Leon Robertson

Antidemocratic “Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read.” —Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening “David Daley has been at the absolute foref...

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Funny, how Donald's shakedown numbers are always rounded up to the next highest imaginary number. There are never any dollars and cents. It's *almost* like he's making them up . . .

Antidemocratic “Chilling and convincing, Antidemocratic is a must-read.” —Heather Cox Richardson, author of Democracy Awakening “David Daley has been at the absolute foref...

John Roberts enjoys a reputation as a sometimes moderate SCOTUS chief, but he spent his adult life attacking the voting rights act and hobnobbing with his fellow "originalists" supported by billionaire donations to the Federalist Society.
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A pickup truck is parked with the front facing out, while a Subaru Outback is parked with the back facing out. The hood of the pickup truck is almost the same height as the top of the back of the Subaru, which is an already bloated design since the mid 2010s.

This whole "war on cars" in #yyc conversation, coupled with reckless driving & bad road design has really been getting to me lately. All I can notice is all the bad design, including car design. Take this pickup truck that's good height is almost as tall as the back of our Outback.

Multiple studies conclude that total cost of ownership of EVs is less than for fossil fuel cars due mostly to lower fuel and maintenance costs. See the details in the thread below. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋

Day 1461 of Putin’s Three-Day War Courage, betrayal — and reasons for hope

War is a changing hell that Hegseth and his enabling dictator do not understand. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/day-1461-o...

Andy Borowitz satire.

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

🚨The political effects of X's feed algorithm, in Nature: " .. initial exposure to X’s algorithm has persistent effects on users’ current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship."

Trump’s Challenge to Free Market Capitalism

Market-determined capitalism dies under dictators who favor their cronies and take for themselves. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

Talking With Ro Khanna The progressive Democrat representing Silicon Valley on wealth, technology and more

Intelligent congressman is not a complete oxymoron. Krugman talks with one. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-wi...

Right. 70 degrees here (NC) yesterday and 45 today with a chilling wind.

Kristi Noem tightens her grip on the Department of Homeland Security High-level leadership ousters have overlapped with a growing staff exodus.

The department of homeland insecurity. www.axios.com/2026/02/20/n...

The dictators post on the news that his tariffs are illegal -- his usual graceful disagreement with those who oppose him. Yeah, right.

A Press Freedom Case in Peril, From a Lawyer Who Helped Write It

The wealthy use lawsuits against the press to prevent negative stories about them. Enrich's book, Murder the Truth, reviews numerous examples. The law protecting the press is under siege. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

Congress is supposed to allocate spending but here we are in the dictatorship.

Europe answers Trump's call on Ukraine "We are spending real money, whereas the U.S. is actually making money on this war," said Poland's foreign minister.

The dictator sided with Russia by defunding Ukraine's aid.
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F.D.A. Reverses Decision and Agrees to Review Moderna’s Flu Vaccine

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Billionaires Gone Wild Understanding the oligarchs’ power grab and the dire threat to American democracy

The increasing dominance of the billionaire class. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/billionair...

Jay Bhattacharya named acting CDC director Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed Jim O’Neill, whom Trump will nominate to lead the National Science Foundation, from the CDC job last week.

More musical chairs among people who are screwing up public health and health research. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Prayer, politics, and policy related to age-adjusted cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and COVID-19 death Rates, U.S. states 2018–2021 The role of religion and politics in the responses to the coronavirus pandemic raises the question of their influence on the risk of other diseases. This study focuses on age-adjusted death rates of c...

My paper on the association of religion and politics with higher death rates from cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and, of course, COVID-19 was published by PLOSONE today.
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Prayer, politics, and policy related to age-adjusted cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and COVID-19 death Rates, U.S. states 2018–2021 The role of religion and politics in the responses to the coronavirus pandemic raises the question of their influence on the risk of other diseases. This study focuses on age-adjusted death rates of c...

PLOSONE just published my paper on how religion and politics are related to higher death rates from cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and, of course, COVID-19.
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Prayer, politics, and policy related to age-adjusted cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and COVID-19 death Rates, U.S. states 2018–2021 The role of religion and politics in the responses to the coronavirus pandemic raises the question of their influence on the risk of other diseases. This study focuses on age-adjusted death rates of c...

PLOSONE just published my paper on how religion and politics are related to higher death rates from cancer, heart disease, infant mortality, and, of course, COVID-19. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

The AI trade is swallowing the market If the tech sector stumbles, so does everything else.

AI is sucking up water, electricity, and building debt that may put the economy in jeopardy.
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In photos: Jesse Jackson's life, activism and politics His career in activism and politics coincided with a national transformation in civil rights and inequality

Another good person gone. www.axios.com/2026/02/17/j...

How the Kakistocracy Became a Quackistocracy Corruption is a germ’s best friend

Walks and quacks like a duck.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Wow.

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

The next pandemic could be worse than COVID without vaccines as drugmakers back off from further development in reaction to FDA's failure approve a new Moderna vaccine.
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