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This also drives me crazy about the US higher ed sector. Foreign students bring $40b a year into the us from their home countries — compare that to $25b in grain exports or $20b in iron and steel.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

Whatever you do today, GO ORDER @hatethegamebook.com and listen to this interview. Order: www.hatethegamebook.com #booksky #econsky www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

He's lying. Autism is no epidemic. Diagnostic criteria changed. In the mid-70's a child had to be severely impaired to get an autism diagnosis. Now autism is recognized as a spectrum.

submitted 1 day ago • 69 comments

Health misinformation: How to identify reliable sources online iuhealth.org/thrive/healt... - Be skeptical of sensational quick-fixes or $ asks - Medical information affects everyone - Health misinformation is dangerous - Fact-check suspicious health claims - Help fight bunk!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I agree. In a functioning democracy, we would already be in the midst of an impeachment trial.

submitted 1 day ago • 1051 comments

Dr Peter Marks, "Vaccines have been studied very extensively for being potentially associated with autism" "That theory has been debunked" "One study in Denmark, over 600,000 children. It shows that if anything, children had a lower rate of autism than unvaccinated children"

submitted 1 day ago • 469 comments

“At 30, I used to exercise to look good. At the age of 50 to be fit At 70 not to be padded in a bed. At 80 to be able to live without assistance. Now at 99 I do it out of pure defiance.” - Dick Van Dyke

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

Even if you have insurance, ALWAYS check what your prescription would cost via Good RX & RXGenie. Many times it's cheaper. No, it doesn't count towards your deductible, but if it's significant enough, it's money in your pocket, not your insurance company's! #healthcare #hacks #lifehacks #econsky

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The amount of pseudo-contrarian "tariffs are based, actually" takes I'm seeing is appalling. Mostly coming from people with no background in economics. We are so fucked. #econsky #macroeconomics #tariffs

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

The economy doesn't matter if there is no due process and no rule of law. In fact, the economy may worsen if the rest of the world cannot trust the US to uphold the law and follow court decisions. #econsky

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Don't let up. Don't look away. This is a crisis. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2

submitted 1 day ago • 939 comments

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submitted 1 day ago • 826 comments

So if Senator Rafael Edward Cruz were a student in Florida and he asked the teacher to call him by his woke chosen name "Ted," and the teacher did, the teacher could get fired?

submitted 1 day ago • 75 comments

I wonder why I've yet to hear an argument that one of the many (and there are many) reasons the SAVE Act is so abhorrent is it violates the 24th Amendment to the Constitution, which made poll taxes illegal. It seems to me requiring people to cough up the bucks to buy passports to vote IS a poll tax.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

#TrumpTariffs #TrumpMarketCrash

submitted 2 days ago • 415 comments

The anti-tattoo hysteria coming from State Department and SCOTUS is obviously a cover story for rank racism. But it's also an insanely implausible cover story? Every basic bitch millennial has a tattoo! Including me! (Video of the process is v soothing btw www.instagram.com/reel/Cgz4Er5...)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

When people ask "Why haven't we cured cancer", you should remind them that kids vaccinated against HPV basically just don't get cervical cancer. At all.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

'Scientists stop long-COVID symptoms in mice using a new antiviral compound' 'A groundbreaking preclinical study reveals how targeting a viral enzyme with a new drug could prevent long-COVID complications, offering hope for millions...' www.news-medical.net/news/2025040...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

We are literally being led by the dumbest people alive

submitted 2 days ago • 1687 comments

"Public health experts have warned for years that such a shift would open the door to increased dental disease, especially in low-income communities. But the guy who thinks wi-fi causes cancer and 'leaky brain' is apparently unconvinced..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 4 days ago • 865 comments

Roman Husband: "Oh, no! Romans forgot to have children. Now we don't have enough humans for our workforce!" Roman Wife: "Romans have slaves and captured foreign workers." Roman Husband: "Oh. Never mind . . ."

submitted 2 days ago • 296 comments

Nothing sums up the state of America's diplomacy better than the Secretary of State's entourage getting in a fight with the Brussels police because a bar wouldn't serve them after closing time.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

So much wrong in 11 words. US Health Secretary RFK Jr: “By September, we will know what has caused the autism epidemic.” And sounds like the conclusion has already been decided.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments