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Trump is waging war against professionals, intellectuals, scientists, education, writes Franklin Foer. We've seen this movie before - in Mao's China www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

Either the Administration brings him home or the judge must order the United States Marshals to go get him. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/o...

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

From Fear by Bob Woodward. Explains a lot.

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submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I suspect we aren’t going to have one big cathartic crash but a gradual slide as R-leaning traders go back and forth between realization that Trump is serious about the tariffs and cope that people in his admin will talk him out of it (they won’t, they’re dumb and agree w/him).

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The thing we learned from Web2 is that the most impactful businesses became the most impactful by optimizing for addiction. Which means we should all ask, how would you optimize generative AI for addiction? Whatever makes it the most addictive is probably what it will become.

submitted 17 days ago • 206 comments

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

submitted 21 days ago • 78 comments

People voted for Biden because they wanted to bring back the America of 2015. They voted for Trump because they wanted to bring back 2019. But it turns out elections are not time machines and politicians are flawed vessels who misread their mandates.

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

Exactly. By far the fastest way to end the war would have been to increase the support for Ukraine so Russia would stop attacking.

submitted 43 days ago • 23 comments

Under the U.S Constitution, the President is very explicitly not a king. The President's wishes and decrees do not magically become law.

submitted 44 days ago • 166 comments

We are going to have a hard time explaining to future generations why we let an unelected guy in a “I paused my game to be here” T-shirt unplug the Stop People From Dying of AIDS Machine

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

Watching American Republican congressmen attack NATO alongside tech oligarchs only reinforces my belief that the U.S. won’t last four years without some form of disruptive event: unrest, secessionism, or other catastrophic events. It’s like watching the USSR’s decline speedrun.

submitted 46 days ago • 75 comments

I will admit to finding the “all problems are caused by evil and we could fix every problem without any trade-offs” worldview pretty draining and immature.

submitted 46 days ago • 283 comments