It's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.

Deported Cuban mother separated from breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter Cuban mother Heidy Sanchez collapsed into tears as she recalled the moment last week when U.S. immigration officials in Florida told her she would be deported and separated from her still-breastfeeding 1-year-old daughter.

Did you vote for cruelty? www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Oh hell yeah the best microbiology thread in the history of social media is on here (and it’s by the guy who made the Xbox)

America’s Future Is Hungary MAGA conservatives love Viktor Orbán. But he’s left his country corrupt, stagnant, and impoverished.

Last week, I wrote about how authoritarianism leads to poverty and corruption. Feels like an appropriate moment to post it again.
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What a sentence: "Contrary to the government's position, 'upholding constitutional rights surely serves the public interest.'"

WEDBUSH: “.. We have spoken to hundreds of investors, tech CEOs, supply chain experts around the world this week ..

“.. In a nutshell, if these tariffs (in current form/rates) hold there is no debate .. it would set the US tech world back a decade in our opinion while China is the clear winner.”

ECONOMY IN SHAMBLES

U.S. job cuts hit 275,240 in March 2025, the highest since the pandemic peak in 2020, surpassing 2001 & 2008 recessions. Layoffs surge as federal cuts, led by DOGE, echo Covid-era losses.

It's the third highest monthly total on record.

“how turbulent the time of tariffs was – the Panic of 1873, "Long Depression" from 1873-1879, another Depression from 1882-1885, two recessions in 1887-1888 and 1890-1891, the Panic of 1893, the Panic of 1896, two more recessions in 1899-1900 & 1902-1904, the Panic of 1907, the Panic of 1910, etc.”

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

Thank you ! Are you going to overlay any other agencies and their cuts ?

Since January, SpaceX has received over $560 million in government contracts—an amount projected to surpass $2 billion in taxpayer funding by year’s end, averaging roughly $6.1 million per day. Follow the money and see where it goes.

High fees paid by international students help US universities balance their books The US is the world’s top destination for higher education, with more than 1 million international students generating over $40 billion each year. Their families save up for decades — with their full-fare tuition dollars going to subsidize US students.

A reminder, as Trump, Rubio, Hogan, Noem, and Co. terrorize international students, that students from abroad reduce the costs of college for US students. Or at least they used to.

Himes: "Apparently all this mayhem is cheered by the president of the United States and by 20-somethings with laptops and names like Big Balls. But I've been doing this for a long time, and I know that Moscow and Beijing and Tehran and Pyongyang cannot believe their luck."

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

These are the states that will suffer most from Trump’s executive order to gut the Department of Education?

Not the deep-blue states that Republicans love to attack.

Trump shilling Teslas at the White House and Cabinet Secretaries trying to boost Tesla stock are the strongest signal we have seen that Elon Musk is very worried about the Tesla protests.

Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated

It’s a Shame We Have to Betray Our Allies, Starve the Poor, Halt Scientific Progress, Destroy the Environment, and Eliminate the Freedoms Enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but at Least My Investment Portfolio Is Also Tanking “Mr. Trump has acknowledged, despite all his confident campaign predictions that ‘we are going to boom like we have never boomed before,’ that the ...

"Listen, I’d love it if we could create a society that worked perfectly for everyone, but that’s not the reality we live in. In real life, you have to make choices—choices that lead to terrible outcomes for everyone."

Post-Dobbs Changes in OBGYN Clinical Workforce This case-control study compares the availability of women’s health care clinicians in states that enacted highly restrictive abortion policy after the Dobbs Supreme Court decision vs states that esta...

In news that will surprise absolutely no one: New research confirms that states with abortion bans are losing OB-GYNs.

There is approximately zero chance this is even in the same zip code of the ballpark of true.

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump was going to do all the things that he's now doing. But she wasn't likable enough when she did it.

The one thing that financial and product markets around the world can be certain of, thanks to Donald Trump, is greater uncertainty.

We’ll see how that goes.

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

The people who were warning you 8+ years ago were right therecord.media/hegseth-orde...

This is sadly true. America ceded the mantle with unthinkable disgrace.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

Was happy to see that Tom Nichols responded to what I also thought was a faulty assessment of Zelensky in the NYT. I am also perplexed by the dangerous pandering on the part of the NYT. Gift Article.

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA.

Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps.

Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems.

See how this works?

As College Decision Day Nears, Students Should Consider States' Abortion Access | Center for Reproductive Rights With half the U.S. states banning or severely restricting abortion, millions of young people will be headed to colleges in states without access. With half the U.S. states banning or severely restrict...

Or moving there for college.

Project 2025 Explained in Schoolhouse Rock Style! 5 minutes | The song that could save America. Share widely. Written, animated and performed by Jason KravitsProduced and mixed by Sean Dixon with Jason Kravits, Christopher Walz, and Brian O’Neill

Thisbis great!
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The FAA has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the IT networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns about conflicts of interest for CEO Elon Musk in one of his other roles, that of recommending funding cuts at federal agencies, including the FAA. cnn.it/436qirE