Millions of Americans are getting kicked off of their health insurance so that Donald Trump can fund tax handouts for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Let that sink in.
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Millions of Americans are getting kicked off of their health insurance so that Donald Trump can fund tax handouts for billionaires like Elon Musk.
Let that sink in.
Even the legal justification for drone strikes on senior members of al Qaeda and associated forces (ostensibly covered under the 2001 AUMF) states that strikes are justified only โwhen capture is infeasibleโ
07.12.2025 17:18 โ ๐ 859 ๐ 271 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 8it does feel like an intense societal problem that the founder of palantir, the biggest survellience company, thinks like this
07.12.2025 17:27 โ ๐ 4541 ๐ 919 ๐ฌ 334 ๐ 138Anyone else want to put Tom Cotton on top of a capsized boat in international waters miles away from Venezuela and see how helpless he is?
07.12.2025 17:29 โ ๐ 1781 ๐ 381 ๐ฌ 156 ๐ 45You donโt just shoot up the enemy if theyโre defenseless and not capable of doing anything.
We need a full investigation for war crimes.
If the crewmen who survived the first strike on the boat Sept. 2 were in such good shape that they were still "in the fight," as Tom Cotton claims, let's see the damn video โ all of it.
07.12.2025 17:32 โ ๐ 876 ๐ 224 ๐ฌ 49 ๐ 5The title page for a Politico.EU story. It reads. X axes European Commissionโs ad account after โฌ120M EU fine Nikita Bier, Xโs head of product, accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying โto take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer.โ It has a picture of Elon Musk looking stern.
Turns out Elon is the one censoring the EU, not the other way around.
07.12.2025 17:37 โ ๐ 776 ๐ 281 ๐ฌ 41 ๐ 18Hegseth reversed the policy Mark Esper put in place in 2020, which was designed to prevent โdiscrimination, prejudice, and bias in all ranks.โ Hegseth wants to know what they look like when these decisions are made.
07.12.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 1305 ๐ 418 ๐ฌ 133 ๐ 40"I saw the video and what if a bird flew by and one of the shipwrecked used a paper clip and squid ink to write a message to attach to the bird's leg to get a message to Suriname so they could continue their mission?"
- Tom Cotton probably
He must be reading a part where Cheryl said he is a faithful and devoted husband.
07.12.2025 17:42 โ ๐ 3455 ๐ 493 ๐ฌ 466 ๐ 62My new podcast "Burn Order" is about the decision to incarcerate tens of thousands of Japanese-American families during World War II, and the remarkable fight against it.
6 episodes in total -- Eps. 1 and 2 are posted now. 3 and 4 will post tomorrow, December 8:
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Ending DEI practices in college admissions will expose an uncomfortable truth. Women now outperform men academically.
If universities stop trying to gender balance incoming classes but instead admit based on merit, theyโll reject men at higher rates than they do today.
This is a great explainer about the legality of the boat strikes. Or illegality, as it were. www.justsecurity.org/126156/exper...
07.12.2025 18:22 โ ๐ 893 ๐ 356 ๐ฌ 23 ๐ 17ICE has arrested nearly 75,000 people with no criminal records, data shows
07.12.2025 17:49 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"I'm sorry, sir, we were hoping to get an informed opinion. For that we will go to Congressman Raskin. . ."
07.12.2025 18:10 โ ๐ 395 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 0Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies.
Either way, never trust them again.
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
06.12.2025 16:38 โ ๐ 7441 ๐ 967 ๐ฌ 259 ๐ 238If you call it a โmale immaturity epidemic,โ a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows
07.12.2025 15:45 โ ๐ 2232 ๐ 469 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 9Trainwreck? In October 2024, The Economist called Biden's economy "the envy of the world."
07.12.2025 17:41 โ ๐ 3176 ๐ 1036 ๐ฌ 219 ๐ 44This really is a must read for anyone in academia.
07.12.2025 17:12 โ ๐ 1330 ๐ 535 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 12Follow me here for holiday decorating ideas, inspirational seasonal shit, and more goofy fucking nonsense....๐๐
07.12.2025 17:13 โ ๐ 186 ๐ 43 ๐ฌ 15 ๐ 1Let's leave priggish Tom Cotton on a piece of debris from a boat that just exploded in the middle of a large body of water and see if he feels "shipwrecked" or that he is "floating helplessly."
07.12.2025 17:20 โ ๐ 1354 ๐ 314 ๐ฌ 175 ๐ 16Be sure to read the alt text! ๐
07.12.2025 17:39 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Trump hosts the Munsters in the Oval Office
He was busy taking one of the more insane pictures heโs ever taken, which is no small feat.
07.12.2025 16:34 โ ๐ 148 ๐ 17 ๐ฌ 40 ๐ 50@davidjroth.bsky.social We're having a great time here at the Overlook Hotel. They're saying it's the best party ever. The bartender is very friendly. Everyone looks happy and normal, you keep hearing it more and more.
07.12.2025 17:04 โ ๐ 338 ๐ 68 ๐ฌ 16 ๐ 1๐ฉธ๐ฉธ๐ฉธ I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did ๐ฉธ๐ฉธ๐ฉธ
07.12.2025 12:27 โ ๐ 1254 ๐ 498 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 17BREAKING: Donald Trump reveals his long awaited Healthcare Plan.
1. BE WHITE
2. OR RICH
3. OR JUST DON'T GET SICK
George Willโฆfrom the top rope!
07.12.2025 13:29 โ ๐ 189 ๐ 68 ๐ฌ 13 ๐ 6Self-driving is going so well ๐
"The NHTSA website also includes a letter from the Austin Independent School District, saying the district has documented 19 instances of Waymo vehicles "illegally and dangerously" passing the district's school buses."
In one case a student nearly got hit ๐ก
#Pinks
Not going to lie, this weekโs SNL cold open might piss you off, but watch this clip till the end. ๐คฃ
07.12.2025 13:49 โ ๐ 3232 ๐ 953 ๐ฌ 140 ๐ 62