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You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

Everybody romanticizing about the heyday of American manufacturing needs to carefully listen to one (1) Bruce Springsteen song.

you know things are going well when they break out the turnip photos

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

"Ives said that Wall Street financial analysts knew the first-quarter figures were likely to be bad, but that it was even worse than expected, calling them a 'disaster on every metric'...” apnews.com/article/tesl...

Important to celebrate the W’s. Eat shit, Elon

Concerned about DOGE stealing your personal information? File a FOIA request to find out what they've done with your data. To do that, here's a letter you can fill out, sign, and send. Courtesy of Congressman Jamie Raskin. s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/ak-raskin/im...

Stop the Purge of the Federal Workforce 5calls.org/issue/elon-d...

Something that’s very clear is that Trump is old and checked out. He wants to play the role of president but has zero interest in doing the job and is happy to outsource the real work to Musk, Vought and a crew of feral zealots.

Dogs know.

Breaking News: A federal judge temporarily blocked the National Institutes of Health from enacting President Trump’s cuts to research funding in 22 states.

Being in a think tank and online bubble causes people to overestimate the popularity of their ideas. You win, and you think it’s because of your ideas, not in spite of them. For instance, it is widely unpopular to illegally cut medical research.

Former Secretary of Transportation--who was not on The Real World or Road Rules--weighs in on the President's efforts to blame the fatal air traffic accident on DEI.

the dominant vibe of the year so far

The 21st century version of Tolstoy’s adage about unhappy families is that every social media platform is deranged in its own way.

Trump tariffs are going to raise the price of lots of stuff regular people buy. Republicans are going to raise the price of your Walmart or Costco trip and use the extra money you pay for tax cuts for multinational corporations.

Electric heating and cooling systems have historically been more common in warmer areas because earlier models didn’t work as well in freezing conditions. But major companies have been developing models that can work efficiently at much lower temperatures.

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