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Don't be modest, @nytimes.com, @theatlantic.com, @theguardian.com. Take a bow. What a beautiful atrocity you've built.

submitted 5 hours ago • 9 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 5 hours ago • 128 comments

Not fresh observation but the idea that “government should be run like a business” is an exceedingly stupid one that fundamentally misunderstands the purpose of a functioning democratic government. Redundancies in the event of any problem occurring are the point, not a failure or “bloat”

submitted 6 hours ago • 15 comments

Does your child want to go to college, want to go to med or grad school? The new cures for diseases, new technologies that we depend on come out of universities. #Trump, #Musk, #Vought are now killing higher education. If you haven't been paying attention, this would be a good time to wake up.

submitted 12 hours ago • 8 comments

jesus christ, government websites have been completely scrubbed of all mentions of 8” uncut tech bear seeking son swap

submitted 14 hours ago • 3 comments

Tucson cops trying to arrest a stud lesbian because they thought she was a man using the women’s restroom

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

Oh did the NCAA think fucking over their 10 transgender athletes, by acquiescing to transphobe demands, would appease them?

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

NEW: Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.

submitted 11 hours ago • 112 comments

We might consider our government a democracy when the people deliberately sabotaging it like this are in jail.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Say nothing, lil comrade!

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

“The new administration has, both in broad strokes and in rather backroom bureaucratic ways, stopped the processes by which the N.I.H. funds biomedical research in the nation,” said Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of Pittsburgh. Via Ben Mueller/NYT: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/s...

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

“The University of Pittsburgh has put its Ph.D. admissions on ice. The school confirmed Friday that there would be no new Ph.D. offers of admission while Pitt works to understand how reduced federal aid could impact the institution.” www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

Important to recognize that breaking public orgs in lasting ways is the point. Definitely not efficiency. Making many things less efficient. Definitely not savings. Vast majority of taxpayers are losing out, not gaining. Destruction to facilitate oligarchical power, and should be covered as such.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

$100B is about 30% of all climate spending in the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest (and only) federal climate law the US has ever passed

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Among those Trump and Musk fired at the FAA: - Lawyers who help keep drunk or reckless pilots out of the skies - Air traffic control support staff - Employees who track potential new flying hazards like cranes - Staffers who medically clear pilots to fly www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

can someone let the senile president’s eldest son know that his father’s chief vizier wants to impregnate his teen daughter

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

Sure man, great point. Anyway, time to open up the pages of The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The LA Times, The Chicago Tribune and the Boston Globe and see what the thought leaders of consensus liberalism in the United States have been talking about for the past eight years.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

submitted 1 day ago • 259 comments

We’re being ruled by the biggest fucking losers on the planet.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

Merch from local radical abortion facilitators

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I think a lot of those guys aren’t nazis — I think they just believe all the same stuff and have the same goals and act the same way and do the same salutes. But I could see how you could make that mistake.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

The only man in history to have fifteen kids and be a virgin

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

drugs have taken too many beloved celebrities from us over the years but drugs also have a rare chance right now to radically rehabilitate their image

submitted 1 day ago • 144 comments

Dead within six months. Take it to the bank.

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 1 day ago • 1573 comments

Some interesting posts re: John Fetterman's staff turnover

submitted 1 day ago • 73 comments

love when people perceive extreme wealth as some mystical leveling up you achieve when you accomplish jedi mind tricks in business and entrepreneurship when the answer is really just: be part of the system that hands shit out to people like you for free.

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Along with voting for 7 Trump picks, Rosen was one of 12 Senate Democrats to vote for the Laken Riley Act — which empowers Trump's ICE to detain migrants with no due process. All the more relevant as Trump sends migrants to detention camps in Guantanamo with no due process.

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

NEW: DOGE put a $1 spending limit on government employee credit cards. Employees say overspending and fraud in the program was exceedingly rare. www.wired.com/story/doge-g...

submitted 2 days ago • 108 comments

This is Grimes, to me

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"Don't get distracted by the government disappearing and dehumanizing trans people. That's a deliberate strategy to distract and overwhelm you" is how some of you sound lately

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Gangster capitalism. www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

Take a look at how Democratic voters viewed the party during the first month of Trump’s first term vs. now, in his second term February 2017 — Democrats approve of congressional Democrats 59-31 February 2025 — Democrats disapprove of congressional Democrats 40-49 A 37 point swing.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

sometimes i think about how the odds of me visiting mississippi are about the same as visiting a place i’d like to go, like Iran…maybe lower

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Read the latest fed govt coverage by @hannahnatanson.bsky.social: These feds took Trump’s ‘fork’ deal. Then they got fired — creating a government ‘mess.’ www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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