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The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...
December 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The White House is promising to announce a new healthcare plan "very soon." We've heard that one before...
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
Dr Oz: "If you had a check in the mail, you could buy the insurance you thought was best for you"
November 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Before ACA, I regularly had patients who bought insurance they thought was "best for them". I've seen $50k annual max, $500k lifetime max, plans w/ no Rx coverage, plans *carving out* cancer treatment, plans that denied leukemia treatment because prior iron deficiency anemia was a pre-existing. /1
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Are people becoming worse, more casual drivers? It's hard to say, but the anecdotal evidence does seem strong. The fact that this abandonment of the life-and-death responsibility we all wield is echoed in our elite politics, in even more monstrous ways, suggests a common thread running throughout.
November 13, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Are people becoming worse, more casual drivers? It's hard to say, but the anecdotal evidence does seem strong. The fact that this abandonment of the life-and-death responsibility we all wield is echoed in our elite politics, in even more monstrous ways, suggests a common thread running throughout.
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What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
February 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.
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I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
Trump to impose $100,000 fee per year for H-1B visas, in blow to tech
The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.
www.reuters.com
September 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research.
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?
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Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.
September 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
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I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’
The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.
www.vulture.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...
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The trans partner of Tyler Robinson had no knowledge about it and was told to delete messages but didn't and instead turned them immediately over to the police and cooperated.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
September 16, 2025 at 8:12 PM
The trans partner of Tyler Robinson had no knowledge about it and was told to delete messages but didn't and instead turned them immediately over to the police and cooperated.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
Yet, the right is demonizing her and blame everything on trans people despite the trans person here doing the right thing.
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A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪
(by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)
(by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)
The Ozone Hole Is Steadily Shrinking because of Global Efforts
After nearly 40 years of global efforts, the ozone hole over Antarctica is continuing to heal
www.scientificamerican.com
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
A little bit of good news for you. And a reminder that we *can* solve big, global problems--when we want to. 🧪
(by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)
(by @meghanbartels.bsky.social)
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The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
September 15, 2025 at 2:43 PM
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
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This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
September 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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I’d like to live in a world where people saw one of the world’s richest men spewing some of the most vile rhetoric imaginable and simply stopped buying his products and services.
September 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
I’d like to live in a world where people saw one of the world’s richest men spewing some of the most vile rhetoric imaginable and simply stopped buying his products and services.
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I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed.
September 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I understand MAGA is insisting the signature isn't Trump's but the WSJ piece nicely shows how the signature matches other letters he signed.
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At 50 I'm acutely aware that I'll soon be the age of Rue McClanahan in Golden Girls (51), Wilford Brimley in a movie specifically about elderly men, Cocoon (also 51) and then the cranky old karate master in Karate Kid (Pat Morita was 52).
September 8, 2025 at 2:23 PM
At 50 I'm acutely aware that I'll soon be the age of Rue McClanahan in Golden Girls (51), Wilford Brimley in a movie specifically about elderly men, Cocoon (also 51) and then the cranky old karate master in Karate Kid (Pat Morita was 52).
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RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
September 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
In 1965:
-42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now.
-The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now.
-Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.
This this this this this this this.
There is no moral justification for today’s extraordinary concentration of wealth.
It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
It is distorting politics, rigging markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of our economy and our democracy.
September 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This this this this this this this.
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I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
September 1, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I hope you understand that if you show up at a hospital with an infection no one has ever seen before that the US had somewhere you could call. That place would answer, offer testing you can’t get anywhere else and come visit you to solve if necessary.
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An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
August 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.
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This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.
August 29, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is truly one of the best illustrations of what is happening in America.
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Just unbelievably stupid. I had no idea how dumb fascism would be when it came to America.
August 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Just unbelievably stupid. I had no idea how dumb fascism would be when it came to America.
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Yup, this is actually happening. MAHA is getting so, so close to sciencing.
August 11, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Yup, this is actually happening. MAHA is getting so, so close to sciencing.