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Powerful. Tomorrow’s front page of the most influential weekly publication in Germany. “BETRAYED. First Zelensky, Soon Us? The radical departure of the US from its allies.”

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Universal health care is a cornerstone of every other developed country, but in the US, coverage is fragmented among those with private insurance, government programs and a sizable uninsured population. In the US large swaths of the population are being sentenced to death by lack of coverage. 🧵

submitted 76 days ago • 66 comments

hyper-confident idiots and explicit white supremacists, burning shit down and making up numbers to pretend it has value

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

Musk took over the US government with graft and is using it—in combination with his space launch firm—to exploit an allied country that’s suffering under Russian invasion for its mineral rights. The scheme is so imperiously evil I feel like audiences wouldn’t find it believable in a Bond villain.

submitted 7 hours ago • 73 comments

“Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when [Pres. Trump] elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

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submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

facts worth knowing #education

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My weekly column and news roundup of our national crisis, written in the style of how the US media would—with more clear-eyed authority—cover these events if they were happening overseas: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/king-donal...

submitted 7 hours ago • 17 comments

This is a hopeful perspective, and also a very necessary one. The more people see angry citizens, public refusals to comply or to kneel, and public servants speaking about their loyalty to the Constitution, the more fragile the Trump coalition will be, and the more isolated the Musk clique will be

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

"A lot of powerful people don’t really grasp the full extent to which Musk is marinating in and sharing extraordinarily deranged material on the platform, sometimes hundreds of times a day." – @jwherrman.bsky.social (nymag.com/intelligence...)

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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

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It's pretty cool that Eater put together resources for restaurants about how to handle ICE raids

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

Look at that ROI 🇺🇸🥄

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Every $1 spent on IRS audits of the very rich tax recovers $6.3 in revenue

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DOGE is getting a whole lot of headlines mainly because our brains aren't wired to make sense of millions, billions, or trillions of dollars. Lemme help: Math out the DOGE numbers and you'll discover that your DOGE dividend may buy you a coffee or two. The problem: There's just not that much waste.

submitted 8 hours ago • 23 comments

Gov. Mills showed precisely the sort of integrity in the face of political pressure that the majority of the party currently lacks. More importantly, she did so extemporaneously and without hesitation from a purple state where this isn't a universally popular position. www.maine.gov/governor/mil...

submitted 17 hours ago • 47 comments

It’s not just Space X. Musk was able to save Tesla because of a loan from the Dept of Energy. Here he is in 2013 filled with gratitude for the federal agency & the taxpayers who saved his business. From reporting by @puck.news. airmail.news/issues/2025-...

submitted 8 hours ago • 55 comments

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this is low hanging fruit for Dems and all protest movements: show the ppl that Trump's emissary is taking a chainsaw to their benefits

submitted 8 hours ago • 4 comments

This is how diffusion works--great ideas as well as hateful and harmful ones can spread this way. All of a sudden, we will see the Nazi salute in our communities and schools...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

We can't afford air traffic controllers, but we can afford a $200 million government ad campaign thanking Trump. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 hours ago • 25 comments

"the poll shows that majorities oppose cutting taxes on corporations. It finds that 63 percent say their top priority for tax policy is helping 'working-class families,' versus one percent—no, really, one percent—who say it’s helping corporations and the wealthiest Americans."

submitted 8 hours ago • 15 comments

“A desire to force U.S. military leaders to be obedient to him and not the Constitution is one of the constant themes of Trump’s military-related discourse.”

submitted 8 hours ago • 21 comments

I don't think we're talking enough about the fact that the pressure to remove DEI from science means women die.

submitted 21 hours ago • 69 comments

The Joint Chiefs don't change with a new president. Supposed to be impartial, nonpartisan. Until now. Trump fired the Chair, Gen. Charles Brown (because he's Black), Navy chief Lisa Franchetti (for being a woman), and the 3 top Army, Navy, and Air Force lawyers (because they say follow the law).

submitted 8 hours ago • 30 comments

If Donald Trump was a pro-Russian traitor how would he act differently?

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Trump will travel to Moscow to stand next to Putin on the reviewing stand for the May 8 Victory Day celebration, Moscow sources reveal to Le Point. This year's celebration will focus on Russia's victory over Ukraine. How many messages does the world need? (H/t John Paul Fitch)

submitted 18 hours ago • 74 comments

I’m sorry. What.

submitted 8 hours ago • 10 comments

I think the most wrong I have ever been as a political scientist was when I said in a public forum in 2020 that there would not be political violence in the US (Jan 6 was 2 mos later). Tonight’s purges are a clear precursor to more future such violence. This is textbook authoritarian abuse stuff.

submitted 16 hours ago • 44 comments

The DOGE numbers don't add up. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 19 hours ago • 60 comments

Trump’s brazen attack on the rule of law, via @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

In every single interview I’ve done with international media since Trump took power I’ve been asked: Why are there no mass protests? There are many reasons, of course, but the utter refusal of the self-proclaimed “fourth estate” to communicate clearly what is happening has to be high on the list.

submitted 9 hours ago • 173 comments

Hey so they’re deporting people who legally came here to study.

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

Not very transparent www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

submitted 8 hours ago • 91 comments

Why are so few former Joint Chiefs speaking out? Four stars? FBI Directors? Former Senators? Presidents? Thanks to those that do but we need some courage now!

submitted 8 hours ago • 17 comments

The Trump admin is trying to force groups suing them over agency shutdowns and grant cancellations to post bond should they lose on appeal, an unprecedented demand that would make suing the admin a financial impossibility for most

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

the "governing" party sees Argentina, Russia and Hungary as models... all of which are middling nations, at best

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Nate Silver squawking about IQ. The only value IQ tests have is you can automatically ignore anybody who thinks they have any merit

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WaPo Page One: “If you’re going to just yell at me, that’s not going to be an effective town hall,” McCormick said .. “But we’re pissed!” a woman shouted. #GA07 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 1006 comments

When Trump names unqualified loyalist Pete Hegseth as defense secretary and purges our top military leaders, it raises rational fears that he wants a military willing to train its guns on American citizens upon his orders.

submitted 18 hours ago • 30 comments

Elon Musk is coming for our weather service www.vox.com/climate/4007...

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments