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The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

On Emil Bove’s nomination to the 3d Circuit, “It’s time for conservatives, even those who support the president, to rebel.”Otherwise, a federal judiciary stacked with utterly unprincipled loyalists will dismember the rule of law and bring our republic to its knees: www.thebulwark.com/p/danger-of-...

The goal isn’t just to take down Harvard. It’s to scare every school into silence. To let Trump reshape education into MAGA dogma. This is how tyrants erase the future—one university at a time.

DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

I still can’t figure out when “we can deport you” turned into “we can put you in a hell hole prison in a third country, indefinitely, with no legal recourse.”

FUNDSTRAT tonight: “.. in the last few days, we have had many conversations with macro fund managers. .. A few have quietly wondered if the President might be insane.”

If the agent of an embittered KGB officer somehow won the US presidency and entered into the office bent on destroying the USA in its national influence, network of alliances, and the American people’s quality of life, what would he be doing differently?

what

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

This was….five months ago

Give me it. ❤️

Diversity initiatives were meant to overcome the old patterns of nepotism, so I guess it makes sense that the enemies of diversity are big fans of nepotism.

The censorship on Twitter was just too much. A 98% drop in engagement since Musk bought it. From a little over 1,000,000 views a week to less than 17,000. So we moved on over to blue sky. Follow us here at @altyellonatpark.org Because somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight

"We're patently *not* under invasion by a 'hybrid criminal state,' despite pockets of violence perpetrated by a handful of foreign gang members. But Trump needs it to be 'true' as a precondition to invoke Revolutionary War-era emergency power to justify summary deportations." — @lizdye.bsky.social

“It’s amazing how many things about America MAGA hates. MAGA hates that we’re a nation of immigrants. MAGA hates that we have a political system featuring checks and balances…There’s one other thing that ‘Make America Great Again’ hates: American greatness.” www.thebulwark.com/p/maga-hates...

Murphy: "If we continue to observe norms, if we continue to engage in business as usual, this democracy could be gone. I don't think we have a year to save American democracy. I think the way the president is acting ... puts out democracy at immediate risk."

Read this…. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

every single public facing person in this administration is just a different variation on baghdad bob

Tadaa.

Son: Are we better off now? Dad: Well son, mom & dad have both lost their jobs. Our savings are gone, gas & grocery prices are up. We did, however, save you from drag queen story time. Son: What's that? Dad: A mythical thing they said was happening in your school, which we can't afford anymore.

the vice president of the united states is a groyper who spends his online time following nazis and esoteric reactionary influencers is true and yet the press seems completely disinterested in it

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

Nobody should be surprised that our Secretary of State is a pathetic, weak, cowardly piece of shit.

Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years. The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

PLEASE: Watch what happened in Coeur d'Alene Idaho today. This is fascism. Unmarked cops. 1A violations. RESIST.

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

This Atlantic article, by Shane Harris & Jonathan Lemire, is maddening. We need insider reporting on the powerful sometimes. We don’t need the kind that replicates the anxieties of the powerful about *their* jobs, & their ignorance about a threat Trump & Hegseth have literally declared for a year.

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

Just a reminder that Nazi Nerd Elon Musk long has been and still remains a proponent of the Great Replacement Theory that motivated white supremacist massacres in Pittsburgh (2018), El Paso (2019) and Buffalo (2022). www.newsweek.com/great-replac...

Can anyone think of a legitimate reason that Elmo would need access to ALL information on EVERY taxpayer? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

6 questions, 3 scotches.

Think Trump Can’t Run Again in 2028? Don’t Be So Sure. www.thebulwark.com/p/donald-tru...

Saying DEI with the hard R

As companies shell out big bucks for Super Bowl commercials, remember that many said they were forced to raise prices due to inflation. Also remember that average profit margins in nearly every sector in the S&P 500 are running near or above 10-year highs. Hello???

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

Everyone should read this www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...