Come for @justinwolfers.bsky.social youtu.be/vDhQokqp3Yk?...

Understandable. Fascism is part of totalitarianism, which is part of authoritarianism. Think of it like Family/Genus/Species in biology: Family - Authoritarian Genus - Totalitarian Species - Fascist Getting the Family right and Species wrong is the difference between a tiger and a house cat!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Cutting NASA's workforce by about 10 percent. That's a boost to the Chinese and Russians. And the guy in charge of SpaceX made this decision? That's a total conflict of interest. Moreover, firing all probationary employees shows they're not serious about evaluating programs. It's a machine gun.

This:

Elon Musk just wants to DOGE all accountability.

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

The definition of insanity is putting a guy with six bankruptcies in charge of the country and expecting different results.

That’s such an “awkward gesture.”

What's the difference between Turnip and Greenland?