting women to talk to each other are perfectly okay with men being kidnapped without charge and disappeared to foreign concentration camps.

submitted 48 days ago • 18 comments

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

submitted 49 days ago • 868 comments

My two cents on Harry Potter is that if it meant something to you as an adolescent, there’s a way to live in that universe without ever sending a penny to JK Rowling and even to kind of stick it to her, and it’s to imbibe (or create!) transformative fanfiction that queers all of the characters.

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Your Daily Affirmation: My humor makes me buoyant, which allows me to float on the surface of this great, dense sea of stupidity in which we currently live. You have to laugh, and I do.

submitted 50 days ago • 10 comments

Disappearing people without any due process is fascism — full stop. I’m sick to my stomach and we all should be.

submitted 53 days ago • 647 comments

I have a daughter I adore and I love being a mom but but anyone advocating that people should have kids when RFK Jr thinks it’s fine if they die from measles and DOGE is destroying Head Start and a bunch of states are trying to make it so kids can go back to work in factories again? Is insane

submitted 53 days ago • 8 comments

Every day of my life 🫡

submitted 54 days ago • 1 comment

2025 is hard, because on the one hand, Trump and his cronies are an absolute joke, and on the other hand, the joke is trying to kill you.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Say what you will about JK Rowling, but she has a once-in-a-generation talent for impaling herself on a hill.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Bill Ackman voted to hurt Palestinian people and now he's irrationally mad because it cost him exactly what Trump told him it would cost.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments