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I follow French politics a lot, as many of you know. Any effort for mass layoffs of public sector employees there would create such huge strikes and marches, the level of disruption and paralysis would be biblical.

submitted 3 days ago • 642 comments

if you were accidentally fired while transporting a nuclear warhead and currently need a place to stay with said warhead please know that i have a sizable backyard and an abiding desire to be a nuclear power

submitted 3 days ago • 506 comments

Here is the ad the Washington Post accepted and then rejected:

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

I welcome this bold and exciting vision of a future where we cast off the yoke of learning, self development and personal fulfilment and instead spend our lives repeatedly typing slightly different versions of the same question into an LLM in the vain hope of getting a bit of fucking sense out of it

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“He visited Dachau and offered a few canned remarks about how inspired he was by the stories of the ‘unspeakable evil’ he witnessed… Then, when his trip to Europe concludes next week, he’ll return to the United States to continue overseeing the construction of internment camps to house migrants.”

submitted 8 days ago • 62 comments

I have not been especially political, as a physicist, in my classroom before--though I have called out bullshit. But I am for sure now, because fuck these fascists. Einstein, Bohr, Meitner, Born, Franck, Frisch, Szilard, Schroedinger, Wigner, von Neumann, Fermi. All left because of fascists.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

New Indiana Law Requires Women Voters To Show Husband’s ID

submitted 10 days ago • 487 comments

I am once again begging New York City to Eminent Domain every last Trump property in NYC and use it for migrant housing. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

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submitted 10 days ago • 59 comments

Hell yeah, go puppygirl hacker polycule!

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Pretty cool to see @nathantankus.bsky.social cited in the NY AG's lawsuit against Trump!! www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

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The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again. They hit the shore and burned their ships.

submitted 11 days ago • 128 comments

ICYMI I covered Marko Elez's strange sojourn out of, & back into, government & why the 19 state Attorney General lawsuit lowers the stakes of Elez's movements (at least as far as we can tell right now). Speaking of, the lawsuit cites Notes on the Crises! www.crisesnotes.com/day-eleven-o...

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

All this for ten bucks - A SomethingAwful Forum History Ft. MLYP | Western Kabuki Podcast

submitted 16 days ago • 31 comments

Misinfo: bad information. Disinfo: bad information circulated in order to bring about specific goals (the "d" is for "deliberate," I like to say) Counter misinfo: fact-checking Counter disinfo: debunking; is highly public, often confrontational, can appear very partisan, and makes you sound nuts

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

What do they think happens to civil rights lawyers & activists? It just amazes me.

submitted 13 days ago • 135 comments

For anybody making wildly broad misstatements about "The Left" not taking Trump seriously early on, here's a "leftist" drawing of Trump from July 2016.

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

This moment continues to feel like February 2020 for fascism: smart people who pay attention are freaking out, your average sea cucumber-like American is either totally unaware or blithely assuming everything will Be Fine.

submitted 13 days ago • 112 comments

The TeslaJugend simply do not know how much they don't fucking know.

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I wrote about the idiotic and anti-human vision that is currently replacing the republic. I will now go back to thinking about what a cleansing flood might look like. defector.com/billionaire-...