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Vladimir Putin is a sworn enemy of the United States. Appeasement was never going to work. Why is that so difficult to understand?

submitted 8 days ago • 1397 comments

Effective Corporate Tax Rates 1950: 50% 2025: 13% Top Marginal Tax Rates 1950: 91% 2025: 37% If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

submitted 41 days ago • 161 comments

You know what to do…👇 Enjoy 😎✨

submitted 53 days ago • 101 comments

Science isn't a belief. It's the GPS in the fog, the seatbelt on the rollercoaster, the friend who tells you your fly is down. Undermining it isn’t edgy—it’s like replacing your smoke alarm with a lava lamp. 🧪🔬🔥 We need brains, not vibes. #SaveScience

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

submitted 57 days ago • 3169 comments

It's darkly humorous that AI doomers worry about an advanced technology falling into the wrong hands, which allow China to wreck our economy, throw markets into turmoil, interrupt manufacturing progress, disrupt our scientific infrastructure, and create global panic and confusion.

submitted 57 days ago • 5 comments

Illegal attempts to access IRS data was an article of impeachment against Nixon.

submitted 58 days ago • 100 comments

The halt on the TikTok ban enforcement will be pushed out another 75 days by Trump. So a law that Trump and the GOP desperately pushed for critical national security, that was then passed and signed, will not be enforced for a total of at least five months. He just wants to kill his ban.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

Narrator: "It did not make them rich."

submitted 64 days ago • 244 comments

I have watched Republicans devastate the economy basically as a matter of policy for my entire life & every time they do it a slightly different or worse way we have people going, "This is the one that'll snap everybody out of it!" Never happens though. Don't see why this will be any different.

submitted 63 days ago • 14 comments

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

submitted 64 days ago • 505 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 63 days ago • 555 comments

On Friday, as a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar and surrounding countries, an alert went out to U.S. disaster responders. But it was followed, a few hours later, by another email laying off the entire disaster response team at USAID. notadoctor.news/2025/04/02/w...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Yea! For Senator Booker and Sen Murphy! This is the kind of thing we want from elected officials. We want to see that fire in the belly for upholding the law and the Constitution!

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Hegseth: “Nobody was texting war plans” Well, that’s the worst lie since Nixon’s “I am not a crook!” and obviously he hasn’t bothered to read the article yet.

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Trump’s national security team violates multiple laws with unclassified, unarchived chat on Signal instead of governmental comm system. “But her emails!” - why Hilary didn’t get elected. Where’s the MAGA folks now?

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Unbelievable turnout in this ruby red district for the Darrell Issa empty chair town hall!

submitted 74 days ago • 507 comments

All these COVID retrospectives are wild, acting like the pandemic was a single isolated event five years ago and not a complete (and ongoing!) reshuffling of western society.

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 82 days ago • 755 comments

these are our party leaders now, ignore all other opinions

submitted 82 days ago • 2877 comments

I voted NO on the Republican continuing resolution because it’s a bad bill—it’s that simple. Senate Democrats should do the same today. Vote NO!

submitted 83 days ago • 22 comments

How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????

submitted 83 days ago • 159 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 84 days ago • 2305 comments

@schumer.senate.gov

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

RFK jr: “It used to be, when I were a kid, that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” So get measles to prevent getting measles? This makes no sense. It’s just insane.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

I just figured out how to add a device to the preview canvas device list in Xcode for SwiftUI. The trick is that it needs to be the current iOS version. The preview destination picker that lets you choose your device only lists simulators for the current most iOS version. #ios #xcode #swiftui

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

“What do we want?” “Answers!” “When do we want it?” “After peer review!” #StandUpForScience rally March 7, 2025 in Washington Square Park, NYC

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

You want the truth? This is the truth: youtube.com/shorts/MXo8P...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

He nails it.

submitted 103 days ago • 1521 comments

During WWII, four brothers from the same Jewish family signed up to fight against the Nazis. Only one of the four brothers survived. His grandson is the current President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Slava Ukraine! Heroyam Slava! 💙💛

submitted 105 days ago • 28 comments

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submitted 106 days ago • 1345 comments

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 108 days ago • 840 comments

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

submitted 108 days ago • 706 comments

The Washington Post pulled an ad that was set to run in some editions on Tuesday calling for Elon Musk to be fired from his role in government, a group that ordered the ad said. It would have covered the front and back pages of editions delivered to the White House, the Pentagon and Congress.

submitted 108 days ago • 262 comments

“I never thought antivaxx policies would be put first in MY state,” sobs man who single-handedly cleared the way for antivaxxers to dictate health policy for the entire country

submitted 109 days ago • 64 comments

your reminder that planes didn't start crashing until after Donny Convict fired the entire Airline Safety Committee and the Space Nazi forced the head of the FAA to quit and didn't replace him

submitted 115 days ago • 81 comments

open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... Why does RFK Jr. believe so many weird things? One reason.

submitted 114 days ago • 11 comments