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There needs to be serious accountability for deaths in ICE detention.

It remains very weird to me that in a world of actually useful technology -- photovoltaic power generation, mRNA vaccines, maglev trains, smart phones, etc -- the tech sector has gone so all-in on bullshit generators and plagiarism machines.

Here is the latest list of Countries where it’s illegal to criticize the president: • Iran • China • Russia • North Korea • The United States

The monetization of US healthcare, particularly in the ED, is a public health crisis. Long wait times for critical, high-need patients are compounded by the ED serving as first and last resort for care among people without adequate insurance. Our hellaciously expensive system does not serve us.

Pretty soon Americans will be able to hop up to Canada and witness a wide range of EVs that are more full-featured, perform better, and *are cheaper* than any EV available in the US. Because, uh, energy dominance or something.

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JUST THE FACTS: 👇 Felon Donald Trump has been president for only 2% of America's history… He is now responsible for 25% of our national debt. That’s 25%, folks! $39 trillion…and growing daily.

WATCH — @tedlieu.bsky.social : “Trump and his family have made over $9 Billion in his presidency.”

Election Officials across the U.S. sound the alarm over political interference in the 2026 Midterms. PBS NewsHour www.reddit.com/r/50501/s/C4...

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: 🇦🇺 0 🇨🇦 0 🇩🇰 0 🇫🇮 0 🇫🇷 0 🇩🇪 0 🇮🇸 0 🇮🇪 0 🇮🇹 0 🇯🇵 0 🇳🇱 0 🇳🇴 0 🇵🇹 0 🇪🇸 0 🇸🇪 0 🇬🇧 0 🇺🇸 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

JUST IN: Virginia adopted a new law yesterday to forbid sheriffs & local police from contracting with ICE — if ICE doesn't say it'll follow state laws & agree to let its agents be prosecuted. Everyone seems to agree ICE won't promise that, and that this spells the end of ICE contracts in Virginia.

anthropic is literally hiring people for $500k a year to type fanfiction directly into their source code begging their stochastic model to do deterministic outputs and I'm supposed to sit in rooms where people cite their papers seriously as if any of this is real

Living under Donald Trump is like living with an abusive husband whose first move is to isolate you from everyone who loves you. Cut off the support system, poison the relationships, make sure there’s nobody left to run to. Then he can do whatever he wants. That’s exactly what he’s done to America.

A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑

The fact that every major police union endorsed Donald Trump is under appreciated in our political discourse.

PSA: For those of you who need to vote via absentee ballot I suggest dropping it off at the nearest county clerk rather than trust the postal service this year.. I heard there's shenanigans going on with that..

It’s quite the coincidence that the Strait of Hormuz is open when the stock market is open and closed when it isn’t.

This hits hard.

‼️ Russia: “The United States has authorized the sale, transportation, and unloading of Russian oil and petroleum products loaded onto tankers before April 17 until May 16.” www.kommersant.ru/doc/8604309

This all makes sense once you realize they’re not trying to govern successfully. They’re trying to steal as much money as possible and damage our country so much we won’t be able to go after them. 🫩

Now is a very good time to get your grocery shopping in order. We’ve reached the middle of April and that’s the point economists warned about. At this time prices are set to skyrocket due to the Strait of Hormuz now being inaccessible for a month. The last ships are approaching refineries. /

Every time I think about what these two brilliant women could’ve done for America, and how the nation said, “Nah— we’ll take the corrupt, racist, sex-abusing, demented, malignant narcissist”— it fills me with indescribable sadness and rage.

The index of consumer sentiment isn't broken; models that try to predict it just don't have the right input variables. I fix that and find that, yes, high nominal price levels explain why the vibes are so off. It's the prices, stupid www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-14...

Every Democrat since Reagan has DECREASED the deficit. Every Republican since Reagan has INCREASED it. Without fail. Every single time.

Republicans could end this by lunch. They truly do not care who dies.

A lot of left criticism of Biden on this website seems to elide that he had the narrowest legislative majority in history, with which he managed to confirm a record number of judges, do a massive fiscal stimulus, and get an $800b climate bill passed with a literal coal baron as the deciding vote

I feel that we should really make way more noise that Trump promised to use all that money we allegedly don’t have for anything that would benefit Americans to influence a European election.

Democrats should seriously consider a national ad campaign with clips of Republicans refusing to do their jobs, demanding they repay their congressional salaries.

Ok so fuel tax doesn’t work anymore because of EVs. Tax tyres instead. All vehicles have tyres. #Auspol.

When we realised COVID-19 was causing massive health problems, and was airborne, we should have immediately turned to improving air safety. And we did know this in 2020. Instead we chose lie and deny. And here we are, in a “absenteeism” crisis.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens. The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

“The poor die defending the rules that keep them poor. Because they mistake obedience for belonging.” — George Orwell

Spot the 1990s car. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

interesting watching the left’s reaction to one of their own being accused of sexual assault (immediate banishment) and comparing it to how that same situation was handled by the right (elected him president twice) I complain about dem leadership but no, both sides are not the same

An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death

Climate catastrophe Remember - we’re no longer in an age of singular consecutive crises We in the age of converging crises A dependence on fossil fuels, now a critical energy crisis fuelling climate crises, progressively eroding national security Did I mention an economic crisis as well?

Not the biggest point, but Trump turned on a giant immigration money machine, the scale of the waste and corruption is likely extraordinary, and the DHS Inspector General overseeing all this is simply not credible. From a report by *other* Inspectors General: www.govexec.com/oversight/20...

The USPS can't "run out of money," the sole question is the people in charge of the federal government believe delivering mail is worth funding the same way they already fund armed kidnapping gangs, concentration camps, and blowing up girls' schools.

As Forest Service shuts down, we are plunging into the most devastating wildfire summer in our history.

Every extra centimeter of hood height is another blind spot. This isn’t an accident. It’s a design choice. Stop manufacturing, selling, and buying these machines. Image by @cleancitiescampaign.org & @transportenvironment.org

how much money does the marine corps lose

Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.

Credit where credit is due: Congressional Democrats showed up during recess - they came back early - to introduce a war powers resolution. Republicans blocked it.

ICE is alive and well in Los Angeles, aided and abetted by the County, and the City. They're trafficking people, who increasingly have nothing left to lose. part 1