Because we all know that "higher prices and reduced consumer choice" kills WAY more people than polluted air and scorching temperatures.
Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Because we all know that "higher prices and reduced consumer choice" kills WAY more people than polluted air and scorching temperatures.
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The part of the film where the villain admits to his whole plan without realizing he's being recorded, only here that's the whole idea.
Trump coaches Republicans to say “Obama cheated on the election” every time they’re asked about Epstein
July 23, 2025 at 1:10 AM
The part of the film where the villain admits to his whole plan without realizing he's being recorded, only here that's the whole idea.
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whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
July 23, 2025 at 1:31 AM
whatever else republican house speaker mike johnson (and the congressional republicans who serve under him) ever do in this life, this headline will last forever and ever, for their whole blessed lives.
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
(gift link, no paywall)
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/u...
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When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
July 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Science and Democracy Under Siege
Documenting Six Months of the Trump Administration’s Destructive Actions
www.ucs.org
July 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
We are six months into the second Trump administration and the scale and severity of its assault on our nation's science and democracy has been unrelenting.
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
Today, @ucs.org releases a detailed assessment of the damage so far and where we go from here: www.ucs.org/resources/sc... #ProtectScience
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There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.
Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.
zurl.co/YBGNy
‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines
Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall
zurl.co
July 14, 2025 at 11:08 PM
There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem
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" How does the president get out of this mess?" It's completely bizarre and amoral that this is the question the Washington Post talking heads are asking. Are they his lawyers? His press team?
July 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
" How does the president get out of this mess?" It's completely bizarre and amoral that this is the question the Washington Post talking heads are asking. Are they his lawyers? His press team?
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It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
Please Shout Fire. This Theater Is Burning
The United States is being destroyed from within, and mainstream journalism isn't making that clear. When I was a kid, there was a popular phrase--"what if they had a war and no one came?" What if we ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
July 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's when you assemble the whole picture that you have to raise the question if the intention is to destroy this country and whether this country is in fact being destroyed.
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July 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.
And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
July 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like.
And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie
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It is a crisis.
🚨BREAKING: Cal State LA just moved classes online and let faculty work remotely, not for a storm, not for COVID, but because ICE is in the area.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
Let that sink in, an entire university is treating immigration enforcement like a public health crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 1:40 AM
It is a crisis.
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They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
July 12, 2025 at 12:48 AM
They fired the people answering calls for help. Hundreds of them. During the crisis.
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Really would love to see how much time Noem spent on or preparing to be on television over the last week versus time spent doing the job.
FEMA didn’t answer thousands of phone calls after the Texas floods because it had fired call center contractors.
Noem’s Slow Flood Response Caused Tons of Missed FEMA Calls
Kristi Noem reportedly waited five whole days to renew the contracts of call center staffers.
trib.al
July 12, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Really would love to see how much time Noem spent on or preparing to be on television over the last week versus time spent doing the job.
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If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
July 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
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I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
July 9, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I encourage everyone to read this letter.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
Please then realize the president is imposing a tax on American consumers to leverage a foreign nation into making a domestic political decision that will help one of his political allies.
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No lies told here.
July 10, 2025 at 12:36 AM
No lies told here.
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Trump is issuing tariffs under a faux emergency decree concerning US trade deficits (which have existed since the 1970s). But the US has a trade surplus with Brazil. How can Trump possibly justify these tariffs before the courts? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Trump announces 50 percent tariff on Brazil, citing Bolsonaro trial
Trump announced a 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian goods, escalating a feud over Brazil’s prosecution of former president Jair Bolsonaro. Brazil vowed to retaliate.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 10, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Trump is issuing tariffs under a faux emergency decree concerning US trade deficits (which have existed since the 1970s). But the US has a trade surplus with Brazil. How can Trump possibly justify these tariffs before the courts? www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?
July 10, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Trump writes one of the most unhinged letters ever produced by an American president, demanding the right to interfere with Brazil’s case against Bolsinaro and threatening huge tariffs if they don’t let him walk free, and this your lede?
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Pointing it out.
Shouting it out.
Outing it as a violation.
It matters.
Don’t let it slink by.
That’s the road to normalization.
Shouting it out.
Outing it as a violation.
It matters.
Don’t let it slink by.
That’s the road to normalization.
This is happening now. White supremacy is rising, not falling. I do what I do here, but I also fight it everywhere else, using money or influence, whatever I have to change minds or fund resistance.
This isn't just porn. The klan is marching, nazis are open, they are recruiting young white men.
This isn't just porn. The klan is marching, nazis are open, they are recruiting young white men.
Not one minor or major outlet has reported that the white supremacist militia Patriot Front marched through downtown Louisville on July 5th.
Masked.
Coordinated.
Proud.
This silence is dangerous. We cannot allow racist extremists to feel emboldened—or ignored. Shine the damn light.
Masked.
Coordinated.
Proud.
This silence is dangerous. We cannot allow racist extremists to feel emboldened—or ignored. Shine the damn light.
July 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Pointing it out.
Shouting it out.
Outing it as a violation.
It matters.
Don’t let it slink by.
That’s the road to normalization.
Shouting it out.
Outing it as a violation.
It matters.
Don’t let it slink by.
That’s the road to normalization.
Their stupidity is truly colossal.
After media reports & experts warned for months that drastic & sudden cuts at the Nat Weather Service by Trump could impair their forecasting ability & endanger lives during the storm season, TX officials blame an inaccurate forecast by NWS for the deadly results of the flood.
July 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Their stupidity is truly colossal.
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A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
www.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A video about the Declaration of Independence. I'm proud of this one.
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“Republicans killed health care.” Don’t over complicate it.
July 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
“Republicans killed health care.” Don’t over complicate it.
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It's up to us to make sure everyone knows they won't feel the bad stuff for a couple years, specifically because Republicans planned it that way so people will think the bill was good and vote for them again. Warn people it's coming.
The ugly cuts to Medicare and support programs don't come until 2026 and we know why. Between now and then Trump will continue to lie about it, and it won't hit home until after the election.
Dems will continue to predict that the sky is falling, soon. And everyone will write it off as politics.
Dems will continue to predict that the sky is falling, soon. And everyone will write it off as politics.
July 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
It's up to us to make sure everyone knows they won't feel the bad stuff for a couple years, specifically because Republicans planned it that way so people will think the bill was good and vote for them again. Warn people it's coming.
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Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.
June 27, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Brilliant. 10/10. No notes.