The big picture: 87% of 18- to 34-year-olds say they’ve heard a lot or a little about DOGE. And 71% say they strongly or somewhat disapprove of the agency’s work so far, according to a new Axios-Generation Lab youth poll.
69% strongly or somewhat disapprove of President Trump’s job performance.
Between the lines: The overall numbers show low approval for Trump and DOGE, but there’s a partisan split. There’s a great deal of support for both the president and the agency among young Republican respondents.
81% who say they’re Republican strongly or somewhat approve of Trump, compared with just 10% of Democrats and 29% of Independents.
68% of young Republicansapprove of DOGE’s work, compared with 9% of Democrats and 29% of Independents.
A group of far-future linguists and archeologists suddenly *poof* into existence in front of me. One is holding a tablet. “What is the difference between ‘red sauce’ and ‘tomato sauce?’” they ask me. “The distinction is not clear in extant texts from this time and place.”
“Uh, they’re the same thing,” I tell them. “Who are you?”
“Yes!” the being with the tablet exclaims.
One of the other researchers groans. “No! My thesis…months of writing wasted…” One of the others comforts them.
“Now, what is this object for?” The first researcher holds up a discolored, dinged-up plastic object. It’s clearly been buried in the ground for quite some time, but the two holes and the scuffed plastic window are distinctive.
“That’s a cassette tape. You record music with it.”
“Interesting, interesting.” The being enters something on the tablet.
“How are you speaking English?”
“Sophisticated translation technology,” one of the researchers confides. “We are students of your society. From the future.”
“What does this pictogram represent?” The researcher with the tablet turns it around so that the screen faces me.
It’s the eggplant emoji.
“Sex,” I say. “Why do you need to ask me this if you can time travel or whatever? Can’t you just go wherever you want to go and look around and see how these things are being used?”
The beings shift guiltily and look at each other. “Technically, travel to times and places prior the advent of time travel is strictly prohibited. Paradoxes, you know.”
“Oh.”
“We must be get back before our advisor returns to the lab. Just don’t tell anyone you saw us, alright? The space-time continuity depends on it. Can you do that?”
“Uh, sure, I guess?”
One of them pats me on the head. “And don’t go to Mars.”
“Okay. Wait, why? Is it dangerous?”
“No. Just not worth it.”
The group disappears in a shimmering light.
The cassette clatters to the sidewalk behind them.
Out of befuddlement, mainly, I pick it up. It’s clearly old, discolored and scuffed, but it still has tape in it.
I carry the tape around in my pocket for a while. The curiosity builds. I want to know what’s on that tape. I don’t have a cassette player anymore, so I go to Goodwill and pick up the first one I can find, praying that it still works. I plug it in. It turns on.
I slide the tape inside. It’s dirty, but it still seems to be in decent shape. I snap the player closed and hit play. The wheels begin to turn. I hold my breath.
A familiar tune starts up. A wobbly voice comes out of the machine.
day barely even started and I already had to hear “thank you for being our wives, sisters, aunts” and “keep being women and giving birth and being delicate unlike us men” as compliments for international women’s day
here’s to women being transgender childless dykes forever and ever and ever
“Ariel sold her voice for legs just because of a guy“
Meanwhile Ariel with legs;
Ariel already loved the human world long before meeting Eric (you don’t get a collection like hers overnight) and when she finally got a chance to explore it, she took it.
Ursula made it more about Eric than Ariel ever did.
and i mean hell this has been talked about before in more depth than i can, but when people complain about how the ending was changed (the original fairytale does not give ariel a happy ending, she dies trying to protect the prince), i think about the fact that this was written by a gay man in the 1980s
and i think it’s entirely valid (and gives her an extremely strong connection to the queer community) to change the story so she doesn’t die because of who she loves
The head of a key U.S. Justice Department task force that combats drugs and organized crime was fired on Friday, amid a move by President Donald Trump’s administration to purge or sideline career officials.
Adam Cohen, who was director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces, in a social media post said he had been fired by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney who was confirmed to the department’s No. 2 role by the U.S. Senate on Wednesday.
The hardest hit county has the highest avoidance of vaccine rates standing at 18%.
That mother f—ker Kennedy actually has doctors there giving out doses of Cod Liver Oil to sick kids because he falsely believes that it’s high dose of vitamin A will cure or prevent Measles. It doesn’t and these people are suffering needlessly.
These anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorists should be jailed for child abuse. The Measles is a terrible disease to suffer through and can, and already has, cause death. The outbreak has spread to other counties and other red states where vaccination rates are low. Measles had been eradicated in the United States ages ago but thanks to Republican conspiracy theorists its back.
All it takes is one celebrity that believes in anti-vaxx conspiracies to cause major outbreaks. Just look at all the harm Jenny McCarthy caused with her “vaccines cause autism” lies. Wikipedia actually had to put up a page to prove that was hoax but millions followed that dumb bitch’s lead. Now they have a celebrity vaxx denier in the White House passing out mountains of lies and conspiracies about diseases. A conspiracy theorist with no medical training or education. Modern medicine isn’t something you can master by reading quack stories from bogus internet sites in your spare time. It takes trained medical researchers and doctors whole lifetimes of study and practice to know what’s safe for you.
F—king cod liver oil isn’t going to do shit for you. In fact the average American already exceeds the daily recommended amount of Vitamin A.
amhrancas 