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If you pay taxes in America, you paid to develop the Novavax vaccine for Covid-19. THIS was the shot that Operation Warp Speed funded. It's extremely effective, gives lasting immunity and most recipients don't have side effects. And it looks like the FDA is not going to approve it for next season.

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F U C K Bill Maher, and I don't particularly care if Trump is "gracious and measured" in private with his donors and sycophants over a taxpayer-funded White House dinner. How the fuck does that have any impact on him destroying America from the inside out and trying to become a king?

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

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This is happening in spite of the fact that the president is not in charge of the Smithsonian. It's not an executive branch government agency, rather it's chartered by Congress and under a board of regents created by statute, none of whom are even appointed by the president.

submitted 19 hours ago • 82 comments

It's wild that nearly all the interesting political media figures and commentators no one has heard of that are objectively worth profiling happen to be far right. That's the impression you get reading the Times, at least.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

🎁Gift Article David Brooks:I Should Have Seen This Coming When I joined the conservative movement in the 1980s, there were two types of people: those who cared earnestly about ideas, and those who wanted only to shock the left. The reactionary fringe has won. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Balaji Srinivasan — political guru to Marc Andreessen, Brian Armstrong, Peter Thiel & others – celebrates American decline. Here's his advice for surviving a future world dominated by China and the Internet (broligarchs). Goals: Kill U.S. economic dominance and the dollar. This is how they see it

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Can't believe the FDA is likely to not approve the Novavax Covid19 vaccine this year. Just stunning. This is the vaccine we paid for with U.S. taxpayer dollars. This is the vaccine with fewer side effects and that actually works to prevent infection. www.statnews.com/2025/04/10/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Everyone needs to stop treating pretextual justifications for the attack on higher education seriously.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Even the socials person at Axios knows their headline sucks

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AGAIN: There is no way to get the massive billionaire tax cuts they want and cut $1.5 trillion from the budget without taking away people’s health care. Basic math.

submitted 2 days ago • 28 comments

"...like a death squad or a firing squad.” Autistic teen with cerebral palsy shot nine times—from other side of fence—12 seconds after cops arrive on scene. No assessment of the situation. No attempt at de-escalation. Not even a conversation with the boy's family, who did NOT call them to intercede.

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

What is she even trying to say? Is she pretending that Trump used tariffs to make trade deals? He did not. He folded before getting anything, showing foreign countries they can call his bluff.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

An astonishing lack of humility from Niall Ferguson here. In full infallibility mode.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

this

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THIS is the NYTimes' framing. JFC.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

The skeleton key to understanding reactionary conservatism is quite simple: they are scared, all the time, of everything.

submitted 4 days ago • 783 comments

ICYMI the Oval Office is the Palace of Versailles now (fake gold for the fake king)

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1. We contacted the 100 largest American companies and asked a simple question: Do you support the tariffs announced by President Trump on April 2? These are tariffs that have already destroyed trillions of shareholder value NOT ONE COMPANY WOULD ANSWER THE QUESTION

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