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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....

submitted 3 days ago • 75 comments

DOGE was always a scam, and other news. #EconSky heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-30-2025

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This data is too clean to be real, and the chart has more than 50 dots, so what are they counties? The dot sizes are too uniform to be voter counts.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Five favorite B&W movies: The General Miracle on 34th Street Schindler's List Witness for the Prosecution It's a Wonderful Life

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

A quarter billion dollars?!?! The average COSTCO store has a quarter billion dollars in revenue each year. ($260M/store in 2024)

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

You mean $4T debt increase. Yes, disgusting.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Like Hemingway's description of going bankrupt, we could lose our privileged position in the global financial system gradually and then suddenly. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/a-liz-trus...

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee. Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org. Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea" www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

How would Republicans solve their differences if we don't allow them this Republican on Republican violence? I suppose if Trump (as he requests) can do renditions without judicial review, that would solve it.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Similarly, people with Fuck Joe Biden bumper stickers were obviously calling for people to have sex with the president.

submitted 18 days ago • 81 comments

“An authoritarian project has to come out of the shadows to succeed. The intimidation of many depends on early and well-publicized assaults against a few. The authoritarian wants people to understand DOJ is now a department of political favors and retribution.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-want...

submitted 19 days ago • 35 comments

I need a fourth Google Maps verbosity mode which includes a beep 100 yards before each turn in addition to the rerouting beep I lovingly get when I miss it. Doh!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

In my polling of family, this ruse of a income tax rate increase on top earners combined with a +$1.2 trillion AMT loophole is unbelievably effective. They refuse to understand the hoodwinking even after I explain it three times. SMH www.google.com/amp/s/www.nb...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Hoping @wyden.senate.gov asks Scott Bessent whether Trump will be charged $40M tariff for the $400M jet he's importing from a foreign country subject to 10% tariffs.

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

True, but what he is doing to health policy is worse. It's as if this guy has never seen a pandemic. Give it time.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This new Texas law copies anti-Jewish legislation in pre-war Nazi Germany. That legislation consisted of a series of restrictive laws passed in 1933, then the Nuremberg Laws of 1935. This is not an exaggeration.

submitted 25 days ago • 67 comments

LOL, "upselling" "People who purchased fake certifications were subsequently blackmailed ... for having bought fraudulent “unauthorized” academic degrees. This practice created a continuous cycle of extortion, internally referred to as “upselling.” krebsonsecurity.com/2025/05/paki...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

We all know Trump doesn't lie to be believed. He lies to be repeated. It's a huge advantage when your opponents refuse to repeat anything, even the truth.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Trump hearing a Black man say "Harvard" and thinking he must've meant "Harlem" is a perfect mix of racism and dementia

submitted 29 days ago • 18 comments

I am not often quoted in @nytimes.com DealBook, but I hope the business community is listening.

submitted 29 days ago • 397 comments

If I meet one more person who voted to end democracy, somewhat knowingly, because they didn't like watching stories about trans athletes, I'm going to scream. Just change the damn channel from FOX.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

I want to financially support newspapers, but I don't want the spam. How about a checkbox for that on the subscription page? Seriously, it is a problem, because I don't want to unsubscribe one-by-one to two dozen e-mailed newsletters from one paper. Come on. Have some shame.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Every. Fucking. Word. Of. This. This is the energy and fire we need from EVERY elected Democrat, from city council to the Senate, and everything in between.

submitted 35 days ago • 24 comments

Workplace bathroom doors exist just to block wifi in the stalls.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, yes. Dirty films.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll assume there was no follow-up — asking whether “front-loading” is masking incremental consumer weakness. 🙄 @jeffstein.bsky.social

submitted 37 days ago • 91 comments

Trump reportedly owns 80% of this $3 billion dollar one-day increase.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

No they won't. Today's Republicans are controlled by kompromat, media, and money. Polling numbers are irrelevant.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

👇👇🇺🇦

submitted 41 days ago • 425 comments

AARP is more an insurance scam than an advocacy group, as they supported Trump in spite of his talk about reducing retiree benefits which AARP also refused to acknowledge as his comments.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Trump now invoking the widely recognized “following the law is too much work” exception to due process. Courts usually HIGHLY sympathetic to this argument. 🙄

submitted 43 days ago • 156 comments

If I were Russia I'd sponsor more extended ASPCA adds on MSNBC than I already do. Get people to change the channel.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

The Onion is satire. If it only jokes that you are awful, then you are in fact awesome. Such coverage is the highest Onion compliment.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

China now assessing tariffs against any country that elects to negotiate with Trump. Checkmate Xi.☠️

submitted 43 days ago • 20 comments

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

submitted 46 days ago • 1740 comments

Foreign students at American schools pay much higher rates than domestic students do, so a reduction in foreign attendance whether due to visas or just bad press coverage will impoverish American schools, from Ivy to community. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Of course Trump demands from Harvard all records of academic investigations into faculty and staff including plagiarism even if dismissed, because the Trump administration runs on Kompromat. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

The top 1% evade $163 billion in taxes per year — enough to end homelessness, hunger, and pay for universal childcare. 👆🏻 This is the crime wave we should be talking more about.

submitted 49 days ago • 447 comments

If you tax imported parts more than the things they build into, you will kill domestic manufacturing. This and the unpredictability will each prevent new domestic manufacturing, and will also kill US exports. Putin is pleased.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

purports to hate bureaucracy, yes exactly.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

Seems pretty clear that doge is a total scam

submitted 51 days ago • 942 comments

Trump has been trying to bully Maine Governor Janet Mills. A fight he is not winning. Her unwillingness to back down, similar to Boston Mayor @wutrain.bsky.social, is a lesson that could be well learned by some universities and law firms in our midst. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/12/s...

submitted 52 days ago • 42 comments