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Forgive me for being obvious. You know this—yes, I mean you. But it drives me nuts that the “natural remedy” crowd is anti-vaxx. Vaccines aren’t meds. They leave your body quickly. All they do is alert your immune system to danger, like a 10-most-wanted poster. Your own body does the job.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

We live under a tyranny that holds free speech means some whack job can post lies without challenge about a disease as it kills 1,200,000+ Americans, but a university president may not discuss federal policy as it affects one of her students. This is the negation of the Bill of Rights.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Takes a lot of chutzpah to make a $290 million political donation, assume a powerful position in government, use that power to fire tens of thousands of people and do immeasurable harm to American state capacity, and expect not to have to answer for it afterwards.

submitted 6 hours ago • 85 comments

This entire administration, from top to bottom, is a conspiracy against the Constitution.

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What do you do to a man who conspired to create a monarchy? Who launched a project to destroy the republic? Whose purpose is to end the Constitution? Russell Vought should be prosecuted.

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

"In essence, former officials said, nobody is above the law except Mr. Trump." Happening right in front of us - a rule-of-law crisis created by the Supreme Court and Republicans in the Senate

submitted 9 hours ago • 9 comments

“Do we really need automatic weapons and tactical gear, Jim?” “Steve, they’re RESTAURANT WORKERS. They’re disciplined and accustomed to the worst conditions!”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Sarah Huckabee Sanders was once politely asked to leave a restaurant and it generated 100x as much handwringing from the media as this will

submitted 1 day ago • 184 comments

Wonder if she’s more a fan of slavery or Natives’ conquest & dispossession. Look, I sure think history is fascinating. Makes for great books. But it ain’t history without the negative. Many of our greatest achievements—what defines us at our best—resulted from our grappling with the worst.

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“What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.”

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This is striking. We now have two Trump-appointed judges directly knocking down Trump's power to simply create emergencies by decree and then assuming extraordinarily sweeping powers on that basis. This is the thing to watch. It's key to their dictatorial project. newrepublic.com/article/1959...

submitted 2 days ago • 22 comments

Today in the manuscripts reading room of the Library of Congress, I read William H. Taft’s VERY long, VERY detailed description of a truly disgusting infection of his perineum, in a letter to Secretary of War Elihu Root. Therefore I nominate, for Trump’s Garden of Heroes, Taft’s perineum! #research

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Again, because we have totally lost the plot: it was totally unprecedented for Democrats to replace an incumbent against his will in 2024, & yet they actually did it. And the <other party> did the opposite & re-nominated an elderly criminal fascist.

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

As expected, Trump fired me today and named Marco Rubio acting author of my Theodore Roosevelt biography.

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I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

Trump does not give a crap about the Library of Congress. He has no idea what it does or what it’s for. It’s there so he wants it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Country Boy. Where I grew up, we would have unironically called JD Vance a city slicker.

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If the substance of the report is the same regardless of the data behind it, that should tell you something www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

Trump administration cuts to NSF will result in more than 200,000 FEWER people per year involved in basic science, training, and education - what should have been the next generation of US scientists. This isn't even eating your seed corn, it is setting your seed corn on fire and salting the earth.

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Amid reports of a new Covid-19 subvariant spreading in several US states, the CDC on Friday did not change its guidance on receiving vaccines against the coronavirus, contradicting a controversial recent announcement from the nation's top health official. www.rawstory.com/defiance/

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

He's such a cockroach.

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Survey of leading economists: "Imposing new US tariffs on steel and aluminum will improve Americans' welfare" |----------------------------- 28 strongly disagree |------------ 12 disagree | 0 uncertain | 0 agree | 0 strongly agree igmchicago.org/surveys/stee...

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

From Justin Wolfers.

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BAAAWK-bawk-bawk-bawk-bawk

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The 2018 steel tariffs just called to remind you that steel is produced by a tiny sliver of the economy, but used as an input by a much broader swathe of manufacturers. econofact.org/steel-tariff...

submitted 2 days ago • 41 comments

If there's any ground for hope that we can recover, post-Trump, it's that all his policies have no organic connection to our government or economy. Tariffs have no constituency; they're a crowbar jammed in the economic machinery. Basic government functions are broken; the health sector is rebelling.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I honestly think he believes he can just fire anyone now. I half expect to learn I've been fired as author and a replacement will be named shortly, and gratitude will be expressed for my attention to this matter.

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I believe it was American Werner von Braun who said of the US space program, “Es ist ausgezeichnet!”

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Is “lawfare” now the official term for “prosecuting serious crimes committed by politicians”?

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

No they weren’t. They were rotten to the core. As for “falling short of its goals,” I guess it failed to utterly destroy government, but it did a lot of damage. Still does.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A crime by bloody-minded anti-vaxxers who rule us now.

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Of all people, Karl Rove had a key insight about McKinley’s election in 1896. McKinley & Hanna realized Bryan had made the election about something they didn’t want to talk about: currency. So they took it head on, making an argument & offering an alternative. Democrats must hit Trump on trade.

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Progressives should stop worrying and learn to love trade. Importers are American businesses. Industrial firms that import raw materials & machinery are American manufacturers. People who buy cheap & diverse goods are Americans, improving their lives. Not that laissez faire is best policy.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Time to post it again.

submitted 4 days ago • 87 comments

You have to understand, those fake studies were really gold-standard fake.

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The more knowledge you acquire, the more modest you become about the knowledge you possess. That is, if you are a thinking person. Then there is Musk and RFK Jr. Come to think of it, I’m not sure they ever actually acquire knowledge.

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Just in case you think America has gone to hell only at the national level:

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I cannot repost this angrily enough. It’s an insult. It’s a mockery of the republic. It’s using the flag to wipe his ass.

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Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."

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Bondi cuts out the ABA from the judicial nominations process.

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Phil Swagel, the current CBO director, worked in George W. Bush's Treasury Department and was chosen as CBO director by Senate Republicans. rollcall.com/2019/05/15/s...

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