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“Kafka name-checked three words in” feels like the lawyer equivalent of noticing a small red dot appearing between your eyes

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Lots of people asking about my plans for the 2028 election. I have a new, radical two-step process I intend to deploy: 1. Vote for my preferred candidate in the primary 2. Vote for whichever dem wins the primary in the general

submitted 5 days ago • 511 comments

www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

Get the sense that attack in Colorado was the work of a single individual and thus hard to prevent. But worth recalling how how many FBI have already been pulled off counterterrorism and other forms of crimes for immigrant round up duty.

submitted 6 days ago • 136 comments

Notice how Zelensky conducted his strike in Russia WITHOUT using Signal chat.

submitted 6 days ago • 308 comments

Isn't it ironic? 🎶

submitted 6 days ago • 168 comments

Pretty wild to make your entire case about how immigrants are lawless freeloaders, but having to go to their workplaces and court hearings to arrest them.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

headline construction masterclass

submitted 7 days ago • 490 comments

How do we even know they’re ICE?

submitted 7 days ago • 43 comments

"Because everyone deserves an education to have a fighting chance against those who would take advantage of them. Because every person deserves the critical thinking skills that naturally follow reading and writing." -Jess Piper

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Here’s the thing, if they are picking up folks working in the country illegally, I’m going to need to see some white guys also being arrested for employing people working illegally in the country. Otherwise, it’s just racism.

submitted 9 days ago • 988 comments

By firing IRS auditors who went after wealthy tax cheats, Elon Musk's DOGE could cost up to $323 billion in tax revenue over the next 10 years. It was never about being efficient or effective. www.cbsnews.com/news/irs-dog...

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A 14-year-old boy was shot and killed in Florida last week when a group of teens was filming a video with multiple guns and one discharged, but you might not have heard about it because it’s the sort of thing that happens every single day in America. It’s long past time we did something about that.

submitted 9 days ago • 19 comments

the fact that we don’t have @aoc.bsky.social running messaging for the democratic party tells you everything that’s wrong with the democratic party

submitted 10 days ago • 54 comments

Tl;dr “We blew up your tax dollars again, guys. And we’re gonna keep doing it.”

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

ok I feel completely insane asking this but like weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

submitted 11 days ago • 1098 comments

Alison Gopnik describes AI as "Stone Soup" and anytime you can reference a vaguely socialist folktale from Eastern Europe and apply it to Silicon Valley technology I am here for it. buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/ai-is-ston...

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Switching from Trump’s Amazon to the more diverse, equitable, and inclusive Costco is easier than you think. I made the switch. Now everything I need is delivered by Costco right to my door in two hours instead of two days - and without supporting oligarchs!

submitted 13 days ago • 418 comments

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Educated folks are less likely to for vote for Republicans, so Republicans defund education...

submitted 14 days ago • 72 comments

📚 ¿y tù? 📖

submitted 14 days ago • 179 comments

Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.

submitted 16 days ago • 261 comments

from Chapter 25 of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Being wealthy isn't a virtue. Being poor isn't a character flaw.

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments

The big “why do you hate AI?” Thread got comments and quotes turned off, but here’s the main reason I hate AI: It’s being developed by the worst people on the planet solely to enrich themselves at the expense and labor of the world’s vulnerable populations. Everything else stems from that

submitted 21 days ago • 32 comments

I’d like work requirements for Congress…

submitted 19 days ago • 283 comments

If you need to visualize how the book restriction bill SB13 would damage Texas schools, here’s the just-released Free-Response Question 3 (Set 2) from this year’s AP Literature exam. And, next to it, here’s the same question with the books that would be banned from schools under the bill whited out.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

#copyediting It should be: ...she's no longer "HOT"? [also, the comma after "that" is unnecessary, and so, arguably, is the one after "SWIFT"]

submitted 22 days ago • 11 comments

arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake

submitted 23 days ago • 169 comments

Mary Oliver, always on point.

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

why in god's name would you think 40 percent of the phone calls to social security centers were fraud. i cannot begin to process the mind that would think tht

submitted 23 days ago • 43 comments

I only need 5 minutes to complete my financial disclosures every year cause I own zero stocks. The same should be true for all members of Congress. We must ban Congressional stock trading.

submitted 23 days ago • 316 comments

The generals, we have these very fine generals, they’re not as smart as me, and these generals, they come up to me, some of them with tears in their eyes and they tell me “Sir, the revolutionaries, we can’t see them in their browns and greens” and, you know it’s very important, the red coat uniform

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

The thing about AI is that it’s that episode of the office where Michael listens to every step his GPS tells him even as he sees that he’s driving into a lake except the gps is AI bros and Michael is every ceo of every industry for some reason

submitted 167 days ago • 5 comments

Good morning New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story www.ft.com/content/9019...

submitted 23 days ago • 444 comments

So that wrongly-deported guy the Supreme Court ordered returned to the US, he still hasn't been?

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

Happye Mrs. Dallowaye Daye. “She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

Jamal Khashoggi -- remember his name.

submitted 24 days ago • 161 comments

Harris made expanded coverage for home care—such as for people taking care of elderly relatives—a main policy plank of her campaign. Trump tried to cut healthcare in his first term, and ran for a second lying about waste and vowing to funnel money to rich people. Americans voted for the latter.

submitted 24 days ago • 9 comments

Always the same damn names on this list

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I am so tired of waiting, Aren't you, For the world to become good And beautiful and kind? —Langston Hughes

submitted 25 days ago • 7 comments