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New @rollingstone.com by me: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... Judges have told Trump, if he wants #DOGE -style austerity, he must get statutory reorg. authority from Congress. The GOP's Reorganizing Govt. Act of 2025 would give him exactly that. Extra material: douglaslucas.com/blog/2025/06...

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What could go wrong.

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#Gaza: On June 1, dozens of Palestinians were killed and hundreds more injured by Israeli forces as they waited for food at the distribution centres. Doctors Without Borders teams joined the mass casualty response in Nasser hospital. www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/palestine-do...

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You can't make this up.. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Not sure whether use of chatGPT makes the report worse than what it would have been otherwise.

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Communist regimes determined what could be taught and researched at universities, insisted on programs in Lysenkoism and Scientific Marxism-Leninism, abolished other departments, and controlled who could attend and teach. This, of course, is entirely different.

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

submitted 44 days ago • 15 comments

State of the world. People sympathetic to Postmodernism, Social Construction and Pluralism insisting on historical facts. People professing that there is a single true version of reality deliberately suppressing historical facts, and making stuff up.

submitted 47 days ago • 18 comments

If Joe Biden said this kind of word salad on "Meet The Press," I imagine it would be a major story. And this is one of his more coherent responses in an interview transcript that has to be read to be believed. (Link to complete interview in next post.)/1

submitted 47 days ago • 53 comments

This. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 74 days ago • 264 comments

1/4. If the US were engaged in an attempt to bring peace to Ukraine, it would place more tariffs on Russia, rather than exempt Russia entirely.

submitted 75 days ago • 56 comments

Har du tenkt på kva som krevst av toppakademikarar med arbeidarklassebakgrunn? Kva må dei få til på eiga hand som fleirgenerasjonsakademikarar «får inn med morsmjølka»? Svara frå forskarane Nicolai Topstad Borgen og Svenn-Erik Mamelund vil kanskje overraske. open.spotify.com/episode/6IJ5...

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Well, isn't this nice, showing work-life relevance of bachelor degrees... Also, what the actual f. 🤯

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Even if half of this is true, this is some crazy stuff. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Oh snap. theonion.com/teen-warned-...

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To anyone thinking Ingebritsen occasionally might react differently than your usual jovial type, here is some context. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/m...

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It’s worth stating this simply: For literally anyone in the US Govt from 1945 to 2025, Signalgate would require an instant resignation—and a criminal investigation. It would be a matter of personal honor to resign. The fact Mike Waltz & Pete Hegseth are choosing to fight it out is a terrible omen.

submitted 87 days ago • 953 comments

The real uncomfortable fact is the sheer scope of stupidity among American politicians these days.

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76 years ago, 20,000 Estonians were deported to Siberia by the Soviet dictatorship. They tried to wipe us off the face of the earth, but we stood firm, regained our voice and our independence. And today, we help new victims of aggression, whose tactics have not changed in the new millennium.

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Hah. But her emails, right? www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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The geniuses at DOGE are bringing us insights like "I'm not really sure why the tax agency for a country of 330 million people has a larger staff than a midsize bank"

submitted 89 days ago • 417 comments

You can’t get to peace by repeating the obvious lies of the aggressor. Even if you have no moral qualms about becoming the propagandist of a foreign power, practically speaking it just can’t work.

submitted 89 days ago • 46 comments

Putin’s one and only route to victory is through Trump’s head.

submitted 89 days ago • 119 comments

"The last few months have been a moral catastrophe. At least there’s no economic upside." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/its...

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Estonia will increase its defence spending to at least 5% of our GDP from next year. Our aim is clear - to make any aggression against us unfeasible. Russia has not changed its goals and imperialistic ambitions. This is a real threat to both Europe and NATO.

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So I finally watched The Boys. 3,5 seasons this far and I am horrified. Mostly at the fact that a series about evil influencer-supes and corporations does not seem outrageous or depressing compared to reality out there these days. If anything, the creators have had sharp skills at prediction.

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Today we celebrate the Day of Mother Tongue. There are ca 900,000 speakers of the Estonian language. Estonian is the language of science and culture; it is also the IT software language with the smallest number of native speakers in the world.

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Today we're publishing a monster feature that dives deep into the initial six weeks over Elon Musk's government takeover. Our entire newsroom came together to help make this story happen. Read this culmination of our blood, sweat, and tears:

submitted 100 days ago • 123 comments

This is a Hitler-screaming-in-his-bunker-at-generals level of lunacy

submitted 100 days ago • 2515 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 107 days ago • 1568 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 111 days ago • 2058 comments

30 years ago, America promised to defend Ukraine -- in exchange for Ukraine giving up its nukes and its Black Sea fleet America is now breaking those promises So for every nuke and ship Ukraine gave up, the US should be forced to compensate them with a new one Fair is fair

submitted 110 days ago • 81 comments

Today, a reporter from the Russian state news agency TASS gained unauthorized access to the Oval Office. How does one gain unauthorized access to the Oval Office? Meanwhile, AP and Reuters were blocked.

submitted 112 days ago • 471 comments

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

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I am so disgusted by the White House debacle that I am at loss of words. As a country, the US has now officially joined the evil crowd. Good luck to any of the decent people left there.

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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

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