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There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 20 hours ago • 404 comments

HOLD UP. Are you telling us that the President of the United States is refusing regular briefings about threats to the country so his minions are creating a briefing TV show just for him? WHAT THE HELL? www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 10 hours ago • 456 comments

Constituent: “People will die!” Joni Ernst: “Well, we all are going to die.” Republicans gut Medicaid, slash safety nets, and when you call out the human cost, they shrug and quote the Grim Reaper. This isn’t governance. It’s managed decline. @alttext.bsky.social

submitted 4 hours ago • 5 comments

The USSR built the Dan-M drone to simulate Tomahawk missiles for training. Today, Russia is converting them into crude attack drones—and launching them at Ukrainian cities. But why? Even experts aren’t sure. euromaidanpress.com/2025/05/30/d...

submitted 4 hours ago • 9 comments

He literally pays people to curate his news so he only sees the good stuff and now he has the sads because he didn’t know about TACO. He’s so embarrassing.

submitted 5 hours ago • 210 comments

It looks like Canada is likely to join ReArm Europe. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

The White House seems to think its funny that Chief of Staff Susie Wiles phone was hacked. Any idea how you can hack Signal? Yeah…funny thing that. My latest and the last day of our paid upgrade sale!

submitted 6 hours ago • 51 comments

🇺🇸❗️US to impose 500% tariffs on all countries buying Russian oil, — Senator Blumenthal 🇮🇳🇨🇳 India and China, which buy 70% of Russian oil products, will be hit hardest, he said.

submitted 1 day ago • 48 comments

If oranges were fruit. Then the name “oranges” wouldn’t need to exist. You’d just call them fruit.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

prohibition was in no small part about violence against women and children

submitted 4 hours ago • 8 comments

DeSantis's Florida fluoride ban may have more to do with male virility than idiocracy. The link between Abortion bans, banning fluoride in water supplies, sperm races (yes, it's a thing), and Musk. The weirdo world of male insecurity in America...

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

It's also antithetical to the ENTIRE POINT of bitcoin. The idea is that it would function by nature of it's own scarcity as a stable store of value that nation-states can't manipulate like they do typical currency.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Haven’t done this in a while, so… It’s difficult to get started in watercolor because on one hand, you have influencers declaring that you cannot possibly start without $100 in paint and paper (not hyperbole) and on the other, you have heavily hyped junk. So here’s my under $20 beginner pack:

submitted 9 hours ago • 7 comments

I remember the first time my dad asked me to punch him in the face. Me and my 27 brothers (no sisters) and their 26 moms were there with me and dad. All 55 of us were just wrasslin. "Let me have it," dad said. He had been awake since 1991, because of the drugs and blackmail. Weeks later he died.

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

“I should have the freedom to—“ No. Stop right there. You aren’t the simplification from Econ 101 textbooks. You’re a living being who lacks full control over the externalities you inflict. (Holding up a needle) There is a way you can become more like the Econ 101 models. If you dare.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

Pięknie. Jeśli chcecie zniszczyć własną państwowość, tak jak Pani Noem razem z Panem Trumpem robią, bardzo proszę. apnews.com/article/pola...

submitted 11 hours ago • 103 comments