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Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.

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Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 11 hours ago • 91 comments

See, be careful about waging a war against people who can speak your language without any accent and look just like you. <cough cough> Canada.

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Magical thinking does not persuade bond markets

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Exactly. The fact that a lot of Americans have grown complacent over Covid boosters (or seasonal flu shots) is hardly a reason for banning access to them.

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BASH: Is it fair to say that what you are doing now is in part enacting Project 2025? VOUGHT: No, of course not. (This is a blatant lie.)

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New research presents promising findings on colorectal cancer treatment and prevention: cnn.it/4dNZT5m

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This is my periodic reminder that I'm actually very conservative, politically, so while I agree with you, typical BlueSky user, on democracy and rule of law, I probably disagree with you on quite a lot of policy issues.

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“They figure, if we can bankrupt Harvard, if we can embarrass Harvard, if we can put Harvard in a position of weakness or at least get them to bend the knee, then all the other institutions in America will follow. That’s why they’re doing this.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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headline construction masterclass

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What infuriates me so much about this new operation is that it is literally punishing people for following the rules and showing up to their court hearings. It is so toxic to the basic concept of following the rules. It is an operation designed by people who hate the concept of the rule of law.

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Of Israel’s two leading right-wing extremists, one is an ideologue, while the other is a rabble-rouser, @gershomg.bsky.social writes. But both are pushing their country to places that were once unthinkable:

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WTF. This is the most sensitive, classified information and they want a Fox News anchor/producer to have access to it? Good luck having anyone share intel info with us. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

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every article about politics in every mainstream publication is flat out lying to you if it does not emphasize that our government has been taken over by freaks and lunatics

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Russian officials' decision to reiterate long-standing demands and send the same low-level delegation to the next Istanbul meeting indicates that Russia remains disinterested in engaging in good-faith negotiations. (1/2) ⬇️

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From The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky, in his article yesterday, “The Only ‘Judicial Coup’ in This Country Is By Trump Against Judges.” “It’s funny. But it’s worth noting that Trump doesn’t always chicken out. Most of the time, he just loses.

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its crazy how dominant germany was in science (especially chemistry) in the 19th century, it was basically the international language for scientists, people came from all over the world to train at heidelberg etc, and then....

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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.

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I’m devastated to hear my friend of 50 years has passed. Just spoke to her 2 days ago & she was her usual feisty, hysterically funny self. This is a hard one. I was her 1st house guest in her new home in 1975 & helped her paint her NYC apartment. Just heartbroken. So hard to lose old friends.💔💔💔

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Loretta Swit, damn. And this, from her obit, regarding her role on MAS*H…! “It was the greatest time in my career,” Ms. Swit told the The Guardian in 2001. Her ambition throughout the series was to be “the best damned nurse in Korea, and that motivated everything I did, even when it came to sex.”

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Oh no 😕

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This looks just like my freshman roommate, after his 6th go at the bong and his 4th Jack-in-the-Box taco

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If any pro-vaccine study did something like this, the anti-vax movement would broadcast it so loud and make it the centerpiece of a documentary. But, bc the anti-vax movement is fundamentally about eugenics and propaganda, they'll just hand-wave it away, play the victim, and move on.

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A profoundly consequential bout of Cold War idiocy that deserves to be better known, and which should caution Americans about the present moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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Canada has seen a surge of American doctors seeking to move north in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.

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The latest from @sarahemclaugh.bsky.social. McLaughlin's book "Authoritarians in the Academy" comes out this August. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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It is hard to imagine that 1) Any lawyers, even Trump's, could squeeze this much BS into one graf and 2) Shari Redstone is likely to pay > $15 million to settle this case www.courtlistener.com/docket/69332...

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Trump is selling the White House at a rate of roughly $1 billion a month (!) - the biggest scandal in US history, 10X worse than Watergate This needs a name: Cryptogate This needs a complete guide, which I've written This needs us to demand action My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Q: A NOTUS investigation found the MAHA commission report cites studies that appear to not exist. Does the WH have confidence in the info coming from HHS? LEAVITT: Yes. I understand there were some formatting issues but it does not negate the substance Q: Did they use AI? L: I can't speak to that

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Scoop: Texas police used Flock's license plate cameras to search nationwide for a woman who had a self-managed abortion. Claim it was "about her safety" www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

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These clowns are not beating the cult allegations any time soon. steube.house.gov/press-releas...

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The CBO director, Philip Swagel, is a former Bush political appointee and was reappointed in July 2023 by the leaders of both houses of Congress, including Speaker McCarthy. www.cbo.gov/about/organi...

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On Earth 2.0, folks on the other side of the aisle would say loud and clear that if "everyone involved in the deal understand the payment as the price of merger approval" then it is a bribe, and all of those people should expect to go to prison if it goes ahead in the next administration

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