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Tom Nichols should have named that book THE MURDER OF EXPERTISE. Maybe a sequel. www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

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What an interesting way to redistribute wealth. Fire the gainfully employed scientists and park rangers and give a bunch of randos money in exchange for preventable disease outbreaks and incurable cancers.

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OMG!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

submitted 7 days ago • 29 comments

These don’t fit. Trump says Musk will lead Doge. Gov says Musk not part of Doge. Judges don’t like this kind of shady game playing. This will explode on Musk.

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

Elon Musk posted these two tweets on the same day

submitted 6 days ago • 276 comments

It's heartening that today the leaders of the two major parties in Germany are unequivocally anti-Nazi and anti-fascist. It's horrifying that today the president and vice-president of the United States of America are not.

submitted 7 days ago • 56 comments

The most important thing anyone can do right now is pressure every Republican in their state. Show up at their events. Show up at their offices. Make them look at what they’re doing to the Constitution.

submitted 7 days ago • 39 comments

SCOOP: Kash Patel took $25,000 from a production company with ties to Russia propaganda activity to appear in an anti-FBI docuseries. He did not respond to questions about this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 15 days ago • 1680 comments

If Joe Biden had said this it would have been good for a week’s worth of programming on Fox News

submitted 17 days ago • 894 comments

This is the Counter Intelligence Administration

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

New via NYT — The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force. One former agency officer called the reporting of names a “counterintelligence disaster.”

submitted 17 days ago • 921 comments

They were fooled by everyone who posts some kind of alternative TOS from the ones they already agreed to and forbids Zuckerberg from using their photos.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump is a gullible and easily manipulated dumbass, and the saddest part about it is he proves how many other people are, too.

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework. Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there prami.ibero.mx/informes-y-i...

submitted 19 days ago • 425 comments

Out of prison back working at the White House for a guy who avoided prison to go work at the White House

submitted 19 days ago • 121 comments

After American airspace was closed on 9/11, over 230 flights with 30,000 passengers and crew were diverted to Canadian airports. Transport Canada received thousands of calls from members of the public offering to help the stranded passengers. Thinking about that today, for no particular reason.

submitted 21 days ago • 291 comments

Btw let me reinforce this again when it comes to this crew: EVERY ACCUSATION IS A CONFESSION.

submitted 20 days ago • 785 comments

Very audible booing of the US national anthem at the Ottawa Senators arena tonight, ahead of their game with Minnesota

submitted 21 days ago • 525 comments

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

submitted 22 days ago • 91 comments

If there's one thing I know about capitalism, it's that businesses absolutely love uncertainty about basic issues.

submitted 21 days ago • 53 comments

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

submitted 21 days ago • 4939 comments

i think an important thing for people outside the US to understand is that elon musk seized control of the government today and most americans don’t even realize it happened.

submitted 22 days ago • 452 comments

Please kill me

submitted 22 days ago • 352 comments

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 22 days ago • 134 comments

I remember learning of this. It’s a huge, insane risk that could have caused an international incident and easily could have ended with dead troops. He’s a megalomaniac and an idiot. Why is that always the combo?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

[finger to earpiece] I’m here on the ground and can report the giant imaginary faucet is ON, I repeat, the giant imaginary faucet is on, back to you, Bob [camera light goes off] what the hell is this felonious fuck babbling about now

submitted 26 days ago • 231 comments

any word from our coequal branches of government

submitted 26 days ago • 7 comments

Remember when Americans would mock Chinese citizens doing this to circumvent their government? Yeah.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

How dare you say it was a Nazi salute.

submitted 28 days ago • 46 comments

The findings that I highlight here and in my underlying research important for us to understand in light of Trump/Oz/Project 2025 hopes for “Medicare Advantage for All.” Unlike traditional Medicare, MA has TONS of prior auths —> more denials, which induce inequitable admin burdens of appealing.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

Elon Musk did the Hitler salute twice during his speech today. But it isn’t clear what this gesture might have meant.

submitted 33 days ago • 225 comments

I just bought The Death of Stalin so I can put it on whenever I want to in lieu of other content. I feel like it will come in handy. m.imdb.com/title/tt4686...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

The Hegseth hearing is doing one thing incredibly well: it’s establishing that when his leadership at DoD fails, it’ll be clear that GOP Senators knew, excused it, and they own it. Serious concerns about experience & judgment are literally being laughed off.

submitted 39 days ago • 1725 comments