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I want to remind everyone that without Elon Musk, we wouldn't be in this situation where our academic institutions, science enterprise, and democracy are being dismantled, and millions of additional people around the world are going to die. We want both of them to lose horribly in this fight.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

I mean, there’s the death of expertise, and then there’s whatever the fuck this is

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

This was today… Sotally tober… NYT clearly way off base…

submitted 7 days ago • 3787 comments

“Unfortunately, the policy since the beginning of the Trump administration has been to put pressure on the victim, Ukraine, rather than on the aggressor, Russia…After nearly three decades serving our country, I resigned as our ambassador to Ukraine.” www.freep.com/story/opinio...

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

the kid looks fucking terrified, knows the university will probably punitively hold the diploma they've worked three or four years to get, and also knows people have been disappeared recently by fascists for doing way, way less. still says it! just an incredibly fucking brave person

submitted 22 days ago • 37 comments

Senate Democrats have finally woken up to the intrinsic corruption found in the crypto industry. From @ddayen.bsky.social: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 31 days ago • 13 comments

Dear god let this man cook.

submitted 38 days ago • 1138 comments

And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes. We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.

submitted 40 days ago • 1378 comments

Okay Markwayne.

submitted 45 days ago • 1088 comments

Happy Easter!

submitted 48 days ago • 5 comments

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

submitted 52 days ago • 1149 comments

FT should do an interview with Bill Gates to check if he is still impressed with Trump and his interest in innovation, HIV prevention and vaccines. According to Bill, Trump was enthused about it.

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

This is what empires look like when they fall inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

submitted 65 days ago • 104 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

It would be entertaining to watch Murdoch's Journal bust a gut over the tariffs and the Trump crash, except we're the ones who all suffer. Gift link: Trump’s New Protectionist Age www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

WH has now confirmed: this is insane nypost.com/2025/04/02/u...

submitted 65 days ago • 352 comments

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 67 days ago • 66 comments

“I don’t regard Putin as a bad guy,” Witkoff told Tucker Carlson. “That is a complicated situation, that war and all the ingredients that led up to it,” he continued. Carlson nodded, adding, “yes, amen.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 75 days ago • 6 comments

All of this.

submitted 80 days ago • 8 comments

From @scottlincicome.bsky.social: "Things Everyone Should Know about Trade Deficits: They don’t hurt jobs or growth, aren’t trade or economic scoreboards, and can’t be fixed by tariffs."

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool? When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐 Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.

submitted 82 days ago • 25 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

submitted 89 days ago • 579 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.