Ignorance truly is bliss I guess. COVID really broke people's brains.
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Ignorance truly is bliss I guess. COVID really broke people's brains.
The market is much better off without irritated, impatient, tourist drivers in the middle of a crowded street.
Did some people really memory hole the part where 'long Covid' started showing up before the vaccines were even made because it is caused by ....... Covid?
Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.
Holy crap. These are officially licensed with proceeds going to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting! #PBSisPUNK twocrowcollective.com/collections/...
*Hyperbolic not helical.
The AI slop is pretty great, the 'Cascadian abundance' has a helical cooling tower just floating in the middle of the city which is pretty rad.
Even our careers will all die apparently. Good riddance.
Bartiromo doesn't know what a battery is I guess, or that we have ~50 years of oil left based on current reserves. So she hates renewables because Trump said so but I bet she is a NIMBY on nuclear power too, even though coal and gas plants actually kill thousands of people a year.
Is there a breakdown of (generally) what industries fit into each section, or was this just a yes/no/maybe survey? I am genuinely curious which ones are benefitting.
Nice, if depressing, article. I don't know how they can be blinkered about what is happening around them. These consultants they listen to are useless. I hope they can open their eyes but Schumer is always like Charlie Brown with the football, and never seems to learn.
He's 80, in a (supposedly) very high stress job, and he doesn't very good care of himself. I don't think he is about to keel over but he has been looking pretty rough these last few weeks. For a guy who is always in front of a camera somewhere, him not doing anything for a week is a little bit sus.
It's such a no-brainer political position to take right now, beyond it just being the (in my opinion) morally correct one to have overall. I hope he can pull it off, he seems like the real deal.
Vietnam and the whole group of 'French Indochina' colonies too.
I got a real LOL at the guy saying the French were never colonizers. Why does he think a huge chunk of Africa speaks French?
What the actual fuck is this? Replacing the food in the vending machines and lunches at schools with healthier options and encouraging people to get active even in small ways is not even close to the same as the ignorant quack telling people to drink raw milk and not get vaccinated.
you thought I was stupid, but in reality, you thinking that I was stupid means that the stupid one is actually you
Good news or bad news?
The do a bland corporate rebrand and blame DEI instead of the corporation. I don't know what rock these people have been living under, but every major chain has done this in the past 20 years. This is a product of Wall St. and private equity, not trans people.
$8T? Are they trying to claim that he has wiped out ~20% of the national debt in like 3 months? The North Korea comparison is getting more apt by the day.
Trump seems to have some sort of reality distortion field around him, I am genuinely curious if that credulousness extends to the rest of his party.
That is ..... an interesting coincidence
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Promise tariffs ⟶ faff around ⟶ announce tariffs ⟶ pause tariffs ⟶ promise deals ⟶ court rules tariffs illegal ⟶ appeal ⟶ court order stayed ⟶ make no deals ⟶ 90 days expires ⟶ delay tariffs again ⟶ announce tariffs again ⟶ appeals court rules tariffs illegal again ⟶ you are here
It has been far too long since Americans participated in their favorite global pastime; overthrowing foreign governments for their oil.
That's more than I spent in total on my Bachelor's.
The US and China are part of the ITER project so we already cooperate with them in some respects on fusion. Helion is a private company in WA state trying their own design that is very different from ITER.
Fusion plants will be zero emission power sources and they can't 'melt down' like fission reactors can as disruptions to the conditions for sustained fusion would just stop the reaction. Whether we should use that power for AI data centers instead of everyone else is another (valid) question.
I could honestly see him trying something like this, although maybe something less acrobatic.
*Commercial fusion plant
All the AI folks are banking on fusion breakthroughs. They recently started construction on the first 'commercial' in WA for Helion fusion with the goal of powering Microsoft data centers. Besides MS, the two biggest backers are Sam Altman and one of Peter Theil's companies, Mithril capital.
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Lego is no longer sending individual pieces to the U.S. due to Trump ending the de minimis exemption. This man ruins everything. www.404media.co/lego-stops-s...
Most Trump tariffs are not legal, US appeals court rules www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
As was expected, their IEEPA justification was fentanyl which was bullshit. Roberts and the Supreme Robes will probably come up with a reason to expand the president's power again when this is inevitably appealed though.
What a perfectly normal thing to put out millions of people. The weird label from Walz was far too generous.
Being correct ahead of time about so many things probably doesn't feel like much of a victory these days. Keep up the good work Waj.
I'm sure she's going to hop onto the board of some company or into an overly paid lobbyist position just like the rest of them do.
Their bread is buttered by fossil fuel money and they never had any intention of moving away from it. We could have phased out a ton of coal and oil plants and replaced them with nuclear reactors in the past 20 years which would have massively cut our emissions in the meantime.
Saw him do a long interview on the Majority Report and he seems like the real deal. I hope he can unseat Susan Collins.
Let me preface this by saying I don't like Elon and think SpaceX would be better without him but I'm interested in what the engineers there are trying to accomplish. That aside, the previous test that blew up on the pad was a static fire test of the engines that wasn't meant to go anywhere anyway.
At least it completed reentry this time but yeah that rear fin and those tiles are looking rough
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
Okay this is taking the 'bit' way too far. The all caps posts are (kinda) funny and (kinda) working so maybe stick with that. Still not going to vote for you as your first instinct is to throw the leftist part of the coalition or trans folks under the bus to try and raise your profile.
There was a reason some of the boards and committees congress created were independent and shielded from interference from the executive. Letting someone with a political incentive be in charge of monetary policy is a bad idea, see Erdogan and Turkey for a recent example.
That's like a new cars value worth of guns or a down payment on a new house for that mega pile sheesh. I feel a lot less bad about all my NASA Lego sets now.
Tech bros complaining about unsolicited invasions of privacy is rich.
Fuck him, I'll keep my vote by mail thank you very much. Pushing for only in person voting is solely to drive down turnout which favors R candidates and everyone who isn't a moron knows it.
There's a tendency to grade Trump economic policies in theory and not in practice. Only the reality matters and it's been generally been bad. I tried to set the record straight: prospect.org/economy/2025...
Dijon & Arugula elitism on full display
Maybe I will finally be able get a new GPU for a price remotely close to MSRP in the next year
Yes, there is ZERO point in entering negotiations if they just have Vought et al go around behind you with a rescission package that removes any compromises passed in the bill or he illegally impounds it anyway.
Did they just pick the most disingenuous person on purpose or did he volunteer?
Almost 3 Scaramuccis
The worst part about Yarvin and his ilk is that they think they are revolutionary thinkers ahead of the times and not just reverting to old ideals we phased out for a reason.
The US Attorney who declined to prosecute an Israeli government official arrested last month for underage solicitation has a colorful collection of deep-pocketed donors from past political campaigns, including one who fled a fraud case by going to... Israel. prospect.org/justice/2025...
Large, carefully constructed regulatory government ❌ Large repressive police state ✅
Discontent with—and backlash to Trump is an opportunity to elect some genuinely radical progressive Democratic candidates. And the dissatisfaction with the Dem establishment means it could just happen.
This administration lies like it breathes, but this one is a hall of famer for sure.
Nothing short of a primary will wake people like Schumer and Jeffries out of their stupor. Honestly I could see them taking this as validation of their approach this far and not success in spite of their spinelessness.
r/woooosh
Hey now, she's just a bit rusty after pickling herself on Fox for the past decade
Thank you for watching so I don't have to. Keep an eye on your blood pressure, it can't be good for your health to consume that much Fox/OAN/Newsmax.
L'État c'est moi
O_o yikes. My wife and I work together to make decisions, support each other in the pursuit of our personal/professional goals, and share the workload at home. I'd prefer to keep it that way. Nobody is stopping you from living that biblical life Charlie, but please leave the rest of us alone.
Good luck to her, the Supreme Robed Wizards aren't known for being consistent.
Look if they as a supposed leftist organization cannot actively oppose famine and genocidal behavior, then they as an organization should cease to exist. Anyone who continues to support this will not get my vote, period.
Shouldn't we then be focused on electing people who actually want to do that? Electing someone with a D next to their name doesn't automatically solve the problem.
Oh.
Maybe they're buying the hype and don't think he's as foolish as Erdogan. Or they just think they can ride the tiger and hop off at the last second before things take a turn.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
If he dies their coalition will fracture, I don't think Vance can hold them together. With how bad he was slurring and how his right half of his face was drooping during that press conference, it almost looked like he was having a minor stroke.
"3.6% drop, not great, not terrible"
THE MEDIAN AGE OF FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS HAS NOW RISEN TO 38 YEARS, THE HIGHEST ON RECORD.
I get that they are bought by the fossil fuel industry, but with AI data centers requiring so much new power generation, it doesn't make sense for them to cut everything off with nothing to replace it. They will need years to get an gas/coal plants up or a decade for a nuclear reactor.
Thank you! Reporters aren't meant to just be 'both sides' stenographers. If one person says it is sunny and the other says it's raining, they are supposed to look outside and let you know who is lying.
@mehdirhasan.bsky.social @samseder.bsky.social @majorityreport.bsky.social Could Sam & Mehdi withstand this?
Is this Newt Gingrich erasure?
Look ma! Another unconstitutional EO!
If you’re doing a ‘double tap’ strike on a hospital, you’re a war criminal and a terrorist.
Maybe this will help other companies/institutions realize that the mob boss shakedowns don't stop if you just roll over.
"Who was president in 2020?" Continues to be the hardest to answer question this year besides "Why haven't you released the Epstein files?"
The article doesn't actually say that, it got me at first too.
If you only look at his approval among Republicans then sure. Even Rasmussen has him in the low 40s overall.
Having universities acknowledge the awful actions of their faculty and alumni is an interesting proposition. The damage that Milton Freidman and his acolytes caused in South America and Asia is incalculable.
Why did you put a gun to Lewis Powell's head and make him write that dastardly memo?!?
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Power does not come from a strongly worded letter.
The coverage of the 2024 election, only nine months on, looks even more obscene & deeply unserious in retrospect than it did to so many of us at the time.
Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)
It's like writing on a tv show whenever they try to talk about anything technical/medical.
Give them a break, it's hard to find a congressional Republican without a sexual misconduct allegation.
I'm sure that 3% on wealth exceeding $1B would have really been devastating for him. Breaking the fabric of our government and society is surely preferable to that.
You should! Also, what a cool way to get people involved, I'm curious what the historical theme is.
We all knew this already thanks to @dropsitenews.com and @jeremyscahill.com and knew you were lying and gaslighting us when you were at the state department. You don't deserve some 'rehabilitation tour' since you decided to grow a conscience all of a sudden.
He wouldn't even hesitate to say no.
Apparently Trump has memory holed the part where he nominated Jerome Powell.
How long until he is senile enough to start tilting at literal windmills?