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Not just scientists. Where are the athletes and celebrities?

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

“President Trump, Elon Musk and President Javier Milei of Argentina have formed a special bond,” writes the author Gregory Makoff. They “may share the same anti-state rhetoric and use the same techniques, but they are taking their countries in very different directions.”

submitted 13 hours ago • 22 comments

1/ Because of Who I Am As A Person, seeing Musk propose eliminating Government Spending (G) from GDP reminds me he has no idea what he's talking about, but this time he has veered into a domain I can talk competently about

submitted 22 hours ago • 10 comments

I merely dabbled in economics in undergrad, but Elon is rapidly stumbling into the areas of econ and policy that I dabbled in, and this thread does a far better job than I could of explaining that Musk has no idea what he's talking about.

submitted 15 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 4 days ago • 3399 comments

Looks for links between human rights and trade? Check out Sara Kahn-Nisser's new paper!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'll write about Ukraine tomorrow, but today another primer on an important economic issue paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

submitted 1 day ago • 386 comments

To Donald Trump, pleasing Vladimir Putin looks like it solves major geopolitical problems. But past experience shows that those who try, live to regret it.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Urbanists in the US, please stop posting on X and informing him of things to destroy.

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

This Real Housewife's story is why you do not ever put off getting suspicious moles checked because you're scared of what they might find. Melanoma is cheap and easy to treat if caught early, and if not, all the money in the world won't make it less a nightmare. people.com/teddi-mellen...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

*laughs in ✨NOPE✨

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Happy #Caturday

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

hey no big if not but do u know what the third book is called

submitted 2 days ago • 76 comments

Sparta was also famously an oligarchy lol www.britannica.com/place/Sparta

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Lycurgus was a (possibly mythical) ancient ruler often credited with making Sparta the militaristic city-state we know it as today. He was also posthumously worshipped as a god. Does Elon see himself as a space Zeus or something? Source: www.britannica.com/topic/Lycurg...

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Trump’s and Vance’s handling of the meeting prompted swift, widespread criticism and a wave of messages of support for Zelensky from many corners, including Ukraine’s European allies, Democrats, and even some of Trump’s former advisors.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

They kicked the AP out of the oval to make room for this pathetic “journalist”.

submitted 2 days ago • 486 comments

Man that’d be really nice for paying off someone’s student loans or medical debt

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

americans love to rag on the french but if this was all happening in france there would already be some headless politicians

submitted 11 days ago • 13 comments

the worst part of waking up is the buffering

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Also the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is effectively gutted now, so consumers hurt by the industry wouldn’t have anywhere to turn to.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Even if the SEC doesn’t “totally loosen” its leash on the crypto industry, it’s still probably going to get much more unregulated. The industry already lobbied hard in 2024 for its own interests, and now it gets to work “arm-in-arm” on writing the regulations.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump administration terminates funding for polio, HIV, malaria and nutrition programs around the world. “People will die,” said Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi of the African Population and Health Research Center, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”

submitted 3 days ago • 291 comments

NEW: A study of mint plants. A device to stop severe bleeding. Technology for treating concussions. This is some of the scientific research that Ted Cruz calls “woke.” By @lisalsong.bsky.social and Agnel Philip

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments