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The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

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Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

submitted 7 days ago • 201 comments

“DC-style scoring” aka “math”

submitted 8 days ago • 42 comments

Trump officials' showings at hearings today were disasters, but it doesn't make headlines bc the media's default assumption is that Rs are clownish rascals. But if Dems didn't know what was happening at their agencies or what habeas corpus is, it'd be front page news. This is a key media asymmetry.

submitted 11 days ago • 306 comments

The Trump DOJ has officially now pressed more charges against elected Democrats than the Biden DOJ under Garland did against Republicans. And Republicans did January 6. Think about this.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

I'm sure Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson will be reporting on this clear case of presidential cognitive decline, right? Right?

submitted 12 days ago • 537 comments

🚨From today's @wsj.com: "The [GOP Tax] plan won’t reduce federal budget deficits and would make America’s fiscal hole deeper." "...budget analysts across the political spectrum have panned the Republican plan, warning that it worsens the U.S. fiscal picture." www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 13 days ago • 127 comments

it’s pretty remarkable how the Democratic Party is self-flagellating more in 2025 after swapping out their candidate and losing the popular vote by 1.5% than republicans did in 2021 after losing the popular vote by 4.5% and inciting an insurrection

submitted 13 days ago • 86 comments

WATCH THE RACE START 👀 Absolute class from Max Verstappen 💪 #F1 #ImolaGP

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Trump admits businesses were booming under the Biden administration

submitted 14 days ago • 367 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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I dunno - maybe don't go back to the well of drunk fox news hosts for high level positions. It hasn't gone well so far.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

submitted 23 days ago • 40 comments

This guy is such an idiot it’s really unbelievable

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

I'm going to deck out the oval office with gaudy 24K gold accents - but for the kids in the US, you only need two toys at Christmas.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t know man, what could it possibly be?

submitted 27 days ago • 283 comments

NPR did a 30-minute interview with Steve Bannon in his podcast studio that aired just yesterday. PBS had on Chris Rufo tonight. Cozying up to these fucks won’t save you.

submitted 30 days ago • 169 comments

RFK Jr. ordered the NIH’s Integrated Research Facility in Frederick to stop all research on serious infectious diseases yesterday at 5:00 PM. They study pathogens like Ebola there. You may be familiar with it from The Hot Zone. www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

submitted 31 days ago • 779 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 31 days ago • 1968 comments

80% of the total population of the US saved. Nice win!

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WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. economy shrinks by 0.3% in first quarter of 2025, first drop in three years as Trump trade wars disrupt businesses. www.bea.gov/news/2025/gr...

submitted 32 days ago • 20 comments

I know when I think of the American Dream, it's to work on an assembly line in a factory until I die and have my kids do the same 😂

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ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

submitted 33 days ago • 1014 comments

Trump Opens Up Nation’s Aquariums To Commercial Fishing theonion.com/trump-o...

submitted 36 days ago • 65 comments

President Trump and Elon Musk promised taxpayers big savings. Now, as he prepares to step back from his presidential assignment to cut bureaucratic fat, Musk has said without providing details that DOGE is likely to save taxpayers only about 15% of what he originally pledged to save.

submitted 37 days ago • 153 comments