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Anyone surprised to learn that the DOGE ledger is rife with fundamental math errors shoud read this article from 2022. futurism.com/elon-musk-ma...

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We knew they were gonna try this eventually. The criminalization & surveillance of pregnancy is approaching its logical conclusion. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Kind of amazed at how seldom I'm seeing the word "kleptocracy" used lately.

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I'm ready to defend this stupid fucking train by any means necessary at this point. I would lay down my life for it. Do not make me take I-5 between SF and LA again I would rather die.

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Self described constitutional originalist: "Why yes, I do think that it is under the president's purvew to decide which girls get to join their high school swim team. James Madison was very clear about this."

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It's striking to me that Bezos, whose entire fortune depends on the business environment made possible by the USPS, is so unapologetically supportive of the party trying to kill the public post. The goal seems pretty obvious: prevent the emergence of meaningful competitors to Amazon.

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Calling it now: this is going to make military recruitment levels plummet over the course of the decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Every time someone complains that "the postal service is losing money" what they're actually saying is "the postal service should lower the quality of its services and also charge more."

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Seeing straight white people post things like "and I oop" is such an intense affective experience for me, it's like my vagus nerve is being throttled.

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Hawaiian sovereignty speedrun attempt. www.sfgate.com/hawaii/artic...

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Political action increasingly feels like the premise of Foundation. If we do absolutely everything right, we can winnow down the coming dark ages from 300,000 years down to a mere 1,000 years of terror and ignorance.

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Finally, after nearly 50 years behind bars, American Indian activist Leonard Peltier was released from prison Tuesday. Peltier was wrongly convicted in the 1970s for the killing of two FBI agents. Read more about his wrongful conviction: jacobin.com/2023/03/leon...

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Nevermind lmao

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Tomorrow is the 15th anniversary of the first Tea Party protest from the first Obama administration, for what it's worth.

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Statue avi "protect traditional western culture" accounts lining up to support the guy who is gonna shutter every opera house, ballet, symphony, classical language department, and art school in the country.

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I guess we all kinda moved on from the whole Greenland thing.

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Jimmy Hoffa speedrun wr

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Some minor context for the weird right wing U.S. belligerence towards Canada is that there has been a rural culture war freakout about "Canadian super-wolves" (which do not exist) being imported into Idaho, Montana, etc for over a decade.

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It's kind of ironic how John Thune's play to expand the relative power of the Senate over the House that WOULD be historically significant if Trump wasn't simultaneously trying to turn the entire legislature into a powerless formality.

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It's kind of nice that the origins of the next global pandemic are going to be so much easier to explain than the origins of Covid.

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There are a lot of reasons why I get frustrated when people compare the current moment to Idiocracy, but one of the big ones is that none of the characters in Idiocracy are nazis.

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A lot of people are focusing on the wrong part of this logic. Their real point is that the poor should not have access to any form of state power.

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Now that he has access to everyone's Social Security numbers, Elon is gonna use them as training data for an AI that generates new, fucked up Social Security numbers.

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Kind of amazing how closely the Luigi Magnioni trial is coinciding with the 100th anniversary of the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

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This tweet predicted the future.

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