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@aoc.bsky.social: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

submitted 18 hours ago • 9 comments

Old enough to remember when the right was insisting that the president was hindering aid in response to Helene and it was a (fake) scandal.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Efficiency

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

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A problem with praising RFK Jr "for being right" is that he's a eugenicist out to murder disabled Americans to purify the gene pool as a result, any marginally not-awful statement he makes will not just be walked back, but will be torpedo'd inside of 3 business days. meanwhile, you've praised him

submitted 20 hours ago • 8 comments

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

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”E-bikes have the potential to be a reliable and competitive alternative to cars in a healthier and more sustainable transport system and our study brings new empirical evidence to support this claim.” #ActiveMobility #Health #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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New York City's school zone speed cameras have worked remarkably well: "Speeding tickets [fell] by an average of 18.4%, 13.3%, and 0.6% in the 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-month post-installation." Authors also found a 14% drop in crashes after speed cameras were installed. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

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The dream is dead

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“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

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An Australian man with a US work visa was detained upon reentry, called a “retard” and told, “Trump is back in town; we’re doing things the way we should have always been doing them.” He was held with 100 people including many Canadians. Posters celebrating equity had DEI scribbled out in marker.

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No reason to think this is anything other than what it is

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Well, the Chinese Embassy on Facebook is having fun

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owning a small business in 2025…

submitted 2 days ago • 206 comments

"The combination of interest rates soaring amid a slump and the currency plunging despite rising interest rates isn’t what we normally expect for advanced countries… it is… what we often see in emerging-market economies. That is, investors have started treating the [US] like a third-world economy."

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There's another issue here. Immigrants, legal and otherwise, pay huge sums into Social Security. So you're simply cutting off revenue for the Social Security system.

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

“IDEAS”

submitted 3 days ago • 546 comments

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

submitted 3 days ago • 1166 comments

Mancini's Sleepworld is advertising a "tariff free clearance sale"... 🙃

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Minnesota has launched a new tool to track federal funding cuts that affect services ranging from heating assistance and flood mitigation to tracking diseases.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

submitted 2 days ago • 180 comments

Okay this playlist is fantastic for working.

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A well-deserved ratio for the minority leader

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

RFK Jr. is an active danger to America's children. Fuck everyone who allowed this man to come to power.

submitted 3 days ago • 64 comments

"What we are seeing is a purge...that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917."

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

submitted 3 days ago • 98 comments

It has been noticeable, to me at least, that Elon Musk is being marginalized in the WH. Trump is holding a cabinet meeting today and Musk won't be there. He hasn't been around all week as far as I've been able to tell. It seems the Wisconsin election caused his star to fade.

submitted 3 days ago • 539 comments

For the most part, sprawl means those of us who are nondrivers (youth, disabled people, people aging out of driving) are stuck at home or reliant on favors from family and friends to meet our basic needs. This shouldn’t be our future.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

And the factory workers will be the thousands of fired PhD scientists who had been working on cures for pediatric cancer, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, Parkinson's, ALS...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This is going to be a tool of eugenics. Disabled and chronically ill people who can’t afford their meds are going to die from this.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

I suspect Trump is so pleased with the yield for insiders on this little escapade he won’t resist repeating the playbook, no matter how much damage it does to the country at large.

submitted 3 days ago • 14 comments

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

submitted 4 days ago • 575 comments

see?

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Economist Peter Schiff: “The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire implications than…the stock market. If these tariffs remain in place, the US could have a full-blown financial crisis by the fall that makes the 2008 Financial Crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.”

@aoc.bsky.social: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.

Old enough to remember when the right was insisting that the president was hindering aid in response to Helene and it was a (fake) scandal.

Efficiency

The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.” That is dangerously false. www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...

A problem with praising RFK Jr "for being right" is that he's a eugenicist out to murder disabled Americans to purify the gene pool as a result, any marginally not-awful statement he makes will not just be walked back, but will be torpedo'd inside of 3 business days. meanwhile, you've praised him

i have argued before that MAGA is recapitulating antebellum pro-slavery ideas about citizenship and bodily autonomy. one thing i am also thinking about, when it comes to the rendition of people to a foreign gulag, is the way it is reminiscent of the kidnapping of free blacks for sale into slavery

”E-bikes have the potential to be a reliable and competitive alternative to cars in a healthier and more sustainable transport system and our study brings new empirical evidence to support this claim.” #ActiveMobility #Health #ClimateAction www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New York City's school zone speed cameras have worked remarkably well: "Speeding tickets [fell] by an average of 18.4%, 13.3%, and 0.6% in the 2nd-, 3rd- and 4th-month post-installation." Authors also found a 14% drop in crashes after speed cameras were installed. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

The dream is dead

“The damage has been done,” said George Saravelos, the head of foreign exchange research at Deutsche Bank. “The market is reassessing the structural attractiveness of the dollar as the world’s global reserve currency and is undergoing a process of rapid de-dollarisation.”

No reason to think this is anything other than what it is

Well, the Chinese Embassy on Facebook is having fun

owning a small business in 2025…

There's another issue here. Immigrants, legal and otherwise, pay huge sums into Social Security. So you're simply cutting off revenue for the Social Security system.

“IDEAS”

there is no “epidemic,” he is almost certainly going to say it is vaccines and, well, stay safe everyone.

Mancini's Sleepworld is advertising a "tariff free clearance sale"... 🙃

Minnesota has launched a new tool to track federal funding cuts that affect services ranging from heating assistance and flood mitigation to tracking diseases.

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

Okay this playlist is fantastic for working.

A well-deserved ratio for the minority leader

RFK Jr. is an active danger to America's children. Fuck everyone who allowed this man to come to power.

"What we are seeing is a purge...that is consistent with events like the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s and ’70s, or the dismantling of the tsarist civil service after the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917."

This is a 12 alarm fire for the economy. If being friends with the president and giving him kickbacks makes you exempt from large import taxes Vs your competitors, it will stratify the whole economy and push corruption and loyalty and political controls deep into the private sector

It has been noticeable, to me at least, that Elon Musk is being marginalized in the WH. Trump is holding a cabinet meeting today and Musk won't be there. He hasn't been around all week as far as I've been able to tell. It seems the Wisconsin election caused his star to fade.

For the most part, sprawl means those of us who are nondrivers (youth, disabled people, people aging out of driving) are stuck at home or reliant on favors from family and friends to meet our basic needs. This shouldn’t be our future.

And the factory workers will be the thousands of fired PhD scientists who had been working on cures for pediatric cancer, Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, Parkinson's, ALS...

This is going to be a tool of eugenics. Disabled and chronically ill people who can’t afford their meds are going to die from this.

I suspect Trump is so pleased with the yield for insiders on this little escapade he won’t resist repeating the playbook, no matter how much damage it does to the country at large.

“We need to get better at treating this like a business,” Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons said, explaining he wants to see a deportation process “like (Amazon) Prime, but with human beings.”

see?

Economist Peter Schiff: “The crash that's now happening in the bond market has more dire implications than…the stock market. If these tariffs remain in place, the US could have a full-blown financial crisis by the fall that makes the 2008 Financial Crisis look like a Sunday school picnic.”

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