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It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
May 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
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Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter
Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.
www.reuters.com
April 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Oh hell yeah the best microbiology thread in the history of social media is on here (and it’s by the guy who made the Xbox)
I’m in England, in a field of Barley. Today, I’m going to collect wild yeast under that tree back there, and I’m going to show how to feed and grow it until it’s ready to bake with. We are going to start at the very beginning, and end at the end.
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
(this is an experiment in thread transfer)
April 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Oh hell yeah the best microbiology thread in the history of social media is on here (and it’s by the guy who made the Xbox)
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Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
America’s Future Is Hungary
MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"
![Contrary to the Government’s position, “upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.” Giovani Carandola, Ltd. v. Bason, 303 F.3d 507, 521 (4th Cir. 2002); Nken, 556 U.S. at 436 (“[T]here is a public interest in preventing [non-citizens] from being wrongfully removed, particularly to countries where they are likely to face substantial harm.”). This is the exact situation the Government has placed Abrego Garcia in. An IJ has already determined that Abrego Garcia was entitled to withholding of removal to El Salvador because he was likely to face persecution there. But the Government removed him anyway. The irreparable harm in this case is the harm being done to Abrego Garcia every minute he is in El Salvador. And the public interest undoubtedly favors requiring the Government to facilitate and effectuate his return to the United States.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gqbrsb2cdeaz5ybuo3kk7vs7/bafkreifkhexumgjq76znpxp6k6uxpkd4f7wiy6ctfnoxmh5qhs6go5i6ly@jpeg)
April 7, 2025 at 3:34 PM
What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"
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WEDBUSH: “.. We have spoken to hundreds of investors, tech CEOs, supply chain experts around the world this week ..
“.. In a nutshell, if these tariffs (in current form/rates) hold there is no debate .. it would set the US tech world back a decade in our opinion while China is the clear winner.”
“.. In a nutshell, if these tariffs (in current form/rates) hold there is no debate .. it would set the US tech world back a decade in our opinion while China is the clear winner.”
April 5, 2025 at 4:55 PM
WEDBUSH: “.. We have spoken to hundreds of investors, tech CEOs, supply chain experts around the world this week ..
“.. In a nutshell, if these tariffs (in current form/rates) hold there is no debate .. it would set the US tech world back a decade in our opinion while China is the clear winner.”
“.. In a nutshell, if these tariffs (in current form/rates) hold there is no debate .. it would set the US tech world back a decade in our opinion while China is the clear winner.”
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ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
April 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.
It's the third highest monthly total on record.
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“how turbulent the time of tariffs was – the Panic of 1873, "Long Depression" from 1873-1879, another Depression from 1882-1885, two recessions in 1887-1888 and 1890-1891, the Panic of 1893, the Panic of 1896, two more recessions in 1899-1900 & 1902-1904, the Panic of 1907, the Panic of 1910, etc.”
Trump is still pushing an unhinged fiction about the "glory days" of American protective tariffs, so I'll repost this CAMPAIGN TRAILS piece from last month:
campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/
campaign-trails.ghost.io/tarri/
Tariffied
As part of its ongoing crusade to roll back the clock and return America to some mythical golden age, the Trump-Musk administration has just launched a new wave of tariffs against China, Canada and Me...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
April 3, 2025 at 12:24 PM
“how turbulent the time of tariffs was – the Panic of 1873, "Long Depression" from 1873-1879, another Depression from 1882-1885, two recessions in 1887-1888 and 1890-1891, the Panic of 1893, the Panic of 1896, two more recessions in 1899-1900 & 1902-1904, the Panic of 1907, the Panic of 1910, etc.”
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Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
Friendly reminder:
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
Due process is how we can be sure the people Miller and his henchmen are removing are legally subject to removal in the first place.
April 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.
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Thank you ! Are you going to overlay any other agencies and their cuts ?
Thank you for sharing news of our initiative... we are an interdisciplinary team of researchers from U of Maryland, UPenn, and Georgia Tech + more whose aim is to communicate the impacts of federal cuts on science and health research nationwide. Full explainer thread here:
bsky.app/profile/josh...
bsky.app/profile/josh...
March 30, 2025 at 1:24 AM
Thank you ! Are you going to overlay any other agencies and their cuts ?
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Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
March 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.
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A reminder, as Trump, Rubio, Hogan, Noem, and Co. terrorize international students, that students from abroad reduce the costs of college for US students. Or at least they used to.
March 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A reminder, as Trump, Rubio, Hogan, Noem, and Co. terrorize international students, that students from abroad reduce the costs of college for US students. Or at least they used to.
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Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."
March 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."
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It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
March 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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These are the states that will suffer most from Trump’s executive order to gut the Department of Education?
Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.
Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.
March 20, 2025 at 9:48 PM
These are the states that will suffer most from Trump’s executive order to gut the Department of Education?
Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.
Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.
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Trump shilling Teslas at the White House and Cabinet Secretaries trying to boost Tesla stock are the strongest signal we have seen that Elon Musk is very worried about the Tesla protests.
On Jesse Watters’ show, Howard Lutnick, the U.S. Secretary of Commerce, tells viewers they should buy Tesla stock.
“I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It’s unbelievable that this guy’s stock is this cheap. It’ll never be this cheap again.”
“I think if you want to learn something on this show tonight, buy Tesla. It’s unbelievable that this guy’s stock is this cheap. It’ll never be this cheap again.”
March 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Trump shilling Teslas at the White House and Cabinet Secretaries trying to boost Tesla stock are the strongest signal we have seen that Elon Musk is very worried about the Tesla protests.
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
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"Listen, I’d love it if we could create a society that worked perfectly for everyone, but that’s not the reality we live in. In real life, you have to make choices—choices that lead to terrible outcomes for everyone."
It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking
“Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions that ‘we are going to boom like we have never boomed before,’ that the ...
www.mcsweeneys.net
March 14, 2025 at 1:20 AM
"Listen, I’d love it if we could create a society that worked perfectly for everyone, but that’s not the reality we live in. In real life, you have to make choices—choices that lead to terrible outcomes for everyone."
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In news that will surprise absolutely no one: New research confirms that states with abortion bans are losing OB-GYNs.
Post-Dobbs Changes in OBGYN Clinical Workforce
This case-control study compares the availability of women’s health care clinicians in states that enacted highly restrictive abortion policy after the Dobbs Supreme Court decision vs states that esta...
jamanetwork.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In news that will surprise absolutely no one: New research confirms that states with abortion bans are losing OB-GYNs.
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There is approximately zero chance this is even in the same zip code of the ballpark of true.
Elon Musk says "10% of federal expenditures" are due to people having fake Social Security numbers, claiming it is "half a trillion dollars."
March 10, 2025 at 8:59 PM
There is approximately zero chance this is even in the same zip code of the ballpark of true.
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Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.
March 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.
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The one thing that financial and product markets around the world can be certain of, thanks to Donald Trump, is greater uncertainty.
We’ll see how that goes.
We’ll see how that goes.
March 5, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The one thing that financial and product markets around the world can be certain of, thanks to Donald Trump, is greater uncertainty.
We’ll see how that goes.
We’ll see how that goes.
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The people who were warning you 8+ years ago were right therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning
The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.
therecord.media
March 1, 2025 at 7:07 AM
The people who were warning you 8+ years ago were right therecord.media/hegseth-orde...
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This is sadly true. America ceded the mantle with unthinkable disgrace.
“European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said: ‘Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.’”
‘Free world needs a new leader’: Europe defends Zelenskyy after Trump attack
France, Germany and Poland all make prompt declarations of support as Europe fears Trump’s alignment with Putin.
www.politico.eu
March 1, 2025 at 2:08 AM
This is sadly true. America ceded the mantle with unthinkable disgrace.
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Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
Trump has not uttered a critical word about Putin but he and his VP publicly belittled the leader of the nation Putin invaded.
February 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.