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more apps should be like this.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He sounds worse than Biden at the debate

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

If you de-zoot the toots here, he’s saying he spent $44b on twitter as part of his right wing political project—which is both obvious and something you can’t say in the newspaper.

submitted 2 days ago • 105 comments

I should just give up, but… Democrats should imagine what Republicans would have said and done if Merrick Garland had gone to, like, Netroots Nation, called Don Jr a crackhead, and mused about fabricating criminal charges against Joe Biden's enemies, and then say and do that.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant. Today:

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

egg gone slate.com/news-and-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

when i say that there are people who care less about workers and their rights than they do the primacy of a masculinist blue collar identity politics, i am taking about people like sean o’brien

submitted 3 days ago • 587 comments

yesterday, my late afternoon pick-me-up was an espresso and a San Pelligreno. today's breakfast was sardines. I am approaching my final form as an elderly Italian man.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is the epitome of privileging the lie that Trump counts on. Not to blast the quoted post, but it's the perfect example of why we need @george-lakoff.com's Truth Sandwich

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Another way to put this: Musk and his twerps have exposed us to pandemics, broken science, stolen all your data, endangered the U.S. payments system, threatened air traffic control, and cut off HIV medication to 20m people in order to save ::checks notes:: 2/10th of a percent of the federal budget.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

For no particular reason, what the Commonwealth of Virginia thinks about kings.

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

Baseball-card drawing of George III, based on the classic 1975 “Schoolhouse Rock” segment…

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

See? Now you can go ahead and buy your OWN cancer research, and hire your own air traffic controllers, and fund your own emergency management for floods and fires.

submitted 3 days ago • 23 comments

the world's richest military is stealing food out of its servicemembers' mouths while failing to pass an audit but phew thank god we got rid of the department of education

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

today's free social media advice for sitting legislators: you gotta stop logging on to say "this is unacceptable" unless you are prepared with a CALL TO ACTION or to tell us what YOU are CURRENTLY doing about it. saying "this is bad" but louder helps nobody.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Whatever else emerges in time about the Delta crash in Canada, one thing is certain: the importance & amazing professionalism of flight attendants who safely evacuated the plane in a matter of seconds.

submitted 4 days ago • 1417 comments

There's a union out there called AFSCME and they're busting their balls for you doing a lot of shit work you take for granted

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

Go ahead. Let the people see you for what you are.

submitted 4 days ago • 5977 comments

For folks in DC with animal pals

submitted 5 days ago • 107 comments

“We are not prepared for the next pandemic” buried in the top right corner of this cover, congrats again to @theatlantic.com for prioritizing the most consequential issues of the day

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

dammit.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I feel like I'm going insane every time I see a media story about DOGE that doesn't also mention the fact that the Government Accountability Office exists and performs the exact function that DOGE pretends to, only in a credibly constitutional, non-partisan, and conflict-of-interest-free manner

submitted 6 days ago • 186 comments