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“This is such a race for being the science powerhouse that you never fully recover," says Marcia McNutt, president of the National Academy of Sciences. ".. you can't make up for those years when you were at a standstill while the competition was racing .." @axios.com www.axios.com/newsletters/...

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

lol…

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I don't find the Trump/Musk fracas upsetting at all. The half-season or so when Lorelai and Rory weren't speaking -- THAT was a bummer.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This might be the absolute greatest reply we have ever received. Thank you, Cookie Monster 📕🍪💙

submitted 2 days ago • 235 comments

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

submitted 2 days ago • 279 comments

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 5 days ago • 548 comments

"Our country's so innocent?" Trump asked in 2017, seeing an opportunity to make America what Rep. Raskin now calls a "gangster state." And Republicans like Joni Ernst are all in for the sadistic cruelty, indifference and mockery. So what if her voters die? www.americaamerica.news/p/free-to-be...

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

Many others are posting abt this too but this graphic viscerally shows how dire the presidential budget is for NASA 🔭🧪and worldwide astronomy. I can’t express how sad this makes me, as an American scientist. And it’s mostly already paid for projects, so also no logic in terms of saving money.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

When you don’t understand how anything works then everything is a conspiracy

submitted 6 days ago • 528 comments

Think she really sums up Jesus’ message well here. Who gives a shit about the poor and suffering here on earth, God will sort them out after their short, miserable lives are over.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Idiot

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Loretta Swit this morning. Ms Swit and a few of her colleagues from the M*A*S*H cast starred in one of our earliest PSAs. Thank you for helping us get the word out, Major. youtu.be/CRGVsfjyFhQ

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

Finally some good news…

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Think a good plank for the Democratic Party would be a 95% income tax rate on corporate compensation packages in excess of 20x their lowest paid employees.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Trump has a 6-year-old’s understanding of how American government works. Unfortunately, so do about half of the other adults in this country.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 214 comments

Now that he’s stepped away from his government work, just hope he takes time for a nice, long soak in a hot tub after his next huge dose of ketamine.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Wow…

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Without our ideals, regardless of whether we ever fully achieve them, this country is just dirt.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I was curious just how much time in prison people pardoned by Trump would otherwise have had to have served. So I added it up: more than 700 years, including 600 among Jan. 6 rioters. Gift link: wapo.st/3Hfd174

submitted 9 days ago • 42 comments

Poor guy got his feelings hurt…

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Miller should watch a few Schoolhouse Rock videos to bring him up to speed on how the U.S. government works.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

In another time and place, MAGA people would have made very good communists, picking and choosing from above what vocation and courses of study people should pursue. Bonus, they even know what scientific results they prefer without worrying about the scientific method. Saves so much time.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments