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All I want for Christmas is for the media to add the Bluesky Butterfly "Share" button on each article beside the X, FB, and other buttons.

submitted 76 days ago • 543 comments

As ever, the loss of something good and useful for Americans is framed as a loss for Democrats — in the mass media, everything becomes just a political football to be kicked back and forth instead of examined for its impact on everyday citizens regardless of political party.

submitted 56 days ago • 138 comments

Ian Hislop, "Kemi Badenoch said this meant we had to have an election.. Yet in 2019 she said we govern by elections not petitions" Victoria Coren Mitchell, "How many people need to sign before we rerun the election?" Ian Hislop, "Signing with a bunch of Russian bots isn't the same as voting"

submitted 90 days ago • 21 comments

Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius was born #OTD in 1790. 🧪 🔭 He is best known for devising a surface that not even the New York Times could find a way to both-sides.

submitted 102 days ago • 25 comments

I imagine today anti-rumpians/2025ers suffer just as do Justices Jackson, Sotomayor, and Kagan when outvoted. Each of them at what used to be the pinnacle of American jurisprudence. All they can do is write brilliant dissents. The roberts-6 are responsible for this electoral travesty, too

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

Jo Brand line from Have I Got News for You re 10 Commandments as a “To Do List” for the insurrectionist

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

Another day of remembering that we all watched January 6 unfold on tv and yet he was allowed to run for president again.

submitted 148 days ago • 11 comments

i feel comfortable saying that at least four members of the court probably outright believe that donald trump is the legitimate president of the united states

submitted 148 days ago • 66 comments

Which U S President may have been reincarnated as what actor and comedian ?

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Which U S President may have been reincarnated as what actor and comedian ?

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

oh look, T-Mobile says the FCC can't require that all wireless phones be unlocked because the recent Supreme Court Chevron ruling killed regulatory independence who could have predicted this sort of thing happening constantly, across every single consumer protection effort

submitted 157 days ago • 28 comments

Playing Letter Boxed in NYT: declares wordle « not a word » though I suppose at some point it will morph from a proper noun a la xerox or google into a generic verb.

submitted 159 days ago • 0 comments

Amazing transformation. Utrecht, Netherlands.

submitted 171 days ago • 10 comments

Such quality, vibrancy and craft 108 social housing apartments - that’s right, this is social housing!!! By Monadnock Architects, Hilversum

submitted 170 days ago • 1 comment

#TakashiKashiwagi (carving) #ShinjiTsuchimochi(drawing) Ginza in the rain 2019 #japanese #woodblock

submitted 170 days ago • 5 comments

Italian 'sì', Spanish 'sí' and many more Romance words for "yes" come from Latin 'sīc' (so; like that). French 'oui' doesn't. It comes from Old French 'oïl', a univerbation of 'o il', literally "yes, it (is/does/has etc.)". 'O' stemmed from Latin 'hoc' (this), which in Occitan became 'òc' (yes):

submitted 173 days ago • 8 comments

Texas is a purple state with a voter-suppression machine that keeps it red, and they're not shy about saying so.

submitted 185 days ago • 32 comments

Author James Michener served as as Pennsylvania elector in 1959. What he saw of the electoral college terrified him. He wrote about it. www.randomhousebooks.com/books/114093/

submitted 185 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 185 days ago • 4 comments

This past week highlighted just how dangerous SCOTUS is on voting cases. Sunday SCOTUS thoughts at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-ari...

submitted 186 days ago • 1 comment

Georgia voters! Since there is a new state website enabling anyone to cancel anyone else's voter registration (!!!), it's important to check to make sure your voter registration is still valid. 😐 You can do that here: mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ More info: naacp.org/articles/naa...

submitted 186 days ago • 29 comments

Funny nobody ever uses the phrase "money-losing military."

submitted 189 days ago • 2 comments