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submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

submitted 15 days ago • 75 comments

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

submitted 18 hours ago • 112 comments

Maybe it's called a corpse flower because that's a dead ballerina stuffed in a bucket.

submitted 1 day ago • 129 comments

Punditry is the most unaccountable job

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Who edits Brooks? I’m sincerely curious!

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Regulators now going after Musk's enemies, while Musk gets to decide if he has any conflict of interests with regulators

submitted 19 hours ago • 7 comments

This chart—plus cutting taxes for the rich—is an excellent visual summary of American values. Voters have been choosing this my whole life!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

the British newspaper convention of putting the author’s face with the headline is often extremely funny

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

The fact that Americans consistently vote for outcomes like this makes me think that while they don’t like being ripped off, they REALLY don’t like the government preventing them from ripping other people off

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Incredible

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

Deeply depressing stuff

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

You sure about that, amigo?

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Literally the entire field of disinformation research was shut down and brought under Congressional investigation for researching this very thing. The problem now is that the right wing propaganda machine is not longer just Fox, but its the algorithms on X and the suite of meta products.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

“who are Republicans spending time with online and what do those people believe” is a story that the media has completely ignored for years and we might be in a different place if the public was actually aware how many of those people are outright Nazis

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

Unironically they should buy up the domains for about 60 defunct local newspapers in swing states. Hire two reporters to write almost exclusively about highschool sports and new restaurants opening with every 10th article about how the local GOP is screwing over people.

submitted 3 days ago • 344 comments

one thing the Dem establishment doesn’t understand is that Rogan is downstream of the right-wing misinformation machine. he doesn’t originate reactionary conspiracies, he absorbs them, and that’s why he turned toward Trump

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Betteridge's law of headlines strikes again

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

he's one of the biggest, most-frequent liars in the world. among other things, he said the same thing last summer, before becoming the largest-ever campaign donor in American history. Yet this post by Baker and the headline treats his statement as true. don't print lies in the newspaper!

submitted 3 days ago • 45 comments

It would be relevant to know the covid vaccine histories and future plans of all these guys and their families—are they walking the walk, where is this a Me Not Thee situation?

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Wouldn't do this in a million years

submitted 3 days ago • 474 comments

You'll want to read this one, another Washington Post exclusive, gifted by me. Trump admin looking to use aid funds to deport Ukrainian refugees back to their war zone. wapo.st/3Fm4Ipq

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Counterpoint: Bribes. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/t...

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A very good way to not experience, learn from, or grow within your own life

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is how Republican voters want to spend your tax dollars—coddling, celebrating, and enriching criminals. Democrats should be talking about this all day every day! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I'm on a little vacation break so I can commend to you this awesome story about the growing SpaceX monopoly and the national security implications by the man Dan Boguslaw: prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Turned on CNN three times yesterday while running errands. First time was in the middle of a segment about Biden's age. Second time they were airing a promo for Tappers book, which is about Biden's age. Third time was during a panel discussion -- about Biden's age. Meanwhile . . .

submitted 5 days ago • 145 comments

It isn’t even the lying. It’s that this an unnecessary, easily disproven lie in the service of an insane obsession from a delusional old man. It’s a demonstration that the head of the FBI will do anything for Trump, no matter how degrading.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Good read—reminds me of the SUCCESSION concept of No Real Person Involved, which is less dark satire of corporate sociopathy than a succinct description of GOP morality

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Never mind the usual Just Because/Grammar Jazz In My Head use of quotation marks—I’m pretty sure I’ve never seen this highlighted sequence before. Innovation lives!

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The law professors who are arguing against birthright citizenship in the US are reinventing a common law decision from 1677 about allegiance and aliens that was pivotal for creating a common law of slavery in England’s empire. — a logic recreated in Dred Scot. — rejected by 14th amendment.

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

Miller is a generational brand poisoning prospect—no juice like Trump, no stan army like Musk, rancid vibes at all times, genuinely cruel. Dems should be taking about how awful he is and tying him to the GOP all day every day. But they don’t! Astonishingly bad politics imo

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

“reality tv is inherently fascist” is my most consistently vindicated hot take of all time

submitted 8 days ago • 86 comments

Podcasts that aren't worth listening to, emails that aren't worth reading, and no one to discuss them with. There's a reason execs buy heavily into the promise of AI.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

submitted 8 days ago • 360 comments

Wow they’ve invented coffee is for closers

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments