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Funny how you rarely hear the MAHA “experts” talk about a couple of things that would really help reduce chronic diseases: a living wage for all, and equity in access to healthcare.

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

submitted 1 day ago • 197 comments

This is the 30th anniversary of the OKC Bombing. Please let me share a perspective on it. It starts with an Oklahoma geography lesson. 1/n

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that you are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

submitted 5 days ago • 272 comments

speaking as a dog owner here - y’all, keep your dogs on leash when you’re out in public, my god. This isn’t hard

submitted 6 days ago • 15 comments

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women. Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

submitted 10 days ago • 257 comments

World markets plunge, with Japan’s Nikkei diving nearly 8% apnews.com/article/stoc...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

An important point getting overlooked: When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on what the grant studies. They're cancelling them based on who is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

submitted 17 days ago • 82 comments

You had us at "a book of spells, the key to wonders."

submitted 17 days ago • 311 comments

Pretty much everything is fucked, but here is some beautiful and exciting science from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social and colleagues. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

Ok - one more time for those in back, tariff wars are a bad.... anyone, anyone?.... thing.

submitted 17 days ago • 17 comments

Absolutely essential for reporters to get right: the Senate Finance Committee is planning to do at minimum $5.3 trillion in new tax cuts, not just $1.5 trillion. They're just pretending that $3.8 trillion of that is free.

submitted 18 days ago • 16 comments

We could have this in our cities. If we want to.

submitted 19 days ago • 5 comments

"If America hasn't broken your heart, you haven't loved her enough." Corey Booker, just now.

submitted 19 days ago • 188 comments

Democrats should appoint someone who's whole job is debunking DOGE lies in real time on every platform.

submitted 22 days ago • 65 comments

This is extraordinary, and I think I should play it for myself once a week or so.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Laid-off Education Department workers packed up their offices on March 28, 2025.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Dear Civil Servant, check out these resources for helping you navigate unemployment and career transitions (a thread) ⬇️

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

daily reminder to take your meds, stay hydrated, and keep your OPSEC clean

submitted 24 days ago • 314 comments

Correct.

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

A 54-year-old American who was born in this country, who had his wallet and ID taken away, was thrown in a van, and was handcuffed. It took him 10 hours to get out. That's unAmerican.

submitted 33 days ago • 122 comments

The Fed Chair just said what every credible economist, every economics textbook, and every empirical study shows: Tariffs reduce output and raise prices. This is quite uncontroversial stuff, folks. (Also, depressing.)

submitted 32 days ago • 48 comments

If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...

submitted 32 days ago • 71 comments

At the end of the day, don’t we all just want a bookshelf with a rolling ladder?

submitted 145 days ago • 1140 comments

Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention

submitted 145 days ago • 673 comments

Friends: don’t forget to click “Repost” when liking a post that you’d like to share. Without the crazy algorithms we have to rely on each other to boost content.

submitted 146 days ago • 9 comments