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It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

submitted 4 days ago • 1292 comments

I hope everyone knows that it's very easy for any social content platform, including Bluesky, to be a misery machine and that if you aren't intentional about it, they will absolutely decrease the positive impact you have on the world while making you less happy.

submitted 6 days ago • 607 comments

i will say again that given the trajectory of the white house so far, strident opposition a la 2017 would have absolutely been the most prudent and effective decision and the absence of that opposition in the first two months made things demonstrably worse.

submitted 8 days ago • 257 comments

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

submitted 8 days ago • 1037 comments

At some point, I think I'm really going to have to write that essay about the design of dating apps being a huge part of radicalizing young men young men

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

To everyone that said Democrats like Van Hollen were making a political mistake in defending due process, you were wrong, and we shouldn’t even need a poll to tell us that.

submitted 15 days ago • 123 comments

the fundamental problem with these people (not jonathan) is that they don’t seem to believe in anything. if you’re willing to sacrifice one of the foundational rights of constitutional government on the altar of “buh this might not be popular” then what won’t you sacrifice?

submitted 20 days ago • 270 comments

this is such good news. i think it is also an opportunity for democrats to state forthrightly that when they win power again everyone responsible for this crime will be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law and will face the american people to answer for their lawlessness

submitted 21 days ago • 296 comments

Legit the best thing any Dem has done to date in response to Trump and it happened because he cared more about serving his constituents than public polling about immigration.

submitted 21 days ago • 82 comments

Okay, cards on the table: I refuse to be concerned. Because I believe, in the pit of my soul, that being concerned creates a permission structure not to express one’s views to protect oneself. I don’t think we’re there, but even if I did, I wouldn’t act like it.

submitted 23 days ago • 15 comments

Back-to-back paragraphs: Democrats should "play dead" and get out of Trump's way, but also they should aggressively seize the public narrative. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

submitted 25 days ago • 42 comments

“they were polite to me so they can’t be a monster” is the most consistent failure of elite society

submitted 26 days ago • 111 comments

You can’t do “mass” deportation and give due process, and what conclusion you draw from that says important stuff about your commitment to law.

submitted 26 days ago • 47 comments

but if not good in bed then why hot shaped

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Trump team: You idiots thought he was touching the stove, but he was, brilliantly and dextrously simply hovering his hand mere centimeters above the stove” Trump: (nursing clearly burned hand:) I have thought about it and am considering touching the stove again

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

The tariff policy changes every ten minutes. What a joke. It’s nuclear grade incompetence that would be laughable except they’re ruining people’s lives for sport. Just shameful.

submitted 29 days ago • 1255 comments

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submitted 29 days ago • 297 comments

See, I'm also an idiot cause everyday I wake up and wonder if the stock brokers are still going to be idiots today too

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

submitted 31 days ago • 554 comments

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.

submitted 36 days ago • 39 comments

Let's zoom in on the "not too much time" here. Does anyone know how long it takes to set up a manufacturing plant? Not just the physical building but the supply chains? hiring? "not much time". Since the time can't be much less than 3 yrs at the absolute minimum ...

submitted 36 days ago • 240 comments

Politicians in this view are a special class of person who is in fact, immune to law

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

This is the reaping of the opposition never once making any kind of case for immigration, or to counter at all the xenophobia that has gripped the country for a decade with a different vision

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

The American People want a bureaucratizes terror-state aimed at anyone who inconveniences them and a robust set of rights and privileges for themselves and their children, and I don't know how to convince them that that's not possible.

submitted 38 days ago • 39 comments

The reason Trump and his team are thinking about a third term now, barely into their second, is that they've realized that they don't know how to do anything except campaign - and it's all trump wants to do. 0 interest in governance. they are already frustrated and bored.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

One of the side effects of the idea that it’s OK to lie for political reasons, is that a lot of of otherwise seemingly smart people keep getting really shocked that people like RFK are telling the truth about being anti-vax

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: RFK Jr. has forced out PETER MARKS, the nation’s top vaccine regulator. In his resignation letter, obtained by the Post, Marks said he was willing to work with RFK Jr on his vaccine concerns — but said Kennedy wishes “subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies.”

submitted 41 days ago • 1247 comments

“There is no administration in the world — beyond this one — where a blunder of these proportions happens and nobody gets fired or resigns. Not in London. Not in Moscow. Not in Tokyo. Not in Pyongyang. Nowhere.” www.politico.com/newsletters/...

submitted 43 days ago • 805 comments

It's really darkly funny that the only reason people continue to doubt the tarriffs despite trump telling you constantly exactly what he wants to do, is that it's such a catastrophically bad idea that no one can bring themselves to believe it

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."

submitted 43 days ago • 457 comments

NBC News: The Espionage Act contains a provision making it crime to disclose national defense secrets "through gross negligence." The law does not require info be classified, because it was written before the classification system existed. The law refers simply to "national defense information."

submitted 43 days ago • 1243 comments

Democratic House Rep. Ro Khanna: “GOP reps are attacking me for holding town halls in their districts. Maybe if they spent more time doing their job and talking to constituents, I wouldn't have to.” 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 43 days ago • 378 comments

Just remember all this if there is a catastrophic intelligence failure under this administration. Because they will immediately try to crush dissent and offload blame.

submitted 43 days ago • 839 comments

It’s like Watergate, only in this version Nixon directly mails the tapes to Woodward and Bernstein

submitted 44 days ago • 1140 comments

If Trump issued an Executive Order requiring all newspapers to send articles to the WH for review before publication, would newspapers report it is a “requirement” or “mandate”? Or would the fact it’s preposterously illegal and unconstitutional make right into the lede and headline?

submitted 44 days ago • 346 comments

honestly a little surprised that this is getting full scandal treatment from the press and i think one reason is that it is secretive. high ranking officials were hiding something and the (idiotic) aphorism that the "cover-up is worse than the crime" has kicked the scandal instinct into gear.

submitted 44 days ago • 578 comments

I genuinely believe that one of the strengths of conservative campaigning is they never ever ever ever say shit like this. Something is salient to voters when, and only when, you make the decision to never shut up about it.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

I'm not saying anything novel here but it really is just truly despicable to watch them use THEIR OWN COLOSSAL SCREW UP to slander the reporter THEY INCLUDED ON THEIR CLASSIFIED GROUP CHAT

submitted 44 days ago • 3984 comments

the speed at which these guys have broken everything has given a lot of folks who should know better the impression that they are an unstoppable force and the only option is to negotiate the terms of surrender just because the clown car goes very fast does not mean it isn’t full of clowns

submitted 44 days ago • 99 comments

Very fun to explain the signal scandal to my 13 year old who truly understands the catastrophe of adding the wrong person to the group chat and absolutely fell out when I showed her the Mike Waltz emojis.

submitted 44 days ago • 808 comments

Republicans believe in nothing

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

my most conservative-coded trait these days is that i honestly think that the worst possible thing that can happen for young men is for the entire society to coddle them. what they need to hear is that they have one life to live and they have to take responsibility for it.

submitted 44 days ago • 285 comments

This is SO much worse than Hillary‘s emails—it’s not even in the same universe. Don’t let them make that bullshit comparison. She wasn’t sharing war plans. She wasn’t in an unsecured text group sharing classified documents and state secrets. She was actually qualified for her job and not a traitor.

submitted 44 days ago • 493 comments

Any Republican at any level pretending they care about anything other than their own delusional fears and bigotries sure is hilarious to these days to anyone paying the slightest bit of attention.

submitted 45 days ago • 3 comments