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Do people understand yet? When people say they want to see the end of the Department of Education, they want to see public money for private schools, they think there should be no property tax...they're literally saying they want most children to be uneducated.

"Welcome to reality. Now they sell it on TV. It's so close to the truth, you won't ask them for proof. How we fooled you, I don't know. Now we fooled you, does it show?" -Eleanor Whitledge 1996 1996. Prescient like Frank Zappa.

We are on the way to learning what happens when a society glorifies money, and conflates wealth with wisdom. If only money matters, does anything else even matter at all?

Science fiction has always given us both hope and dire warnings about what could be.

As our nation girds for possible Iranian terrorist attacks, this is the person Trump put in charge of terrorism prevention. 22 years old. Recent work experience: landscaping/grocery clerk. Never worked a day in counter-terrorism. But he’s a BIG Trump fan. So he got the job.

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

Take note.

This was going to be a nice photo of my dog with Lady Gaga's piano. My hand slipped, the dog moved, the piano mover moved...and I snapped the pic an instant before the doggo threw a stick across the floor.

Things that are the opposite of celebrating military victories: 1. Name your military bases, ships and other stuff after the leaders of an army you defeated.

We obtained records showing how an ex-DOGE staffer with no medical experience used AI to identify which VA contracts to kill. “I would never recommend someone run my code and do what it says,” he said. Read more: propub.li/4emGV69

There are many reasons it's really really bad to have law enforcement disappearing people without due process nor identifying themselves. A big one is that any horrible person can do the exact same thing by pretending to be law enforcement disappearing people without due process.

I feel like there's a saying, or a cliche, or something.

Senator dared to question the Empire, directly, and was met with force. Stormtroopers didn’t hesitate. They grabbed him, cuffed him, dragged him away like a dissident, claiming he “failed to identify himself.” But everyone knew who he was. He was a Senator.

RIP Brian Wilson. In my opinion "Sloop John B" is the finest song ever written about going on a shitty boat trip with your grandpa.

One of the great political campaign fallacies is that someone with no experience is a worse choice than someone who has a lot of experience and has royally fucked up

Honoring the leaders of an army you beat in a war is a strange way to claim greatness.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

I have a new exclamation

"So here's the plan -- we impose massive tariffs on the nations that sell us food." "Hmm." "But it's OK, because we just rely more on states like California that grow a lot of the same things." "Oh, I guess that ..." "And then we go to war with California."

Pete Hesgeth — who wants to rename the Navy ship that honors Medgar Evers, a WWII veteran who landed on Omaha Beach — is using that same beach for a photo op in which he promises we will “never forget” the veterans there. What an unbelievable asshole.

Do people not see it yet? The sole goal of college culture wars & student visa stuff is to force elite schools to admit unqualified full-pay students. That's it. In many cases, it's going to work. Schools with endowments >$2M/undergrad should just go tuition free and take all the best students.

Hungry Hungry Huskies

The world is not zero sum. Relationships aren't zero sum. Exchange isn't zero sum. Zero sum thinking is the framework of the ignorant, unhappy, and simple-minded.

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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

In case you are wondering exactly which mechanism, of the many options available to it, the federal government will use to wipe us out. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

Despite breaking laws and terrorizing people, the Trump admin is deporting far fewer people per day than the Biden admin did with the same budget.

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This guy stole $10 million from the employees of his nursing home to buy himself a luxury yacht and Cartier watches. He PLED GUILTY. And because his Mom gave Trump $1 million, he just got a pardon. And this story barely makes the news today. WTF. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...

A reminder that @theguardian.com pay Simon Jenkins for this quality of commentary. When he isn't: a) writing uninformed bilge; b) pointing out the obvious; c) he has a third strand up his sleeve: contradicting himself.

What do you mean we are going to build an Iron Dome over Nebraska, but trains in this country are a "boondoggle"?!

The 80-year recipe stoking America’s Prosperity: 1) Free-market capital investments in brilliant ideas… 2) enabled by Engineering Innovations… 3) based on Science Research in Universities… 4) funded by Grants from the US Government. It’s time more people understood this.

To fund Trump’s expiring tax cuts for the wealthy, the GOP is proposing a massive $715 billion cut to Medicaid. They’re calling it reform, but make no mistake: it’s just another transfer of wealth from those who have the least to those who have the most.

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President of Troy: "My regular old horse isn't nearly as impressive as this Greek one! Only a FOOL would not accept this gift!"

The disastrous Republican reconciliation bill would cut Medicaid & the Affordable Care Act by $715 billion – throwing 13.7 million Americans off of Medicaid & the health insurance they currently have – in order to give a $1.2 trillion tax break to the top 1%. It must be defeated.

Pam Bondi lobbied for Qatar & a private prison company, got paid $115K/month, then failed to disclose it during her AG confirmation. Now she’s gutted foreign lobbying enforcement under FARA and signed off on $400m planes. The corruption isn’t even subtle anymore.