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In case you need a teaching example of the social construction of quantitative data... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Some personal news: I think nazi salutes are bad www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

As thin as it was, Musk had some plausible deniability. This is 100% a deliberate Nazi salute. This is literally where the GOP is today.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

So Elon is struggling to string together a sentence and wielding a chainsaw at CPAC? Seems like a pretty straight-forward metaphor for DOGE.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

listen to this. Elon can barely form a sentence right now.

submitted 2 days ago • 2947 comments

new from me: elon musk is supposedly the leader of DOGE — but the White House says otherwise in court. i looked into the EOs empowering DOGE and came to the same conclusion that even some of the staffers at the USDS did, which is there's no real clarity about who is in charge of this thing

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Patrick Schwarzenegger radiates donald trump jr energy in white lotus and I'm not sure i'm capable of another episode

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It doesn't matter where you are on the political spectrum, everyone who is extremely online is unwell.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

O'Brien is so wild.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Troll-in-chief

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Disposable is out today! I owe everything to my sources and to my family, friends and colleagues, who have supported me and who believed in this project as much as I did. bookshop.org/p/books/disp...

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Are you a recently dismissed federal employee? MSNBC.com is looking for first-person pieces about what you were working on, why you joined the government, etc. We're interested in hearing from air traffic controllers, USAID employees, and everyone in between. Contact me at jdow.92 on Signal.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Important headline stats. DOGE isn't about saving money. It's a tool for MAGA ideology and generating loyalism.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A thought on the constitutional importance of bureaucrats: actual decisions/actions are carried out by bureaucrats, not judges or politicians. In the face of conflicting directives, in some sense bureaucrats determine what the law requires. So they become pivotal in a constitutional crisis…

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

SCOOP: Trump administration has been evaluating the costs of destroying or disposing of tens of millions of coronavirus tests that would otherwise be provided free to Americans. My story w/ Carolyn Y. Johnson. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 4 days ago • 134 comments

What's the case against Hochul removing Eric Adams?

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

what a repugnant movement www.ft.com/content/3f95...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The Trump administration just deported migrants from China, India, Iran, and other countries to Panama. (CBS calls it a “diplomatic breakthrough.”) www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 8 days ago • 33 comments

I chuckled nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

submitted 9 days ago • 791 comments

torn constantly between reflecting on how dumb and how offensive this stuff is www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/n...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

It's going to be a long four years, especially if we make ourselves insane misreading budget documents. This is a story where multiple things are true at the same time and it's a warning about how we consume information going forward gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

submitted 9 days ago • 90 comments

Eric Adams has directed NYC officials to not criticize Trump or interfere with ICE activities — two things which could jeopardize his chances of getting pardoned for doing federal fraud crimes. www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/10/e...

submitted 12 days ago • 5 comments