Did anyone else hear -sink-o-phant? lol

If you actually cared about the deficit you would reduce this spending. If you actually cared about wasteful government spending you would reduce this spending. Government contracts using lobbying to price gouge is the problem, not funding scientists or social programs.

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

Under Trump, the NIH is giving fewer grants to fewer scientists. The grants awarded are smaller and scientists have less time to spend them. Projects in cancer, diabetes, aging, neurological disorder, and more are going unfunded. “Make America Healthy Again.”

Trump fell asleep twice in public last week. But is his dream the American Dream?

Love that the President of the United States of America is pro-disease. (Sarcasm, obviously)

The US is flawed in numerous ways, but the idea of the Government being of, by, and for the people is a good idea. The idea of being a country of laws not men is a good idea. The idea of giving power not to one individual but to an office they might hold for a time is a good idea.

It's absolutely INSANE how he is bragging about getting private donors to pay for this. Private donors shouldn't be paying for federal buildings, because this very clearly gives them undue power and influence over the federal government. This is cartoonishly corrupt

Behold, the brutality of American Empire

It's a hard time to be a centrist (to be more right wing than Democrats but lack the full-throated embrace of the cruelty emblematic of the Republican Party).

The Supreme Court asking lower courts to "presume legislative good faith" is wild! The new standard for wether or not a congressional map is racially gerrymandered is essentially the legislature has to explicitly say "this map is gerrymandered based on race".

Crazy how US businesses spent 50 years moving manufacturing to China—destroying the local economies of cities that built their wealth—and are now getting super pissed off about China outcompeting them with their established manufacturing infrastructure. Y’all did this to yourselves.

Private industry relies on this public research. Improving our health and medicine relies on this research. American science spending is one of the few parts of the federal government that helps its people and runs well, so of course Trump and Republicans are ruining it.

The whole anti-vaccine thing is extra crazy! Why?!?? Who does this help? I genuinely don’t understand why this is a part of late-stage capitalism.

This is the same committee RFK JR replaced, stacking it with anti-vaxxers. Also, the MIT guy they quote—who was a part of the board and a professor—is NOT a physician or biomedical researcher. He’s a mathematician.

I wonder, is there just going to be boom bust cycles of vaccinations? Where you see lack of vaccinations and widespread death and disease causing people to get vaccinated before high vaccines rate mean less death leading to vaccine hesitancy? And so on? Hope not but 🤷

Trump is worsening America’s position on the world stage while pretending his erratic behavior and shameless bullying will magically fix it. Absolutely ridiculous!

Forty years ago, 90% of media outlets were spread across 50 companies. Now, just 5 companies control 90% of the media market. This consolidation hurts consumers and helps oligarchs. 🧵

Reminder: This vast consolidation of wealth and power at the top has not been due to neutral market forces. There’s no such thing as a “free market.” It is designed. It either advances public purposes or it serves the monied interests.

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information. Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

How drug-testing ruined the work place. by Donald Trump Jr. and Pete Hegseth

It's a bit surprising that Pete Hegseth asked for two shots when he usually asks for four or five.

I lost my job, my kid can't get a job to begin with, and my insurance premiums are literally doubling. But at least America will once again be a country where no car gets more than 20 MPG.

So private equity is now ruining kids sports and preventing parents from taking pictures/videos of their children play. While also pricing families out of sports all together. Destroying adult's hobbies wasn't enough, now late stage capitalism is setting its sights on kid's hobbies.

A Republican won a special election in a Trump +22 House district in Tennessee, offering fresh evidence that New York mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is a drag on the Democratic Party.

Whether it's Donald Trump murdering the survivors aboard a sinking boat or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents engaged in some truly norm-busting behavior.

Donald Trump fell asleep during a Cabinet meeting, raising new questions about Joe Biden's health.

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

As a part of this agreement, Northwestern is also reneging on an agreement previously made with Palestine protestors and making transphobia official university policy.

The con-man President protecting other con-men. Wonder if the guy will or has purchased Trumps crypto? Perhaps the fact that it’s even possible is a reason the President shouldn’t have his own crypto currency.

I mean seriously! This is properly outrages, even for him!

In response to congressmen and women from his opposition party correctly pointing out that service members have a duty to disobey illegal orders, the President called for their arrest and even execution. This is the desire of a despot and petty tyrant! How is he allowed to continue to hold office?

Scientists are saying staying below 1.5ºC of warming is now implausible. If we don't do something drastic and soon, we are on track to get to above 2.5ºC of warming. Anything above 1.5º isn't a little worse, it will be much worse. This will have massive impacts on human lives.

I KNEW IT!!!

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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

We should be stewards of the Earth and instead we accelerate the degradation of Earth's ecology, just to accumulate ever more wealth. Wealth that is then hoarded by the rich while many struggle to eat or pay for basic healthcare.

Clay Higgins (R-LA) was the only person in the house to vote against releasing the Epstein files. This guy is either really trying to get in the good graces of Trump or really needs to get investigated lol.

10 years ago : blockchain is the future of banking. if you don't understand you're an idiot 5 years ago : you're a dumbass if you dont get in on the ground level of the nft-do-not-copy.jpg Now : you don't understand the stock market. NVIDIA can only grow until it's the only company in the world

"Justice Department attorneys said in a court filing that the presence of the mock guillotine required federal officers 'to exert physical force to keep order.'" I thought Trump was of the opinion that building a mock guillotine counted as free speech and was not in fact violent.

Would be awesome if Angus King, Jeanne Shaheen, Maggie Hassan and any other Dem who caved lost in a primary. Just saying.

Good. If the Republican Party is going to be anti-science, then Democrats should step up and be explicitly pro science. I get wanting science to be non-partisan, but that ship has sailed. “Politics came for us, you can’t fight bad politics by staying apolitical.”

"Eugenicist who stole credit for the discovery of DNA helix from Rosalind Franklin dies at 97" There. I fixed your headline.

New map of the cool parts of NYC just dropped.

Prop 50 passed, Mamdani won, Anok Yai is model of the year. The world is healing.

Dems are already trying to come up with reasons not to run progressive candidates elsewhere, even after it is about to prove a major success.

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democrats don't end the shutdown, I will have no choice but to vote for him for the fourth time.

The Republican party has embraced full-on fascism while the Democratic party has staked out a position on immigration that is slightly different from mine. I have never felt more politically homeless.

Cuomo's a narcissist who thinks the only reason he lost is because Mamdani had a better online presence. He can't fathom the idea that Mamdani is winning because he is a better candidate, so he retreats to the idea that it was all about his social media presence. This is Cuomo's "fix" for that.