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White Nationalism is so pathetic and immediately an indicator of microscopic horizons. We live on a rock in space with animals and humans in a vast universe of unfathomable age. Wrapping yourself in the flag and people who look like you is the same developmental rung as a pacifier and blankie
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
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In exchange for a Rods from God outpost to point at non-NASA habs
CIA to assure additional 50% prop margin for Gateway in order to extend American presence in NRHO for 30 years 🇺🇸
Thief warns of 'embarrassment' if burglary ruled illegal
remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature
We came out on the other side of a pandemic with a miracle vaccine and the potential for more, the other side of a potential economic crisis with cooled off inflation and low unemployment, and we collectively decided nobody had ever had it worse and this needed to change.
Again: They never, ever wanted 'small government.' They merely loathed the idea of a government doing things to benefit the people they hate. They love the idea of a government dedicated to pummeling the people they hate.
One thing all aspiring fascist dictators do is convince themselves that the people *want* a dictator, that they're tired of the slowness & frustration of normal politics & demand cleansing violence.
Americans paid a record $30B (or $360B annualized) in tariffs this month, as the costs of Trump's trade war continue to escalate. Tariff revenues are now up more than 230% from this time last year and still rising.
Sure the president is doing illegal military occupations of American cities and floating dictatorship trial balloons but the real problem is Democrats using terms like “existential threat to democracy”
It's a presumptive fiction they make up within themselves because they're scared of being out of control and narcissistically impose their feelings of discomfort onto everyone else.
The point of conservatism is to defend the existing order within society, especially from challenges based upon abstract rights derived from reason which, per thinkers like Burke, are less sound and more unstable than established traditions and prejudices. That's the whole thing.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
It’s about racism and pretending it’s not about racism will not magically erase the racism
Yeah...
Not defending the choice, but TX Dems claim they'll file suit post passage and need lead time for the case to make it thru the courts in time for maps to be struck down with enough notice to not violate SCOTUS' Purcell principle about preventing courts from striking down maps close to an election
Americans are currently living under a government that rules outside the law and in defiance of the Constitution. That's it, that's the whole thing
the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered…Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” - 1984, George Orwell
The murder of America's world-best higher education sector--a leading export good of the US economy--continues under this lawless autocratic regime, and gets worse
New study on scientific understanding in the US: Vaccines have mostly been a benefit to human health 69% Agree 20% Unsure 11% Disagree
Full on authoritarianism on every front in Texas: -Stealing five seats to help Trump rig midterms -Threatening to arrest/expel democratically elected reps opposing election rigging -Weaponizing federal law enforcement to illegally target elected reps -SCOTUS preparing to kill Voting Rights Act
I can't think of a better illustration of the argument that law enforcement in America is not about enforcing the law but enforcing the will of those with the most power.
They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison
mRNA vaccines are so close to magic as to be basically indistinguishable, and the administration is stopping them because they worship death.
Trump got 56% of the vote in Texas, less than Romney, GW Bush, Reagan & Nixon, but his mid-decade gerrymandering plan would give Republicans nearly 80% of Texas's seats
Exploring new horizons of entitlement.
Anyway, for me, the vision is something like this: America should be a society that works to fulfill the promise of democracy — we should have the agency to live at our own direction. Not as victims of circumstance or under the thumb of the wealthy and powerful. Our lives are our own.
Man who shut down the largest collective effort by America to help the most vulnerable people in the world, condemning millions to death, suggests that his businesses will save them donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...
Here are prez #s for 2024 & 2020 for the five targeted D seats, plus the GOP's two most at-risk seats As I say, it's possible the GOP fails to flip some targets, esp. looking at 2020 #s (#TX28 gets a bit bluer by that metric!). But their two most vulnerable seats barely budge under either set of #s
The guy who stole people was my very good close friend until he stole one of my own personal people and then I said to him, I said, hey, listen,
$1.26 BILLION off of human misery.
comedy is legal again, folks!
NEW: Hundreds of NASA employees have filed a letter of formal dissent. "We are compelled to speak up when our leadership prioritizes political momentum over human safety, scientific advancement, and efficient use of public resources. The consequences for the agency and the country alike are dire."
The first redistricting proposals for TX are in. This is what cracking and packing looks like. This is an intensive gerrymander. See how the districts spiral in fingers into the cities. Lizzie Fletcher's district TX7 becomes almost entirely rural.
What seemed to draw Trump to the soon-to-be-infamous child sex trafficker was the children and the sex trafficking.
As Texas seems prepared to mess with the boundaries of 3 congressional districts located wholly or mostly in Harris County, here's a look at population changes since the 2020 census. The county has added an astonishing 280k people - all of it from Latino, Black, and Asian communities. #txlege
"Because reactionary centrists do not really have values, they struggle to understand the motivations of those who do." www.thebulwark.com/p/when-moder...
@jodemocracy.bsky.social's most recent edition has two essential reads for Americans in this moment of authoritarian takeover of our government. They are about what it takes to return to democratic government after authoritarian rule. Both seem to be free... muse.jhu.edu/issue/55125
64% of Medicaid recipients under age 65 work, per KFF. As for the rest, see below. There are not 34m potential agricultural workers on Medicaid just raring to go pick vegetables.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
On days like this I find it so hard to reconcile our human actions with the almost impossible odds that we exist at all. I wish we treasured and valued each other. I wish we realized there’s more than enough for everyone. That we belong to each other, we need each other. That we are all we have.
STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
I genuinely believe the only way we smash fascism is if the next Democratic administration is willing to use prosecutions and investigations in aggressive and norm-bending ways that make a lot of bien pensant legal academics extremely uncomfortable.
$45 billion for ethnic cleansing
Just a quick reminder of what the United States Senate is about to vote to spend $45 billion of our tax dollars to build more of:
🚫 What’s being cut: – NIH: –$19.5B – CDC: –$4B – Cancer research: –$3.1B – SNAP: –$30B – Education: –$12B 💰 What’s being funded: – ICE detention: +$45B – Tax cuts for the wealthy: +$4.5T over 10 years This is the trade.
NASA is being told to cancel 19 *active* missions to save $6B, which looks to be less than the ICE *hiring/retention* budget going forward. I need people to let that sentence sink into their bones for a minute.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029: - $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion - $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million - $8 billion for hiring/retention - Billions more.
Every American who cares about democracy will want to spend some disconcerting moments with this.
This really is Congress eating its own institutional capacity to stifle any dissent to Trump. They accuse CBO of being Democrats, even though it is run by a Republican appointee. GAO has pointed out the illegality of impoundment. DOGE tried to take over GAO, and now House Republicans want to gut it.
according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return
War is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, etc.
NEW: Data shows that as of June 15, fully 30% of all people arrested by ICE and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. 11,763 people in detention as of last Sunday had no criminal record and were arrested inside the country by ICE -- an increase of 4,000 people in two weeks!
a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends
Start yelling "debate me" at him on X
Trump’s federal government imposing collective punishment on US cities because their citizens and residents exercised their constitutionally protected right to free speech. Pure dictator behavior, anti-constitutional, and abhorrent to the entire US system
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
Houston NO KINGS
1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. The anti-Robin Hood.
They're cutting Medicaid to pay for soldiers to terrorize an American city.
Based on some quick math, this alone could fund the NSF Plant Genome Research Program for ~4 years; the NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology, which was totally axed in the NSF budget request, for ~9 years; and ~ half the total NSF GRFP budget
As of June 1, nearly 25% of the people arrested by ICE in the interior and sent to detention had NO CRIMINAL RECORD. Data from the last six years, including 1.5 years of Trump's first term, reveals how this is completely unprecedented. It also helps explain the growing backlash.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
Maybe we shouldn't get into a situation where one guy can threaten the entire U.S. space program because the president wrote a mean tweet about him. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
So let me get this straight, in the span of two days, federal agents blocked a reporter from accessing public immigration courts, barged into a congressman’s office and arrested a staff member for trying to block them, and raided a restaurant in military gear, tossing flashbangs, to arrest workers?
Doubling steel & aluminum tariffs increases overall US tariff rates by roughly 1.4%, meaning Trump will have more than septupled tariffs since he took office It also means Trump won't break his record for longest period without changing tariffs, which is still only 28 days😭
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
Our experiences over the past 3 years suggest it may be valuable to understand these attacks on science as extensions of the Big Lie (of election fraud), Covid denialism, & Jim Crow 2.0 — part of a collective effort to bend reality, science & values to align with the central fantasies of Trumpism.
The notion that private institutions need to toe the party line is so fundamentally un-American it is almost unbelievable
It is all so exhausting. But do not give up friends. www.liberalcurrents.com/youre-not-cr...
Censorship: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
They unlocked the doors, turned off all the alarms, dismantled the guardrails, fired the watchers, and have damaged or removed endless safeguards across the spectra of our daily existence. All so, presumably, the rich get richer, and Trump doesn't have his feelings hurt with "bad news."
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
Trump/Musk and the entire GOP has spent the last four months systematically liquidating disease cure research in the United States. Lots of critical cure studies shuttered mid-way through. Research shutdown everywhere. It's all hands on deck to prevent new treatments for cancer, ahlzeimers etc.
that’s deliberately degraded food and drug safety regulations, air traffic control systems, and the security of personal data held by the govt, that’s crusading against America’s world-beating university system, that’s trying to obtain territorial concessions from our longtime military allies, …
…, that’s encouraging a completely avoidable measles epidemic, that’s tearing the guts out of scientific research nationwide, that’s inaugurating a golden age for predatory lenders and financial scammers, that’s deliberately destroying NATO, that’s wholesale abandoning climate change policy,…
We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden
Excellent NYT graphic. In the space of about 3 months, tariffs on China: -- doubled; -- went up ≈ 2.5X from there; -- roughly doubled again; -- went up ≈ 40% from there; -- and now have dropped ≈ 80% from the peak -- but are still 3X what they were in February. www.nytimes.com/article/trum...
Why are Dems—champions of every major policy advance since the New Deal—so deeply wedded to status-quo, poll-tested politics? The answer lies in Stafford Beers' 5-level Viable Systems Model: They lack Systems 4 & 5 dealing with future coordinating it with present. 1/25 www.salon.com/2025/05/10/w...
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
The efficiency lovers destroying efficiency, in the name of efficiency.
This is not a science budget. This is a massacre. thebridge.agu.org/2025/05/05/t...
kidnapping a guy and shipping him off to another country and then paying that country to declare the guy guilty of a crime you didn’t charge him with so they can keep him in a torture cell is obviously extremely illegal
Have yet to see evidence of SpX developing surface exploration suits, habitats, mobility assets, comm infrastructure as is being done within EHP and HLS programs
Reading between the lines, lunar surface exploration missions following Artemis III would have ConOps changes if this budget proposal gets passed, but aren't explicitly under budgetary threat. $7B for lunar exploration is in the proposal
In the past 12 hours, Trump has illegally defunded NPR and PBS, threatened to illegally take Harvard's non profit status away, offended every ally who were part of WWI and 2, did some trans bashing, and we have the NY Times over here telling us to be civil, and that Trump has some good points.
Papyrus font script is Un-American. This criminal deserves extrajudicial removal from this country until we can figure out who is doing gang tattoos in this style
So just to recap, the Transportation Secretary is scared shitless of public transport. The Education Secretary is being sued for enabling child sex abuse. The Health Secretary is bringing back measles. And the Defense Secretary is texting classified war plans to the editor in chief of the Atlantic
+ $160,000,000,000 The amount Musk claims to have cut. - $135,000,000,000 The costs of firing and re-hiring of federal employees. - $500,000,000,000 Lost tax revenues = $475,000,000,0000 cost to taxpayers for Musk's recreational giving babies HIV habit
Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:
We’re eliminating programs that save millions of people from disease And ending a lot of research that has cured diseases and will cure more Because we need to funnel resources into AI Because someday it may be able to figure out cures for disease Do I have that right?