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It’s literally California’s money

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

Ukraine. One night. 452 (!) air weapons launched. 406 stopped. Targets: civilian infrastructure across Ukraine, people sleeping in their homes. This is not a game. This is full-scale daily state terrorism that goes unpunished. russia is a terrorist state.

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

Here’s a rare member of the U.S. Senate who seems to understand how close we are to a dictatorship.

submitted 1 day ago • 137 comments

This isn't good: "BLS is reducing sample in areas across the country. In April, BLS suspended CPI data collection entirely in Lincoln, NE, and Provo, UT. In June, BLS suspended collection entirely in Buffalo, NY." #EconSky www.bls.gov/cpi/notices/...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

No. Way. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

submitted 2 days ago • 45 comments

i am simply floored to learn this about a guy who held a nazi rally at madison square garden eight months ago

submitted 2 days ago • 33 comments

Beyond frustrating and disappointing that CBS got a rare exclusive sitdown interview with Musk and didn’t ask him a single question about his reckless and ignorant cuts to USAID and all the lives that are being lost across the world as a result of it:

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

Al Jazeera reports Israel has just murdered at least 27 more Palestinian aid-seekers near Rafah, bringing the total number of people massacred in cold blood while seeking aid to 102 in just eight days. Unspeakable crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Please read and share. And share again. Trump, Musk and Rubio have sent millions of the poorest people in the world to their death. On purpose. Why? For tax cuts for billionaires? To appease Putin? What is the possible justification for this?

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 6 days ago • 146 comments

Today, 85 years ago: The peak of the "Miracle of Dunkirk," with ~ 70,000 British troops evacuated. The successful rescue at Dunkirk allows Britain to survive in 1940, which makes possible allied victory later. Lesson: You need to survive your Dunkirk before you can attack and win on your D-Day.

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

Trump’s new ‘gold standard’ rule will destroy American science as we know it Colette Delawalla, Victor Ambros, Carl Bergstrom, Carol Greider, Michael Mann and Brian Nosek in The Guardian. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 6 days ago • 461 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 7 days ago • 188 comments

In San Antonio today, plainclothes ICE officers (not masked this time) arrested, handcuffed, and zip-tied a family of five (yes, ALL of them, including the little children) coming out of their immigration court hearing — which ICE had just had dismissed. www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/a...

submitted 7 days ago • 1082 comments

remigration is neo-nazi speak for ethnic cleansing. wrote a whole story about the origins of the word here: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 8 days ago • 51 comments

There's a stunning provision tucked into the budget bill that would limit courts' ability to enforce contempt orders, and therefore to uphold the rule of law. This deserves real alarm. If the Senate values the separation of powers, it must remove the provision.

submitted 8 days ago • 26 comments

Analysis by Glenn Kessler: There is no dispute that people have died because the Trump administration abruptly suspended foreign aid. One might quibble over how many people have died. But you can’t call it a lie.

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments