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Amy Coney Barrett knows…

submitted 3 days ago • 1005 comments

If you want to eat the most expensive eggs you’ve ever had in your life, you should have backyard chickens. Don’t get me wrong, I love them and have raised them, but they are an expensive hobby.

submitted 5 days ago • 1824 comments

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 6 days ago • 162 comments

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

submitted 7 days ago • 1969 comments

Not content with purchasing the presidency, Elon Musk now wants to buy the Wisconsin Supreme Court as well. His PAC just pumped $1M into supporting anti-choice right-wing extremist Brad Schimel. Wisconsin — don't become Musk's latest acquisition! Vote @crawfordforwi.bsky.social.

submitted 14 days ago • 184 comments

?? It’s no mystery where the money goes; this has been asked and answered. 70-75% of US spending is on Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, Pentagon and veterans + interest on the debt. Foreign aid is 1% of the budget. You can read this in a CBO or OMB report! Easily available.

submitted 21 days ago • 422 comments

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

submitted 29 days ago • 270 comments

Can your electrocardiogram be used to assess biological age? A new study suggests with A.I. it can be used to help predict age-related diseases, including not just cardiovascular, but also Alzheimer's and cancer www.nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

submitted 31 days ago • 5 comments

In light of Trump II’s predictably cruel and bonkers beginning, many people are asking: “What can I do now?” Here are 10 recommendations. robertreich.substack.com/p/what-you-c...

submitted 45 days ago • 144 comments

16 of the 26 Day One executive orders signed by Trump were ripped straight from the pages of Project 2025. Russ Vought, an architect of Project 2025, testifies before the Senate today as Trump's OMB nominee. Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.

submitted 46 days ago • 218 comments

With pardons, January 6 offenders are now free to possess firearms and ammunition again. Their convictions would have made that a federal crime, but no more.

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The whole “take over Greenland, Canada and Panama Canal” has a very “we’ll build a wall and Mexico will pay for it” vibe. How did that turn out?

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www.threads.net/@todmaffin/p...

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It’s weird to think that Elon Musk will end up having paid far less for the United States Government than he did for Twitter

submitted 80 days ago • 923 comments

we're cooked

submitted 89 days ago • 7017 comments

This seems to sum up the current societal vibe.

submitted 90 days ago • 0 comments

Accurate

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Predicting mild cognitive impairment and dementia many years before any symptoms are manifest, a new RAND Corporation report, open-access www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

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During the civil wars in feudal Japan, an invading army would quickly sweep into a town and take control. In one particular village, everyone fled just before the army arrived - everyone except the Zen monk.

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When the last living thing has died on account of us, how poetical it would be if Earth could say, in a voice floating up perhaps from the floor of the Grand Canyon, “It is done.” People did not like it here. Kurt Vonnegut From ‘A Man Without A Country’

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