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NEW: Having Gutted the IRS, DOGE is Now Preparing to Shutter the Tax Division at the Department of Justice. For the Super-Rich Paying Taxes Will Probably Be All But Voluntary Going Forward. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doge-...

Reconstructing March #Arctic sea ice extent since 1850... You can read more about this data set at carbonbrief.org/guest-post-p.... Data from @nsidc.bsky.social at nsidc.org/data/g10010/....

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

here's today's post: "Donny done fucked up so bad, even Fox admits we’re headed for recession" — more scenes from a shit-blizzard. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

Q: 60 Minutes found 75% of the migrants who were sent to El Salvador do not have criminal records. That true? BONDI: They're not Venezuelan migrants. They're illegal aliens from Venezuela who should not have been in our country Q: So you're confirming they didn't commit a crime? BONDI: *leaves*

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

WASHINGTON (AP) — AP wins reinstatement to White House events after judge rules government can’t bar its journalists, citing 1st Amendment.

what a visual

Oh dear... "Human brain samples from 2024 had nearly 50% more microplastics than brain samples from 2016." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/w...

This should be obvious!

This is now the worst three-day performance for the S&P 500 since October 1987.

Well this seems like a fantastic plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...

TAPPER: You're imposing a 10% on the Heard and MccDonald islands. They have zero human inhabitants. Why are you putting tariffs on islands entirely populated by penguins? ROLLINS: Whatever. Listen, the people leading this are serious, intentional, patriotic, the smartest I've ever worked with.

[SCREAMS] [SOBS] [SCREAMS] www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

This is a real exchange I just had:

There are 32m small businesses in the USA

BREAKING: Federal judge in Massachusetts transfers Rumeysa Ozturk’s habeas petition to Vermont. DOJ wanted the petition dismissed or transferred to Louisiana. Ozturk’s lawyers wanted it to stay in Mass or be transferred to Vermont. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

RIF (reduction in force) notice for the IRS office of civil rights announcing a 75% cut. More RIF notices to come for other offices.

The Palmetto State Abortion Fund connects people in SC with the care they need. I'm a monthly donor--could you be? palmettostateabortionfund.com

Which storms require a tornado warning? Yes.

What's absolutely wild about this is the way they've manufactured a global financial crisis for no reason at all. This isn't 2007-08, where it was a bubble bursting. This is taking a relatively thriving economy and deliberately destroying it in the first three months of your presidency.

remember what i said about RFK Jr. being a eugenicist first and foremost? www.marketwatch.com/story/agency...