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While oligarchs theorize that wealth makes soft, weak men, they never turn that theory on themselves or their children. It's just a rationalization for making the general population poorer.

submitted 2 hours ago • 48 comments

🤦🏼 WHOOPS — An economist whose work Trump used to calculate the tariffs says they massively screwed up the math: “I would strongly prefer the policy be scrapped entirely, but barring that Trump should divide the results by FOUR.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

submitted 2 hours ago • 48 comments

he did this just after going to the funeral of an 8 year old girl. he walks away from where the hearse is idling and immediately starts hyping this stuff again. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 22 hours ago • 1856 comments

For the better part of the last decade, a great many people have tried really hard to make Donald Trump make sense in some broader political and historical context. But at the end of the day he's exactly what he appears to be: a rich psycho who's failed at everything in life except self-promotion.

submitted 23 hours ago • 42 comments

What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

The tariffs are wreaking immediate and catastrophic economic havoc, but make no mistake, the rest of what’s he’s doing, from gutting Social Security, the VA, and the NIH to undermine vaccines is just as reckless and will lead to the same scale of damage.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 4 days ago • 195 comments

This has been a great week for my business, actually, where we make graphs of stock prices

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HOWARD MARKS: “This is the biggest change in the environment that I've seen probably in my career. We've gone from free trade and world trade and globalization to this system, which implies significant restrictions on trade in every direction and a step toward isolation for the United States." 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

The Israeli military on Saturday acknowledged that the initial accounts from troops involved in the killing of 15 people in Gaza — who the UN said were rescue workers — had been partially “mistaken.” The assessment came after a video appeared to contradict the military’s earlier version of events.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

$DG 💰

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On TV at the same time: NAVARRO: “This is not a negotiation.” LUTNICK: “Of course they are” open to negotiation. 🤡

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In case anyone’s wondering… www.forbes.com/sites/quora/...

submitted 2 days ago • 137 comments

Erez Reuveni argued on behalf of the Justice Department during Friday’s hearing in the Abrego Garcia case. Reuveni has reportedly been placed on leave. Here’s one exchange with the judge that may have contributed to his ouster:

submitted 2 days ago • 139 comments

NEW: The Trump Admin has been "covertly" withholding FEMA funds from Democratic states, seemingly as retaliation for sanctuary laws, a judge ruled. Hawaii is missing $6 million for widlfire aid. Oregon is waiting on $129 million for disaster prevention.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

As someone whose life was saved by cancer research (and may depend on more in the future), I am biased here. But biased on the side of not-cancer. So.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

The actual "classist" statement is claiming, as Duffy did, middle class and low-income New Yorkers are “forced” onto the subways, while repeatedly referring to it as a "shithole" and showing your ignorance of urban policy by claiming driving must be the primary mode of transit. This guy is a moron.

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

They remade the rules of the election when the voting was over in order to disenfranchise enough voters so their preferred candidate could win. Absolutely undemocratic.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

The 5 largest single day $DJIA drops and their corresponding President. There seems to be a pattern here but I can’t quite figure it out.

submitted 4 days ago • 188 comments

Breaking News: The comedian and actor Russell Brand was charged with rape and sexual assault in Britain.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

A leaked memo from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Research Service Sunday, agency banned key language, including words... #groundwater pollution, sediment remediation, #water collection, water treatment, rural water, clean water. @neorsd.org newrepublic.com/post/193395/...

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

🚨MUST-WATCH: “Something very fishy is happening.” @mrglobaltoo.bsky.social deep dives on Strategic Storage Partners, the shady self-storage real estate company Trump’s Secretary of Energy just awarded $1.4 BILLION to manage our strategic petroleum reserve🤔 Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DIAXDvj...

submitted 4 days ago • 118 comments

Perfection

submitted 4 days ago • 372 comments

Control and management of the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been turned over by the DOE to a company with virtually no history: Strategic Storage Partners, LLC, with the U.S. Government paying $1.4 billion or $280 million every year to have it managed. 😳🤔

submitted 4 days ago • 116 comments

Their goal is to eradicate trans people from public life, and then build a body of biased research to justify criminalizing all gender-affirming care.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

🥗 backdoor cuts to Meals on Wheels by eliminating the federal staff that administer the program. Galling. Make America great by starving Grandma? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Awesome efficiency-thanks DOGE! www.thetransmitter.org/science-and-...

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Hard to imagine why most Americans now hate this guy. A real mystery.

submitted 5 days ago • 195 comments

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

submitted 5 days ago • 1041 comments

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

submitted 5 days ago • 159 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 5 days ago • 476 comments

Pictured: the place which is, according to the Trump White House, apparently imposing 10% tariffs on the United States. Note the total lack of any human settlements there.

submitted 5 days ago • 121 comments

thank you donald trump for your diligent work as you make the US a stagnant, backwater pariah state and playground for sociopathic tech oligarchs

submitted 5 days ago • 176 comments

Digital dingbat www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 5 days ago • 63 comments

Elon’s Downfall

submitted 6 days ago • 233 comments

Elon Musk is the de facto leader of a technofascist cult that does not care about human life except for those he views as the ones building the supreme digital AI that will rule the universe. It should be no surprise that his goal is to eliminate spending on meatbags he views as useless to the cause

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Wild story: the acting Social Security chief was warned that terminating data collection contracts with Maine would increase fraud. But he responded that it didn't matter because it was more important to punish Maine's governor for disagreeing with Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

International students are lifeblood for US innovation. They are 75% of all foreign-born founders of venture-capital funded startup companies in the United States. Many will simply stop coming, now that they face tests for thoughtcrime.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

!!

submitted 6 days ago • 81 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 6 days ago • 1079 comments

“.. A recent paper published by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas found that government investments in [R&D] accounted for at least a fifth of U.S. productivity growth since World War II. “.. ‘Sometimes you don’t realize the value of something until it’s gone.’” @bencasselman.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 23 comments

WATCH: “It’s horrific.” Joe Rogan reacts to the story of Trump’s ICE grabbing innocent people with no criminal record like a gay makeup artist (Andrys) and sending him to a hard labor prison in El Salvador.

submitted 7 days ago • 258 comments

"Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 41 comments

I can’t believe this is real! It’s like the worst caricature of how the right says Soros does politics.

submitted 8 days ago • 2600 comments