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ppl getting angry at this but he's talking alliances and he's 100% right- you cannot trust a country where every 4 yrs the foreign policy does a complete 180 & tears up treaties and reneges on deals and withholds payments because some sheep farmers in Wisconsin think too many black women have jobs

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Thread with actual things in it!

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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

submitted 3 hours ago • 66 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 1 day ago • 467 comments

Suffice to say, this is not how investigative agencies used to refer matters to federal prosecutors.

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

I never want a single media outlet to ever take seriously a single current Republican politician claiming to be serious about national security or the challenge of a rising China ever again.

submitted 20 hours ago • 26 comments

The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 297 comments

it's like watching ants find their way around a puddle. you can do it little guys! keep working those tiny brains!

submitted 23 hours ago • 106 comments

Let's fuckin go

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Holy SHIT, that's good news!!!

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There are days I miss NYC, but I do not regret coming to Baltimore.

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Dear angry Republican voters who've showed up at GOP Town Halls to complain about the spending cuts, firings and chaos: Speaker Mike Johnson just told CNN's @kaitlancollins.bsky.social that you were 'paid democrat protestors'. They don't care about you. Remember this for the 2026 midterms

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20 years. 20 years ago today @lynbelzer.bsky.social and I stood in front of our friends and family and said "I do." A lot - some wonderful, some not - has happened in that 20 years:

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Emphasizing again that anyone who responds to "that's illegal" with some variant of "lol all law is meaningless you're a sucker for thinking that matters" is actively doing PR for Trump and helping him. Nihilism about the law is the best way to make sure that the rule of law dies a quicker death.

submitted 2 days ago • 109 comments

Comic: somethingpositive.net/comic/we-all...

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Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

submitted 2 days ago • 629 comments

btw one thing I learned at the training i went to this weekend is that bc ICE isn't allowed anywhere in a business that a customer wouldn't be allowed, an employees only sign on a door is enough to cause them to need a warrant. "closed for a private event" guarantees the same

submitted 2 days ago • 35 comments

Does Andy Harris have a likely challenger in Maryland 1? Asking for the state's Medicaid beneficiaries. Is the Maryland Dem infrastructure putting that person out front now and talking about what Harris wants to do to the Eastern Shore w/re/to farming, healthcare, education?

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“And therefore, we will _____.”

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This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.

submitted 2 days ago • 1223 comments

Yep. www.offmessage.net/p/trump-has-...

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U.S. Attorneys are not the President’s lawyers. They are the United States’ lawyers. You didn’t pledge an oath to a President, you pledged it to the constitution. This statement alone is reason enough to resign.

submitted 4 days ago • 491 comments

Looks like @erininthemorning.com also keeps track of places in the US to access HRT “without extreme gatekeeping” on her website! www.erininthemorning.com/p/erins-info... Worth sharing with your most beloved trans pals. :) (thanks, Avidan!)

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While I was deployed to the Horn of Africa, 4 Marines decided to put a USMC T-shirt on a baboon they saw on the side of the road. Many broken limbs and several hundred stitches later, I found myself giving the first of what would become the weirdest series of safety briefs in my intelligence career.

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The thing is, when we had high marginal tax rates on the rich, the rich still had yachts and second and third houses and fancy vacations and really good schools for their kids, so, yes, I think most people who are really very rich would do just fine, and the rest of the US would do better than now.

submitted 4 days ago • 176 comments

sniff It's beautiful.

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This is a poster I trust not to reshare things willy-nilly. That said: crosses fingers Please be true and as described. Please be true and as described.

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This is 100% true. USAID cost around 1% of the budget & saved countless lives around the world. It also helped build stability around the world & pro-American sentiments. All that goodwill is being destroyed & will take decades to ever recover

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all the cool kids are using alt text pass it on

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The thing about nazis is that every iteration of them will be dumber and more evil than the last, because thats what you have to be to see the last version of them and go "oh yeah thats so cool"

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Hey, what's up with books having sprayed edges these days? LET ME TELL YOU THE STORY! I was there! Thread: 1/13

submitted 10 days ago • 28 comments

Cartoon: No A.I. I've seen 'no a.i.' images but IMO the best one is the recent MAD Magazine where they retouched their classic cover by Norman Mingo, #166 April 1974 (my brother owned this issue). So I'm made a simple version of it to share. Feel free to save/use/distribute with credit to MAD. Enjoy

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when I was younger I thought the subplot of Ender’s Game in which Ender’s siblings shitpost themselves into running the world was the least realistic part of the book I am coming around to the idea that it was by far the most realistic

submitted 6 days ago • 85 comments

The fact that I can send a letter anywhere in the US for about 50 cents is still a modern-day wonder. It must be preserved and not turned over to the three private equity firms in a trenchcoat masquerading as the current administration.

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This is the sort of confidently wrong person who is extremely useful to fascists

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If Patel’s confirmation scares you and you’re worried about the FBI being used to wage war and terrorize American citizens, just ask Black people for advice, they’ve been dealing with it for decades

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

Look at these posts from before the election and look at where we are now.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Yeah, that tracks. Absolutely no surprise here. Hell, I had forgotten about these things until I saw this headline. kotaku.com/humane-ai-pi...

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Hear, hear! It's not "just asking questions" when those questions have repeatedly and thoroughly been answered.

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