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Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says āCan I help you find something?ā āIām looking for the obituaries.ā āThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.ā āNot the one Iām looking for.ā
manifesting youtu.be/Tj2c6vJvyPA?...
canāt believe weāre gonna have a First Couch
Iām just saying that when it happens Iām jumping out of bed, running to my window, and tossing a coin to a boy to buy the biggest goose in town
The "fake it 'till you make it" strategy has been successful for him so far in both business and politics, even when it seemed absurd. Why not try it with this too? Just turn DC into the world's largest vision-board for the aspirations of a hope-to-be-dictator.
Looks like... prosecutors found a sandwich they couldn't indict. š¶ļø www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldnāt write it
Massive cool corridor still visible after #Erin churned up the seas with 50+ ft waves. #hurricane Cooler water caused by upwelling and heat used to power engine.
My latest: The Trump administration is not waiting for the next fiscal year -- or Congress -- to cut climate science at NOAA. A new document details the money it won't spend *this* year on climate research.
Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.
To put a finer point on it, Pritzker is being presidential in a way Newsom is not. Newsom is doing a decent job trolling Trump for the lulz, but Pritzker is speaking with the gravitas this situation warrants, promising real accountability, with federal, state and local leaders standing behind him.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker vows to pursue Trump officials who participate in an illegal National Guard deployment to Chicago: "If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me - not time or political circumstance - from making sure that you face justice under our constitutional rule of law."
Elected representative in Texas left locked in the House chamber because she refused a DPS escort. I know there's a lot going on, but if this isn't a front page story in every US newspaper tomorrow, our press is massively failing us. And yes, I know that they already are.
No joke, it's gonna stand for "My Source, News, Opinion, and the World". Incredible.
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usually if you ask experts why an empire fell theyāll say itās nuanced and multifaceted, so i think itās kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like āoh they took the idiot train to moronsvilleā
The world's most prestigious university fails the Lando test: "University officials...concluded months ago that even if they prevailed in their court fight against the government, a deal could help Harvard to avoid more troubles over the course of Mr. Trumpās term." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...
This sucks www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...
On your way with an axe to grind - Last quarter of the 13th century, Percy Hours (2nd part), British Library, Add. MS 89379, f. 90v
impeachment is a dead letter and the power of the purse has been constrained by impoundment. what now?
my entire politics rn is informed by the belief that, even if trump fails to finish consolidating power, doesnāt build a bunch of camps, and leaves office peacefully, we would still eventually get all the worst outcomes, absent a dedicated effort to dismantle fascist tools and punish the fascists
the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it
Your vote is not your money. It is not a consumerist item you reward to the brand that you like or keep in your pocket for a rainy day. It is a sacred trust for the fate of this country and if your attitude is the above that is a trust you resent and spit on.
I have had at least three people tell me that I'm "vote-shaming" or that the Democrats have to "earn their vote" and no, I am sorry, I am not your mommy, I do not have to persuade you to eat your vegetables by pretending they're an aeroplane.
one of the best things about art is that itās nice to look at
This is a good example of a case that shows how more arrests and more prosecutions cannot stop fascism. Let's not use it to pour condemnation on who is a "good" or "bad" immigrant. That is the debate MAGA wants you to have, and I assure you it leads nowhere good.
the reason the republicans want to quintuple the size of ICE is not to do immigration enforcement but to conduct a coup
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
This isn't to say they're all as bad as Trump, only that they all helped pave the way for a madman who feels completely unbound by the rule of law.
Give "The Imperial Presidency" a read - they all do it! It's classic president stuff. Even the ones who come in intending to roll back presidential power (Eisenhower, for example) end up obscenely expanding it. A hallmark of the presidency is abuse of power.
Not the New York Times calling most of Brooklyn and Queens the Commie Corridor.
...by Lisa Libby...
Concentration camp. The word you're looking for, CBS "journalists," is concentration camp.
Christ in heaven. IU is a good school filled with hard-working grad students (I know from first-hand experience - I used to be one). This is a fucking travesty and shame. Leadership is ripping the copper pipes out of the walls to sell for scrap.
NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."
refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Every story quoting Trump would be improved dramatically if it included āgiven his track record he is probably lying.ā
Another part of this: In urban theory we talk about 'obduracy'. Meaning, once something is built it is much harder to get rid of it. So, essentially, Trump will have FEMA destroy a chunk of the Everglades that we will never get back. It is a human rights disaster. It is an environmental disaster.
There is Discourseā¢ about Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian using AI to turn a still image of his late mother into a video and finding it emotionally resonant. It's interesting both how visceral and how...religious the negative reaction is. It's seen not just as bad but as blasphemous.
i almost canāt read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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This website has a toolkit to contact all your reps for a ceasefire in Gaza and Iran along with call scripts. It also has volunteer and outreach opportunities and links to donating campaigns. ceasefiretoday.com #politics #uspol #CeasefireNow #war #Iran #IranIsraelWar #Gaza #trump
But even if Republicans actually were upset about the fundamentals of any of those things, we are TERRIBLE at affecting change! We don't know how to do it! You have more in common with the common Iranian than you do with any ghoul in the halls of power in DC.
The regime in Iran obviously isn't great! They're oppressive to their LGBTQ+ population, they oppress women, they're a petrostate whose economy rests on environmental destruction, they're a theocratic state. Republicans are jealous more than anything.
Just zooming in on Iran, we've fucked it up at every turn! How did the current regime come to power??? US fucking around! Eisenhower, an obviously more capable tactician than Trump, screwed the pooch for generation!
Iraq is acknowledged as an enormous blunder by both sides of the aisle but it might be the best case scenario. We left Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban. Vietnam fell to the communists as soon as we pulled out. Korea ended *exactly* where it started.
Begging a single person in power to ask, "Hey wait, when was the last time this ever even came close to working?"
Oh cool, so like, just another few bombing runs? Just a few thousand boots on the ground maybe? Teesy weensy little series of American support bases? And then we're OUT, only at war with their nuclear capabilities. We've learned our lesson about never going to war with a concept!
What are the odds this is a little inside joke reference to Paul Pelosi? These are not serious people.
Itās a good thing Congress isnāt alive to see this
No war with Iran, full stop. Absolutely psychotic seeing them run the exact same playbook from 20 years ago despite the fact that we are explicitly the aggressor here
Donald Trump, a weak and dangerously reckless president, has put the United States on a path to a war in the Middle East that the country does not want, the law does not allow, and our security does not demand.
In case you don't know how this works... you can't just confess and keep doing facism. A huge part of the act of contrition is pledging to stop doing the thing that triggered your confession
"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm
This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Wonāt
I told you guys
ICE just arrested Brad Lander, the NYC Comptroller and one of the leading candidates for Mayor, without grounds. He was conducting routine immigration court work, escorting individuals from hearings. He asked ICE for their warrant - well within his legal rights. This is political intimidation.
I agree, Jake, you're not a very good reporter. Maybe it's time to hang up the ol' spurs, buddy? Ride off into the sunset? Stop going on TV to say the dumbest shit anyone's ever heard?
One of the most unfair things about this universe is that healing takes so so much longer than the harm that caused it, and it Fucking Sucks šš¤
Colorado's Ice Core Facility holds more than 13 miles of tubes of ice collected from Antarctica, Greenland, etc. Their contents date back hundreds of thousands of years, allowing researchers to engage in scientific time travel. Now, thanks to Trump, this resource is on thin ice.
"They didn't realize they were tackling a Senator for asking questions, they thought they were tackling a journalist for asking questions" oh, ok then
And I know you know this, but this is exactly why so many spokespeople for this administration are āprettyā white womenā so they can play the victim when anyone pushes back on their bullshit
No conversation about Padilla should be decontextualized from what he was responding to, and vice versa. They are part of the same awful political developments.
I really, really think itās worth more than pausing to note!
Like, I know this is cliche, but seriously read a fucking book. This is how it works. Violence to dominate, violence to silence dissent, violence violence violence and exclusion of the dominated from meaningful politics.
Fun watching votes pass where the margin is fewer than the number of Democratic representstives who died in office this year (3). For lots (but not all) of these that margin is overshadowed by alive and absent, but still. Be a lot closer with 3 alive.
The thing about this administrationās obvious and transparent lies about ridiculous things - like claiming they had no way of knowing that was a Senator - is that thatās part of power. They know we know they know theyāre lying and that they can keep doing it anyway.
Every elected Republican should be asked if they think the president has the power to send in military in to āliberateā a state or city from its elected government.
Laypeople often learn about science from expert explanations & those explanations often contain JARGON. Does jargon make explanations better or worse? In a paper out today in Nature Human Behaviour, @cruzf.bsky.social and I find that jargon can support illusions of understanding...
the anti-protest arguments donāt exist to persuade protestors to change their behavior; they exist to be had, over and over again, costing as many sympathetic bystanders as possible their conviction and their gumption
BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.
Iāve never forgotten this picture from 2016 and how it completely reshaped my understanding of how the media covers protests.
On a party-line, 13-10 vote, a bill that would repeal the FACE Act has passed out of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. The FACE Act prevents people from physically blocking or threatening/using violence against reproductive health clinics or houses of worship. It now goes to the full House.
Trying not to be conspiracy minded but it is so weird that I keep seeing other parents at things and every time we talk someone is like "yeah my company just did layoffs, im struggling for work, everything has dried up" and like. This is not reflected in the tenor of news coverage!
Sometimes there is good news in the world.
Well this couldnāt have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...
remember when yevginy prighozin decided he was more important than putin and his plane exploded and putin was just like well, I hope weāve all learned a valuable lesson today
Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now
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This is all a distraction. These men cannot face their emotions, and so they turn on each other, when all they really want is to hug each other, and tell each other how much they love them. But they never can
as a person who has been experiencing a recurrence of severe refractory depression I will be honest this is cheering me up a little bit
Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers āoverwhelmedā
very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867
If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow. The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
NEW: A nearly 90% funding cut proposed by the Trump administration would likely shut down and devastate the 37 tribal colleges and universities created to serve the students disadvantaged by the nationās historic mistreatment of Indigenous communities. By @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
NSF is planning to cut the number of people doing science by roughly 75%.
There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence.
Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad