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for less than 5% of the defense budget we could effectively end homelessness in the US

mom can you pick me up they're inventing "police-involved shooting" language for the sieg heil

Beastie Boys songs are even funnier when they became socially conscious and started doing rhymes like to rock the mic is my intention / I’m smart like the women at the Seneca Falls Convention

Absolutely dire stuff going on at Meta

wow you can do this???? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

The plane/FAA stuff is certainly bad. I would also like officials to treat the tens of thousands of vehicular deaths per year on US roadways as the emergency it continues to be

that works out to $105k per home point access block... 7 stories. homes ranging from 1-3BRs. all homes w/ private outdoor space... most units are corner aspect. the american code official's mind can't comprehend this...

i guess i never posted about it here before but president's day seems like as good a holiday as any to bring it back up: we don't have nearly enough federal holidays. that's why i think we should create around 30 more, each anchored to the friday or monday around a significant union army victory

I don't agree that "Liz Cheney is very heroic"

i cannot stress enough that at the very least everyone in leadership needs to go. all of them. probably most electeds over 70 too. primary them all. while we're at it can we just drop the entirety of the ny dem party on a deserted island

www.politico.com/news/magazin... I never would have guessed

Pringles and Little Caesar's marketing teams gotta fight to the death after this

Super Bowl commercials heavy on the sweaty AI apologia

Ozempic got Tom Brady out here looking like Handsome Squidward

In preparation for today’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, state police forced over 100 homeless men and women onto buses under threat of arrest, dumping them in an unheated warehouse. Tents destroyed, belongings lost. Press are barred from the warehouse. The price tag for this cruelty? $17.5 million

Marquette & St John's headed to the wire in a classic heavyweight Big East bout rn, if you're into that

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

New from 404 Media: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries, forcing librarians to sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI. www.404media.co/ai-generated...

Democrats moving to make crimes illegal is a perfect example of why they are unfit for this moment and have disappointed the do-something people for decades now

The death toll in Gaza has already been updated to 61,709. The true scale of Israel's atrocities is only just emerging - and officials must face justice for every single life lost. So should those who continued to send weapons, knowing full well they were enabling genocide.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

these K-State lavender kits are clean ✨

Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless

my outsider perspective on US politics is that it seems like i spend 4 years getting told the democrats can't do the thing because they need just one more vote, and then the republicans get in and can do whatever they want because half of the democrats vote with them

the thing about Elon Musk & Donald Trump is they're both products of decades of boosterism by the same "liberal" media apparatus that is now wailing about "all my Norms gone" daily. Doctor Frankenstein, heal thyself

i was telling my husband "i don't filter my notifications on bluesky bc i think it's rude. my account is my castle and i am the queen and it would be rude of me not to listen to what my subjects have to say" and he was like "shouldn't you be getting ready for work"

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

when was that exactly

You can't distill in here, this is the Aggregation Room

It sure seems like the president can Just Do a whole lot of things, despite assurances by Teams Biden + Harris that this was not the case

Dan Snyder will be a miserable, pathetic worm until the day he dies and I think that's beautiful

If I lived in Twin Peaks I wouldn't have let all that stuff happen