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True since 2017

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It's astounding to me that people, especially the media, already forgot his _first_ impeachment

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I wonder about the wisdom of having a free tier that displays ads to people who don't want to pay or can't afford to pay for the platform they're displayed on

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anyway periodic reminder that congress can at any time they wish, and should tomorrow, end this

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

It's amazing how they are trying to speed run Jenga by not even giving their opponents a turn

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checking in on decentralized assets intended to be independent from governments and big banks

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The biggest lesson from COVID was that the vast majority of Americans were asked to make a small sacrifice in support of a massive common good and said "fuck that, I'm never doing that again."

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Ed Yong is such a real one <3 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

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Legitimate business relies on stability. Fraud and scams rely on chaos.

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Those who misunderstand media believe it to be mere observation Those who exploit media understand its power is broadcasting

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Big thanks to @scishow.bsky.social for covering PEM and ME accurately ❤️ youtu.be/wxSwYUennBA

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Of course Democrats have a game plan... They've just never used it against conservatives before

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It's funny how there have been so many evil Superman stories over the last couple of decades, posing that idea as subversive... No, that's just the real world where men get power and are corrupted by it Superman is already subversive because he's a man with power who stubbornly adheres to good

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Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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The leopards, they hunger for faces

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“As we’ve seen with the attack on health care for trans minors, children often serve as the canary in the coal mine for abusive conservatives’ most radical ideas.”

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

youtu.be/Ixk2F7e7JWc

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Firing all employees with less than a year of experience in their current role is typical of a mindset that just cares about maximizing a metric of loss and that assumes someone will pick up the slack and keep things going. For business, that’s often been government. For government, that’s nobody

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

People who write about "this is the wrong fight to pick," never ever actually fight for anything. Feel free to ignore them.

submitted 16 days ago • 232 comments

This is all a good reminder that, “no help, no votes until the criminal conduct stops” is neither a big ask nor a politically perilous one.

submitted 17 days ago • 315 comments

This

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‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson

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Opinion | President Trump attending the first half of the Super Bowl cost taxpayers $4 million. Here's why DOGE must lay off a bunch of federal workers making $75,000 so that the government can live within its means.

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Fascinating that this was last year's Nobel Prize in economics, then this year we have all of this waves hands generally at the destruction of institutions cepr.org/voxeu/column...

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Started/going

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I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things

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59 years ago today, mild-mannered jim bowl was bitten by a radioactive spider

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Listen I hate making phone calls and I am in a state where I will not change my legislators' minds but I am about to use 5 Calls because AOC said it freaks legislators out to hear how many of their constituents think they're fucking up.

submitted 22 days ago • 5 comments

When protestors uttered the slogan “defund the police” the national media had a massive freak out. But now that Trump wants to actually gut the FBI and (it would seem) illegally fire 1000s of people who work there, the same media sees it as a curiosity, a dull bureaucratic matter.

submitted 26 days ago • 126 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 22 days ago • 527 comments

Your periodic reminder that no tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself.

submitted 22 days ago • 24 comments

For some reason I feel like watching Whit Stillman's Barcelona

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My 8th grade history teacher did this too. One of my classmates started crying. It has stuck with me my whole life

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Dems in Congress think everything's normal. It's not. One word describes them all: Failure. They've lost everything, and they're the first to point out out they have no power, that 215 Reps and 47 Senators is as good as zero. So why keep any of them? Their experience in failure and excuses? 🧹🧹🧹

submitted 22 days ago • 62 comments

Thanks, Reagan youtu.be/GyN67qAqfww

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Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 24 days ago • 169 comments

Why do we think men who break this many laws will follow court orders either?

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There are these shorts on social media doing simulations of what would happen if you tilted the Earth one degree or some other small change to a massive system and the disaster it causes I have a feeling we're going to see something very similar very soon

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Courage can become contagious.

submitted 28 days ago • 59 comments

If you thought the inflation of the last few years was bad, it's going to look like frog boiling compared to what happens next

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Sad to see so many high level officials are resigning while many regular employees are left to hold the line. I think we're seeing why these jerks are so successful: the highly paid people whose job it is to stop them are cowards.

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Fascinating to see the press laundering every random, incorrect, uninformed rambling this man makes into a legitimate question that hasn't been studied and answered by experts for years

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