Does anyone else feel like the national crisis is on the cusp of a number of major escalations?

the irony of the capitalist finally catching the car: they have convinced people that government is bad so well that the government is being dismantled but in so doing, they’re killing the goose that laid the golden egg—the most reliable way to make a profit is by getting government contracts

A federal judge Friday issued a permanent injunction barring President Donald Trump from deploying National Guard troops from any state to Oregon, finding the president exceeded his authority. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

Mamdani was elected and already NYC is transing the trains.

again find it bizarre that national dem leaders avoid the topic of ICE even on here but have time to congratulate an unpopular former speaker on their retirement from insider trading at 85

post you from a different era ~2007~

This is the facility that I and many others have been protesting. We’ve been hit, thrown, gassed, and shot with pepper bullets but none of that holds a candle to what is being done to people *in* the actual facility. Read this thread. Don’t look away. Keep your eyes and the pressure on Broadview.

“If you don’t let us slash health insurance we’ll starve Americans” is something that the ruling Party in America is actually saying

like how little do you think of americans that “daily videos of masked men terrorizing children and tearing families apart” is an issue you don’t touch because you think you’re going to lose on it. that’s insane

The Predator in the classic monster film refuses to kill unarmed combatants, which makes him less of a slimy piece of shit than Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

But Elon is getting one trillion dollars to drive his companies into the ground after he poisoned his brain on Twitter.

In the last two weeks I’ve done lessons about the Separation of Powers, the Bill of Rights, particularly its criminal Justice provisions, and the Presidency of George Washington and the concept of Republican Virtue, and not abusing Executive Power. Turns out the Founders were pretty fucking woke.

Watch half of the country work a double to screw over New York City because they don’t want examples of actual functional governance giving the rest of American any ideas.

Is crowdfunding armies of mercenaries a practice from the Middle Ages that the tech bros are going to bring back?

best ending of all time, let's be real

Don’t even make a sequel to The Thing. Just cast Kurt Russel and Keith David in another movie together. Literally whatever genre, I am guaranteed to love it.

Even the thought of dealing with my health insurance makes me tear up

Three weeks after an ICE protest shut down the bridge to the U.S. Coast Guard base near Oakland, the Coast Guard is moving to ensure that such demonstrations can’t happen there again.

I have absolutely no interest in middle ground or compromise on any human rights, for roughly the same reasons that I have absolutely no interest in allowing a leopard to eat only *part* of my face.

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Is there a piece of mass-produced electronics that fails at quite the same catastrophic rate as high school photocopiers?

I mean graciously maybe I’ll give him the Diggers, but that’s 1649

Well, no one promised that life would be uninteresting

I just had a light bulb moment of how to design a quality, useable instructional app

What’s scary is that he could have just torn down the White House if he wanted to. Everyone’s too scared to push back on anything he says. The only thing that constrains him is logistics. And he’s building capacity.

I am so tired of this man’s bullshit

too big to fail speedrun

Giving in to the Democrat’s demands for health care subsidies and ending the shutdown would be good for Americans, and frankly good for him too, struggling people in a struggling economy seems to go very badly for the sitting party! But he won’t, because he’s obsessed with being seen as winning.

oh my god they actually did it lmao

grok, do soldiers historically remain reliable if they go hungry?

heads up to anyone who holds trans kids near: amy harmon from the nyt is searching for and having a hard time finding people to interview to find out exactly what trans kids are doing when their care is limited or cut off, and for purposes of community safety, please shut the fuck up around her.

i hate it when something is described as "inscrutable." you have no idea the types of things im able to scrute

I’ll accept reopening Alcatraz as a prison if we can incarcerate each Senator for one year per Trump nominee they voted to confirm

mr mayor it is imperative: you need to let me hotbox one of these things at maximum elevation

hey guys i’m new to managing my army in foreign campaigns how bad is this

Checking in on Rudy Giuliani, I see he's having an insane one

Bad news for the future of Star Trek. It’s okay, NuTrek was a mixed bag, we did get some good content in Lower Decks, and first two of Strange New Worlds. Let her sleep another generation.

What do the American people get out of it, you stupid fuck?

I think when the history of this moment is written, it will become apparent that the oligarchs made a key mistake in their attempt to seize power. They hitched their wagon to a historically unpopular, 79 year old, term-limited Trump.

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish

if Joe Biden said this during a speech Hannity would immediately start anchoring special coverage and the New York Times would fire up a live blog breaking down every syllable

based

I have to say I wish the electorate had an attention span longer than a goldfish and so had not needed to try fascism again before remembering they didn't like it.

if i were running for office i would absolutely call my volunteers “the wide awakes,” i would hand out wide awake pins and stickers and hats for people to wear and campaign events would have wide awake banners

dont mean to be alarmist, but the passage from this so-called Bible that the pope is quoting talks about entire nations being judged for their actions, and the most important of these is "I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in"

Alas, I can only dream of what a paradise New York City must be, with pizza by the slice and talking trash-can puppets. Here in grimy old London, pizzas can only be purchased whole and every single puppet is haunted.

I have to imagine far-right Catholics are really struggling with the fact that they can now hear this stuff in English directly from the pope.