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I'm gonna send out a special edition of Red State Scripts tonight with a version of this. I see a lot of replies to this post with "we tried, we called, it didn't work" and I cannot emphasize enough that progress will only come if we don't let up. Make the first call, and then make the rest.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

Some “moderate” Republicans flipped & ended up supporting this evil budget resolution. They voted to cut Medicaid & services their constituents depend on. The budget fight isn’t over. But if you are represented by any of these people that voted yes.. make sure they hear from you.

submitted 16 hours ago • 164 comments

"It is with great enthusiasm that we announce Starfleet’s commitment to moving beyond so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and embracing a post-bias future where everything is fine and no one needs to think too hard about it."

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Also: I’m laying a bet that soon either Musk or the administration will float the idea that DOGE’s administrator and staff must be anonymous because of the threats to them. Like a king’s headsman in a mask.

submitted 22 hours ago • 50 comments

Households with the top 10% of incomes, making about $250,000 or more a year, now account for nearly half of all consumer spending in the US.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I love leaving voice mails for my senators where I say things like "the USPS is very important to our country" as if I'm helping a small child with a book report or describing our civilization to an alien

submitted 23 hours ago • 6 comments

Capital demands that some amount of innovation be trapped in a lockbox and buried under the earth. This is normal and definitely not the behavior of a Skeksis-like essence-draining death cult

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

I simply do not see any justification for World Pride remaining in the USA this year

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

I love boneless wings :3

submitted 2 days ago • 91 comments

Just your daily reminder that DOGE has found ZERO fraud. Via @atrupar.com www.publicnotice.co/p/despite-th...

submitted 2 days ago • 47 comments

Sure I guess why not, nice looking stove, might as well touch it. *TRUMP SAYS CANADA, MEXICO TARIFFS ON TIME, MOVING FORWARD

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

i'm pretty sure this was real

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Am I having a stroke?

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

"The American voter does not want bold solutions or radical change; they want a practical, balanced candidate who will concede an election with elegance and grace."

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

issues.org/limits-of-da... this is a really good Scott inflected piece on the limits of data and AI by C Thi Nguyen, who I wish were on here.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

ten thousand lifetimes have passed since this happened

submitted 2 days ago • 86 comments

I’m old enough to remember that shortly after the first Trump win, a Nazi salute performed in support of him at a white nationalist conference—not by any government official but just a supporter—was big news

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 1 day ago • 210 comments

I see DOGE has already brought transformative AI to the federal government.

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Welcome to the RFK Jr Era of Public Health.

submitted 2 days ago • 1327 comments

“We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. .... No matter how smart we get, there is always this deep irrational part that makes us potential hosts for self-replicating information.” ― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

i think this is basically what has happened a big chunk of the american pundit class

submitted 2 days ago • 456 comments

There is nothing in the Constitution that forbids drug use by shadow presidents, so the Democrats would have no Constitutional basis for impeaching Elon Musk. by Jonathan Turley

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

!!! At least six federal judges in Texas, along with their clerks and staff, received DOGE’s “tell us what you did last week or else” email. The Chief Judge of the 5th Circuit told judges and staff not to respond. texaslawbook.net/texas-lawboo...

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

This Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for the time they spent in jail. Then commissioners voted to forgive over $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000. boltsmag.org/jail-de...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Sheriff said he was "not acting in his official capacity," which means he gave up any claim of qualified immunity for battery and deprivation of rights.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA): “A program is not waste just because it doesn’t help the richest man in the world. It is not fraud just because he doesn’t like it."

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

We have Nazi salutes now because nobody said anything about Confederate flags.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

This guy would’ve found a way to rationalize the layoffs as being necessary and good if he hadn’t been personally let go. This kind of person is incapable of having any empathy or understanding until it affects them.

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submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

Can't decide which of 25 comics to share, settling on this one.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

Good news everyone: Thanks to Molly Crabapple, there is now a courtroom drawing of Luigi where he looks accurately hot www.theverge.com/law/617946/l...

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.”

submitted 3 days ago • 76 comments

Young Pope?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

submitted 4 days ago • 1482 comments

Want to tell the public what US government workers actually do, vs. the propaganda spewed by DOGE? This incredible website, "We the Builders," is asking for first-person testimonials from government workers about their actual jobs, and how they make the government work. www.wethebuilders.org

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 4 days ago • 2507 comments

another great example along with Wired and Teen Vogue of how real journalism these days can be a lot braver at outlets where no one is trying to get in good with the White House press secretary they’re out here with us, reporting on what’s happening to us all, instead of trying to get inside access

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

all of central Brooklyn is playing a game of Egg The Cybertruck with this one guy who keeps street parking in the hood

submitted 4 days ago • 434 comments

I maintain the Citizens United will be remembered as one of the top three worst decisions of the Roberts Court

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments