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most of the return-to-office mandates come from a similar place: managers who need to justify their own existence. because let's be real — if you can't rely on adults to work well from home, you did a shitty job of hiring.

submitted 51 minutes ago • 26 comments

Trolling is a kind of complicity theater. Either you look away, in which case you’ve accepted a role—”see no evil”—or you “take the bait,” in which case you’re playing a part, even if, as I am here, you’re in conflict with the whole production. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/tingles

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

Guy who doesn’t even respond to the mothers of his children: reply to my email or you’re fired

submitted 6 hours ago • 468 comments

Me: what do you mean I can’t return it? I thought you had a 90 day return policy and I got this 53 days ago. Costco employee: We don’t sell “The Year 2025” so you can’t return it. No one sells that. Me: I would like to speak to the manager of the Gregorian calendar.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

"Karen is suddenly very worried about her special needs childrens’ education after voting for man who wants to dismantle Dept of Education" @leopardsatemyface.bsky.social #LeopardsAteMyFace

submitted 13 hours ago • 18 comments

“A lot of my neighbors that voted for Trump, they walking around scared, crying, nervous” #LeopardsAteMyFace

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

If you take Canadian oil out of the equation, Canada actually has a trade deficit, and the U.S. has a surplus — of $58 billion. We supply cheap oil to the USA to ensure North American energy independence, so North America can never again be held hostage by OPEC countries. #Canada #Trump #cdnpoli

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 21 hours ago • 564 comments

Oh, this is very sad! People will have one more chance to see Stewart--as her warm and funny self--in the upcoming HBO documentary Pee-wee as Himself (don't miss it). RIP to a truly sweet presence.

submitted 20 hours ago • 5 comments

Worst. Episode. EVER.

submitted 22 hours ago • 831 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 1 day ago • 1074 comments

This Saturday, Feb 22, we hit Tesla showrooms everywhere. ⚡ Sell your Teslas, dump your stock, join the picket lines. ⚡ Hurting Tesla is stopping Musk. ⚡ Stopping Musk will help save lives and our democracy. Sign up or make an event at teslatakedown.com Go anonymously, masked. #TeslaTakedown

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Did Musk’s or Bannon’s Hitlergrüẞ better reflect our traditions? Whose Sieg Heil did more to Make America Great Again? Ross Douthat and Josh Barro drop by to discuss.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

The purge of the military has begun. We’re getting closer to the time when every member of the military, active or retired, is gonna have to look deep inside themselves and decide where they stand. www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

When they fire the Chair of the Joint Chiefs and the Chief of the Navy next week, they’ll use words like DEI. The left will chalk it up to racism and sexism. But that’s only part of it. Mostly they just want people who they believe will carry out illegal or unethical orders.

submitted 2 days ago • 93 comments

Jump in. Let’s go punch Nazis. #photography

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

You can’t make this shit up

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936

submitted 1 day ago • 132 comments

Here's one of the warnings I gave in an article before the US election. It's devastating to see it all happening. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

dear theatre, tall tales

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Truth.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

21 February 1869 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Alida Elisabeth Polak, was born in Leeuwarden. In October 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

LGBTQ history videos find new home after PBS pulls content due to Trump executive orders https://www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025/02/19/nyc-public-schools-publishes-lgbtq-history-videos-deleted-by-pbs-wnet/

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

If you haven't yet, make an account with Social Security dot gov. See how much you've paid into SS over your lifetime. It's YOUR money that you've loaned to the government until your retirement. It's not a fucking "entitlement" beyond the fact that only YOU are entitled to it. Elon Musk is not.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

I sit on a committee for the Excellence in ScComm awards. This afternoon, I wrote to my fellow members that unless & until @nationalacademies.org “actively combat political censorship instead of capitulating to illegal, racist demands, I will not participate in any further service on their behalf.“

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"

submitted 2 days ago • 1131 comments

It'll be really nice if you also mentioned that this is both illegal and probably unconstitutional as the post office is a constitutional body

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Head shop Annapurna on Telegraph Avenue, central to the Berkeley's counterculture world, has closed after 53 years.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Again, the two most impactful lies of the past half-century have been “Trump is a good businessman” and “Republicans are the good-at-economy party”

submitted 1 day ago • 30 comments

Over on X, simple tweets by my colleague Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution have been blocked. They were nothing but video of a town hall held by Rep. Rich McCormick R-GA where he was asked questions about DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 276 comments

Well that should do it for mail-in ballots.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

NO KINGS

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Politico’s owner liked Vance cozying up to the Nazi-tainted AfD. Good to know.

submitted 2 days ago • 200 comments

Hakeem Jeffries earnestly believing that this is a great time for him to go on a book tour is how you know not nearly enough of these guys are reading the vibes on bluesky

submitted 2 days ago • 101 comments

OMG. This movie scared the sht out of me. Just looking at this image gives me shivers. Still. bsky.app/profile/matt...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

THR: “.. Paramount now signaling that it’s prepared to go on the offensive .. leveraging the threat of uncovering information about Trump’s financials, including with respect to his social media company .. and the cryptocurrency he launched, in discovery.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

submitted 2 days ago • 285 comments

Elon and Trump show how wrong sci-fi writers have been about villains. They are always making them evil geniuses, but it is now clear that sheer stupidity is a core trait of these types of villains. Without stupidity they would be totally different people, and never would have risen as such.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

"We are in the midst of a global fight between Western liberal democracy and authoritarian government, and in this fight, the United States has just switched sides and signed up with the authoritarian camp." - Francis Fukuyama www.persuasion.community/p/the-ultima...

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

A very happy birthday to one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment