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Almost every line of this story would have been simply unbelievable a few months ago: —Pioneering cancer researcher; —Arrested at airport in Boston; —Now indefinite ICE detention in Louisiana; —"Crime": not declaring some frog-embryo samples for research. Read it. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 4 days ago • 750 comments

When people say that some concept is too complicated for voters to understand, I remember Stephen Sondheim's line about the "West Side Story" movie. He was told that it didn't have "hummable" songs. Then United Artists spent a ton of $ promoting it, the movie was a hit, and suddenly it was hummable.

submitted 6 days ago • 24 comments

The problem with … the two problems with .. AMONG the problems with people like Natalie Jackson is their credulous and sheeplike willingness to accept the government’s narrative about who is a “hero” or a “villain” based on dubious claims, /1

submitted 8 days ago • 465 comments

"I don’t naturally march in demonstrations or attend rallies that I’m not covering as a journalist. But this is what America needs right now. Trump is shackling the greatest institutions in American life. We have nothing to lose but our chains." --David Brooks (!) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 18 comments

If the IRS deprives Harvard of its tax-exempt status, that's very bad for Harvard but it's also a catastrophe for the IRS. Instead of a neutral agency that enforces tax law, it will become a tool of partisan warfare. It may never recover.

submitted 9 days ago • 661 comments

Salvadoran President Claims He Lacks Humanity To Return Wrongly Deported Man

submitted 12 days ago • 125 comments

The act will disenfranchise vets/active/overseas military from voting as well (who often have less access to reams of documents) LDF Denounces House Passage of SAVE Act, Urges Senate to Reject Bill that Will Disenfranchise Millions of Americans - naacpldf.org/press-release/… #HellNo #VotesForVets

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Think about what kind of person you have to be to lie about sending someone to a torture prison for life based on nothing bsky.app/profile/atru...

submitted 18 days ago • 1079 comments

The People showed up for Denver today!

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

“What did they expect?” is kind of a misleading question. The people who supported them didn’t expect something very specific. They expected to own the libs. They expected people they resented to suffer. The expected the world to burn. It wasn’t about specifics.

submitted 21 days ago • 238 comments

when other nations impose retaliatory tariffs

submitted 22 days ago • 87 comments

They’ll never accept it, but everyone who cast a vote for Donald Trump did real, generations-long damage to the United States and the west in exchange for essentially nothing of value.

submitted 30 days ago • 481 comments

If you're scooping up students off the street for writing op-eds, you're secret police, and should be treated accordingly.

submitted 31 days ago • 102 comments

The Atlantic editors room hearing everyone claim under oath that there was nothing classified in that chat:

submitted 31 days ago • 33 comments

New Federal Law Mandates Women Talk With Baby Voice

submitted 38 days ago • 182 comments

I really really wish people would just be comfortable not knowing 100% where it started. I don’t understand why anyone still thinks this is important to debate.

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

The grimmest realization is not the very old one that Trump is a hyper-sensitive narcissist who thinks criticizing him should be illegal. The grimmest realization is that a substantial number of Americans are born serfs, best suited for a monarchy, who thinks that’s manly and admirable and right.

submitted 43 days ago • 253 comments

Trump's crypto reserve fund isn't a pet project or strategic investment. It's crony capitalism, strip-mining public resources for private gain: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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submitted 58 days ago • 1507 comments

Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

submitted 58 days ago • 435 comments

This is quite significant in many ways: the overt thuggery, Trump’s barely suppressed fury at being contradicted by a woman, the governor’s standing up, the total abandonment of the pretense of federalism, the continuing use of trans Americans the way Hitler used Jews.

submitted 64 days ago • 299 comments

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

submitted 63 days ago • 1070 comments

I’m sure it’s just my TDS, but I think Trump is proving to be exactly as bad as we said he was going to be and people who acted like we were hysterical should be embarrassed they didn’t do more to try and stop it.

submitted 69 days ago • 404 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 71 days ago • 1063 comments

And if you call for an Uber or Lyft and get a Tesla, cancel it and tell them why.

submitted 73 days ago • 343 comments

I will never yield a nanometer in my open contempt and disgust for the drones and useful idiots who called Musk a free speech hero.

submitted 78 days ago • 91 comments

Orwellian, if Orwell were really stupid insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

submitted 83 days ago • 66 comments

We need to stop calling these settlements. Seriously. Be a reporter. He will file suit anytime anyone says anything he doesn't like then offer a settlement. And he'll even sue the places who say good things about him. It's a bribe. And if you can't see that then you're not a serous reporter

submitted 85 days ago • 35 comments

RFK Jr is a nutty conspiracy theorist. But he's also a master manipulator of evidence. This skill gives him a veneer of credibility that will be hard to counter. My latest story for The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr—who calls anyone that disagrees with him a Pharma shill—is literally a Pharma shill.

submitted 94 days ago • 8 comments

The medical establishment calls the polio vaccine a miracle. RFK Jr's organization thinks the idea that polio is dangerous is a myth. As recently as yesterday they have published articles casting doubt on the polio vaccine by using selective and manipulated information.

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments