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This isn’t a deep critique or anything, but I do think it is telling how these decentralized and post-democratic ideas of cryptocurrencies and the network state required their guys to essentially take over the US government and get the backing of the power of the federal government to see their day

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JUST POSTED: Trump-Kushner Hotel Project in Serbia Hits a Snag: Alleged Forgery Serbian authorities say an official admitted to forging a document allowing a protected site in Belgrade to be demolished and replaced with a Trump hotel. Fate of project is now up in the air. nyti.ms/3YLwORG

submitted 7 hours ago • 139 comments

1/🧵 What if Democrats' best strategy to fight GOP corruption isn't matching Republican billionaire money but refusing it entirely? My empirical analysis shows why rejecting mega-donors and corporate PACs is both principled AND pragmatic. Let me explain…

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2018: Brookfield paid $1.1B for 666 Fifth Ave albatross, bailing out Kushners. Deal backed by Qatari-linked fund, Qatar = 2nd biggest investor. C Kushner pitched Brookfield on Feb 14—just before Trump backed ending UAE–Saudi blockade of Qatar. www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-ne...

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Now it's the professors using ChatGPT. Students aren't happy about it. I talked to professors. I talked to students. I read the scathing reviews on Rate My Professors. Here you go: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

submitted 22 hours ago • 25 comments

1/ Rolling Stone's Lindsay Owens takes us back to the largest political corruption scandal in American history: the Teapot Dome scandal of the Warren G. Harding administration.

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A growing number of anecdotes and reports suggest that overly flattering, affirming AI systems may be reinforcing delusional thinking, deepening social isolation, and distorting users’ grip on reality, writes CDT's Amy Winecoff. We need systems that can introduce productive friction, she says.

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most effective ways to motivate climate action Interventions ✅target future thinking Ex. write a letter for a child to read in the future ✅why climate change matters to people & loved ones —inspire people to share articles & petitions ❌focus on individual carbon footprints, is not effective

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PCSSM Post-doc @asinclair.bsky.social along w/ Dr. Emily Falk, @michaelemann.bsky.social & team have a brand new study in @pnas.org "Behavioral interventions motivate action to address climate change" with important implications for climate solutions messaging: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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WWE is the key to understanding Trump.

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Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it. If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why? Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

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Exclusive: Testing and monitoring of HIV patients across South Africa have fallen since the United States cut aid that funded health workers and clinics, with pregnant women, infants and youth the most affected reut.rs/4dibx8e

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Qatar’s offer of a luxury Boeing 747 to President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells within the U.S. intelligence and diplomatic community, where gifts from foreign powers have long been viewed with suspicion.

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New article with @rbaernthaler.bsky.social and @jasonhickel.bsky.social EU industrial policy aims for resilience, autonomy & sustainability — but internal contradictions make these goals structurally unrealisable We outline a post-growth alternative: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Some US biotech companies are considering moving early-stage trials of new medicines outside the United States as worry grows that layoffs and policy changes at the drugs watchdog under the Trump administration may delay regulatory reviews reut.rs/3Fdnjny

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🌍 Can we build a fairer world beyond growth? Find out with @jasonhickel.bsky.social at #ESDHI2025 💥 ✨A global voice in ecological economics, with a powerful keynote: "Health outcomes in an ecosocialist transition" 📅 May 22–23 📍 @upf.edu 👉 bit.ly/4fyedyS #EU4Health #EUFunded

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Economist / Lancet: Israel has killed >77,000 Gazans by traumatic injuries—4–5% of pre-war population. Plus indirect deaths from infrastructural, nutritional, medical devastation—illness, famine, poverty, etc. The epitome of ethnic cleansing; the world knows it. www.economist.com/interactive/...

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AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience — and the far right already has a head start… hartmannreport.com/p/the-machin...

submitted 2 days ago • 14 comments

Wow. Trump is a transmitter of so many far-right conspiracy theories. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

submitted 3 days ago • 639 comments

Army veteran and small business owner Beth Benike is at risk of losing her home after Trump’s tariffs added $230,000 in fees to her product inventory in China. Just as her company, Busy Baby, secured deals with Target and Walmart, the crushing cost of tariffs now threatens to take down her business.

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A group of Quakers are marching more than 300 miles to demonstrate against the Trump administration's crackdown on immigrants. Organizers of the march say their protest seeks to show solidarity with migrants and other groups that are being targeted by the administration.

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43 lbs of fentynal seized coming from Canada to US. 2,888 lbs. Fentynal seized going from US into Canada. The USA is a drug dealer

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You’ve got to be kidding. Another Navy jet has fallen into the sea www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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For those of you #MAGA that think #Biden caused the #bordercrisis, you might want to read this article from David Bier of the Cato Institute (libertarian thinktank) as well as his other articles on immigration for an eye opening perspective. www.alexnowrasteh.com/p/biden-didn...

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Cato Institute’s Director of immigration studies 👇🏽

submitted 5 days ago • 417 comments

Check this out

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Pete Hegseth is seeking to “purge” the teaching of race, gender, and ethnicity because these are “divisive concepts.” I can think of few topics worth teaching that are not “divisive.” Religion? Nationalism? Is warfare not, by its nature, not divisive? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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I knew it! The White House is considering SUSPENDING HABEAS CORPUS. And here I thought I was being paranoid.

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The US president massively screwed up, insisting for years that all the NatSec and Russia experts—and people with common sense who aren’t in thrall to Vladimir Putin—are wrong, thereby encouraging Russian aggression. But now—oh no!—he’s “frustrated” by the results. It’s unfair to him, you see.

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Five things we learned from WhatsApp vs. NSO Group spyware lawsuit

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Update: Mayor Baraka has been released/not charged with anything. He can shut that facility down. You can’t operate a prison or detention center that violates fire codes + refuses inspection. It’s a death trap. Baraka has been protesting for several days at the city for non-compliance. #Resist

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Alarming to see populations celebrated as stable (waterfowl) now also declining. Last year I wrote about the most dire of all, grassland birds www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2024-...

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"It may or may not be a world war but it is a world at war." Patrick Wintour on the end of American hegemony and the rush away from any semblance of a rules-based international order

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Today in Newark, NJ, ICE demonstrated that it was unfamiliar with the statute explicitly governing ICE and authorized unnoticed inspections by congress members and their staffers.

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A great, and widely predicted accomplishment for the first 100 days of RFKJr: measles returns with a vengeance. 1001 cases in 31 jurisdictions—that's confirmed cases. The actual number is now likely several thousand. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Postal Service leaders on Friday selected David Steiner, a member of FedEx’s board, to be the country’s next postmaster general.

submitted 5 days ago • 169 comments

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

Make it make sense

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I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

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Every administration official should be grilled like this, every time. Think like you're creating a record for future Nuremberg Trials. youtu.be/EwZWCk1ytPU?...

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The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

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Trump really hates science

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The Trump Admin is advancing a new rule that would make it easier to fire nonpartisan career civil servants across the federal government without justification, notice, or right to appeal. This would cause particular harm at the Social Security Administration 🧵 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

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