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not enough said about how, by turning the national government against states on the basis of ordinary political disagreement, trump is undermining the idea that the union is worthwhile. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/p...

submitted 6 hours ago • 278 comments

It was never supposed to be this way, at least not on the NASA side of things. There was always supposed to be at least two providers to prevent over-reliance on one company. Instead, it evolved into what we got. And now the monster NASA helped create may help destroy the agency.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

If Democrats want to get back to issues maybe point out that for months Trump allowed his messy frenamy free rein over the entire government.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Finally, a NYT headline I like.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

submitted 1 day ago • 341 comments

What today feels like

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The enemy of my enemy is still a Nazi loser who should never feel safe in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Here it is: Musk thinks he is owed a say in Trump’s policy because of how much he spent on the campaign.

submitted 1 day ago • 363 comments

Steve Bannon is trying to get Trump to deport Elon Musk! The whites are fighting! 😂😂😂😂

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

"Biden was old but governed normally. Trump governs erratically because he’s unglued. That’s the true cover-up, one the media is enabling when they seem more concerned with the mental condition of a former president than the escalating madness of the current one."

submitted 3 days ago • 171 comments

I've seen folks talk about how "in four years" they'll be able to get back to their planned projects and I really don't think that's going to work out. People & projects losing funding now will not be able to hit pause and come back once funding is restored. Hard-won progress & capacity will be lost

submitted 3 days ago • 321 comments

They just want to erase everyone who isn’t a straight white man They are pieces of shit. Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk www.cnn.com/2025/06/03/p...

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

This NYT story on FTC's investigation into "collusion" leading to boycott of Xitter does not mention antisemitism, one major reason for the boycott. Spending federal $$ to support antisemitism violates several Trump EOs. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

this is something I’ve been thinking about a lot we are not, as a country, the kind of place where armed goons in masks kidnapping people in broad daylight is a common experience and I don’t think most people are going to like it very much when it becomes significantly more common

submitted 4 days ago • 59 comments

Correct. Yarvin matters because of his influence on the tech-right billionaires who are funding a lot of the far-right, but if you want to understand the ideologies behind the Trump administration's actions, you'll probably learn more by reading up on white Christian nationalism and the groypers.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

again, this staggering idiot — this living monument to gross stupidity — is basically the intellectual guru of the sitting vice president

submitted 4 days ago • 548 comments

"Florida votes Republican, so who cares?" is the easiest block I'll ever make, so keep them coming.

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

good read on the futile stupidity of Starship, or as I call it the Space Cybertruck www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-d...

submitted 5 days ago • 32 comments

Musk has now traveled through an entire arc of embracing anti-black crime panic narratives, embracing overt race science, embracing swastika-bearing neo-Nazis, openly promoting Nazi conspiracy theories, introducing them throughout government policy - all without political elites noticing or caring.

submitted 5 days ago • 24 comments

Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

submitted 5 days ago • 151 comments

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

Musk's illegal dismantling of USAID and other foreign aid projects has killed 300,000 people most of them children, and will kill 25 million over the next 15 years. We don't need to rehabilitate Hitler because of his principled vegetarianism.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

The agent who handcuffed a congressional aide is William Krejci of Keasbey, New Jersey, DHS Area Commander. His social media is locked down pretty tight but a Yelp account tied to the same email address he used for LinkedIn shows a face and forearm tattoo that matches the video.

submitted 6 days ago • 127 comments

If Joe Biden posted something like this Hannity would be roused from his sleep to anchor special coverage. But Trump posts apeshit conspiracy theories and the mainstream press yawns. His craziness has been completely normalized.

submitted 6 days ago • 672 comments

I don't know the real reason Isaacman was kicked to the curb. However, there's a 0% chance it was due to him donating to Democrats. This was known when he was selected.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

What a joke. If Trump really wanted America First then he wouldn't have proposed absolutely massacring NASA's budget. It's all bullshit.

submitted 6 days ago • 21 comments

this is the most sociopathic thing ive ever seen and i wrote a whole book about neonazis

submitted 6 days ago • 242 comments

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

submitted 6 days ago • 461 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 1306 comments

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

submitted 7 days ago • 106 comments

That's like 1/3rd of the NASA workforce, folks. I called this the "Friday Night Massacre." It seems more extensive than we thought.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

SPACENEWS: NASA budget would cancel dozens of science missions, lay off thousands (But sets aside nearly $2 billion effectively earmarked for SpaceX) spacenews.com/nasa-budget-...

submitted 7 days ago • 138 comments

Great – looks as if the White House used AI to draft a health report and wound up inserting citations for articles that don’t exist. They put cheating high schoolers to shame. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 7 days ago • 131 comments

THE RISE OF END TIMES FASCISM My first major piece of the new Trump era, co-written with @astra.bsky.social. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 54 days ago • 207 comments

Oh, look, I wrote this two months ago.

submitted 8 days ago • 68 comments

This is Grade-A 100% pure uncut antivax bullshit. Weapons-grade stupidity. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

I need people to understand that humans are not going to step foot on Mars any time before 2050 at least, probably the 60's or 70's.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Probably a pinky promise even

submitted 8 days ago • 10 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 8 days ago • 433 comments