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Fascinated and often disappointed by how people make decisions, behavioral economics, data, scientific method, tech skeptic, history, reader of indictments, lover of football played with feet
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⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️⚡️ 🇪🇺🇺🇦 The EU is preparing a package of about €20 billion (!) in additional military support for Ukraine, - Bloomberg ❗️The initiative would aim to deliver artillery ammunition, air defense systems, deep-precision strike missiles, drones as well as other weapons.

submitted 17 hours ago • 54 comments

2 fucking headlines right next to each other

submitted 22 hours ago • 76 comments

Every liberal "paper of record": maybe the fascists have a point Eater: Know your rights

submitted 21 hours ago • 7 comments

"Most Americans don’t want to believe that their government is taking life­saving medicine away from sick people in Africa, or betraying Afghans who sacrificed for this country" But it is. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

I wish I could say that this is unbelievable, but it’s totally believable.

submitted 2 days ago • 38 comments

Forbes headline should be “Trump admin’s senseless, misguided layoffs puts America lives at risk” That’s the story. Not that the admin realized (partially) it’s mistake. Forbes gives too much makes it seem as though they have a plan

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

The first clear sign that we lost democracy was the administration ignoring a judge’s order to reinstate funding for USAid. 2nd I read last night that Musk’s lackeys have begun changing data to suit their needs. The 3rd will be the spurious charges on those who Trump views as opposition (see below)

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is the last backstop. Refusing to abide by the Courts. We’ve officially crossed over to authoritarianism.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Can anyone even think of a legitimate reason for him to get this? Can anyone even proffer an argument that it won't lead to grave abuses and violations of privacy? wapo.st/3QizwcN

submitted 5 days ago • 116 comments

As DOGE and Trump claim to be rooting out govt waste, remember that the first Trump administration granted "church" status to the Family Research Council, allowing the nonprofit to shield its finances from public scrutiny. It also can't be audited without ok from a high-level Treasury official.

submitted 5 days ago • 30 comments

The first two episodes of Bellingcat's new documentary on MH17 premieres in the UK on Nat Geo tonight at 9pm, with the 3rd episode shown tomorrow at the same time. www.natgeotv.com/uk/shows/nat...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

DOGE staffer created URLs that promoted racism against Black people and sexual violence against women and children. truthout.org/articles/a-t...

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: Don Jr and Eric Trump joined advisory board of Dominari Holdings – a tenant of Trump Tower with rent payments that may be up to $750,000 per year, and another Trump Org exec is a director, showing multiple ties between Dominari and the Trump family, my latest: newstracs.com/don-jr-and-e...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Amid Musk’s DOGE ‘cost cutting spree’ BS, the State Department may buy $400M worth of armored Teslas. The procurement data includes one line item for “Armored Tesla (Production Units)” for fiscal year 2025 with a contract length of five years.

submitted 9 days ago • 58 comments

A historic graphic of corruption. The 11 federal agencies so far targeted for firings or dismantling by Elon Musk have more than 30 ongoing investigations into his companies. (📸 Malika Khurana for NYT)

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

Asha has some vital pre kickoff misinformation check here.

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

Join me in writing our senators today, demanding they vote no on Linda McMahon. Click below to send your letter now:

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

Snake oil salesman “Dr” Oz has no business running Medicare or Medicaid. Click below to write a letter to your Senator, urging them to vote no on Mehmet Oz.

submitted 14 days ago • 26 comments

Tell your Senators to vote no on Tulsi Gabbard. It only takes a minute.

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

Let’s make sure this worm-brain is never confirmed by the Senate. These letters make a huge difference & don’t take but a minute. Click below to send yours!

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Kash Patel is an unfit sycophant who should never be director of anything. Agreed?

submitted 14 days ago • 20 comments

12/20/2024: Intuit, owner of TurboTax, donates $1 million to the Trump Vance inaugural. 2/3/2025: Elon Musks says he deleted the division that created the IRS's Direct File, a free alternative to Turbo Tax Sources: lda.senate.gov/filings/publ... x.com/elonmusk/sta...

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia will tomorrow permanently disconnect from Russia’s power grid. Russia can no longer use energy as a tool of blackmail. This is a victory for freedom and European unity.

submitted 15 days ago • 77 comments

The original source of this claim comes from a Russian propaganda channel. Russia infiltrated US in 2015 to install Trump into office using kompromat decades long while they continue to divide US and Trump today announces task force on foreign election interference disbanded UNBELIEVABLE —

submitted 15 days ago • 40 comments