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sincerely wondering: do they show this shit on the national news?

submitted 8 hours ago • 12 comments

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Hey, did you know there's an alternative to ChatGPT that makes sense economically and doesn't destroy the environment? It's called English majors and they will happily fix all of your documents for the low price of health insurance and a living wage.

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

Feels like this has never been truer in my lifetime than now

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

i do not think the mainstream press is equipped or capable of covering ideological white nationalists and eugenicists as such, or even capable of noting that this is what they are. it is related to the wide belief that racism is simply a matter of manners.

submitted 3 days ago • 247 comments

On today’s episode of “He’s Tearing This S**t Up”—Trump plans to dismantle NOAA, shutting down climate research and weather labs. In Texas, that means fewer hurricane warnings, less drought data, & more risk to our communities. This isn’t just a budget cut—it’s a threat to our safety.

submitted 4 days ago • 245 comments

Curtailing people’s ability to read widely and carefully, to locate, assess, and compare different sources for themselves, and to write in their own voice about what they find and what it means, is arguably more effective than censorship. It is also one of the most obvious effects of generative AI.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

@america.government hey check this out

submitted 6 days ago • 19 comments

Tragic and Trump-inflicted. 💔 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/personal-fin...

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

Good morning. A reminder that historically when the US has wanted to punish other countries, it imposed sanctions on them, cutting their people off from global trade, hoping to create enough economic havoc that they rein in their leaders. Trump has imposed economic sanctions on the American people.

submitted 6 days ago • 45 comments

Ok what’s going on here? Yields are going up which means bond prices are going down. Fewer buyers of the world’s safest asset. Normally when the economy slows, there’s a flight to safety, not away from it. Means the world may be abandoning America. We are flirting with a true crisis.

submitted 7 days ago • 436 comments

Do you remember when I told you that your institutional repository was on a list for a future purge? And to save copies of everything in multiple places? It's time you prioritized that. Now.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

My latest update is a little less uplifting than usual, but it’s not all bad! If there is ANY help you can give, we will gratefully accept it, even if the only thing you can do is share the link. Thank you all. You mean the world to us, and we will be eternally grateful. ❤️ gofund.me/4afef757

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I saw somewhere that attorneys aren’t even able to locate their clients? How the hell are they supposed to file habeas petitions in the proper venue when they don’t know where their clients are detained?

submitted 8 days ago • 97 comments

Brilliant economic analysis by Marcus Hutchins @malwaretech.com

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Theres always a listed 'reason' why each case happens, but they lie. The real reason is that they have a quota, and they will make up any reason if they're not meeting it that day. Don't visit the USA.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness

submitted 11 days ago • 30 comments

Once again, in a functioning democracy -- and more to the point, with a media working as it should! -- this would be a huge, epic, what-the-fuck scandal.

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

This week, a growing number of people seem to be grasping that we cannot go back—only forward. That's hard, and I'm proud of folks for getting there. Here's the good news: instead of trying to save a broken system, we can think about building something new. It won't be easy, but it's possible.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

submitted 12 days ago • 563 comments

I find myself thinking about historian Robert Paxton’s 2004 definition of fascism far too often than I’d like these days.

submitted 13 days ago • 35 comments

If law firms won't fight for themselves, why should any client believe that the firm will fight for them? newrepublic.com/post/193505/...

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

Disobey in advance.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

First, heaven be the record to my speech

submitted 14 days ago • 10 comments

today and always

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

@aoc.bsky.social please have a rally in Asheville - the turnout would be Delicious. #2028

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments