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Could we be more stupid? Let. Her. Serve. 🇺🇸💪

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To make matters worse, importers are leaving inventory in China ports. Waiting for tariffs to be lowered. If they are lowered enough, there will be a crush to ship them here and transport them when they get here. That will drive transportation costs way up. = More inflation, post tariffs

submitted 41 days ago • 387 comments

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

submitted 41 days ago • 220 comments

The perverting effect of money.

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Simply knowing John Feinstein made me a better college basketball reporter. That’s how good he was www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

submitted 97 days ago • 3 comments

Congressmen when they are asked if they will cut THEIR budgets and lay off staff as well:

submitted 119 days ago • 542 comments

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

submitted 119 days ago • 1900 comments

Charles Barkley calls athletes who won’t visit Trump’s White House ‘stupid’. I disagree | Etan Thomas

submitted 104 days ago • 56 comments

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

submitted 109 days ago • 159 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 111 days ago • 433 comments

“I knew someone on AA5432.” That was the subject of an email NPR host Adrian Ma sent to newsroom leaders in the hours after the DC plane crash. He trusted us with sharing his story — and her contagious energy. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

submitted 118 days ago • 50 comments

To get prepped for tonight's primetime Saturday Night Live 50th anniversary special, check out my story of four key moments which explain why the show has lasted 50 years - and 3 mistakes. BONUS, you can also listen to my talk w/Scott Simon from yesterday about it all! loom.ly/3DFIb7A

submitted 122 days ago • 4 comments

Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.

submitted 122 days ago • 152 comments

I rode the back of the bus. I buried Dr. King. You want me to participate in your little hate-a-thon against some other group? Kindly kiss my black ass.

submitted 124 days ago • 93 comments

Half a billion dollars in US taxpayer-funded food aid is at risk of spoiling as it sits in ports, ships, and warehouses after Trump cut off funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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This is a remarkable statement from the president of the American Bar Association which is nonpartisan and avoids politics … www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

submitted 127 days ago • 54 comments

Watch episode 3 of “The Jim Acosta Show” with my special guest, Larry Sabato, Director of Politics at the University of Virginia. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

submitted 132 days ago • 83 comments

MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏 Your longtime fan, Mar🐫

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Me @postsports on how auteur RaMell Ross employed his basketball past to inform his viewpoint in his Oscar best picture nominated ‘Nickel Boys’ 🏀 and 🎥 Sport and art. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2025/...

submitted 135 days ago • 0 comments

This is correct.

submitted 134 days ago • 636 comments

Another FBI leader standing up for the rule of law “Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the FBI and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and FBI policy." James Dennehy, FBI NY Field Office

submitted 136 days ago • 751 comments

I have many regrets about Earth, but making humans in a wide range of colors, shapes, and temperaments is not one of them. Celebrate thy diversity. Love each other.

submitted 135 days ago • 518 comments

“She set up a project for underserved young ladies on helping them get into college, and it was called ‘The Princess Project,’”https://www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/civil-rights-attorney-former-miss-kansas-contestant-killed-plane-crash-near-dc-airport/?outputType=amp

submitted 138 days ago • 1 comment

I was told by an NFL official at last year’s Super Bowl that electronic spotting would be here soon. Not soon enough, though.

submitted 142 days ago • 10 comments

The reason conservatives don’t want people learning about the Tuskegee Airmen is that their story completely destroys the racist ‘DEI bad’ narrative.

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Nikola friggin' Jokic, man. A 66-footer to give him a 22-21-15 triple double at the end of the third quarter. Sure. Why not.

submitted 145 days ago • 80 comments

Just have to say that the $Trump meme coin is a gift to all of us who are not fans of his. It’s just a matter of time until a lot of people lose money from this. I’m a crypto fan. This is not crypto any more than Madoff was just buying and selling shares of stock

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My colleague Mandalit del Barco has an affecting story on the impact of the wildfires in California on the film and TV industry in Hollywood, including halts in production, studios closing down, people losing homes and a delayed awards season. READ/LISTEN: loom.ly/Ddx4SMc

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