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Today's Office Hours question: What the hell do Trump and his regime really want? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-the-hell-do-trump

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No one has ever LinkedIn this hard. I am CRINE.

submitted 2 days ago • 171 comments

When your job is to recommend books, and actually reading the books is not even in your top 3 ideas...

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RIP George Wendt.🙏🏽🍺

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@joshtpm.bsky.social reports today that defenders of science research have proposed that senators visit the NIH (and invite the media) to hear about the research on cures being shut down there. Yet Democratic Senate staff have declined, saying it doesn't fit with their comms strategy. [head desk]

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

GUYS. The comment period for this ends in THREE DAYS. PLEASE if you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD... Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. www.statnews.com/2025/05/20/f...

submitted 2 days ago • 407 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 3 days ago • 794 comments

it's just too bad we will never solve the impenetrable mystery of who made grok obsessed with south african white genocide theory at 3:15 am

submitted 7 days ago • 96 comments

Tiffany Slaton set out for a 3-day solo camping trip in Fresno County, but ended up lost for 24 days in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Surviving on wild leeks and boiled snow, she battled 13 snowstorms, reached altitudes of 11,000 ft, lost 10 lbs, and abandoned her bike, tent, and sleeping bags.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

Stop Forcing A.I. Into Every Fucking Thing!

submitted 145 days ago • 48 comments

You-know-who and his apologists are both nutty and ill-informed about what words mean. Merriam-Webster's definition of "eighty-six" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/e...

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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.

submitted 10 days ago • 111 comments

Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi went to a consulate in Istanbul to get a document he needed to get married. Instead, he was murdered and dismembered on the orders of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, now a close pal of Donald Trump.

submitted 9 days ago • 130 comments

Binge watching the Australian Border Security. Martha said “they give extra scrutiny to the young looking party boys” Glanced at me and said “you are very safe”.

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Reporter: The president fired the Librarian of Congress. Why? Leavitt: There were quite concerning things she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of DEI and putting inappropriate books in the library for children.

submitted 13 days ago • 2471 comments

Conspiracy of Silence: How Trump is Covertly Strangling Billions in Disease Cure Research talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/consp...

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Arizona hasn’t had a measles case — yet. But with a low vaccination rate and funding cutbacks, an outbreak is inevitable.

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Once again, the tech press is applying a clear eye and plain language to the administration that the establishment political press refuses to.

submitted 17 days ago • 9 comments

Ben Franklin on inoculation, after his son died from smallpox. “In 1736, I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation”.

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

99.9% of Americans won’t hear that Trump killed this program. And at 2,000 additional dead kids or so each year, most people will have no idea what was lost.

submitted 22 days ago • 41 comments

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

submitted 22 days ago • 181 comments

EXCLUSIVE: Two DOGE employees have access to a network used to transmit classified nuclear weapons data and a separate network used by the Department of Defense, sources tell NPR.

submitted 24 days ago • 549 comments

Fascism and fashion

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Another visualization design showing changes in monthly atmospheric global methane (CH₄; potent greenhouse gas) - just updated through all of 2024 Data from gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends_...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

Question: I'm looking for examples of Medical Schools which may just have received a letter from the Justice Department demanding detailed records of the School's admissions going back 5 years. If you have information: Signal joshtpm.99 or joshtpm at protonmail dot com. All comms confidential.

submitted 28 days ago • 24 comments

First annual guess which is the real Pearl contest @yourdailyart.bsky.social

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In 1939, Hitler authorized a euthanasia program for institutionalized disabled people It required doctors to first identify those who should be euthanized In 1941, this program became the model for the death camps A registry of disabled people is, in fact, a 5 alarm fire

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When I left the Washington Post in 2023, my colleagues and I were worried AI would hoover up our work and enable "zombies" to churn out stories based on our reporting and writing styles. Today WaPo announced a partnership with OpenAI. And here it is: Zombie Gillian Brockell. I DID NOT WRITE THIS.

submitted 30 days ago • 268 comments

Fit check 1982 edition

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DOGE strikes again. "WIRED spoke with seven workers with the National Civilian Community Corps, better known as AmeriCorps NCCC, who say that they were told to stop working on projects ranging from rebuilding homes destroyed in storm" by @mollytaft.com www.wired.com/story/doge-c...

submitted 35 days ago • 5 comments

Can we go back to being fearful of a robot future? Seems less bleak youtu.be/hUnibKe_o18?...

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submitted 35 days ago • 232 comments

Make no mistake, Trump is sending people to the camps. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

NEW: Andrew Cuomo used ChatGPT to help write the housing plan he released this weekend, which included several nonsensical passages. The plan even cites to ChatGPT on a section about the Rent Guidelines Board. hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo...

submitted 39 days ago • 246 comments

Among a million bleak things in this article, I'm struck by the parody-level corporate-speak about basic human relationships from this company's CEO: "...we are merely trying to make sure older adults stay in control and get to work on their legacy a bit longer alongside their family member."

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

ICE shared this horrifying graphic on their official X account. They took down the post and are now claiming it was an error. But we shouldn't dismiss the fact that someone intentionally created this and was approved to post it online.

submitted 42 days ago • 2 comments

Colossal’s bungled wolf announcement isn’t a conservation win. It’s a sad reminder of how the offensively rich want to foist their vision of the future on everyone. My latest for @slate.com

submitted 42 days ago • 32 comments

Decidedly not the main issue (which seems ethical), but there were 570 homicides in the UK in 2024. If any scientist is asked to predict something with that kind of baserate, and they don’t just explain the folly to the person asking, they prob should have their degree revoked on methods grounds?

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 45 days ago • 526 comments

RFK Jr and the “MAHA” movement are wrong about health and disease at the most fundamental level, and their “strategy” to achieve a healthier country won’t just abandon the most vulnerable; it will target them. Read my latest: www.thegauntlet.news/p/rfk-jrs-ma...

submitted 45 days ago • 26 comments

Sunday with Pearl #cats @yourdailyart.bsky.social

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"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

submitted 50 days ago • 27 comments

It's here. Pit in stomach feeling. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 51 days ago • 32 comments