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MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.” MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

submitted 4 days ago • 775 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 5 days ago • 2288 comments

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal In these ways, Trump has placed many thousands of people across the world at risk of some of the most profound violations of their fundamental rights as research participants. www.bmj.com/content/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

So on this question of “doxing” of Musk gizmocrats, I was talking to staffers to today detailing one of the gizmocrats who is largely on his own rewriting the code base of one of the US governments most mission critical computer systems. And as it was described to me the staff programmers …

submitted 19 days ago • 225 comments

Raskin: "Elon Musk, you may have illegally seized power over the financial payments systems of the Treasury, but you don't control the money of the American people. The US Congress does that under Article 1 of the Constitution ... we don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk'"

submitted 19 days ago • 2172 comments

a tale as old as time

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it. snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...

submitted 20 days ago • 356 comments

Donald Trump and Elon Musk believe their power is unchecked and unaccountable to Congress and the courts. The scary thing is at this point I’m not sure they’re wrong.

submitted 21 days ago • 596 comments

Just talking about this has the potential to cause a banking crisis

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Hope people soon understand that there is no "reason' for these tariffs.

submitted 21 days ago • 127 comments

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 22 days ago • 268 comments

this is insane. the Army Corps of Engineers is releasing flood level waters from reservoirs and… reflooding the Tulare Lakebed to appease Trump? “Hernandez had already notified managers on the old Tulare Lake Bed to expect possible flood water” sjvwater.org/decision-to-...

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submitted 22 days ago • 10 comments

New posts in the category 'places'; journey to Indonesia: www.peterjanhaas.com

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Trump appointing industry lobbyists as well as CEOs who will now be able to regulate their own companies (or not) was utterly predictable, so much so that hardly anyone will remark upon it. Oligarchy has arrived www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 78 days ago • 65 comments

Important post.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

"I remember when the phantom Kamala ad hit me. It drew me in with a photo of Vice-President Harris and a positive and appealing summary of her policies. Then the ad exposed me, to a policy that I would not like – and which the candidate did not in fact advocate." snyder.substack.com/p/the-phanto...

submitted 96 days ago • 48 comments

Time-tested advice from Missouri. #SarahKendzior

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Awful: Senate investigations into Trump's solicitation of $1 billion from Big Oil and Jared Kushner's financial dealings with Saudis will now hit a wall with GOP control, Dems tell me. We're headed for unchecked elite corruption under Trump. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1884...

submitted 99 days ago • 173 comments

Sarah Kendzior:

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

New in PN: How a right-coded media environment boosts Trump "What happened on Election Day is a collective moral failure, but it’s also an outcome that a timid press and social media platforms helped engineer."

submitted 100 days ago • 52 comments

they're thirsty for a dictatorship

submitted 101 days ago • 1470 comments

Elizabeth Warren on Tulsi Gabbard: "Do you really want her to have all the secrets of the United States and our defense intelligence agencies when she has so clearly has been in Putin's pocket? That just has to be a hard no."

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