@bestmimi.bsky.social
Restaurant career in my rear view mirror. Well intentioned but clumsy.
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It’s stupidly damaging and a complete intended distraction from their grotesque tax giveaway, robbing the poor and young to pay the rich and old. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling international students | CNN
The Trump administration on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students, marking a sharp escalation in the battle over the Ivy League school’s autonomy in the face o...
www.cnn.com
May 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
It’s stupidly damaging and a complete intended distraction from their grotesque tax giveaway, robbing the poor and young to pay the rich and old. www.cnn.com/2025/05/22/u...
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After ProPublica’s @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social was diagnosed with cancer, he set out to understand why a single pill of his medication costs the same as a new iPhone.
David's covered high drug prices for years, but what he discovered shocked even him.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
David's covered high drug prices for years, but what he discovered shocked even him.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
Cancer Drug Revlimid Saves Lives — but Costs a Fortune. I Wanted to Know Why.
YouTube video by ProPublica
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM
After ProPublica’s @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social was diagnosed with cancer, he set out to understand why a single pill of his medication costs the same as a new iPhone.
David's covered high drug prices for years, but what he discovered shocked even him.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
David's covered high drug prices for years, but what he discovered shocked even him.
📽️: @josesepulveda.bsky.social
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REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
May 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
REPORTER: On the president's dinner tonight, will the White House commit to making a list of the attendees public so people can see who's paying for that kind of access to the president?
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
LEAVITT: The president is attending it in his personal time
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just a bunch of guys wearing different variations of the spirit halloween "pedophile kidnapper" costume
Here's a picture that a @kuow.org photographer took in Seattle yesterday, showing the ICE officers masked up in the hallways as they waited to arrest people coming out of their hearings.
May 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
just a bunch of guys wearing different variations of the spirit halloween "pedophile kidnapper" costume
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I agree. I’ve been trying to explain how this push “against antisemitism” is opposite of how it sounds. They’re killing 2 birds with 1 stone. While “supporting” Jewish people, they’re stoking animosity b/w the 2 groups & more hatred of Jews. Look at some comments on this thread cursing Israelis.
May 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
I agree. I’ve been trying to explain how this push “against antisemitism” is opposite of how it sounds. They’re killing 2 birds with 1 stone. While “supporting” Jewish people, they’re stoking animosity b/w the 2 groups & more hatred of Jews. Look at some comments on this thread cursing Israelis.
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If anyone has cognitive issues, it’s the man who thinks Joe Biden has “stage 9 cancer” and runs around telling everyone how he passed a cognitive test by remembering “person, man, TV.”
May 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
If anyone has cognitive issues, it’s the man who thinks Joe Biden has “stage 9 cancer” and runs around telling everyone how he passed a cognitive test by remembering “person, man, TV.”
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This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement
www.nytimes.com
May 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
This is a must-read: The Trump administration's use of anti-semitism to attack immigrants and higher education mirrors plans by a group of Christian nationalists in the Heritage Foundation (which produced Project 2025). 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...
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8. Laziness in the professional and intellectual classes on the Right. I've warned about this for YEARS.
"Oh you don't like The Atlantic or The New Yorker? Fine, *you* pick up the phone and do gumshoe reporting like they do!"
But no, the young Right all want to be the next loudmouth.
"Oh you don't like The Atlantic or The New Yorker? Fine, *you* pick up the phone and do gumshoe reporting like they do!"
But no, the young Right all want to be the next loudmouth.
May 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
8. Laziness in the professional and intellectual classes on the Right. I've warned about this for YEARS.
"Oh you don't like The Atlantic or The New Yorker? Fine, *you* pick up the phone and do gumshoe reporting like they do!"
But no, the young Right all want to be the next loudmouth.
"Oh you don't like The Atlantic or The New Yorker? Fine, *you* pick up the phone and do gumshoe reporting like they do!"
But no, the young Right all want to be the next loudmouth.
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Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
May 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Allow me to address the elephant in the room: The decades-long outsourcing of domestic manufacturing to China was not an insidious Chinese conspiracy for dominance but the greedy strategy of the American ruling class to explode its profit margins by exploiting global inequality.
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For those who don't know offhand, the $207 million that the National Endowment of the Arts got last year was less than 0.003 percent of federal spending www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a... It's about 1.0 percent of Elon's SpaceX and Starlink contracts, though.
Trump Seeks to Eliminate the NEA
The president’s budget proposal also called for getting rid of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
www.nytimes.com
May 3, 2025 at 1:08 PM
For those who don't know offhand, the $207 million that the National Endowment of the Arts got last year was less than 0.003 percent of federal spending www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/a... It's about 1.0 percent of Elon's SpaceX and Starlink contracts, though.
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Very informative chart from Washington Post
April 11, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Very informative chart from Washington Post
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Please … clap?
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Please … clap?
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I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
NIH scientists have a cancer breakthrough. Layoffs are delaying it.
A big step forward in cancer therapy has been slowed by layoffs and new restrictions at the National Institutes of Health, where it was developed.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 7, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I would be making a big deal out of this if I were an elected Democrat
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I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
April 6, 2025 at 1:39 PM
I scanned dozens of newspapers from around the U.S. & world. On average, international newspapers cover the widespread protests against Trump/Musk and for democracy much more prominently on their covers than those in the U.S.
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
This isn’t due to deadlines, protests were daytime in the U.S. #handsoff
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Extortion is a booming business
April 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Extortion is a booming business
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I’m not saying Trump is a Russian asset trying to destroy America from the inside, I’m simply saying if he was, it would look exactly like this.
April 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
I’m not saying Trump is a Russian asset trying to destroy America from the inside, I’m simply saying if he was, it would look exactly like this.
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Not everyone at Skadden welcomed their preemptive deal with the White House. Meet now former partner Brenna Trout Frey, who refused to be complicit in the exploitation of her firm to settle scores and erode the rule of law.
March 29, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Not everyone at Skadden welcomed their preemptive deal with the White House. Meet now former partner Brenna Trout Frey, who refused to be complicit in the exploitation of her firm to settle scores and erode the rule of law.
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Keep talking about Signalgate.
Give them no peace.
Give them no peace.
March 27, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Keep talking about Signalgate.
Give them no peace.
Give them no peace.
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It took the Trump administration 63 days to have a major national security breach become public news.
Imagine what we don't know about.
Imagine what we don't know about.
March 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
It took the Trump administration 63 days to have a major national security breach become public news.
Imagine what we don't know about.
Imagine what we don't know about.
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"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
"IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA"
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
"in about eight weeks DOGE managed to lose the U.S. government — more or less light on fire — more than half of what goes to all non-defense discretionary spending..."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
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A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst
The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
www.theguardian.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is Bondi going to prosecute this guy federally as a domestic terrorist?
March 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Is Bondi going to prosecute this guy federally as a domestic terrorist?
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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...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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...
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So our government leaders respond to air strikes in which they kill 53 people with fire and American flags emojis? How mature
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...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
So our government leaders respond to air strikes in which they kill 53 people with fire and American flags emojis? How mature