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we're averaging a teapot dome like ever six to eight hours

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just devastating. the human toll of this is and will be devastating. the wanton destruction of true psychopaths. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

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this sucks man

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Pit Stop for Pop Buffalo, IA

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also to be clear, if you can't easily understand the value of a functioning government in Liberia, you should stop eating paint

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

great running thing in the US is lots of right-wing folks purporting to be really into Epstein and also seemingly having never read a single thing about it

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

USAID employees were given 15 minutes to pack up their things today. They were instructed not to bring weapons, including grenades (?). Their work has been insulted and gutted. Their space is reportedly being filled by CBP. But per a source, some folks still found time to leave a parting message:

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

in one sense, though, things are looking it up: it's almost march.

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Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, passed the committee vote today, largely down to supporters pushing her as a pro-labor Republican. For @motherjones.com, I looked into how the GOP did this and how it's just a marketing tactic—the firings at the NLRB and EEOC are plain to see.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

in these uncertain times, you need an investment that's safe from of fiat currency. you need something tangible the government take away or devalue. something mankind has valued for millennia. you need egg.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

byron york should bring this back tho

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Low-income Americans "do not get any or enough legal help for 92 percent" of issues. One reason? Lawyers keep a monopoly on legal advice. Nurses can help with medical procedures. There's a big push to make the same possible with legal services. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

bluesky has sort of brought back doomscrolling in a strong way, because X was getting so bad that you weren't even being properly served doom. some pluses and minuses to that.

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blood-boiling stuff

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

just a perfect microcosm of america

submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

VAR does not appear to have solved the problem of "people being mad at negative outcomes"

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

i think an undervalued part of the "what's wrong with young men?" problem is there is a deliberate effort to create a lot of little shitheads, tbh

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the movie i most associate hackman with is...Enemy of the State, because we had it on VHS and it was of the only "cool" movies we had. started laughing when I finally saw The Conversation.

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

i think the comparison between eric adams and jesus still needs to be workshopped a bit but what would an appropriate Biblical analog for him be. a lot of stuff happened there.

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this sucks man www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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is it a good sign that it took them like a week to identify the purported head of a government agency, which itself seems like a job they had to invent in order to insulate the actual head of the agency from court proceedings

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habemus doge administrator

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boy i'll tell you, it does not seem like the white house correspondents' association read this well at all

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

over/under on "people fired by DOGE" who get elected to state and federal office in the next two years?

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www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"'Getting kicked off it,' Rivera said, 'would probably destroy me.'" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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if no one volunteers they're going to have to call on someone

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The Kansas City metro region is home to roughly 30,000 federal workers. At a town-hall, some of them confronted their GOP member of Congress about their worry they'll lose their job. He responded "God has a plan." www.kansascity.com/news/politic...

submitted 3 days ago • 108 comments

shoutout to the person who's been sending mass emails every day for like three years about how the former attorney general of south dakota killed a guy. that's how you message.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I really wanted to be wrong about the model for Trump II being the Snitch State that emerged during the Red Scares but www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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"In the US Department of Agriculture, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones." -- www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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“twin peaks for four hours on valentine’s day” is a recipe for an unvaccinated superspreader event if we’re being honest

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okay bud but you want to double car crashes in manhattan

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Trump attack on Presidio Trust reminds me of what he did in his first term: putting Michael Savage in charge. (This was a great, great piece about that) www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

they finally found a use case for this stuff

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just astonishingly weird people www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/m...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

another big developmental milestone unlocked: toddler imitating my sneeze and then laughing at me.

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per a source, USAID staffers just received an email telling them all direct-hire staff globally (with exceptions for "mission-critical functions, core leadership, and/or specially designated programs") will be placed on administrative leave at 11:59 tonight. They gave about eight hours notice.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments