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If you don’t think that at some point he’s going to show more interest in the 5,044 nuclear weapons he controls, you’re as deluded as the people who thought he’d never tank the stock market and the economy.

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Where is our humanity?

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The worst catastrophes of history are caused by men who are malevolent, ignorant, and have exceptional wills.

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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

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We are living through the consequences of having an uninformed and ill-informed citizenry. Our founding fathers warned us about this danger.

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Donald Trump just caused: -- The biggest tax increase since 1968 -- The biggest tariff increase since 1930 and the Great Depression -- What is about to be the worst 3-day stock market decline since the Great Depression

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MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

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This is just like 2008 -- except that in 2008, the government was trying to stop the crash, whereas now, the government is literally causing the crash.

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Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!

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Last time he told you not "not to worry" half a million Americans died of Covid.

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David Brooks, who holds no advance degrees but has nevertheless served as a visiting professor at both Duke and Yale -- solely on the basis of his conservative ideas -- thinks that universities are deeply unfair to conservative thinkers.

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Trump’s many anti-union actions are already spurring some employers to take a more hostile stance toward unions as labor leaders voice fears that Trump's & Musk's anti-worker moves will embolden more companies to fight harder against unions www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... @lolgop.bsky.social

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This is why so many of the world’s most annoying podcast boys get mad and red about the notion that somewhere, a woman who voted for Harris is enjoying brunch with her friends

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Every word of this piece from @cmgreer.bsky.social is on point. READ and share it. We’re sick of it. Wake up! www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/o...

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Do you know about Clearview AI? It knows about you. Our new investigation into the facial recognition firm that could help fuel Trump’s authoritarian agenda.

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This is an incredible, and incredibly scary, piece. The founders of Clearview always supported racial and political profiling and now they work with an administration eager to use this tech to do on a mass scale

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We need to start thinking about harm reduction. During the Great Recession, demand for social services went up - funding for them went down weakening the safety net. We're now in a situation where the Administration is torching the economy & the safety net at the same time.

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#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue Never forget this. As the markets tank, as a recession looms in our future…they will somehow blame Biden. However, the GOP has had the power all along.

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Oh good, now we are back to no pause. Global laughingstock

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Whew!

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➡️ “U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in Maryland ordered the Trump administration to return Kilmar Abrego García, the husband of a U.S. citizen and longtime Maryland resident, to the United States by no later than 11:59 p.m. on Monday.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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As always, loved speaking with @alenciajohnson.bsky.social about Trump’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad tariffs. And we talk about her fantastic new book! www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

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Convicted Felon, Donald Trump’s March 25th Executive Order targeting voter registration is an authoritarian move to prevent free and fair elections. Listen to @marcelias.bsky.social explain why we need to be paying attention. www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

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@elienyc.bsky.social says Democrats have to start preparing Project 2029 NOW. Why? He joined me today to explain: www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

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Ackman endorsed Trump. Ackman voted for Trump. NOW he wants to complain?! thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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I wonder what it'd take conservatives doing for people to stop writing these "to be sure" paragraphs. When will it be time to consider the possibility that the ideas of American conservatives have been stupid and evil and that the left was right not to take them seriously? What more has to happen?

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Brooks never considers, even for a second, that a defining feature of American conservatism has been anti-intellectualism, which is the proximate cause for the lack of conservatives in academia. The entire project sneers at the liberal intelligentsia as egghead losers.

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Seems not great that reporters are asking the president if he’s tanking the market on purpose because he posted that he’s tanking the market on purpose

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Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!

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Remember how we told you Trump took out a full page add calling for the death penalty for 5 Black teenagers accused of rape & even after they were exonerated refused to disavow his earlier public call for their execution? For him law exists for cruelty & draconian punishment.He will use & abuse it.

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Trump “admin works 2 create a world [for] ruthless people… destroying any institution… that might check the strongman’s power. The rule of law…restrains power, so it must be eviscerated… truth itself is a restraint on power, so it must be abandoned. Lying becomes the language” - D Brooks, Atlantic

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New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

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60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

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75 percent.

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Trump last week launched an economic Pearl Harbor against almost every trading nation on earth. Today he seems perplexed that other countries aren't helping him escape the consequences of his own act of aggression and bad faith. America First means America Alone.

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Good day to remember that DOGE has already lost the US government at least half a trillion dollars this year alone. And likely more.

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"If the new tariffs stay in place for multiple years, and are enforced and inflationary, and DOGE continues to cut and fire, we will be in a far worse situation than 2008," Cuban wrote in response to another user's question about the economic impacts of Trump's… news.yahoo.com/news/finance...

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Love this

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The fences are back at the White House tonight.

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It all shows up in layoffs and every adult should know that rich people don't just suck this shit up.

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NEVER FORGET: Trump Tower was built by illegal immigrants from Poland for $4 an hour, working 12 hour days. Donald Trump was found GUILTY in a conspiracy to defraud these workers of their pay.

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The global stock markets have declared an unequivocal vote of no confidence in Donald Trump. It’s time for Congress to do the same.

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Bill Ackman freaking out about tariffs and saying "this isn't what we voted for" is as clear a crystallization of conservative self-delusion as you could ever ask for. Yes it is you idiot, you voted specifically for this! He talked about this NON STOP

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Really looking forward to the Supreme Court's right wing members giving the executive branch's Very Stable Tariff Genius unfettered power to control the Federal Reserve and monetary policy too 🙄

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