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The opportunity for insider trading and deep corruption with this gyrating nonsense is vast, as the massive stupidity and unquenchable greed of Trump and his minions competes for dominance. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 23 hours ago • 123 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 7 days ago • 960 comments

Ben Wikler > Elon Musk

submitted 8 days ago • 23 comments

Elon can’t buy us. We are NOT for sale, and neither is democracy. THANK YOU WISCONSIN!

submitted 8 days ago • 128 comments

agreed. this is not left or right. it’s right or wrong.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Agreed. #goblue

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States: Canada Denmark Finland France Germany Ireland Netherlands New Zealand United Kingdom

submitted 13 days ago • 1939 comments

tragic and heartbreaking.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

submitted 20 days ago • 1088 comments

Donald Trump just told 50 million public school students that he doesn’t give a damn about them.

submitted 20 days ago • 82 comments

This is extremely well put

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Elon Musk should be personally liable for fixing all the things he has broken. The costs of restarting programs, rehiring people, is going to be enormous, and the American people should not have to shoulder the costs. He should, as should Trump and every other billionaire who contributed to this.

submitted 23 days ago • 47 comments

Trying to imagine Biden withholding disaster funds from red states unless they first instituted gun control

submitted 25 days ago • 193 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 26 days ago • 774 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 26 days ago • 743 comments

It took since 1887 to build up the greatest biomedical research apparatus in the world. It’ll take a few ignorant dickheads a few months to tear its heart out.

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

Non-fascist billionaires, please consider funding like a dozen lefty media outlets, please. www.mediamatters.org/google/right...

submitted 27 days ago • 37 comments

Just imagine if those elected to defend us and responsible for our public safety actually spoke this way after school shootings and other shootings. I guess in this White House, and under the direction of @PamBondi, a Tesla is worth more than victims of gun violence like my daughter.

submitted 27 days ago • 61 comments

Just saw this ad for the Big 10 Cancer Consortium during the Big Ten basketball tournament. I wonder how DOGE’s cuts are going to impact this work. That’s something I’d like people to see ads about during March Madness.. @standupforscience.bsky.social

submitted 27 days ago • 2 comments

It's blatant and overt. Trump is selling the USG off for parts and Musk is reaping the profits.

submitted 28 days ago • 19 comments

submitted 28 days ago • 81 comments

The only reason "it's about the economy, stupid" rang true is because up until now, we've been able to take democracy for granted, more or less. Now we can't. It's going to be about democracy (but Trump's economy sucks too).

submitted 28 days ago • 70 comments

The institutions of the American economy depend on the institutions of American democracy; rule of law, consistent regulation, stability, and all the rest. That’s what’s being destroyed and that’s what risks the *entire economy. Saying that out loud shouldn’t (and can’t) be a risk

submitted 29 days ago • 61 comments

This is the state of the media today: If you state the simple, obvious truth—that the president of the United States is mentally unstable and engages in mentally unstable behavior injurious to the nation and the world—you have to fear for your job. Pathetic.

submitted 29 days ago • 578 comments

Perhaps the most depressing part about the last couple of months is that every awful shitty thing that’s happening to this country is self-induced. People asked for this. None of it had to happen.

submitted 29 days ago • 992 comments

A lot can happen in five months. 🇺🇸

submitted 30 days ago • 303 comments

Periodic reminder that one of the first major social media mis/disinfo campaigns Russia ran in the US, prepping tactics used to support Trump in 2016, was promotion of anti-vax sentiment.

submitted 29 days ago • 3 comments

submitted 29 days ago • 612 comments

Musk claims Social Security is a "gigantic magnet to attract illegal immigrants." In fact, immigrants here illegally do not collect Social Security. But they pay $25.7 billion a year into it, a recent study found, so these undocumented workers are actually subsidizing Americans.

submitted 30 days ago • 423 comments

The president of Mexico called for a rally against Trump & his tariffs yesterday. Over 350,000 people showed up at Zocalo square in Mexico City. Heads would turn if we did that in the United States. They're just fighting against tariffs while we're losing our democracy & falling into dictatorship

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

Like the spoiled children of the rich who squander their unappreciated legacies, a vast swath of Americans are taking for granted the hard-earned freedoms and rule of law that made us a rich and powerful nation. If we are not careful we will lose our inheritance forever.

submitted 31 days ago • 66 comments

Congrats, y’all. Really great company we’re in.

submitted 31 days ago • 3 comments

agreed.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

French Senator Claude Malhuret: "Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

submitted 36 days ago • 1746 comments

sickening.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Did any Americans vote for this? "[Transportation Secretary] Duffy said the young staff of Mr Musk’s team was trying to lay off air traffic controllers. What am I supposed to do? Mr Duffy said. I have multiple plane crashes to deal with now, and your people want me to fire air traffic controllers?"

submitted 34 days ago • 155 comments

We will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's and Musk's circles who have an hour of notice about the daily swings in tariff policy or the occasional announced expectations of such swings.

submitted 35 days ago • 44 comments

so much for free speech

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

submitted 35 days ago • 487 comments

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

submitted 36 days ago • 679 comments

"President Trump is doing damage to America that could take a generation or more to repair. The next election cannot fix what Trump is breaking. Neither can the one after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/o...

submitted 39 days ago • 54 comments

Every world leader should be treating Trump as a malign foreign actor. Because he is.

submitted 39 days ago • 308 comments

this is what leadership looks like.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

This is exactly right.

submitted 40 days ago • 21 comments

Democracies stand with Ukraine.

submitted 40 days ago • 667 comments

These numbers seem important

submitted 40 days ago • 158 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 40 days ago • 1314 comments