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Ok I know this is old-man irritability but I don’t care if Mahmoud Khalil has a pregnant wife, I don’t care if he and his wife are childfree, I don’t care if he’s in a fucking polycule with a hedgehog and a jar of mayonnaise, NOBODY should be detained for protected speech, including singletons.

submitted 11 hours ago • 95 comments

fuck off

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Love to protect jobs by putting massive tariffs on raw materials we use to make finished goods, thereby making it more expensive to produce those goods, driving down demand, and then inevitably firing workers because of the shortfall in purchasing.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

i'm gonna die laughing

submitted 5 days ago • 9 comments

the brunchlords want to crash the economy and make labor eat a dogshit soufflé because they got a tiny tiny glimpse of worker empowerment during peak covid and very much didn't like the fractional reduction in their power over you

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

I do not like this. I do not like being ruled by sociopaths soaked in an information system divorced from reality. I do not like that my president is an aspiring tyrant who has betrayed our allies to side with Putin. I do not like waking up every day feeling a kind of dirty no shower can fix.

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This is the first page of this morning’s edition of the Globe and Mail (arguably the English Canadian paper of record) I don’t remember seeing anything like this before

submitted 6 days ago • 494 comments

Donald Trump is lying to you.

submitted 7 days ago • 519 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 6 days ago • 1752 comments

when did you walk out? did you stay while he demonized trans people? while he claimed women aren’t entitled to higher employment? did anyone notice you leave? did you at any point stand up and speak truth to power like rep. green did? oh you wore a shirt? yeah, i’m sure he saw that, dude.

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is the story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 124 comments

S&P 500 ERASES ELECTION GAIN, WIPING OUT $3.4T IN VALUE

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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

submitted 8 days ago • 668 comments

So I will own being the primary author of the first part of this. It is, by any measure, the harshest criticism I have ever directed at anyone. I did not want to write it, but felt compelled to do so by a truly egregious failure on the part of Wurman and Barnett to practice what they have preached.

submitted 8 days ago • 18 comments

The Army deleted my “Why I served” video where I talked about how I decided I wanted to attend West Point/join the Army after one of the cadets my family used to sponsor died in combat. Probably deleted because she was the first black woman to be CSM at West Point.

submitted 8 days ago • 176 comments

Let’s be clear: This is the end result of 30 years of conservative thought. Small government, free markets, blah blah, all of it ended with this: the indiscriminate firing of the scientists who predict the fucking weather. Their goal is to literally drag us back into the dark ages.

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you have a job, even a great job you love that pays really well, YOU ARE NOT A CAPITALIST. You are still part of the labor class even if you are one of the luckiest ones.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Always wondered how the Star Wars Emperor could start with a battle-hardened army and end up with an "entire legion of his best troops" being beaten to death by teddybears with sticks. Then Hegseth ended up as US Defence Sec. And now yeah that makes sense.

submitted 13 days ago • 302 comments

Can we stop saying people don’t “believe in” vaccines? Vaccines are real and they are proven. These people just deny science because they’re ignorant. (And, yes, it is ignorance because even their own religion doesn’t actually oppose vaccination.)

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Genuinely kind of funny that after White House reporters spent years complaining that Biden wasn't accessible enough and saying how much more access they have with Trump that they're now getting the door slammed in their faces, tbh

submitted 14 days ago • 43 comments

Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

submitted 16 days ago • 583 comments

NEW: One of the Worst Sites on the Internet Compromised by Hackers Hackers released a document they say contains usernames and emails connected to over 136,000 accounts on a site dedicated to revealing people’s personal information unless they pay to have it removed www.antihate.ca/doxbin_worst...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

Thinking of this, for no reason in particular

submitted 21 days ago • 2 comments

I continue to add to this list. I also have removed training info that is now outdated.

submitted 40 days ago • 67 comments

In a phone call with The Tribune Thursday night, Rep. Trevor Lee denied ever saying Nazi flags could be displayed in schools. Here is video of Lee saying Nazi flags could be displayed in schools.

submitted 25 days ago • 44 comments

The idea that we do not have a responsibility to anyone but ourselves, that our autonomy and happiness is the first and most important goal, is the most capitalist ideal imaginable.

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America

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People gotta get it through their thick skulls: Elon Musk is not actually good at business. Tesla would have died many times over by now, if not for outright fraud. The tactics he is using on government now have destroyed Twitter as an experience and business. His other companies aren't profitable.

submitted 33 days ago • 92 comments

"free speech," "antitrust reform," "reining in big tech," "state rights," etc etc etc etc (though honestly it was pretty obvious these were all hollow long before now)

submitted 33 days ago • 11 comments

In my #FiveMinutesOfRightWingAMRadio this morning I heard someone on PragerU's show argue that birthright citizenship was only intended to apply to formerly enslaved people of African descent and that "the left" is insulting Black Americans by defending the current, legal understanding of it.

submitted 33 days ago • 12 comments

Tired: NYT: Young Musk Fans Learn American Civics, Hands-On Wired: Wired: Those Little Rat Fucks Are Still In The Walls

submitted 34 days ago • 50 comments

As the president delivered remarks blaming the D.C. plane crash on his political opponents and diversity programs, across the Potomac in Arlington, young figure skaters were choking back tears as they laid flowered at a makeshift memorial to three of the dead.

submitted 40 days ago • 64 comments