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Raise your hand if you weren't stupid enough to believe this obvious lie: www.axios.com/2025/10/02/t...
Trump embraces Project 2025 after disavowing it during 2024 campaign
Trump said he's meeting with co-architect of Project 2025 Russ Vought despite denying any knowledge of it.
www.axios.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Raise your hand if you weren't stupid enough to believe this obvious lie: www.axios.com/2025/10/02/t...
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Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well.
www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
How "Free Speech Culture" Is Killing Free Speech: Part One
Blurring The Lines Between Official Censorship And Individual Criticism Built The Intellectual Foundation For Trump's Assault On Free Expression
www.popehat.com
September 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Breaking character: Ken White has a fantastic post about how "free speech culture" undermines free speech. It's something I've thought about a lot before, but Ken knows way more about it than I do and explains it really well.
www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
www.popehat.com/p/how-free-s...
So much this! I really think this is a symptom of seeing bikes as exercise equipment instead of transportation. No one would say you should have to pedal your car!
The problem of e-bikes/e-motos is one of their maximum speed and not the presence of a throttle.
September 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
So much this! I really think this is a symptom of seeing bikes as exercise equipment instead of transportation. No one would say you should have to pedal your car!
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In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements
Exposing vulnerable people to vaccine-preventable disease is just part of life, Ladapo said.
arstechnica.com
September 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
In win for infectious diseases, Florida to end all school vaccine requirements arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
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one of the most important technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with AI.
Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
August 30, 2025 at 9:14 PM
one of the most important technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with AI.
Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
Trump and his petrostate paymasters want to stop it but at best they'll succeed at costing Americans billions by leaving us slower to adopt it.
It was always bullshit.
It has been wild to see what were always the two most paranoid pro-Second Amendment scenarios—the government snatching people away and sending occupying armies into communities—literally happen this year, to the delight of conservatives
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 10:10 PM
It was always bullshit.
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This is a disgrace - the United States spitting on its own soldiers because they come from a minority the ruling clique holds in contempt. The people who made this decision have a special circle of hell waiting for them; liberals should fight to the bitter end to give these soldiers their due.
WASHINGTON (AP) - US Air Force says it will deny retirement pay to transgender service members being separated from the service.
August 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This is a disgrace - the United States spitting on its own soldiers because they come from a minority the ruling clique holds in contempt. The people who made this decision have a special circle of hell waiting for them; liberals should fight to the bitter end to give these soldiers their due.
For me, it's the "does this sound like Donald Trump" part.
Nothing sounds more Trump than this.
Nothing sounds more Trump than this.
July 18, 2025 at 1:02 AM
For me, it's the "does this sound like Donald Trump" part.
Nothing sounds more Trump than this.
Nothing sounds more Trump than this.
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Car buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/ year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Ugh. The megabill permanently killed commuter benefits for people who bike to work.
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
July 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Car buyers will now be allowed write off up to $10,000/ year in interest paid on qualifying auto loans
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Car drivers can still get over $3,500 in parking tax benefits too
But, bike commuters got their $240/year benefit cut
It's not about the budget, it's a preference & subsidy for people who drive
Just to make my position clear: starting a war with Iran is bad and we shouldn't do it.
June 22, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Just to make my position clear: starting a war with Iran is bad and we shouldn't do it.
I just remembered that Trump is a draft dodger. And he just started another war. JFC!
June 22, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I just remembered that Trump is a draft dodger. And he just started another war. JFC!
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This aged like warm milk
June 22, 2025 at 12:15 AM
This aged like warm milk
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This isn't mentioned in the piece but there's also a worker safety angle. Many postal service trucks don't have air conditioning these do
June 21, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This isn't mentioned in the piece but there's also a worker safety angle. Many postal service trucks don't have air conditioning these do
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YOU ALL WE ARE NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO BUILDING MORE APARTMENTS NEXT TO EXISTING TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA!
HOUSING ADVOCACY MATTERS!
HOUSING ADVOCACY MATTERS!
June 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
YOU ALL WE ARE NOW ONE STEP CLOSER TO BUILDING MORE APARTMENTS NEXT TO EXISTING TRANSIT STATIONS IN CALIFORNIA!
HOUSING ADVOCACY MATTERS!
HOUSING ADVOCACY MATTERS!
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Wow, a comment on HN I actually agree with!
May 28, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wow, a comment on HN I actually agree with!
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I honestly think a big turning point was Bitcoin, where.... I understood what Bitcoin was. I understood why it wasn't useful as a currency, I understood why it wasn't useful as an investment, I didn't buy Bitcoin. And I sat in rooms with people who didn't understand what it was, who bought it
It’s weird to live in a time when basic principles like cruelty is wrong, cheating is empty & the idea that curiosity, generosity, originality, the satisfaction of earned accomplishments & loving intimacy are the center of a good life feel like countercultural concepts
May 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I honestly think a big turning point was Bitcoin, where.... I understood what Bitcoin was. I understood why it wasn't useful as a currency, I understood why it wasn't useful as an investment, I didn't buy Bitcoin. And I sat in rooms with people who didn't understand what it was, who bought it
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Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
To see why destroying the US science enterprise is so detrimental to the world, we have to realize that the US spends more on research and development than any other country in the world (by far), and if we remove China and Japan, the US spends almost as much as ALL other countries combined.
May 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.
Honestly, why still at Pope? Trump should just declare himself God
May 3, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Honestly, why still at Pope? Trump should just declare himself God
This was always so obvious last year. This was why I was so skeptical of the who "Techno Optimist Manifesto". The purpoted goals were so at odds with the politics.
www.vox.com/technology/4...
www.vox.com/technology/4...
Silicon Valley got Trump completely wrong
The tech right’s collapsing case for the Trump presidency.
www.vox.com
April 18, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This was always so obvious last year. This was why I was so skeptical of the who "Techno Optimist Manifesto". The purpoted goals were so at odds with the politics.
www.vox.com/technology/4...
www.vox.com/technology/4...
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@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cory Booker breaks the record for longest Senate speech, previously held by segregationist Strom Thurmond.
April 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
@booker.senate.gov dismantles a Confederate monument.
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One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
One thing that's really going to annoy me in like 6 months will be the flood of "Trump cut all these programs and the government seems to still be working fine!" op-eds that Very Smart Pundits will write, completely omitting how many people were hurt by the cuts.
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It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
March 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
It's also the day for my favorite meme!
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.
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We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.
They just cut $20M of pancreatic cancer research from DoD. Who the hell could be thinking they won’t be targeted?
March 26, 2025 at 4:45 PM
We are in the midst of what many consider the most promising pancreatic cancer cure research in decades. This is literally joining the War on Cancer on the side of cancer. It's happening in multiple departments. They're also attacking mRNA fax science which is the heart of the possible breakthrough.