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Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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"Tanner, a chemist at the Univ. of Mississippi working to develop a novel approach for treating glioblastoma, was notified in April that the grant was terminated. “I would like to cure brain cancer,” Dr. Tanner said. “I think that's not particularly controversial.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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You must always be more disciplined than the forces brought against you. They're allowed to make mistakes. They make the rules. Your mistakes will be used as justification for your own repression.

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National Guard troops have arrived in Los Angeles in response to immigration protests, and a Democratic congresswoman says she's been told to expect "30 days of ICE enforcement." Follow live updates: cnn.it/4kpcsGy

submitted 18 hours ago • 88 comments

In Manhattan, ICE officers were forced to flee inside 26 Federal Plaza

submitted 19 hours ago • 1008 comments

To be clear, this is what an insurrection looks like:

submitted 20 hours ago • 24 comments

Study abuse, understand oppression

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

I've done a fair bit of research & read more on how to increase retirement savings. It's made me pretty pessimistic about every strategy except mandatory, universal pensions for baseline retirement income security. Lots of people just won't choose to save but will need $ later.

submitted 22 hours ago • 8 comments

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio tried to give a press conference to announce his lawsuit against DOJ. Much to my surprise it turned out to be the greatest press conference of all-time.

submitted 2 days ago • 2365 comments

Everyone needs to keep this in mind, always

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So the conservative justices who had a meltdown over their "privacy" being violated by Dobbs protests in front of their homes are cool with Musk's Doge minions rampaging through the personal data of EVERY American. Cool. Cool. Double standard. So awesome.

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If you strip away the egos and shitposting, the Trump-Musk feud is really an argument over how comprehensively to screw over poor and working people—over how best to make our society a meaner, crueler, less equal, more savage place. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1962...

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Guardian - University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/michigan-university-gaz

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Economics literature: Trump's 2018 steel and aluminum raised prices, reduced output, cut employment and reduced wellbeing. Trump, 2025: What if we doubled them? I can't find a single study that suggests this is a good idea. Lemme know if you find one.

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The speed with which the mainstream institutions and load bearing media orgs have folded is unbelievable. If there is a chance for libs to control them again in the future, they should be treated as what they are: dogs that have to know their place. This is the language they love and understand.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

This is the real rationing and “death panels.” ‘Merica.

submitted 4 days ago • 38 comments

Let this be a warning to avid collaborators: It won't end well.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It is deeply hilarious that the Hudson's Bay Company was founded in 1670 and chugged along for three and a half centuries and Private Equity finished it off in like five years.

submitted 6 days ago • 46 comments

"if you wanted to find a way to really destroy American manufacturing, what you would do is figure out a way to jack up the cost of steel for American manufacturers."

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

When viral epidemics are ignored they hardly magically disappear, they spread. Excellent reporting on the large outbreak of mpox in Sierra Leone. A country with a fragile health system and limited resources to effectively respond to this threat. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Liberal capitalism took control of the globe and we got checks notes warming of 1.5 C and climbing, 1 billion in slums and 10 people have the wealth of the bottom 40% of all human beings on planet earth

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments

According to GOP: Minimum wage worker makes a mistake on the form documenting his work hours: Fraud! Waste! Abuse! Take away his health coverage! Guy files 866,000 false Medicare claims, defrauds government of $87 million: Give that man a pardon! www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

Imposter syndrome had a great run, but unfortunately someone found it stabbed to death right in front of the FEMA head who’s unfamiliar with hurricanes

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US Army Sgt. Yeiki Kobashigawa received the Medal of Honor for his heroism #OTD in 1944. From his citation - "extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of military service" #WeRememberThem. www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Get the sense that attack in Colorado was the work of a single individual and thus hard to prevent. But worth recalling how how many FBI have already been pulled off counterterrorism and other forms of crimes for immigrant round up duty.

submitted 7 days ago • 136 comments

My abundance agenda: It's about eliminating inefficiencies that give more money to the rich, starting with government-granted patent and copyright monopolies. Also, take a chainsaw to the financial sector (including crypto) cepr.net/publications...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The Russians entered into this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them.

submitted 7 days ago • 33 comments

Pretty dramatic day in Russia: Ukrainian drones have reportedly attacked four Russia air bases, destroying a significant number of strategic bombers and radar planes. (Tu-95s, Tu-22, A-50) Russian milbloggers are furious. One calls it a "black day," another says they need to nuke Kyiv.

submitted 7 days ago • 88 comments