Jason Ptaszek

Remember that time when the US seized a Russian flag tanker escorted by a Russian submarine in international waters off Iceland — that was long ago, this morning.

thank you to everyone finding this essay in a brand new magazine - one that is trying to do something different in this time of media consolidation...

I bet if you asked Portnoy why he hates Momdani he wouldn’t give you a good reason

I think Trump is demolishing the east wing of the White House because he kept seeing Epstein’s ghost floating around there

We can call them: stargazers

Distinct haplotypes and reversed dominance at a single-gene balanced polymorphism controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts In the angiosperm mating system of heterodichogamy, two hermaphroditic morphs temporally alternate between male and female flowering phases, promoting…

Congratulations to @jeffgroh.bsky.social on the publication of his paper on an ancient balanced polymorphisms controlling heterodichogamy in two genera of wingnuts. The paper shows the putative turnover & reversal of dominance of a mating type polymorphism
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There’s a really easy way for the GOP to end the shut down, but it involves compromise and unfortunately they are dumb cowards and think compromise is a weakness

If Portland does get an MLB team, we need to be the Frogs

Won’t someone think of the retailers!

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic was a litmus test people in the U.S. failed miserably, and we’re all still reeling from it. The results revealed to the ruling powers just how much they could get away with."

YES!!!!!!! you cannot leave your community behind and then be confused when you get lost

Pretty clear Stephen Miller, Noem, Hegseth and Trump are trying to provoke a Civil War at this point. What's interesting is they want to do it now, because even though they're unpopular, they seem to believe this is the most popular they'll be ever again. We can't let them win.

a significant reason this is happening is because out of a combination of partisanship and cowardice Congress has essentially abdicated its constitutional role in the republic

Authoritarian personality cult. Plain as day.

Wake up and vote for people with compassion, and empathy, not murder

The Supreme Court keeps yelling at the district courts for not understanding that the new rule is to decide in favor of the Trump administration and their allies in every case regardless of the facts or the substance of the law.

What Ghislaine Maxwell Told the Justice Department Listening to the convicted sex offender’s lengthy interview reveals that she and her interviewer had one goal—to satisfy Donald Trump.

The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”

To Reduce Poverty, Expand the Welfare State The policy solutions to poverty are simple: redistribute capital ownership and expand the welfare state.

The policy solutions to poverty are simple: redistribute capital ownership and expand the welfare state.

Tomlinson: Sage uses fracking and CO2 to generate clean energy Sage Geosystems is developing geothermal energy generation and storage that could be the future of clean energy.

A technology that has helped accelerate the climate crisis could be part of slowing it down or even reversing it. Another smart column from @cltomlinson.bsky.social
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Among many other things, I think it means that those of us interested in democracy need to call on our allies around the world to launch campaigns of boycott divestment and sanctions of the USA until we defeat fascism.

It worked for apartheid.

What’s the goal? Why are these people destroying these institutions and is this what Americans wanted when they voted?

What this exclusive look I filmed, interviewed, and edited in collaboration with Andrew Duplessie.

“Stephen Miller unleashed a long, crazed, angry, shrill rant. It was classic authoritarian agitprop, best seen as an expression of weakness. Poll after poll has shown that the public is rebelling. Maybe that’s why Miller is panicking. The question is: Why won’t Democrats act like it?”

Wow

How are we going to take this guy in

The Dream and Nightmare of Neoliberalism The spread of neoliberalism promised economic efficiency and freedom for the powerful while wreaking havoc for millions. In recent years, claims of a post-neoliberal era have emerged, but a new book argues that these claims may be greatly exaggerated.

The spread of neoliberalism promised economic efficiency and freedom for the powerful while wreaking havoc for millions.

In recent years, claims of a post-neoliberal era have emerged, but a book argues that these claims may be greatly exaggerated.

How Much Is Trump Profiting Off the Presidency? A comprehensive estimate of how much Trump and his family are making, from hotel mega-deals to crypto schemes, has been elusive—until now.

A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised President Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.

Opinion | Why Trump’s Meddling in the Bureau of Labor Statistics Matters Most children learn at some point that flipping the board doesn’t make them the winner.

“The deeper risk is cynicism, the quiet corrosion of faith in institutions. If we can’t believe the numbers, how do we believe anything?”

Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

The problem that so many Democrats face is that they want to focus group "What does a normal person sound like" when voters want to see candidates be authentic in talking about issues they and the candidate care about.