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the speaker of the house is a young earth creationist. I am losing my fucking mind

06.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4

I... I have questions.

06.03.2026 16:49 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

Why is the national security advisor there lol?

06.03.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

in the land of the grandpa made oil $150/bbl for no reason, the man with the hoopty 2009 honda fit is king

06.03.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 186 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 8

Medusa is pleased to announce her new job as head of the Shield of Athena

06.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What a terrible website to be obstinately factually accurate on

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yes, by tweet, while she was at a speaking event and apparently didn’t know it had happened for about half an hour afterwards (she spoke about plans to meet with other agency heads next week!)

06.03.2026 15:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The funniest thing in "Into the Spider-Verse" is the redesign of Doc Ock's tentacles. All throbbing tubes with visible orifices on the ends – it's like someone said "we can't have a GIRL villain packing big gleaming phallic symbols – how can we make a robot tentacle yonic?", and by gosh they did it.

17.02.2026 02:39 πŸ‘ 206 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is not accurate. In fact, no country required its submarines to rescue survivors, due to the risk of surfacing and/or limited space to keep prisoners in the very small, cramped subs. What they were expected to do was not attack survivors in the water.

06.03.2026 15:31 πŸ‘ 328 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 5

Lol nice gyre dude. You widening that shit?

06.03.2026 15:16 πŸ‘ 338 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 1

My sense of it in Britain is that Wakefield's MMR hoax got a *lot* of fawning media coverage, while in the United States our anti-vaccine movement has been more grassroots

06.03.2026 15:18 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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1.) Unemployment duration right now is *really* high. Near or above *peak* duration in pre-GFC recessions.

2.) We are spending less money than ever helping connect unemployed workers to jobs.

Bad!

www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-tinder...

06.03.2026 15:01 πŸ‘ 130 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 5
a graph of unemployment rates by immigration status

a graph of unemployment rates by immigration status

a graph of prime-age employment rates by immigration status

a graph of prime-age employment rates by immigration status

Unsurprisingly, Trump's immigration crackdown is still not delivering labor market improvements for the US-born

Over the last year, native-born unemployment is up from 4.3% to 4.7% while native-born employment has decreased

06.03.2026 14:25 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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How it started / how it's going

05.03.2026 19:42 πŸ‘ 1544 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 65
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Loading screen tip:

04.03.2026 13:25 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

after a few playthroughs of slay the spire 2, i'm ready to call it: we have another Good video game. this brings the total number of Good video games in the world to two, joining the original slay the spire

06.03.2026 12:27 πŸ‘ 609 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 24 πŸ“Œ 4

Cant get over how insane this answer is. News media would absolutely have destroyed a Dem president who responded flippantly to the idea of civilian casualities in the US bc of a war like Trump does here.

06.03.2026 02:37 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 78 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 2
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Trump's War If Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite

β€œAsked whether Americans should be worried about retaliatory attacks at home, Trump acknowledges the possibility. β€˜I guess,’ he says.”

06.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 944 πŸ” 301 πŸ’¬ 82 πŸ“Œ 157
Amid reports of CIA links to Iranian Kurds, one militia makes a curious purchase
Vasco Cotovio
Clarissa Ward
By Vasco Cotovio, Clarissa Ward and Nechirvan Mando
As tension becomes increasingly palpable in northern Iraq – caught between pressure from the United States and threats from Iran – the owner of a car dealership in the city of Erbil told CNN one Iranian Kurdish militia bought 50 Toyota Land Cruiser LC71 in one go.

CNN agreed not to disclose the name of the group to safeguard the dealer’s identity.

Amid reports of CIA links to Iranian Kurds, one militia makes a curious purchase Vasco Cotovio Clarissa Ward By Vasco Cotovio, Clarissa Ward and Nechirvan Mando As tension becomes increasingly palpable in northern Iraq – caught between pressure from the United States and threats from Iran – the owner of a car dealership in the city of Erbil told CNN one Iranian Kurdish militia bought 50 Toyota Land Cruiser LC71 in one go. CNN agreed not to disclose the name of the group to safeguard the dealer’s identity.

CIA (car intelligence agency)

06.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 74 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 5

Folks will be - legitimately - furious with the Ds that voted no (leadership whipped hard for yes), but I think it is worth looking on the other hand: 98% of House Democrats (and 1% of House Republicans) just voted to try to block the president from waging war on Iran.

Iran! The Great Evil!

05.03.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 767 πŸ” 134 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 5
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Trump to Rubio: "Your next one is gonna be Cuba. He's waiting but he says, 'Let's get this one finished first.' We could do them all at the same time, but bad things happen."

05.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 1778 πŸ” 685 πŸ’¬ 439 πŸ“Œ 532

I promise you you are sleeping on this. 90 jets. The minister said it.

05.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 16 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous β€˜Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

SCOOP: Proton Mail provided Swiss authorities with payment data that the FBI then used to determine who was allegedly behind an anonymous account affiliated with the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta, according to a court record reviewed by 404 Media.

05.03.2026 20:41 πŸ‘ 2695 πŸ” 1472 πŸ’¬ 84 πŸ“Œ 379

DHS still being shut down makes all of this even more incredible

05.03.2026 19:45 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh yeah the funniest Boomer complaint in the world is that gas prices in the 50s were only $0.30 when:

a) That is now worth $4.15
b) A modern Toyota Corolla goes four times as far for the same amount of gasoline.

05.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I would offer that the issue is not so much polyamory as it is people who write essays about their relationships

05.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 80 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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05.03.2026 18:29 πŸ‘ 301 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

05.03.2026 19:38 πŸ‘ 39145 πŸ” 8865 πŸ’¬ 1451 πŸ“Œ 294

So just like the US?

05.03.2026 00:25 πŸ‘ 249 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0