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SCOOP: On his second day as HHS secretary, RFK Jr., the onetime environmentalist, killed climate change programs at NIH that research and prepare for the health effects of extreme weather and a warming planet. This is not going to make Americans healthy. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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The CFPB has: -Returned $20B to victims of financial fraud -Cracked down on junk fees -Fought against politically-motivated debanking -Protected veterans from predatory lenders -Protected consumers' data from corporate abuse Oligarchs want to reverse all of this.

submitted 5 days ago • 288 comments

We need Pete Buttigieg as a clear messenger, more than ever.

submitted 5 days ago • 1251 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2287 comments

Remind you of anyone? [Cartoon by Brendan Loper]

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I don’t know why stories like these aren’t front page headline by themselves. I’m doubtful the modal American understands Trump’s anti-DEI crusade is just naked bigotry. Behavior like this spells it out so plainly.

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The Two Harolds launched out on an experiment in post-Imperial growth that is now over. Their answers? Europe; education; science; growth. Without them, the UK state is naked.

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The average Fox News viewer has no idea that Musk is tearing down a system that allowed this country to rule the world for the past 75 years. And when their standard of living slips dramatically in the next five years they still won’t understand because their TV will blame it on some poor scapegoat.

submitted 14 days ago • 197 comments

EXCLUSIVE — On Tuesday, the Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her house with just 3 hours notice www.nbcnews.com/politics/don... by @nbcnews.com

submitted 17 days ago • 149 comments

Longer-term perspective on the rise of US oligarchy

submitted 19 days ago • 55 comments

Global Sea Surface Temperatures are far less variable from month-to-month than Surface Air Temperatures & show clear cooling trend over the past year as we transition from El Nino to La Nina (left). It's the longer-term warming trend (right) that we should be focused on. Truth is bad enough!

submitted 20 days ago • 9 comments

Find someone who loves you as much as Russian state media loves Tulsi Gabbard.

submitted 20 days ago • 3 comments

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

submitted 23 days ago • 328 comments

eeesh. this tweet is from one week ago.

submitted 23 days ago • 51 comments

He’s the president’s biggest donor, he gets a west wing office, he gets to oust the administrator of the federal aviation administration, he gets to send emails to the entire federal workforce trying to scam them out of their pensions, and he’s a nazi.

submitted 23 days ago • 83 comments

Donald Trump dusts off his sharpies and solves California's #water problems.

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Good to back science & innovation, but: Silicon Valley is what it is due to the co-location of giant platform HQs & venture capital, a combination which make it a magnet for start-ups. None of that will be replicated in UK. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Egg prices are way up. Medicaid and cancer research are shut down. Just what people voted for.

submitted 25 days ago • 167 comments

Imagine if the entire government were run according to the plans of that guy in your class everyone thought might become a school shooter

submitted 25 days ago • 74 comments

Sen. Chris Murphy gets to the point, as usual. 🧵

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So he’s a vain dishonest bully, a crook and a rapist, cares only for plutocrats like himself, no problem, right? Well, this is simply mass murder, how about that?

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The problem with ChatGPT is that you can only know whether it's answer is wrong "modestly coherent" or "extremely proficient" if you already knew what it was.

submitted 27 days ago • 47 comments

Powerful photo released by Danish PM Mette Frederiksen last night under the banner “Denmark is not alone”. It’s her having dinner with the PMs of Sweden and Norway, and the President of Finland. Simple, calm, grown-up Nordic solidarity. Great to see 🇩🇰🇫🇮🇳🇴🇸🇪✊️

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The story of this first week is corruption. Billionaires seated on the inaugural stage in front of the cabinet, crypto pump and dump, and the illegal firing of IGs. The media is acting like this is too chaotic and bewildering to interpret, but they are just afraid of sounding shrill. It’s corrupt.

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So an insane story, a private equity roll-up of fire truck companies is why more than half the fire trucks in Los Angeles were out of service during the catastrophic wildfires in the Palisades and Eaton. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-priv...

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Labour and the EU, a Beckett play: Lab: "We want a closer relationship with Europe" EU: "How about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." EU: "How about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." EU: "OK....how about this?" Lab: "No, not like that." Continue to general election and...curtain(s)

submitted 31 days ago • 61 comments

Trump's Day One executive orders were a huge gift to to the Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Oil, and private prison companies who bankrolled his campaign. The big losers? Ordinary Americans desperate for lower costs.

submitted 31 days ago • 114 comments

5 years of Netflix US profit: $15.1 Billion 5 years of Netflix exec pay: $652M 5 years of taxes paid by Netflix: $236M In a 5-year span after Trump's tax cuts, Netflix paid top execs 3x what it paid in federal income tax. Yesterday, Netflix announced it was raising prices again.

submitted 31 days ago • 201 comments

Also feel the need to say that this is real and happened today

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So it's dangerous for China to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. But it's okay for America's billionaires to have the ability to access our data and manipulate us via social media apps. Do I have this right?

submitted 36 days ago • 272 comments

In the UK, auto insurance prices dropped 16% in a year. A big reason: Lower urban speed limits Industry analyst: "Areas where 20mph zones have been introduced result in lower levels of claim frequency – a key factor in the cost of car insurance."

submitted 35 days ago • 34 comments

Support grows for global tax on shipping emissions to fund climate action

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In 1995, Itmar Ben-Gvir stole the Cadillac emblem from the car of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. “We got to his car,” the 19-year-old Ben-Gvir said before the camera. “We’ll get to him, too.” A few weeks later, Rabin, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was assassinated by a Jewish extremist.

submitted 37 days ago • 14 comments

Great 🧵 My perhaps gratuitous gloss on it: The wildland-urban interface, a zone stretching from remote cabins to leafy suburbs, is a big obstacle to climate change adaptation for fire risk (and, also, for biodiversity), makes it harder to fight fires, and increases the damage from them.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Great thread.

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