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Starship blowing up is a bigger deal than you think. It’s not a prototype in a sandbox anymore, it’s a $4B NASA contract to land humans on the Moon ($2.8B initially, $4B with follow-ons). Every explosion is taxpayer-funded hardware going up in flames.

submitted 14 hours ago • 479 comments

Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA. on.ft.com/4kSuQYO

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Immigration judges are alarmed by ICE grabbing immigrants at courthouses. By the way, immigrants can request to appear in court via Zoom. All immigration attorneys should request this. Stop allowing immigrants to be grabbed at courthouses #ImmigrationLaw m.youtube.com/watch?v=HWx9...

submitted 1 day ago • 89 comments

The Watergate break-in (which happened 53 years ago this week) began the modern era of “whatever-it-takes-to-win” politics — blatant disregard of any and all norms and laws that interfered with gaining or keeping power. Trump is the logical and inevitable consequence. https://bit.ly/3QV2m4s

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Shocker

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Rate it! This stunning owl camouflage.

submitted 1 day ago • 214 comments

They are taking money from the poor to hand to the rich. Reverse Robin Hood politics. We must reject the “Big Beautiful” Bullshit.

submitted 1 day ago • 519 comments

Concerned citizens have turned to the Neighbors app, once used largely to look for lost deliveries, to make public service announcements about ICE raids in their communities.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

Breaking tonight:

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

#FairShare for #CommunityProsperity

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The Minnesota shooter apparently used data broker websites to find the home addresses of the people he shot and murdered. Congress has had years to do something about data brokers and they've sided with the tech lobby over and over again. Their inaction is deadly.

submitted 3 days ago • 752 comments

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All of this is being manufactured by Trump. The show of force is the point. It distracts from his recent failures and inability to govern. Like any bully, Trump wants to display his power — especially over those whom he doesn't consider "his" people.

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Bravo this sign.

submitted 4 days ago • 190 comments

Best image of the day:

submitted 4 days ago • 593 comments

Sit this one out Sarah.....

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Picking radishes is no easy task. Efrén spends 8-10 hrs/day on his knees, picking and sorting the radishes into small bunches to fill dozens of crates a day in CA's Ventura County. He's proud to have worked in America's fields for 49 years. #WeFeedYou

submitted 6 days ago • 1050 comments

There’s a lot that will need to be unpacked, but one thing is perfectly clear - Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal made the world less safe.

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

“NIH researchers found that exercise triggers mitochondrial DNA release in muscle, activating immune pathways that boost fat-burning fibers and fight obesity—but this same response may worsen fatigue in long COVID and #ME/CFS through immune overactivation.” www.cell.com/trends/endoc...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I don’t even think we can conceptualize the magnitude of the transfer of wealth that would occur if we succeeded in seizing capital and building socialism in the US. No just for this country but for the entire world

submitted 6 days ago • 60 comments

there’s got to be some kind of statute of limitations on this crap. I get moral hazard, I get all of that, it’s just completely insane to say that this guy who built an American life for 30 years isn’t American.

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Do you know a senior citizen who goes to bed hungry each night? Here's some math for you: the projected cost of the First Felon's June 14th military parade would fully fund Meals on Wheels for almost 3 years.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

#Mifepristone #SharedFacts for #GoodPolicy jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This is how you normalize authoritarianism.

submitted 8 days ago • 1117 comments

This is not hard. Every Republican member of Congress should join Democrats in condemning this administration’s vicious arrest of Sen Padilla. “A Republic if you can keep it” is now.

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If you have ever wondered what might happen to short chain fatty acids made by the microbiome. Here is a large class of metabolites and how they link to biology. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

If they can do it to a United States senator, what do you think they’ll do to you?

submitted 7 days ago • 98 comments

In my time in the Senate I've never seen a Senator treated this way. @padilla.senate.gov is carrying out his constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight and defend the people he represents. Absolutely shocking and disgusting way to handle a sitting member of Congress.

submitted 7 days ago • 199 comments