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Horrific murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in the middle of DC. This kind of violence is illegal, immoral, inexcusable and of course - if the chant of ‘free Palestine’ by the alleged shooter is true - solves nothing and helps zero Palestinians.

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Calling it now that at least one of these people was in AWB

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

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if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 80 days ago • 225 comments

Very much beside the point but it drives me nuts that he's wearing a hat and t-shirt in the Oval Offfice

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

F**k Elon Musk

submitted 111 days ago • 334 comments

CORPORATE DEI WEBINAR: If you meet someone from East Asia, you should avoid asking "So which kind are you?" JACUZZI DEALERSHIP OWNER: Well, that's it. Time to start the Fourth Reich.

submitted 112 days ago • 78 comments

Congressman @beyer.house.gov will be going to USAID today with colleagues to shine a light on what is happening there, I think others will join us. Figuring out details now and will share but flagging now for press and public in the area

submitted 115 days ago • 506 comments

a) meatloaf is good, especially smoked b) you are describing a burger

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I am constantly insulted on this platform

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

DC is a great food city and us Washingtonians need to get over ourselves and just not let takes like this get under our skin

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Genuine curiosity about the world is undervalued

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

Thanks to Elon Musk and Donald Trump, Republicans cut $190 million for pediatric cancer research from the funding bill. Congrats to DOGE on their first victory.

submitted 161 days ago • 293 comments

Iranian and Algerian revolutions let's goooooooo

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We need to grant Jeff Nippard US citizenship ASAP

submitted 171 days ago • 0 comments

I love my pit mix, he's a great dog, but this 100%

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

This sucks for responsible dog owners too! My dog got into it with an off-leash dog (both were fine), and *I* got yelled and cursed at for not getting out of his way.

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

just like i spent the last 4 years yelling about the need for urgency and severity in dealing with trump/j6 and scotus, i will probably spend a good portion of the next 4 years yelling that the dem party needs to embrace an anti-corruption and pro-reform identity first and foremost

submitted 190 days ago • 36 comments

South Africa under apartheid is another good reference point, if you must look to foreign examples

submitted 190 days ago • 0 comments

I won't pretend to be an expert on how we should talk about Trump II but I do think relentlessly hammering the fact that the far right is insanely corrupt and self-dealing is a decent strategy.

submitted 191 days ago • 10 comments

That Nate Cohn knows what he’s talking about

submitted 193 days ago • 0 comments

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

submitted 197 days ago • 119 comments

Americans:

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Well I'm fucked.

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It was like this in the wake of 2020 as well - you would think based on the punditry that Biden lost

submitted 197 days ago • 0 comments

Trump and the GOP care about American Jews in the same way they care about women's sports

submitted 198 days ago • 0 comments

I think people are way too convinced that there just won't be elections anymore, which is mildly put, unhelpful and also again makes me groan because the same people keep complaining about the information environment.

submitted 198 days ago • 11 comments

Mike Duncan couldn't have pivoted to sci-fi at a better time

submitted 199 days ago • 0 comments