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Great to see The Guardian recycling an article of mine from 2023 without attribution: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html as https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/apr/14/the-big-idea-will-sci-fi-end-up-destroying-the-world

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

The new most crucial rule of stock market investing just dropped:

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Look, for over a year, one brave Cassandra was warning you that massive tariffs were coming and that they’d wreak havoc on the economy. But no one listened to Donald Trump.

submitted 18 days ago • 47 comments

“If Harris wins this election, the result will be a Kamala economic crash. .. A 1929-style depression. When I win the election, we will immediately begin a brand new Trump economic boom.” - Trump, 8/14/24

submitted 19 days ago • 120 comments

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

submitted 28 days ago • 5498 comments

You use the officials USGovt secure channels to hide communications from bad actors. You use Signal to hide communications from the USGovt.

submitted 28 days ago • 142 comments

Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

submitted 29 days ago • 516 comments

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

submitted 39 days ago • 497 comments

House Democrats are very clear: We’re asking Senate Democrats to vote no on this CR, which is not clean.

submitted 41 days ago • 278 comments

Donald. Fucking. Trump.

submitted 42 days ago • 291 comments

Again, this should be the end of it, & the fact that we’re tolerating it is both a massive national security crisis & a massive constitutional crisis. Maybe nothing ever mattered, but I don’t think that’s actually true, & one wonders why we are so deeply unserious now. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 42 days ago • 144 comments

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

submitted 45 days ago • 1158 comments

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

submitted 52 days ago • 101 comments

From @reuters.com: President Donald Trump's sweeping foreign aid freeze has stalled a United Nations program in Mexico aimed at stopping imported fentanyl chemicals from reaching the country's drug cartels, according to eight people familiar with the situation. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

submitted 57 days ago • 88 comments

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

submitted 62 days ago • 1359 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 66 days ago • 5587 comments

I maxed out my credit card, emptied my savings account, and took out a loan to move from Alabama to Bethesda, MD. I don’t even qualify for unemployment since I’ve only worked at NIH for a month. I will be financially and medically devastated. Seeking suggestions for anywhere that’s hiring!!

submitted 67 days ago • 691 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 67 days ago • 1064 comments

Trump's incompetence is going to trash Yosemite National Park www.sfgate.com/california-p...

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

Thank you, DOGE, for clearly visualizing what incredible value the American people get from their national parks. 17,700 permanent employees making an average of $81,000 a year serving 325 million visitors annually. Is there a better value in the entire federal government?

submitted 69 days ago • 42 comments

Representation without taxation for a handful of billionaires, taxation without representation for the rest of us.

submitted 74 days ago • 157 comments

His administration is literally composed of men who beat and batter women.

submitted 76 days ago • 329 comments

I think Americans, blessed with relatively stable government for a long time, assume there is someone, some adult, who will step in and make things right before the President does anything REALLY bad. There’s not.

submitted 79 days ago • 718 comments

Just a reminder that Musk couldn’t get a top level security clearance. And he was under investigation for violating the terms of the clearance he did have. Now he has your Social Security number, your tax returns, and is unilaterally deciding who the government does and does not pay.

submitted 79 days ago • 153 comments

“Trump’s Airplane Crash” so easy, so true

submitted 82 days ago • 29 comments

So the most powerful man in the world and the richest man in the world clumsily fired a bunch of senior air traffic staff, caused the worst domestic air disaster since 9/11, and then tried to blame black people

submitted 82 days ago • 60 comments

Sounds like a cheap hit. But maybe it wasn’t a great time to freeze hiring of new air traffic controllers for no reason why there was already a shortage. I’m not sure this is a stretch.

submitted 83 days ago • 97 comments

had to look this up to make sure it was real www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

submitted 83 days ago • 260 comments

Anyway as they pull bodies out of the Potomac bear in mind that the guiding ethos of Trumpism is that the TSA, NTSB, and FAA should be radically downsized and run by dudes whose main qualifications are loyalty are a willingness to say “cunt” a lot

submitted 83 days ago • 567 comments

only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 83 days ago • 827 comments

I've never come closer to believing in some sort of They Live/"V" lizard people situation.

submitted 83 days ago • 5 comments

I asked RFK Jr. a simple question:

submitted 83 days ago • 549 comments

I’m running to be the next Governor of Michigan to ensure everyone gets a fair shot. I'm a mom, military spouse, marathoner, educator — and Michigan’s Secretary of State. www.youtube.com/watch?v=02ci...

submitted 91 days ago • 97 comments