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submitted 15 hours ago • 955 comments

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

submitted 2 days ago • 1863 comments

Senator Bill Cassidy cast a pivotal vote to confirm RFK Jr. while vowing to constrain him. Cassidy has clearly failed to do so, writes Nicholas Florko.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's proposed budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

submitted 24 days ago • 78 comments

Musk did irreversible damage to the US civil service, soft power, science, education. His teams stole data and broke the law."I was on drugs and had family trouble" is not an excuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 25 days ago • 48 comments

Please share this link to post a comment regarding the anti-science “policy” to restrict COVID vaccines this fall and to waste time and our taxpayer money with unethical trials. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments

👀 NEW LOOK WHO THIS We’ve been quietly imagining & reimagining. Our hope is that through the chaos, we can carve out a community of people who ❤️ spending ⏰ with their (stinky) sidekicks while providing products that add joy & value to your everyday. #dogs #cats #petsofbluesky #smallbusiness

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 40 days ago • 124 comments

This graph is devastating... too many of our kids are going hungry, and yet they're still plowing forward with the largest cuts to SNAP in American history. They're taking the $6/day that people get in food assistance so they can give it to the wealthiest corporations on the planet.

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

In the richest country in the history of the world, a single parent with two kids spends more than HALF of his or her income on child care. The time is now to FINALLY provide high-quality, affordable child care for all working families.

submitted 45 days ago • 132 comments

Federal data is an invaluable national asset and economy driver. But for Trump & Co., it's "woke" and must disappear, or it's personal, private, and perfect for weaponization against people and groups they don't like. My latest at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

submitted 48 days ago • 23 comments

DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 60 days ago • 33 comments

They other day I met with an old friend who witnessed firsthand how Viktor Orbán, Prime Minister of Hungary, took over the country's democracy and turned it into an authoritarian state. Here are some lessons that I took away from our conversation. robertreich.substack.com/p/trumps-pla...

submitted 69 days ago • 51 comments

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

submitted 82 days ago • 949 comments

Money corrupts, and money in politics corrupts completely.

submitted 84 days ago • 159 comments

Tariffs will be a potent and unilateral mechanism for reintroducing systematic corruption into our economy. First, Trump can raise or lower tariffs unilaterally. Second, he can grant exemptions, forcing people, corporations, localities, nations, and foreign actors to seek reprieve on bended knee.

submitted 82 days ago • 48 comments

State public health departments hit by federal cuts are having to fire personnel. www.startribune.com/state-health... www.pressherald.com/2025/03/31/d...

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 92 days ago • 802 comments

Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost. Please don't tell me we can't do the same.

submitted 94 days ago • 756 comments

1. What you see here is clearest illustration why things are so messed up and why it cannot get any better until this asymmetry is addressed. Put simply: the right-wing has narrative dominance. My org @mmfa.bsky.social did this study and has been sounding this alarm for years. Some thoughts...

submitted 101 days ago • 500 comments

Again this is just common sense.

submitted 106 days ago • 7 comments

submitted 115 days ago • 2762 comments

America’s most shameful UN vote: “Instead of working to deconstruct Putin’s panorama of lies, it opted to keep it in place, to reinforce it, to build on it. It’s a choice that will haunt, and shame, America for years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...

submitted 118 days ago • 58 comments

Trump and his henchmen did not make "a deal" with President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukraine over rare earth minerals. They engaged in extortion, part of their protection racket-style strategy to shake down an ally in the midst of a deadly conflict.

submitted 118 days ago • 66 comments

"Experts cannot recall a precedent for the United States, or any other country, extracting cash or resources from its own allies during a time of war" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/w...

submitted 118 days ago • 326 comments

NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

submitted 120 days ago • 57 comments

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

submitted 124 days ago • 549 comments

Bernie Sanders: "They will use the enormous media operations they own to deflect attention away from the impact of their policies while they entertain us to death."

submitted 132 days ago • 960 comments

A criminal pardoning criminals. This is what the Republican Party has become.

submitted 153 days ago • 6 comments

Det är alltid för tidigt att varna – tills det är för sent. Behöver vi verkligen fler ledtrådar om vart vi är på väg? skriver Annie Croona.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

submitted 168 days ago • 130 comments