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Relatives of Russian soldiers killed in the war in Ukraine keep thanking Putin. "Thank you," he smirks in return.

submitted 5 hours ago • 52 comments

Blue-gray Gnatcatchers flick their long tail feathers as they bop about the branches, stirring up insects that the wee bird then hunts down.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

The best way to reduce your grocery bill is to eat less food

submitted 9 days ago • 51 comments

🧵 THREAD: A federal whistleblower just dropped one of the most disturbing cybersecurity disclosures I’ve ever read. He's saying DOGE came in, data went out, and Russians started attempting logins with new valid DOGE passwords Media's coverage wasn't detailed enough so I dug into his testimony:

submitted 11 days ago • 341 comments

This is what representation in government looks like. This should have been an entire codel. It's not about waiting until the midterms. It's about taking action NOW

submitted 11 days ago • 59 comments

Too good not to steal

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

This expresses it well. Willful defiance of a court order is, by definition, not an official act. Pass it on.

submitted 11 days ago • 37 comments

Is this surprising to anyone? This is literally exactly what I though they thought.

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

The ecosystem is growing...

submitted 12 days ago • 11 comments

they’ve learned that on Twitter they can make up any facts they want and that in turn lets them justify any horror, atrocity, or illegality imaginable

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Eating salmon? You're killing Tasmania. This Parliament has gutted our environment laws to protect an industry selling salmon from diseased pens & sending the Maugean skate extinct. Our research shows what needs to be done: theaus.in/fix_enviro_l... Watch + share our TV ad with Richard Flanagan ⤵️

submitted 15 days ago • 34 comments

I really just can’t get over this. What POSSIBLE POLICY MOTIVATION could this serve? A traffic ticket from the Obama administration makes you MS-13 or some kind of dangerous criminal element? We can’t risk letting these doctors cure cancer, if they once went 63 in a 55? IT IS LUNACY

submitted 15 days ago • 39 comments

Typical liberal fearmongering. What Elon means is that healthcare budget analyst can be reassigned to mining rare earth materials for Tesla batteries. Preferably in Greenland.

submitted 16 days ago • 19 comments

I agee w Patrick. (We lived in China at same time, diff on many things, agree here.) Chinese leaders always reckoned with the vast depth of US strength. Institutions, networks, expertise. Now, in cold-blooded rather than triumphalist mode, they recognize they're dealing with nuts and clowns.

submitted 20 days ago • 30 comments

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

submitted 20 days ago • 1500 comments

I mean isn't this exactly the way the Japanese car industry succeeded in the US, by producing small and economy cars when we weren't?

submitted 20 days ago • 84 comments

The vibecession and its consequences will be the primary historical narrative of 2024 and aftermath

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

MAGA is the enemy of the entire globe, except half a dozen brutal dictators and a dozen moronic billionaires. Outnumbered one hundred to one

submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

my curse is being obsessed with it for years and total unable to convince anyone it was happening or that it was going to destroy us until it was too late

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

This is a big deal. Spread the word. But it’s tiny compared to the totality of what’s happening at NIH. Cure Research for all cancers, Alzheimer’s, everything is being gutted. Intentionally. It’s all getting burned to the ground but the news isn’t getting out. The new cures won’t be there for you.

submitted 22 days ago • 154 comments

The tariffs are an attempt to use economic policy to win a culture war. It's not any manufacturing they want back -- it's the right kind. Batteries and electric cars are liberal coded, not MAGA coded, so they're out. But gas-powered F-150s and chainsaws, they're in. 🧵

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I WANT THE MARKETS OPEN FOR EXACTLY ONE HOUR SO I CAN SELL ALL MY SHIT

submitted 22 days ago • 18 comments

The formula used by the Trump administration to levy reciprocal tariffs contains a serious math error that over-inflates the impact by about a factor of four, per economists at the conservative think tank American Enterprise Institute.

submitted 22 days ago • 53 comments

"Fuck" is definitely the Word of the Day right now. Completely, utterly fucked. Anyway, good luck to all the pro-Trump business bros who thought they'd get a nice stock market bubble to ride and a free pass to grope their female coworkers.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

I don’t care what he has supposedly “created,” this man is simply not very bright

submitted 22 days ago • 180 comments

This WSJ front page has the potential (obviously not guaranteed) of being like 1975 NY Daily News headline 'Ford to City: Drop Dead.' It stuck. (Fifty years ago, but still...)

submitted 23 days ago • 21 comments

sigh it is not in fact a controversial idea that Americans enjoy substantially more rights than Chinese citizens, and you have to be incredibly ignorant of basic facts about China to believe otherwise.

submitted 24 days ago • 57 comments

I just got confirmation that National History Day, a program that does more to ignite K-12 students' love of history, learning, and yes, even the United States than anything else I've ever seen, had all its funding cut yesterday by the DOGE-axe at the NEH - including for this year's ongoing contest.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

Probably the clearest eyed analysis of America's current situation I've yet seen. The only remaining question is whether history will view the next 100 years as the Chinese or the European century.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

With MAGA, everything is a grift.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Taxes on tea, huh..

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Oh X...In case you needed an excuse to quit Elons vanity social media.

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

This

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Chris Coons is absolutely demolishing Martha MacCallum right now on Fox News

submitted 26 days ago • 961 comments

God I love that he mentioned 1929, lol. Like… what actually happened in 1929 is the markets had a correction (✅), bounced(✅), and then fucking Hoover announced a bunch of tariffs and the market dropped 80% over the next 2 years. Good fuckin’ luck out there friends.

submitted 26 days ago • 9 comments

Holy shit

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

This confirms a lot of suspicions of why Trump is compelled to toe the Russian line. It also begs the question of why Musk was in synch with Trump with regards to Russia & its invasion of Ukraine from the start.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Huh. I had no idea this was a thing, but apparently, it was: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwyV...

submitted 27 days ago • 7 comments

I don't think anyone has the heart to cause US car sales to literally stop in the next few months. But we live in interesting times. $TSLA bradmunchen.substack.com/p/why-trumps...

submitted 27 days ago • 3 comments

NEW: Law firms and the rule of law remain under attack. Jenner and WilmerHale fight back. Skadden's Jeremy London, though, tried to explain the firm's capitulation. Also: A law firm partner provided Law Dork with a "parable" of two paths for firms in this moment. Tonight, at Law Dork —>

submitted 30 days ago • 41 comments

I bought Twitter for $44,000,000,000 and sold it back to myself for $33,000,000,000. I have 43 kids and no friends. Everything I make explodes

submitted 31 days ago • 852 comments

Fascists gonna fash. What kills me though is that they managed to find and embrace fascism, racism and hatred just fine in a world where books on MLK and Jackie Robinson existed, but now they gotta go? Fucking snowflakes the lot of 'em.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

OMG this joke rocks on so many levels.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments