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Just Admit You're Wrong

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I fall into this trap a lot myself, but bitching and raising a ruckus over tweets is an appropriate, low effort, undertaking for citizens. Journalists should absolutely note this, include it as context when and where appropriate, but otherwise move on. More than that is a waste of resources.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

"Michigan is one of eight states with no cooling-off period for politicians once they leave office. In Florida, a state with the most stringent requirements, lawmakers must wait six years after leaving office to register as lobbyists."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I can't be the only musical theatre kid who now has "WE HAVE NO KING BUT CAESAR" in my head, Jesus Christ Superstar style, given all this upsetting King Talk.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's only a trap of it springs. They're not going to send checks to anyone. They won't even shelter homeless vets.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

People who credulously believe conservatives when they say they support Trump because of woke are the same sort of people who credulously believed that the pinpricks on Abigail William's skin were the result of Goody Proctor's witchcraft.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

FYI Toronto isn't in the US and never will be; your retrograde politics can't directly explain our aeronautical troubles.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Curious to know what job is going to keep my dumb ass around while I experiment with what questions are relevant to my work. If I do figure it out and become competent before my hiring manager realized her mistake won't I just get replaced by an intern who'll work off the list of questions I made?

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Okay but he's literally a bureaucratic

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

This should be a PSA that runs during the Super Bowl

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

So I guess I just want to say that no 19-year-old's lives are ruined because he lost a job he wasn't qualified for. That's actually, generally, kind of an important, and ultimately beneficial, life moment for a lot of people

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth isn’t DEI. Daniel Penny isn’t DEI. That’s not what DEI is. They’re just grossly unqualified for their jobs and add no value that any replacement legacy job applicant wouldn’t bring. So stop saying “it’s DEI” like it’s a clever commentary on the situation. It’s not.

submitted 18 days ago • 590 comments

The leaning minaret of Mosul in northern Iraq has been restored using its original brickwork, years after it was reduced to rubble under Islamic State group rule. https://u.afp.com/S45s

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The federal government is best understood as a giant risk mitigation bulwark for risks too big for any state: self-defense, health safety nets, natural disaster relief, maintenance of vital infrastructure, nuclear material handling, etc. You want this shit to be there when you need it.

submitted 19 days ago • 13 comments

Learned my lesson the hard way about engaging with crypto-conservative "leftists" who are petty sanguine about Trump trying to shred the Constitution while saving all their powder for liberals.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Teaming up with Peter Thiel's surveillance/war machine to use AI to create Christian propaganda is giving Crusades far more than it is salvation

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry trans folks, sorry married gay couples, sorry Department of Education, sorry rape victims, sorry community health standards, you're all laid out and waiting to get ground up under the wheels of the bus, but at least not voting for the liberal ended genocide.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Fuck them. Fuck them and their crocodile tears. It's insulting for them to tear their hair out because democrats are finally playing McConnellball

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Good news. Art's not dead

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

My first and definitely last time working with the Los Angeles Times. Editing out the most urgent point of an OpEd in the minutes before sending to press while then also assigning a title and image that suggest an argument entirely opposite to the author’s clear intent is pretty shitty.

submitted 23 days ago • 509 comments

One of these days I'm going to literally piss on something of Donald Trump's. It won't be his grave because I'm not going to wait in that line. But maybe one of his hotels or kids.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

lansing friends: i’ll be here tomorrow, showing out for trans folks! join me!! #lovelansing, just in case somebody’s doing that here lol

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

running the federal govt the same way I figure out which breaker powers the garage

submitted 26 days ago • 50 comments

Trump just fired NLRB Member Gwynne Wilcox. The NLRB now lacks a quorum & can't decide cases. This violates the NLRA, which says Board members can be removed “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause.” news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-...

submitted 26 days ago • 32 comments

It is, um, frustrating to read a depiction of a fictional, buffoonish president and think wistfully, "What if?".

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

You guys, it’s been a crap 8 days (and then some), but if Philly Whole Foods workers can beat Jeff Bezos and form a union, we can all keep going. #1u ✊

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I notice that no one calls me appealing and intelligent for only ever voicing opinions I that are very popular with violent people

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submitted 29 days ago • 338 comments