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SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

submitted 14 days ago • 147 comments

Two young people were murdered last night outside a Jewish event in DC. My house was attacked in December. My business in June. On the Diag, banners read “Globalize the Intifada.” This isn’t protest. It’s a threat. This is what antisemitism looks like — and it’s escalating.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

here’s Sarah Milgrim’s LinkedIn blurb.

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

"It's time to declare DOGE one of the great failures." ...And I say that as an economist who is deeply committed to government efficiency.

submitted 49 days ago • 42 comments

New detail from our story tonight on how Hegseth last month asked for Elon Musk to be read in on more than two dozen special access programs related to China, prompting pushback from DoD ethics lawyers. www.cnn.com/2025/04/22/p...

submitted 53 days ago • 22 comments

DOGE's latest efficiency is halting $500 million in food deliveries to the nation's food banks. www.cnn.com/2025/03/22/p...

submitted 57 days ago • 108 comments

This is a very useful paragraph from ‪@jasonfurman.bsky.social‬, and one that might explain our current tariff debacle.

submitted 58 days ago • 32 comments

WSJ: The exemptions undermine the Administration’s legal justification that his tariffs are needed to meet a national “emergency.” Imports of glassware and umbrellas from China are an emergency but imports of electronics aren’t? www.wsj.com/opinion/on-t...

submitted 62 days ago • 7 comments

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

submitted 63 days ago • 616 comments

10th best day ever for US stocks, topping any of the COVID shock up days and only beat by two days from 2008 and seven from during the Great Depression (all 1929-1939) *S&P 500 SOARS 9.5%, NASDAQ 100 JUMPS 12%

submitted 66 days ago • 22 comments

The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%. Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 67 days ago • 180 comments

"A violent felon whose sentence was commuted by President Trump was arrested Friday and charged with violating the terms of his supervised release after he was accused of a string of crimes that included assaulting a 3-year-old child." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/n...

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments

Washington Post: 'NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.' 'A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.' www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

submitted 69 days ago • 11 comments

🚨 We need to talk about DOGE & the IRS This article covers actions that could be more damaging than the tariffs. This hackathon has the very real potential to deliver the personal and financial information of everyone to the dark web. 🧵 www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

Yes, its absurd Trump is golfing while the markets are tanking due to his direct actions. But, also, I’m not sure anyone really thinks, boy, if Trump would just focus on the economy he could right this ship. No. Stay golfing man. Don’t touch anything else.

submitted 69 days ago • 50 comments

They’re saying 3 mutually incompatible things about the tariffs: 1) They are long term and will cause onshoring 2) They are long term and will raise revenue (which only happens in absence of onshoring) 3) They are a tactic to get others to lower tariffs (and therefore aren’t long term)

submitted 69 days ago • 25 comments

This is the honor and respect that Lithuania’s highest ranking officials and citizens presented American fallen soldiers while their Commander-in-Chief played golf instead.

submitted 69 days ago • 113 comments

We are risking plunging the United States into a dark age of entomology next week. USDA programs are facing massive lay-offs next week and the public should be aware of the impact. If you care about food systems, forests, invasive species, this thread is for you. Read Below: 🧪 #entomology #science

submitted 69 days ago • 12 comments

🚨 BREAKING: I love this. Gov. Andy Beshear is launching a podcast Tuesday. “In tough times, folks need an escape where they can process and even smile.” @andybeshearpod will bring heart, humor, and real talk—and if it makes you smile, he asks you to donate to a charity. Compassion in action.

submitted 69 days ago • 9 comments

This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...

submitted 69 days ago • 35 comments

Yes, this is exactly the brilliance of the Rick Steves analogy. And he ties it to resistance in other places where the banners read "Solidarity" because we can't just fight for our narrow interest, we have to fight for it all.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Former FDA Commissioner under Trump 1.0: @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social

submitted 69 days ago • 35 comments

This is worth reading.

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Nice to know that an administration that claims to be concerned about antisemitism is staffed by people like FBI director Kash Patel and Senior State Department official Darren Beattie who both appeared multiple times on this guy's podcast. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

Give Trump the credit he deserves. He has simultaneously delivered the worst economic, foreign, natsec, healthcare, education, justice, climate and government management policies in our history. That's a heckuva golden age you've got going there, mister. www.thedailybeast.com/as-golden-ag...

submitted 70 days ago • 24 comments

"Our efforts will lead to an increase in America’s wood independence"

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Global economic meltdown? No worries for Trump Inc. The Trump family, with the help of Saudi Arabia-backed LIV Golf at Trump Doral & Trump $1 million-a-head fundraising machine at Mar-a-Lago turned the weekend into a Trump money-making bonanza. The NYT was there for doubleheader show nyti.ms/3XPqyIa

submitted 70 days ago • 65 comments

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

submitted 70 days ago • 230 comments

Massive, unarchivable datasets of cancer, covid, and Alzheimer's research could be lost forever 🔗 www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 71 days ago • 20 comments

Trump and Republicans can lie about their plan to cut taxes for the rich, but votes don’t lie. We asked them: will you rule out tax cuts for those making over $1 billion? Republicans voted no. So we tried no tax cuts for $1 billion companies like Amazon? No. That says it all.

submitted 70 days ago • 48 comments

Democrats spent the entire 2024 campaign raising the alarm about this exact scenario. Wall Street just pretended it would never happen. Now the worst case scenario is here.

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments

“Ordinarily I would say that while tariffs are bad, they don’t cause recessions,” Paul Krugman says on this episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” “What’s unique about this situation is that the protectionism is unpredictable and unstable. And it’s that uncertainty that is the recessionary force.”

submitted 70 days ago • 24 comments

@sarajacobs.house.gov introduced a bill to defund DOGE! This is the strong #CupOfJoe that we need! Not all SHeros wear capes. 🗣️ jolly_good_ginger (IG)

submitted 70 days ago • 9 comments

Public service announcement: which firms have stood up to Trump (the vast majority, but not the biggest ones) and which ones have signed up to offer him free legal services. Just in case you want to decide where to work or who to hire docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 70 days ago • 11 comments

As in my Governing op-ed the major #Medicaid cuts largely shift costs to states so that GOP Congress can falsely claim they aren’t explicitly cutting eligibility/benefits. But the cuts create big budget shortfalls giving states no choice but to make draconian cuts: www.governing.com/magazine/cut...

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

Sounds super efficient!!

submitted 72 days ago • 131 comments