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Left infighting in 2025

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

We heard Jeff Bezos wants @postopinions.bsky.social to focus on "defending personal liberties," so we put together some ideas for him to pitch 🧵 For starters, the US controls the lives of more than 5.7 million people through the carceral system www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A thing that has been driving me crazy: when media or politicians say things like "this is a dangerous move toward authoritarianism/oligarchy/a constitutional crisis" or some such. Why are we always "moving in that direction?" We're there, bro! It's already happened! Let's act like it!

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I built a simple tool that checks WhiteHouse.gov for new Executive Orders and saves them to a spreadsheet. There have been so many that it’s hard to keep up. I’m also thinking of creating an email alert system -- if you're interested, let me know? github.com/eledroos/EO-...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Anti-vax policy and advocacy is not "skepticism" or "hesitancy." It means murdering children. That is the real world outcome of this lie.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

There is zero political education and so much disinfo slop out there that regular people don't understand the goals of the administration and think the administration reflects whatever their fantasy version of the administration is.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

bunch of employees who work at the government facility where they keep ET wet freaking out because they need five things for the email but all they did last week was spray water on ET

submitted 4 days ago • 70 comments

Gonna need people to stop referring to the Eagles as "America's Team." We hate that. That's the Cowboys. You will notice how they are extremely shitty. The Eagles play for the Free City of Philadelphia. They are Philadelphia's Team. Show them some respect and get it right.

submitted 5 days ago • 232 comments

Looking at the connection between gun violence and support for reform prosecutors in the 2024 Cook County Dem primary, where the reformer narrowly lost. Graphs are broken out by voting precinct majority race/ethnicity, gun violence = total shootings over 10 yrs within 1000yds of precinct center.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"President Trumps," no, no, no. The proper plural is "The Presidents Trump."

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

To translate this into a more common currency: every dollar spent auditing the top 0.1% returns roughly 9 eggs.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

our election security agency is now open to a teenager who was verifiably part of a CSAM extortion ring

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Let’s see what motivates this guy to join DOG…oh

submitted 12 days ago • 230 comments

Deputy AG Lionel Hutz quickly scribbling an ampersand onto it.

submitted 12 days ago • 56 comments

The fun thing about America having centuries of unbroken institutional legitimacy is that the President can publicly say "I am doing a coup, illegally, in order to break the law for my own benefit" and 95% of people on both sides will say, "Oh no, he's not, that'd be crazy."

submitted 13 days ago • 69 comments

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

submitted 13 days ago • 386 comments

like, this is just fucking insane. the government is pretending that it passed the Inverse Civil Rights Act overnight and everyone is acting like it's a real law.

submitted 14 days ago • 51 comments

If George Soros held an Oval Office press conference explaining his plans for the Biden administration and then the State Department awarded a nine figure contract to the Open Society Foundations then Washington D.C. would’ve consisted of mostly ash and blood within 72 hours.

submitted 16 days ago • 51 comments

THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup

submitted 16 days ago • 64 comments

"Well, well, well, if it isn't the predictable outcome of the bad-faith moral panic we co-produced for years"

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

putting it out there that when the Eagles don't get the white house invite, they can come party at my house instead

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

i was on broad street for like 30 minutes. it's fun but also cold. also i am old now. go birds.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

man, the fix is in already?

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

hey go birds

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I have an idea

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

www.inquirer.com/news/pennsyl...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

the middle distance is 2025's trendiest place to stare

submitted 23 days ago • 8 comments

Smart bird. Get out of there! www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...

submitted 24 days ago • 3 comments

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

submitted 24 days ago • 67 comments

The lashing out during the collapse of American Empire is stupid, schlocky, and shockingly evil all at once.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is a genocidal war crime endorsed by the president of the United States

submitted 24 days ago • 888 comments

The "anti-World War III candidate"

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NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”

submitted 24 days ago • 532 comments

Hey can one of Elon's teenagers to delete my student loans while you're in there?

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Bumping this again. Are you a Philly-area researcher affected by the comms freezes, health data purges, or any other Trump administration policies? I'd love to talk to you for an @inquirer.com story on how health providers and researchers have been impacted.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

How is this legal? How? Why is every top Democrat not outside the Treasury right now, holding a press conference at least? Or filing a lawsuit?? I am losing my mind.

submitted 26 days ago • 373 comments

Even the governors that suck are doing better than Congresspeople

submitted 27 days ago • 58 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 28 days ago • 451 comments

the Dems are waiting to see how coups poll before they really respond to the coup that is happening

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

PRESIDENTS CANNOT PARDON CIVIL JUDGMENTS AND THEY CANNOT PARDON STATE CONVICTIONS. My God, ppl, enough w the excessive-to-the-point-of-wrong helplessness. Things suck, but there ARE ways non-Fed actors can actually fight back. Over-dooming isn’t sophisticated or smart, it’s just … fatalism.

submitted 28 days ago • 10 comments

I am frantically dumping all of the data I possibly can from the Census data API. I hope someone smarter than me is doing the same. Thank you, tidycensus.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A new era of government censorship has begun. It started with the silencing of scientific speech, when the admin blocked release of research on bird flu. But MAGA has also cracked down on other wrongthink—on race, geography (!), and of course Trump himself www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

submitted 28 days ago • 262 comments

If Elon Musk's goons are downloading all this data (including non-public, protected data) that they are deleting from federal websites -- which is likely the case!!! -- then we are actually witnessing a heist job in broad daylight

submitted 28 days ago • 21 comments

Ask yourself what you’d think about another country if a new regime quickly prohibited all government agencies from communicating with the public, then began deleting data from government websites that it deemed unacceptable.

submitted 28 days ago • 42 comments

It's not as loud and flashy for the news as January 6th was, but I hope people realize there is an actual coup happening right now.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments