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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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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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The Big Beautiful Betrayal was passed in the dead of the night by 215 to 214. They’re going to be held accountable for this at next year’s midterms.

submitted 12 days ago • 1171 comments

US Border Patrol agents have begun stopping and searching Canadian-bound traffic at the Aldergrove and Sumas border crossings, before cars get to the Canada-controlled border crossings.

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US campaign entices Canada tourists: “Come visit America and also maybe El Salvador!”

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Rosstat has classified detailed data on birth rates, death rates, marriages, divorces and corresponding coefficients in Russia. Instead of 6 files, 1 file is now published. Regional data is completely classified! Monthly data has also been closed! (screenshot - all that remains!) 1/

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I will never get over that we had this shit beaten back, and now we are here because of millions of stupid assholes and a goddamned death cult

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The variant comic cover I did for Stitch #1 , On sale in Aug✨ #coverart #disney

submitted 17 days ago • 13 comments

Oops.

submitted 25 days ago • 4073 comments

This is not the way to prevent pandemics

submitted 28 days ago • 79 comments

“Officers reportedly ordered performers and all 133 patrons to wait outside while they conducted what they called a ‘compliance check.’ “ Everything old is new again. History repeats itself. Etc.

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Warnock: I don’t know how anybody can be apathetic after what we’re going through right now. We say elections have consequences. That ain’t a slogan right about now. We’re living that reality. Here I am doing everything I can with the tools that I have but tools are not the same…

submitted 30 days ago • 101 comments

The Truth Of The Matter And They Are Not Bringing Jobs Back….

submitted 30 days ago • 460 comments

💯

submitted 30 days ago • 138 comments

Glory!

submitted 29 days ago • 141 comments

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 35 days ago • 116 comments

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

submitted 41 days ago • 2114 comments

Y’all, I think I found that welfare state the right wingers keep crying about

submitted 41 days ago • 449 comments

THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT IS THE LAW OF THE LAND AND A SUPERSTATUTE AND THE PRESIDENT CANNOT UNDO IT. sincerely, a constitutional law professor who also teaches employment discrimination

submitted 41 days ago • 518 comments

“Pro-life”

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

submitted 41 days ago • 860 comments

The Have Nots vs The Have Yachts: Another $3 billion is being ripped away from schools to pay for more tax cuts for the super-rich that let them write off things like their private jets and yachts. We’re just the piggy bank for billionaires. popular.info/p/3-billion-...

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Costco is a really popular subject for business-success case studies but I feel like business guys kinda lose interest when the upshot of the study is like "just operate with scrupulous integrity in all facets and levels of your business for four decades" and not some easy-to-fix gimmick

submitted 44 days ago • 175 comments

This

submitted 44 days ago • 907 comments

If you know, you know

submitted 43 days ago • 504 comments

"After nearly five hours, he and his wife were released. They are now pursuing legal action. "It's not about the immigrants," his sister, told NBC10 Boston. "It's coming to us Americans, and it's going to go after all of us." www.nbcboston.com/news/politic...

submitted 49 days ago • 1945 comments

Not the onion

submitted 49 days ago • 206 comments

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

submitted 50 days ago • 585 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 50 days ago • 332 comments

🎯 🎯 🎯 graphic courtesy @pleightx.bsky.social

submitted 54 days ago • 139 comments

Final_Version_of_Tarrifs_actualFINALcopy_version7_USETHISONE.docx

submitted 55 days ago • 295 comments

Oh no this won't cost more long term, nope not a bit 🙄 www.scientificamerican.com/article/amid...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

This is high art

submitted 58 days ago • 545 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 57 days ago • 313 comments

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

submitted 58 days ago • 842 comments

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

submitted 58 days ago • 4947 comments

And for a breath of something truly interesting in dark times

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I love this

submitted 61 days ago • 348 comments

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

submitted 61 days ago • 109 comments

Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power.

submitted 62 days ago • 498 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 62 days ago • 951 comments

It’s still hard to believe the simple fact that this is all self-imposed. Everything that’s happening right now wasn’t the result of some foreign adversary destroying the country. We did this all to ourselves by electing the dumbest motherfucker to ever rule a nation.

submitted 62 days ago • 1360 comments

"I don't want a Disney vacation of our history! I don't a whitewashed history, I don't want a homogenized history. Tell me the wretched truth about America, because that speaks to our greatness" -- 20 hours into his speech, Cory Booker is spitting absolute 🔥

submitted 63 days ago • 1019 comments

This keeps getting worse and worse.

submitted 64 days ago • 1927 comments

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

submitted 63 days ago • 1253 comments