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The Trump administration in a summarized in a single photo.

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

For more than 160 uninterrupted years, federal law has prohibited troops wherever an election is held. The Insurrection Act’s grant of authority to the president does not supersede Section 592’s prohibition on armed people at the polls, writes @lorenvoss.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social.

every day i imagine there’s an extremely high-stakes meeting inside google between the forces of “we can’t keep showing these dogshit ai results” and “doing anything else would cost 20 trillion dollars”

“Carney’s official statement deserves to be read in full, slowly, with a beer, because underneath the diplomatic wallpaper it’s the most quietly savage document a G7 leader’s put out in years. It reads like a bank manager foreclosing on a bloke’s entire self-image & the bank manager is enjoying it.”

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

the fact that a billionaire can randomly throw $100,000,000 into a campaign against taxing the rich seems like the best argument yet they can afford it

What the Historians Proved in Shenandoah County, Virginia #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/what-the-h...

No, No, no. Look, are there lessons to learn from this debacle? Sure. Drone warfare, mag depth, etc. But the solution here is not 'yet more tactical excellence or tech.' It is 'the president asked the impossible of the military and they should have said so.' www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it.

Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

We've hit the 3,000 mark in letters to Congress on the mad power-grab by Russell Vought at OMB to take over all federal grant making with a team of political commissars reporting to him. Let's get to 4,000 letters this week. Share. Share. Share. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

GET A GRIP Ireland is building a battery that contains no lithium. No cobalt. No rare-earth metals. Instead, it stores energy using carbon dioxide. The project is designed to hold 200 megawatt-hours of electricity, making it one of Europe’s largest long-duration energy storage systems.

This is a BIG red flag. Ahead of the midterms, Donald Trump FIRED all members of the independent Election Assistance Commission—people confirmed unanimously by the Senate to make sure we have free and fair elections. We can't let Trump rig the next election.

The Army Took Down Its Page Commemorating a Civil Rights Icon – Mother Jones A piece honoring Black veteran Sarah Keys Evans has been axed to “align with current guidance.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Jack Smith: "I think we are facing an attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime"

OK, people. It takes 2 minutes to write a letter to Congress, a few extra if you personalize it. Russ Vought's attempt to take over ALL federal grant funding is anti-democratic and dangerous. We need MORE letters. Let's tip it over 2000 today. actionnetwork.org/letters/oppo...

OBAMA’S DEAL WITH IRAN WAS AN ACTUAL DEAL AND DIDN’T COST ANYTHING

WTG Virginia!

Yes, and: #RFKJr & allies are making money on all this. Then we have Russ Vought who wants to tear down everything, Jay Bhattacharya and others who are still nursing grievances for their poor scholarship in 2020. Eugenics, nihilistic, religious zealotry and revenge are a heady dangerous mix.

Should've learned this in the 1970s or at least the 1990s. "Distributed grids, storage, efficiency, and interconnectors build resilience through redundancy and infrastructure depth rather than through armed management of scarcity."

Trump’s new budget adds an extra $500 billion to fund wars abroad — about $3,700 more for every household in America — while cutting health, jobs, housing, and education. Put simply, it takes more of your money for foreign wars, while making life in America even more unaffordable.

I worked for USAID in such shattered countries as Cambodia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo. USAID aid benefited US interests and saved countless lives there and elsewhere. That’s what we, the USA, should best be known for – saving lives. Sen. Susan Collins was wrong to not fight for USAID #MEpolitics

so cool that this administration was handed the basis for more or less an economic renaissance and instead they decided to shoot the global economy in the gut—and then the head—before killing the freedom of navigation for shits and giggles

‘We will not know what we lost’: Conservation fallout a year after USAID shutdown news.mongabay.com/podcast/2026...

Hard to win a war when your business model is selling your own war plans. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...

Americans support commonsense ICE reforms: Agents should: - be clearly identified - follow use-of-force standards - obtain judicial warrants Instead, Trump is fueling more chaos by sending untrained ICE agents into airports.

A viral dog rescue from 2016 is now immortalized with a statue in Kazakhstan. When a dog fell into the Sayran reservoir, bystanders formed a human chain to pull him to safety. The statue is a reminder of the value of unity, solidarity and collective action. 14/10 for all

it's incredible that as long as you do the right amount of bigotry you can just rob the country blind and enough people will not care, even though those same people will be filled with incandescent rage if someone uses food stamps to buy a 12 pack of diet coke

If you want to know who took your money, it's the people with all of the money.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

Exactly

“Power does not grow out of the barrel of a gun, cruelty is not the same as strength, and a politics built on such ideas promises ruin, delusion about the limits of our power and a betrayal of the promise of our founding.”

He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

Grievance Is All You Need .... understanding attacks on NIH, CDC and FDA through the lens of COVID revisionists: joshuasweitz.substack.com/p/grievance-...

Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...

Breaking: Mikie Sherrill (D) wins New Jersey Governor race, defeating her Trump-endorsed opponent. (Source: @decisiondeskhq.bsky.social)

#RFKJr wants to take away #COVID #vaccines (and then move on to #childhood #preventable #diseases). You can see it in the works now. Write to your member of #Congress now. This makes it easy to do so. @defendpublichealth.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...