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Would be flaneur. Grateful for small mercies. Girl dad. #Skol #sfgiants #celtics🍀🌴
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The US now has no vaccine advisory committee, no CDC director, and an anti-vaxxer as Health Secretary.

To be in public office right now is to constantly ask yourself: How do I make sure I'm standing on the right side of history? There's a simple answer. The wrong side of history will always tell you to be afraid - the right side of history will always expect you to be brave.

Undocumented immigrants pay almost $100 billion in taxes each year. The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes each year. Stop pretending that immigrants are the ones taking advantage of taxpayers.

If you smell smoke, maybe it’s the Reichstag

Damn

Facts

“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” – George Washington

Americans work more hours, take less vacation, work longer days, & retire later. But hey, at least we're not stuck with socialized health care.

They found no fraud—just a new way to screw over retirees at Silicon Valley speed.

The Trump administration is defying the Supreme Court, arresting judges and mayors, talking about arresting congressmen, denying due process and openly musing about suspending habeus corpus too. There’s no constitutional crisis coming. It’s here.

And here we are.

Y’all — OKLAHOMA is going to require their schools to lie to their kids that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. popular.info/p/new-oklaho...

Meanwhile, in Canada…

Neil degrees Tyson Explaining the "God of the Gaps".

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

NEW: For the past three days, DOGE and a handful of Palantir reps, along with dozens of IRS engineers, have been collaborating to build a “mega API” that would potentially allow intentionally siloed IRS data to be viewed in one place. @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/palant...

Right now, domestic and foreign investors are essentially selling America. They are selling its bonds, stocks and currency, and the outlook for all 3. They are perhaps also selling the leadership. Tariffs and Trump create new equilibria for US assets and markets now saythey're at a lower level.