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Hands off Hendersonville, NC.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you Secretary Hegseth for the open projection in criticizing Goldberg. You described exactly the type of journalist you were. a “deceitful and highly discredited so-called journalist who has made a profession of peddling hoaxes time and time again.”

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Have the DOGE boys gotten around to cancelling a) a single weapons contract or b) a single Elon Musk contract?

submitted 61 days ago • 517 comments

Elon Musk just called Social Security a Ponzi scheme, so it’s worth reiterating: All functional retirement schemes, public or private, pre funded or pay as you go, are claims on future production - there's just no way, at scale, of storing current production for use during retirement

submitted 72 days ago • 134 comments

Just read this graf. Share it with people you know who don’t pay attention to politics or news.

submitted 72 days ago • 844 comments

He who defies the law, de facto defies the country.

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Truth!

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

There is good news. 1) Trump does not use data or fax. 2) Trump hires incompetent people 3) There is no internal consistency or strategy in Trump‘s executive orders. 4) The failures in the short term will be painful for many people. Sad, this but will bring truth to light.

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Medical research and public health policy is a prime target paulkrugman.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 108 days ago • 110 comments

The overriding principle guiding this administration is cruelty. Regardless of the policy, the goal is to implement it to hurt as many people as much as possible. No wonder a simple & polite request for mercy & compassion elicited such a strong reaction. Guilt does that to all of us.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you Bishop Mariann Budde. The reaction you elicited for encouraging compassion and mercy proves you hit the truth bullseye.

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Elon Musk says DOGE probably won’t find $2 trillion in federal budget cuts Here’s a shocker. Now says only a “good chance” of reaching even half of the $2 trillion he promised.

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

Prime Minister Musk and President Trump seem to he careening toward a breakup that we knew was inevitable. How bug a price will we have to pay?

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h... Vaccines are so effective time has erased our awareness of their benefits.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

My over/under on Belichick is 356 days.

submitted 151 days ago • 0 comments

Electric heat pumps, the most affordable and energy efficient way to heat and cool homes, continue to outsell gas furnaces nationwide. They can also reduce outdoor pollution and, as a result, save lives, according to a report issued on Tuesday. Here's how.

submitted 153 days ago • 41 comments

What the oil and gas industry wants from Trump and how it might deliver www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/w... Oil and gas CEO’s have a simple request, let us destroy the climate and planet as fast as possible.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments

1.5 million years after invention, fire still unites us.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

Accepting and including are great ways to show gratitude. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

submitted 166 days ago • 0 comments

You’re not violating a reading rule if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore. You needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

submitted 166 days ago • 463 comments

Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines: Measles: Before: 530,000, After: 47 Mumps: Before: 160,000, After: 429 Rubella: Before: 50,000, After: 3 Diphtheria: Before: 20,000, After: 2 Smallpox: Before: 30,000, After: 0 Polio: Before: 16,000, After: 0

submitted 176 days ago • 654 comments