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NEW: The entire NIH payment system is currently frozen for all grantees. This is tied to DOGE’s new “Defend the Spend” caper, reported in today’s Post, which has already led to payment cutoffs to doctors and health workers at hospitals treating the poor.

submitted 68 days ago • 53 comments

i imagined passing away at a nice ripe old age in cambria with my wife by my side, but i have to admit, dying at 47 due to bad meat because the executive branch thought the USDA was kinda homo with it would be flat out hilarious.

submitted 69 days ago • 5 comments

I wonder if this is the real fascist, I guess recent immigrants are bad but Iranian refugees should be welcomed with open arms

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

roberts and his co-conspirators are probably writing an opinion “for the ages” explaining that the article ii vests the president with the inherent power to disappear anyone he pleases

submitted 76 days ago • 210 comments

Prediction: Today (4/9/25) registered the greatest ill gotten gains from insider trading in history.

submitted 76 days ago • 308 comments

Is DOGE cutting the size of the federal government? No. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNg...

submitted 78 days ago • 19 comments

In addition to the inflationary effect of this enormous fee, it will also result in large port backups at bigger ports as shippers reduce the number of port calls to save money. gcaptain.com/worse-than-c...

submitted 78 days ago • 13 comments

me when Obama pops out telling people to get in the streets and universities to stop caving

submitted 81 days ago • 32 comments

The #HandsOff rally in Chicago is packed!

submitted 81 days ago • 104 comments

If you want a sober, expert description of why we should now characterize the US as a competitive authoritarian regime —not a democracy— and what we can do about it— I highly recommend spending an hour listening to Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky in this video: www.youtube.com/live/nS-nJQN...

submitted 81 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 82 days ago • 84 comments

Kind of incredible how much Trumpism really is just a dumber version of Pat Buchanan’s shtick.

submitted 81 days ago • 524 comments

Israeli statement here is clearly true. IDF did not "randomly attack' an ambulance and kill its occupants. The IDF deliberately attacked an ambulance and murdered its occupants. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/w...

submitted 81 days ago • 17 comments

young men will be D+20 in 2028

submitted 82 days ago • 160 comments

Fiji Water is produced, imported, marketed and sold by an American company. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji_Wa...

submitted 83 days ago • 800 comments

Delighted to have David Card give our annual Gamble Lecture at UMass Amherst today. Open to the public.

submitted 83 days ago • 2 comments

submitted 83 days ago • 17 comments

“Take out the equivalent of a mortgage at 18, but here’s the best part: you’re also going to jail”

submitted 83 days ago • 26 comments

The guy that lost a million dollar bet with me on hyperinflation is the relative voice of reason on the right today

submitted 82 days ago • 28 comments

Now that’s a screenshot. > @atrupar.com

submitted 83 days ago • 943 comments

I'm super sad about the CDC. You know in The Lion King when it seems like Mufasa will be trampled, but he emerges, clinging to the rock? He's hurt, but he’ll survive. And then, Scar throws him to his death. It’s like that.

submitted 85 days ago • 21 comments

France raises a fascinating hypothetical point: what if the law still exists even if people might get mad at you

submitted 86 days ago • 121 comments

I think the key to understanding this is that these voters understood very well that by "illegal immigrants" Trump wasn't just referring to actual legal status, but to anyone perceived as being undesirable. Not hard to imagine that the distinction would work the other way around too.

submitted 86 days ago • 9 comments

Important and underemphasized: Congress hasn't actually given presidents the power to do this unilaterally. The law requires an "an unusual and extraordinary threat" and "may not be exercised for any other purpose." These are illegal tariffs, his fake emergency declaration alone doesn't cut it.

submitted 86 days ago • 57 comments

That last Arendt line in the middle paragraph. Fuck.

submitted 88 days ago • 14 comments

It's genuinely a mass hysteria, there are tens of millions of people across the Western World who have convinced themselves of this, and they're going to tear down civilization trying to stop it.

submitted 87 days ago • 211 comments

I think Columbia is destroying itself because a lot of people on the inside are on Trump’s side.

submitted 88 days ago • 11 comments

pedocon theory on its way to becoming a scientific law

submitted 88 days ago • 493 comments

Americans are shitty people by a majority and it's difficult to get around that.

submitted 89 days ago • 37 comments

Lmao 🤣 savages

submitted 90 days ago • 128 comments

pete hegseth is going to feel really shitty when the second groupchat leaks that’s called “houthi war plan no pete”

submitted 92 days ago • 71 comments

When you hate foreigners more than you love your own kids

submitted 92 days ago • 14 comments

The “state secrets” doctrine applies to things that are generally more sensitive than classified information. And here, the government hasn’t alleged any of this is classified. In fact, it involves conduct that the government itself splashed across the media in an orchestrated PR campaign!

submitted 92 days ago • 33 comments

“…Rod Dreher hit hardest”

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments

Something I’m thinking about on this afternoon is that I hope the next Democratic president is not as afraid of prosecuting vile crimes as the last one was time.com/7269604/el-s...

submitted 95 days ago • 45 comments

The first and most important thing to know about last night's Exec order is that it's intended to break current law and allow people throughout the federal gov look at yr tax returns. Beyond that it's intended to compel states to turn over all their data to the fed govt.

submitted 95 days ago • 328 comments

Remember Goldwag's Law: Your Republican uncle is racist and stupid, but ultimately well-meaning, any conservative intellectual published by @theatlantic.com or @thenyt.bsky.social has wet dreams every night of being a death camp commandant some day and a list of names hidden in his desk.

submitted 95 days ago • 12 comments

Interesting new paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09907 improves on both rdrobust and rdhonest! Quite compelling... 1/n

submitted 98 days ago • 4 comments

A good read today. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 100 days ago • 73 comments

honestly still struggle to describe the words to describe American politics right now: hegemonic suicide driven by conservative feedback effects?

submitted 101 days ago • 38 comments

nods knowingly

submitted 102 days ago • 184 comments

The Justice Department plans to drop a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

submitted 107 days ago • 49 comments

Economists often use models that show firm discrimination cannot withstand market competition. The discriminating firm is unprofitable. But what happens when it’s consumers that have discriminatory preferences? In this case, the market doesn’t solve the problem. A 🧵 www.nber.org/papers/w33547

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

1. I get served an unintentionally hilarious video on Instagram of someone claiming that giving birth with dolphins ensures there is no pain in childbirth and your kid will have a 150 IQ. 2. I google to see where this theory comes from. 3. I get served an AI answer with this amazing sentence.

submitted 108 days ago • 100 comments