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“The wife of a wrongly deported Salvadoran father living in Maryland was moved to a safe house after Donald Trump’s administration posted a court document that included her address on social media.” #KilmarAbregoGarcia www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

PSA: Social security is only a “Ponzi Scheme” if it’s not there when you actually need it. What Elon really means is they’re working to turn it into a Ponzi scheme. Every accusation is a confession.

Uhhhhh

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

These people are such weird creeps, just absolute freaks, and we should never stop talking about them that way

"I didn't vote for" you did. Sorry. You did. Should have listened to the woke libtards instead of your roided out imaginary friends who told you kids were pooping in kitty litter at school

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Just so everybody understands, Booker has been speaking cogently about the issues the entire time and Strom Thurmond famously spent hours reading from the encyclopedia, because segregationists were and are dumbshits

ICYMI — SENATOR BOOKER: “I rise to disrupt the business of the senate for as long as I am physically able… because I believe sincerely our country is in crisis.” 🇺🇸

Legal residents getting kidnapped by plain clothes agents of the state for expressing their political opinions isn't something that happens in democratic countries.

The Signal leak is a prime moment for Democrats to get caught trying. Call for resignations or impeachment hearings or both. Be omnipresent in the media demanding and explaining accountability measures. Don’t let this fade away. Treat this the way the GOP treated Hillary’s emails. Make it a thing.

PLA officer in Beijing getting shouted at for not noticing Goldberg was also in the chat rn

Thank you, dad.

all that commitment to patriarchy, including a critical vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, just for conservatives to still call Amy Coney Barrett a DEI hire lol I wrote about Barrett playing sexist games and--wouldn't ya know it--winning sexist prizes ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

I can't believe this is where the discourse is at in 2025 but uhhh... EMPATHY IS GOOD, ACTUALLY

Periodic reminder that Donald Trump is a rich-ass nepo baby who's never worked a day in his life and doesn't care about you, me, egg prices, or anything that isn't Donald Trump.

utterly fucking astounding that any Dem would look at what’s happening and think that giving this administration sweeping new authority to prosecute speech on the internet is a good idea

Agree. And the wildest part for me is the people still arguing the civil war couldn't have been about slavery, because most people couldn't afford slaves. Me, looking around right now, how many cult45 members are down for the cause but wouldn't be able to afford slaves? Weird how that works.

Fuck

one curious feature of our particular dismal political era: some people have gotten so addicted to the particular vice signaling around empathy / concern for other people that they seem to see evidence that something will benefit others as evidence that it will harm them

Hot take: Social security is good actually

Oh ffs. If you think there is ANY WAY Zelenskyy could have convinced Trump not to abandon Ukraine, you’re being willfully naïve.

I've been screaming this for years.

I think we’re severely underestimating the number of non-MAGA whites who are willing watch Trump “try something different”

Some AI is going to tell a college age nazi to fire almost every incident and natural disaster response team in the federal government because they didn’t have much to do during February 16-23, 2025.

Still playing Baldur's Gate 3 and gotta be said, this thing probably has the best character development of any game I've ever played, and not sure it's close either. Phenomenal work.

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Army guidance on implementing President Trump's order on transgender troops, filed in court today, says to NOT take adverse personnel action against people based on gender identity "at this time" and to continue medical treatment. for gender dysphoria. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Congratulations to China on their ascendance to research leadership of the world, I guess.

Halt *US* science. We can't stop the world from doing science. We can only stop ourselves from doing science. We're making a conscious choice to make China the world's leading research nation. Congratulations to China on their ascendancy I guess.

this stuff makes perfect sense when you understand that these people have a slaveholder’s ideology and believe that liberty means the freedom to dominate others

A thing to understand here is that Wired + Teen Vogue is Condé Nast — this is the Newhouse family being basically the only good billionaire publishers. Other than them, it’s the indies of the new alt media and stalwarts like ProPublica and then basically crickets.

Executive wants to frame the NIH indirects cut as $4B in savings. But given that NIH returns $2.5 on every $1 investment, this would actually cost US economy a net $6 BILLION (per year!). Not to mention the human costs of wrecking education and research sectors and the communities they serve.

So the kid who didnt know what version control was is rebuilding the national payment system, the kid from kiwifarms has your SSN, the "kid" with the Twitter account from apartheid South Africa has your address and the kid who wanted an llm to convert a pdf has your tax return, did I get them all?

"Why is the GOP shielding an unelected, unvetted, unqualified private citizen & billionaire who is literally dismantling our agencies while we sit here and is literally breaking the law..." -Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) These are the questions. We want to know too!! #nmpol

I'd like to see more writing on how the Musk/Trump junta feels like a frontal attack on the entire concept of virtue, in even the most traditional senses. They are actively demonizing and punishing everyone who doesn't worship Mammon.

i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen

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