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Breaking: Trump’s tariffs bankrupt the 355 year old Hudson Bay Company. www.retaildive.com/news/hudsons...

submitted 27 days ago • 12 comments

Hearing now that every National Science Foundation grant is having to go through a new “DOGE review”. So existing grants and long term science and technology research having to undergo review by one of Elon’s interns. Huge percentage not passing their muster.

submitted 29 days ago • 112 comments

Voters in South Texas delivered Elon Musk a decisive victory, overwhelmingly approving a ballot measure to establish Starbase, Texas, as its own city.

submitted 27 days ago • 74 comments

Wow. Microsoft drops a law firm because it settled with Trump. From another firm: "The partner, who was not authorized to discuss client matters publicly, said prospective clients had indicated that they had lost confidence in settling firms for not standing up to an attack on the rule of law."

submitted 28 days ago • 56 comments

And there you have it.

submitted 28 days ago • 1899 comments

The entirety of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health was wiped out last night in a form letter sent by RFK Jr. NIOSH is an agency in the CDC that investigates workplace hazards and finds solutions. It protects workers, so it’s gone. Even firefighters.

submitted 28 days ago • 80 comments

An international trucking logistics firm is buying as much as * $20 MILLION * worth of President Donald Trump’s crypto coins to influence the administration’s trade policy. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 28 days ago • 207 comments

I’m still baffled at how America took one of the basic principles of the presidency — the occupant shouldn’t be able to benefit financially from the office — and just said, nah, that just doesn’t count for this one guy.

submitted 28 days ago • 630 comments

They're dismantling (what remains of) the social safety net and replacing it with a dragnet instead.

submitted 28 days ago • 83 comments

Australia’s conservative opposition leader had described Trump as a “big thinker” and appointed a shadow minister for “government efficiency”. He lost his seat in parliament today.

submitted 28 days ago • 15 comments

In case you doubt the anti-Trump effect, look at the counter-trend spike in Labor support after Trump had been in office for a bit

submitted 28 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk sued @mmfa.bsky.social in a SLAPP suit for writing an accurate article about X. He sued them in North Texas for no reason other than there was a (Tesla-stock owning) MAGA friendly judge. MMFA asked to transfer. Judge O'Connor not only says no, but says he may sanction them...

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

Update: the Trump administration has proposed cutting the National Park System by $900 million, about one third of its budget.

submitted 29 days ago • 77 comments

Breaking News: Germany classified the right-wing Alternative for Germany party as an extremist group, giving intelligence officials more tools to monitor it.

submitted 29 days ago • 415 comments

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

submitted 29 days ago • 2342 comments

To be clear, Germany is cracking down on a Neo-Nazi party, and the US government is defending the Neo-Nazi party

submitted 29 days ago • 214 comments

Trump on his faith advisers: "They work right out of the White House. That's never been done before. No other president allowed that. They say 'separation between church and state.' I said, alright, let's forget about that for one time."

submitted 30 days ago • 478 comments

Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 29 days ago • 20 comments

Today, President Trump proposed eliminating the Teen Pregnancy Prevention program entirely. Medical experts in and out of government have credited the program for contributing to a 78 percent drop in teen births over the past few decades. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

submitted 29 days ago • 59 comments

A Thousand Snipers in the Sky: The New War in Ukraine - 70% of Ukrainian and Russian casualties now inflicted by drones, replacing artillery - drones now kill more armored vehicles than all other weapons combined - Ukraine built more than 1 million drones in 2024, aiming for 3-4 million thus year

submitted 89 days ago • 12 comments

Wow, they're arguing that the Administrative Office of the US Courts is an executive agency that must be controlled by the president. This would functionally allow the president to shut down courthouses, fire judicial staff, and perhaps even cut off judicial salaries.

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

The House GOP is planning a federal vehicle registration fee—but only for hybrid & electric cars. The fee on electric cars would charge their drivers twice as much as the typical gas car driver pays in annual federal fuels taxes, $250 vs $125. It’s a policy designed to incentivize more emissions.

submitted 29 days ago • 9 comments

The President just effectively signed a statement that he is committing a crime, violating a criminal statute enacted with overwhelming bipartisan majorities (it passed 96-2 in the Senate). Here is the law and his post. 1/3

submitted 29 days ago • 74 comments

Wrote about the nation's greatest living dystopian fiction salesman, Howard Lutnick, and the pathetic policies that are trying to bring this technofeudalist fever dream to life: www.404media.co/your-childre...

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

The last banana of a bunch is traditionally a sacrifice to the gods (thrown out because it gets too ripe before I get to it). But last night I said no, I will eat it It broke in half while I was peeling and fell in the trash. I now fear I have angered the gods

submitted 29 days ago • 78 comments

Earlier this week, Hegseth released an Army transformation memo that amounts to a huge giveaway to huge campaign donors Anduril. Today, an Anduril exec nominated to be Under Secretary of the Army says he's going to hold onto his stock while at the Pentagon. War profiteering in broad daylight.

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submitted 29 days ago • 253 comments

Always funny to me that Yarvin is held up as the great intellect of the New Right and then when he argues for stuff it's this - here's some etymology for a synonym of a word you're using, so we gotta have a tyrant -- checkmate libs. Behold the philosopher.

submitted 29 days ago • 212 comments

Hard to believe this is real life

submitted 29 days ago • 908 comments

JD Vance's brother is on the ballot in 5 days and I'm surprised it hasn't gotten more buzz! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Breaking News: President Trump signed an executive order seeking to cut federal funding for NPR and PBS, accusing them of producing biased coverage. Follow live updates.

submitted 29 days ago • 92 comments

American health insurance: teeth are not part of the body

submitted 29 days ago • 88 comments