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I’ll say this as many times as I have to. No tax cut in the history of tax cuts has ever paid for itself. Not a one.

submitted 10 hours ago • 158 comments

I think this points up some of the failures of coverage of Trump's lawlessness: You could've read dozens of articles on Trump's tariff policy with no inkling of how unprecedented & legally dubious was the legal authority he claimed to impose them. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/b...

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

I am ready to crawl through broken glass to see this happen I will audit every system and every document the DOGE jungen so much as glanced at for free. I will quit my day job and work 80 hour weeks

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

submitted 2 days ago • 53 comments

22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

submitted 1 day ago • 112 comments

These are outrageous lies designed to keep American taxpayers from being able to access safe and effective vaccines. It weakens our ability to respond. In the long run, more people will die in a H5N1 pandemic.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The evidence here is very simple: if you go into DOGE actually trying to improve efficiency, and then try to work transparently and report the truth that existing government teams are functioning very efficiently already, they will can you. sahillavingia.com/doge

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The man on the left wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine last week that pregnancy is a one of the medical conditions that increases the risk of severe covid and thereby warrants vaccination. Covid infection is linked to miscarriages. MAHA is a cult. www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/c...

submitted 3 days ago • 59 comments

Trump’s HHS secretary: Processed foods had resulted in a “genocide” among Native Americans. Trump’s USDA secretary: Terminates the very program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food @maryhudetz.bsky.social

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

This is honestly so funny. Trump is saying he will privatize the profits of Fannie & Freddie to shareholders but don’t worry we will socialize the potential losses & everyone will know this implicitly.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Herbert Hoover called international services "invisible exports". A real undercommented on fact is that at the same time as Trump pretends to be trying to shrink our trade deficit he attacks some of the U.S.'s biggest service export industries. U.S. exports of services were 30.7% of exports in 2022

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is admitting two things here. The first is that he has been serving Russian interests by protecting Putin on numerous occasions. The second is that Trump is feeling pressure to be harder on Russia, which he really doesn’t want to do. Response: keep up the pressure!

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

This will likely tank the entire market for children's Covid vaccines, and it will lead to illness and death. Based on no evidence whatsoever.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

A new analysis estimates the Trump/GOP budget's rollback of clean energy tax credits will eliminate nearly 830,000 jobs by 2030 and raise energy prices by 50% by 2035. Just another way the "big beautiful bill" will make the economy worse and your life more expensive.

submitted 4 days ago • 135 comments

I want to offer a public apology to FDA head Marty Makary for calling him an ignorant piece of shit in a post last night. I just learned he is an islet transplant surgeon. Yes, the cells that produce insulin. I was wrong. He is not ignorant. This piece of shit knows exactly what he is doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 114 comments

“Decades of political science research show that societies that are open & pluralistic, w/ high levels of both individual & political rights, are more prosperous, more peaceful & more effective than autocracies that are closed and stagnant.” Winners of poli sci top prize speak out.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Marvel could pay for my healthcare for the rest of my life for a fraction of 1% of profit from Spider-Man Noir, a character whose original comics I edited. For Peter David to die in medical debt, co-creator of Spider-Man 2099 and writer of countless seminal Hulk and X-Factor comics—that's a disgrace

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

Five yrs out “demonstrators say they are still contending w/ intense trauma and long-lasting injuries... What’s more, settlement money has been swallowed by mounting medical debt, legal fees & other costs associated w/ being wounded.” Our dear Linda Tirado and so many others stories featured here

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Extraordinary. Powell is one of the only — and certainly the most powerful of — US officials openly to defy the dictator. Powell is calling on students to defend democracy. This is where we are. on.ft.com/3HoKfAV

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I picked this up from @barchart.com #EconSky

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

It's not just Northwestern and Harvard, I have gotten credible (confidential) reports from several other schools (including state schools) that the NIH is defaulting on federal commitments there too. Seems like there may be a big story here for an investigative reporter willing to take it on

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

This is really important - the GENIUS Act is, foreseeably, going to fill the whole American financial system with exposures to incredibly run-prone liability structures. slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 5 days ago • 22 comments

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

submitted 5 days ago • 373 comments

Seriously, Trump's aide said the Congressional Budget Office underestimated growth following Trump's first tax cut; it actually OVERESTIMATED growth. NYT readers should know that.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

This is what made it an attempted coup and not just a riot. A belatedly successful coup attempt, I suppose it is now.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 7 days ago • 167 comments

As a few folks have said, having the White House say that Trump is in a private event is a big admission under Trump v US which says official acts are immune & unofficial private acts ARE NOT IMMUNE. ⚖️🧐

submitted 8 days ago • 34 comments

This illustrates how the Supreme Court facilitates presidential authoritarianism. By declining to enforce federal laws that bind the president—except for laws it likes—it invites presidents to challenge legal boundaries. Our democracy needs a court that enforces federal law, not one that defies it.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

Another quote from the “MAHA Report”: “Many vaccines on the CDC's childhood schedule involved small participant groups, had no inert placebo-controlled trials, and had limited safety monitoring…” This is just a flat-out lie, which is why no references were provided for this statement.

submitted 8 days ago • 32 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 8 days ago • 313 comments

There is no law here, they're just making things up as they go, same as Trump. @espinsegall.bsky.social is 100% right: #SCOTUS is NOT a court. It's a purely political body. And a very VERY sick one at that.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment