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Trump today: If Iran does not agree to a deal “There will be bombing and it will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before” Can he go 1 day without threatening a new war? How many would he like? - Greenland - Panama - Gaza - Mexico - Yemen - Somalia - Gaza - Venezuela Is 8 enough?

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Steve Witkoff is in desperately over his head

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I have a story with some art at the end! When I come home for a visit, I often do volunteer sign painting work for the farmers market where my mom worked for decades (and is still on the board). One time as a teen, I was working our stand on the first day of blueberries (a big deal!)…

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For all of you whose vote was manipulated by mass media & politicians scaring you into believing you’ve never been less safe, the 2024 crime rate was the lowest in record since 1961.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

AAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUGH. TARIFFS ARE TAXES ON CONSUMERS.

submitted 4 days ago • 89 comments

This is what happens when you have an entire cabinet full of folks who would NEVER pass a regular security clearance. Led by a president who would never be able to pass one either.

submitted 5 days ago • 825 comments

everyone is being mean to Michael but I’d like to give him a chance: what is one example of anti-conservative institutional hostility that is on par with what Trump is doing

submitted 8 days ago • 36 comments

Pro tip: Never entrust the future of your country to a man whose top life ambition is to move to another planet.

submitted 11 days ago • 12 comments

The Apprentice

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Donald Trump just illegally fired two independent commissioners at the FTC who fight big corporations that abuse consumers and workers. Why? Trump's billionaire donors expect a return on their investment. He works for them, not you. The courts must reinstate the commissioners.

submitted 12 days ago • 157 comments

Note to the president: The people did not elect you king. They did not elect you to break the law. Every voter--pro-Trump, pro-Harris, and those who chose not to vote at all--had every reason to expect that whatever the agenda of the next president, it would be pursued within the bounds of the law.

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

More of: I can do whatever I want because I’m President. He is daring someone to challenge him. How far off can, “and I’m sticking around for a third term”, be?

submitted 13 days ago • 2800 comments

So good! A joy.

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I was recently floored by a line of dialogue in a children’s book—“We don’t ignore bigotry, Jack. That’s how cowardly bigots turn into brave bigots”—if you were wondering why children’s books are important, and why there has been so much concerted effort to ban them.

submitted 20 days ago • 2 comments

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 15 days ago • 745 comments

“Very few have fortitude enough to tell a tyrant they are determined to be free.” - Samuel Adams

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I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

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“The White House Spring Sell-a-thon” 🇺🇸

submitted 19 days ago • 26 comments

Trump is bulldozing the Education Department, which helps homeless and disabled kids gain access to school, while he does a car commercial at the White House for the richest man in the world. Robber barons are waging class warfare on the rest of us.

submitted 19 days ago • 48 comments

Elon, who has never served anyone but himself in his entire life, has a nasty habit of calling combat veterans traitors.

submitted 19 days ago • 78 comments

Elon is attacking somebody falsely and egregiously because they are a real astronaut

submitted 20 days ago • 457 comments

My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...

submitted 20 days ago • 38 comments

Like the spoiled children of the rich who squander their unappreciated legacies, a vast swath of Americans are taking for granted the hard-earned freedoms and rule of law that made us a rich and powerful nation. If we are not careful we will lose our inheritance forever.

submitted 20 days ago • 66 comments

What a wonderful idea…👇 Let’s. Do. This. ✨

submitted 23 days ago • 1227 comments

Americans new foreign policy stance

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

People running universities, media organizations, law firms, anything at all, need to understand that ceding an inch to authoritarians, accepting any sort of censorship, only increases the likelihood of further censorship. Capitulation is collaboration.

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

I have told you to watch for the growing wedges. It’s happening. Keep the pressure on. It will be easier to fight them when they’re disunited. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 78 comments

We are all in the debris field of a SpaceX mishap

submitted 24 days ago • 944 comments

Things are a shitshow right now, so please take a moment to enjoy this recent photo of the destitute outcast Rudy Guiliani on a scooter in Walmart shopping for hair dye. You’re welcome. 🙃 Photo ~ TMZ

submitted 24 days ago • 1163 comments

For the rest of my life, I will never understand how a country full of people busting their asses, working paycheck to paycheck, allow the fucking richest guy on Earth to call them "parasites" while calling the Social Security we contributed to our entire lives "a Ponzi scheme." Un-fucking-real.

submitted 24 days ago • 1240 comments

I smell some good trouble

submitted 24 days ago • 640 comments

For the umpteenth time: The institutions of this economy depend on the institutions of this democracy.

submitted 24 days ago • 8 comments

Too soon

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

The Hill Times

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The bad deal www.politico.com/news/matt-wu...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment