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We need to build some real social stigma around being afraid of cities. You don't have to like them or live there, but a politics built this strongly around watching TV and going "ewww" is embarrassing, and people should be embarrassed by it. It's like "fear of werewolves" being your top issue.

submitted 7 hours ago • 487 comments

Literally all I’m asking for is for elected Democrats to treat the unpopular evil stuff as being unpopular and evil, because when they don’t, that signals to everyone that it’s not all that evil and it becomes less unpopular

submitted 8 hours ago • 29 comments

Yeah my job is pretty cool. My uniform is a tactical vest that’s two sizes too small and a gaiter I bought in a gas station. They send me to sneak into schools to kidnap little kids because people got mad about having to press 1 for English. The president had to warn everyone to stop spitting on me.

submitted 21 hours ago • 47 comments

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

submitted 21 hours ago • 43 comments

People in the other site continue to enjoy the equivalent of losing an argument to autocorrect

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

see, the thing i’m genuinely worried about is that RFK will effectively ban vaccines

submitted 1 day ago • 583 comments

The situation in DTLA to which 700 Marines have been deployed is a couple dozen interfaith clergypersons leading a small crowd in prayer.

submitted 1 day ago • 109 comments

the thing about this is that these guys don’t actually want blunt talk; blunt talk would be things like “you’re a sexist and a bigot whose contributions to culture have been overwhelmingly negative, and you frequently respond to mild criticism like a child”

submitted 1 day ago • 86 comments

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

submitted 1 day ago • 329 comments

do you ever think about how this is all happening for no reason at all?

submitted 1 day ago • 357 comments

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

submitted 1 day ago • 889 comments

I refuse to believe this was real because it would force me to admit he made a single good post out of 100,000,000 posts

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

Also, he talks about how these cities are being invaded and destroyed by immigrants, which, if true, probably wouldn’t have mobs of locals swarming to protect them from federal agents. ICE are the “invaders” in this scenario.

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www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

submitted 4 days ago • 123 comments

If Gen Z really wants to dunk on millennials, they should learn about Foursquare and go around saying stuff like, "I hear you're the mayor of this Panera Bread."

submitted 4 days ago • 103 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 5 days ago • 644 comments

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

submitted 5 days ago • 1698 comments

sometimes I regret warping my brain being so online. but not today. oh no, not today.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

There is sadly a 99.99% chance that Democratic strategists will say it’s bad to focus on Musk accusing Trump of being a pedophile

submitted 5 days ago • 62 comments

I cannot stress enough that there is a double digit percentage of the population of this nation of more than 300 million people who sincerely believe these are the two smartest men in America.

submitted 5 days ago • 20 comments

groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo

submitted 5 days ago • 70 comments

Elon Musk genuinely thought firing thousands of government workers and killing hundreds of thousands of people by cutting foreign aid was going to make people love him. The moment that didn’t happen, he went down a spiral he’ll never escape from and it’s kind of nice to watch.

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

it’s incredibly clear that trump has absolutely no idea what his admin is actually doing on basically any front

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

“Getting yelled at on social media means you’re doing something right,” says the party that lost the popular vote to DONALD TRUMP and keeps getting steamrolled by him.

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Part of their delusion here is they're getting yelled at for not being leftist enough or that only leftists are mad at them. Meanwhile, all the polling evidence shows that's not true at all: they are despised across the spectrum and all their pretensions of appealing to the center aren't working.

submitted 5 days ago • 36 comments

“I’m just going to say it, shame on any of us who throws a trans child under the bus for thinking they’re going to get elected. That child deserves our support. Don’t worry about the pollsters calling it distractions, because we need to be the party of human dignity.”

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Bureaucratic politics explanation for ICE arrests: 1) they arrest people for whom they have data, i.e. those who comply with requests for info from the govt; 2) they go for easy arrests (people who won't fight back). So, expect more law-biding, non-threatening people to be arrested. 1/2

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

NYT, Page One: “Within hours, he had an email from China, offering to move his lab to ‘any city, any university I want,’ he said, with a guarantee of funding for the next 20 years.” @nytimes.com

submitted 6 days ago • 411 comments

The correlation between being insecure and ostentatiously trying to present yourself as tough remains incredibly strong. www.military.com/daily-news/2...

submitted 7 days ago • 76 comments

They're literally doing the meme

submitted 7 days ago • 143 comments

Is it bad that my bigger issue is that they forgot the yellow in the Lockheed sock?

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Trying to find a happy medium between not knowing anything that's happening in the world and being pissed off all the time

submitted 205 days ago • 207 comments

Scientists are already eyeing the exits; the hostility to international students could dry up a critical pipeline for a generation; and the balance of intellectual power could shift as other countries rush to fill the vacuum created by Trump’s nihilistic nativism. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

submitted 8 days ago • 47 comments

people just want to live their damn lives free from all this monstrous shit

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A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

submitted 8 days ago • 19 comments

"For every $100 the US government spent, it put 40¢ in the bucket for NASA. And what do we get for that? ✨The Universe ✨" "One of these bills represents, to scale, the federal budget & the other with NASA’s total budget trimmed off the edges. Can you tell the difference?" @philplait.bsky.social

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I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, supernova-levels of angry right now. Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/trump-thre... 🔭 🧪

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments