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In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides. Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com

submitted 93 days ago • 144 comments

🔥 MUST-WATCH: Rev. Barber preaches about Iowa Senator Joni Ernst’s “we’re all going to die” comments about Republican Medicaid cuts — and her ensuing un-Christian non-apology. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKXwOc0...

submitted 5 days ago • 51 comments

LIGO detects gravitational wave disturbances such as colliding black holes produce & requires two locations (Washington and Louisiana) to pinpoint location. Trump wants to cut that to one. Grant odds will be cut to 7% CAREER grants, which help promising young scientists get their careers...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Paris Review is sharing one of my favorite poems again so I’m sharing it on here again “my old potato” - one of my favorite lines ever

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

This is striking. We now have two Trump-appointed judges directly knocking down Trump's power to simply create emergencies by decree and then assuming extraordinarily sweeping powers on that basis. This is the thing to watch. It's key to their dictatorial project. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 7 days ago • 22 comments

Systemic protections and guardrails are essential to a functioning society. Nature understands this even if oligarchs don't.

submitted 9 days ago • 109 comments

Pinks is a grassroots, social action group created just for women! We use this group to fight for women’s rights, everywhere! Our focus is amplifying our voices against the current regime here in America and abroad. Our members are global and the mission is clear, we have no limits. #Pinks

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

One thing we never talk about is how NASA was not allowed to fail in the same ways that SpaceX does. For NASA, they’ve been under a strict microscope of not wasting taxpayer dollars in their pursuits. The bar was always high. SpaceX has a lower bar, all while still using taxpayer dollars.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

I posted a screenshot of the headline yesterday. Here's the entire Borowitz Report: www.borowitzreport.com/p/man-feared...

submitted 10 days ago • 83 comments

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 16 days ago • 166 comments

God bless you @markleibovich.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 17 days ago • 67 comments

One person was killed and four were injured in the weekend blast, said Akil Davis, assistant director in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles Field Office.

submitted 19 days ago • 112 comments

Remember how the media credulously reported that Trump wants to raise taxes on the rich? Guess what: Buried in the House GOP bill is a provision that would create a new and expanded tax break for exactly those types of wealthy investors. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1952...

submitted 23 days ago • 31 comments

Honestly? The $400M plane from Qatar is quaint compared to his crypto scam, memecoin con, insider trading, and tariff shakedowns.

submitted 26 days ago • 911 comments

Boom!!

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

Dear WHITE house,

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Oh now they want to wear masks...

submitted 26 days ago • 17 comments

Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.

submitted 27 days ago • 1933 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?app=de... "Shut the hell up, Bill Maher. Go smoke a joint" F Maher. Perfect

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Josh Hawley is pressuring FDA Commissioner Marty Makary to change the FDA’s approach to mifepristone based on a study—without peer review—from the Ethics & Public Policy Center where Leonard Leo is on the board. (Hawley & Leo are connected via the Leo-led Teneo Network, which Hawley co-founded.) 1/

submitted 33 days ago • 64 comments

If this doesn’t infuriate you, check your pulse.

submitted 33 days ago • 35 comments

@ruthbenghiat.bsky.social #Stongmen youtu.be/xUMATTj3Ai0?...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal. Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration. See how this works?

submitted 38 days ago • 517 comments

Near Seattle, I went on a pilgrimage 35 years in the making

submitted 56 days ago • 29 comments

From Cleve Jones: “Call your representatives in Congress. Name him honorary grand marshal of your Pride parades. Say his name. Only we can save his life.” www.ebar.com/story/154050...

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

I heart @brooke — telling a suicide bomber who blew up the economy due for no reason that he is brilliant is peak beta chode for Ackman.

submitted 58 days ago • 1041 comments

Important to prepare. It's broadly suspected trump will push the insurrection act on 4/20. This doesn't stop us, we just need to change tactics and be aware. wagingnonviolence.org/2025/04/what...

submitted 59 days ago • 7 comments

Deeply concerning: US citizen lawyer getting detained and his phone searched on reentering the U.S. at Customs. www.freep.com/story/news/l...

submitted 59 days ago • 255 comments

My talk yesterday, interspersed with images of those more than 1200 protests nationwide. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

submitted 61 days ago • 10 comments

If you believe that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who was on a Signal chat with most of the cabinet members and the VP, will keep your data housed at the IRS, safe. I have a bridge to sell you. IRS has data, in real time, the following: (Thread)

submitted 72 days ago • 44 comments

Omar: They want you to think it is ok to snatch people in the middle of the night and disappear them.

submitted 62 days ago • 93 comments

btw this page (in english) lists the circuit breaker trigger info for japan markets www.jpx.co.jp/english/mark...

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

No matter who or what Trump bombs this week, I refuse to get distracted.

submitted 61 days ago • 118 comments

A graphic video shows the moment that Israeli troops fired on aid workers in clearly marked vehicles in Gaza, killing 15 people. The footage contradicts Israel’s version of events in an episode that has drawn international scrutiny. Read witness accounts: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...

submitted 61 days ago • 121 comments

What a fucking idiot.

submitted 61 days ago • 1903 comments