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Medieval bloodletting of what was once one of the greatest disease prevention agencies in human existence

Another one

Fuck billionaires

Fuck billionaires

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

Trump let us know 10 years ago what he thought of disabilities.

There's no other explanation that makes sense. And the people who think this won't come for them are the biggest bubble of all.

Perry: "I agree with you about the seriousness of threats, generally, across the United States right now. I don't think there's a single public servant, really, who is not being subject to threats. "Mine started about 10 minutes after I got this case."

After Trump got his Covid shot, he chose to fire the scientists protecting the rest of us from diseases.

Imagine that

I’ve always been told that guns don’t fire by themselves

We live in a country where the government honors insurrectionists who sacked the Capitol, and defines peaceful protest, even before it occurs, to be terrorism. They know their position is weak, they know they are unpopular, which is why they are seeking to stamp out dissent.

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

fucking WOOF

For the first time on record, renewable energy generated more electricity for the planet than coal, a new report says. n.pr/47hcegr

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology." October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award." Just shameless.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

Good read about Miller's strategy to push propaganda until the middle of America sleepwalks into accepting an autocracy:

The Speaker of the House has firm views that Bad Bunny is a terrible pick for singing at the Super Bowl, but hasn't had time to watch the President's speech to our military leadership or form an opinion whether furloughed federal workers should be paid or Illinois' governor should be thrown in jail.

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

When US citizen Leo Garcia Venegas tried to prove his identity by showing federal agents his REAL ID, they dismissed it as a fake and kept him detained, releasing him only after they bothered to run his Social Security number. Just a few weeks later, they detained him again:

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

There was nothing that helped me understand authoritarianism better than books on domestic violence and the psychology of abusers. There is no distinction between the two groups. Men who assault their wives and children want the social environment to do the same to strangers that bother them.

True story, during the Great Recession, Airbus said that to survive it needed to open some non-EU factories in places with cheap, compliant labor, no environmental restrictions, and no meaningful labor law and after a lengthy internal study the two sites they chose were Bangladesh and Alabama.

ICYMI: @sjdemas.bsky.social & @eisendrath.net cut through Trump’s narrative that blue states are lawless and need ICE, the National Guard — maybe even the military. Subscribe and watch, now! www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-ope...

To close a Wells Fargo A/C, you must have a zero balance and no pending transactions. You can call customer service at 1-800-869-3557, visit a branch with valid ID, or by mail a completed Account Closure Request form if you are outside the U.S. Wells Fargo does not allow account closures online.

With the US in democratic freefall, experts are concerned that other countries may dismantle themselves too. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A common talking point in far right publications in the 1970s had to do with a bunch of Cold War executive orders laying out a range of “emergency powers” a POTUS could temporarily take on in a crisis. They used to say this was the blueprint for communist takeover. Turns out they were just jealous.

Not to be confused with our favorite photo caption of the 2010s,

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

If you tax trucks 🚛, trucking in your inputs gets pricier. That means flying ✈️ or shipping 🚢 looks better. Where do planes and boats come from? Yes, this just made transporting inputs from abroad *more* competitive. It's like taxing bikes to reduce road congestion.

Jake Tapper, who eviscerated Biden for the sin of growing older, has done everything but help install a chair lift in the White House to cover up Trump's deepening dementia and utter feebleness.

A reader asked our fashion critic: "I am confused about why everyone seems to be talking about brown. Is this a trend I should take seriously, and if so, what’s the best way to wear it so I don’t look like I’m in a time capsule from the 1970s?" nyti.ms/4mXPxTf

In a weird way, this video made me laugh.

Here’s a tip for the ICE chads hiding their faces- if you’re zip tying children’s hands you’re not the fcking good guy.

Cities with a higher violent crime rate than Chicago: Houston Dallas Lubbock Amarillo San Antonio Corpus Christi

“…we are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be.” Kevin Roberts president, Heritage Foundation, July 2024

The “enemy from within” is Trump. The “violent extremists” are Trump lackeys who have turned ICE into fascistic shock troops. In response to Trump’s brutal, racist, and unconstitutional campaign of terror the country must mobilize collectively. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

The moderates should be organizing to stop the fascists, not to do PR for “common ground”. No one, not GOP, not voters, not Merrick Garland will reward what “moderate” D Senators are doing. Take your Neville Chamberlain bobbleheads outside and grind them into dust on the pavement.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

We need to quit using “punish” to describe what Trump is doing. Trump isn’t “punishing” people because those people haven’t done anything wrong to be punished. Trump is terrorizing Americans. Trump is terrorizing Democrats. Use the correct language: Trump is a terrorist.

Wait, Tyler Cowen has been writing about how to find virgins since 2009 while he was a professor at George Mason University