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GREAT PIECE! The Intellectual Dishonesty of Jason Furman prospect.org/economy/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Over on LinkedIn, the head of the Executive Secretariat of the NIH -- a central part of NIH leadership 🧪🩺-- resigned with a lettter worth reading www.linkedin.com/posts/nathan...

submitted 1 day ago • 46 comments

“Why aren’t Dems stopping this!?!” Well we did do a whole election and they offered a pretty good alternative to this and people went with chaos and carnage. At what point is it on the voters that pulled a lever for Trump and the Biden 2020 voters that just stayed home?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The thing with Lamb is that he’s got some dumb positions, but most of them aren’t going to matter and he’s just a basic middle of the party Democrat. Fetterman is, at heart, a contrarian troll. The problem with a guy like that are that his positions are always shifting.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

So far 2025's theme seems to be: Mediocre White Man About To Make His Privilege Your Problem

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

submitted 3 days ago • 518 comments

I am one to normally agree against alarmism but everything leading to this moment has been a function of cope. Endless rationalization and abatement of alternative hypotheticals to give tractable reason to what is otherwise an unintelligible sequence of horrific actions of spiteful self mutilation.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

I think this whole thread is cope. When someone tells you their goal is to fire every federal employee they can and eliminate spending they don’t like(which is most of it) plus add millions of dollars in tariffs, I’m not sure what the point of going “well it’s not even really that bad yet!” Is.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Gonna be honest here, there’s a list of people I don’t want to hear from because of their roles in getting us here, and this is one of them.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Shut the fuck up.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

everyone thinks we're gonna throw a mass protest and toss the bums out and like. that is a bunch of steps down the list right now. trump won the popular vote! we do not yet have the general will on our side!

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

People who think Stancil is leftist… and not Pragmatic Progressive Democrat are a problem. And people who think Chait is liberal with shitty opinions like this when even my Blue Dog Democratic rep supports trans rights: 😬

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

the mild, non-confrontational obama formula for inclusiveness was so intolerable to a substantial chunk of the country that they put a outer borough george wallace into the white house. like, what are we talking about here?

submitted 5 days ago • 190 comments

The appetite for Obama-style "inclusiveness" ended with the centrist crowd the moment Obama observed that he was black, whether it was Henry Louis Gates being harassed or Trayvon Martin being murdered. Ignoring blackness only solves racism for white men

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I get kind of annoyed by the Do Something crowd, because I think that if congressional dems do everything they want(give speeches, chain themselves to doors)absolutely nothing changes. Unfortunately the people of the US decided they wanted the government torn down, and now it’s time to buckle up.

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