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This is, in large part, pandemic revenge.

As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do.

They can't keep spewing carbon.

They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying.

They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.

Spending $25 million of my own money to accidentally make even more people hate me and vote against my dogshit ideas

How long until Elon Musk comes up with a crazy-ass conspiracy theory about Wisconsin?

Praise be.

Suck it, Elon.

Thank you, Wisconsin!

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

Cory Booker Condemns Trump’s Policies in Longest Senate Speech on Record The New Jersey senator, who had spent much of his last 24 hours on the Senate floor assailing the Trump administration, surpassed Senator Strom Thurmond’s speech in 1957.

Breaking News: Senator Cory Booker’s speech criticizing President Trump has just become the longest speech in recorded Senate history.

IF YOU'RE IN LINE TO PISS ON STROM THURMOND'S GRAVE, STAY IN LINE

This is ongoing too btw, it should be “for years folks have been looking the other way”

Gene Hackman Died From Heart Disease a Week After the Death of His Wife, Who Had Hantavirus The actor’s wife, Betsy Arakawa, died of a respiratory illness linked to rodents, New Mexico officials said. Mr. Hackman had Alzheimer’s, which contributed to his death from heart disease.

Both less sad and more sad than I feared www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/u...

Meghan McCain. Megyn Kelly. Ted Cruz. Marco Rubio.

The sheer number of people that Trump has publicly humiliated and insulted - either directly or by going after their family members - and who then bent the knee to him, and sucked up to him, is truly astonishing.

What is with conservatives??

Trump: "We brought back free speech in America. Free speech."

This is a flagrant lie. Today he told universities they would be punished if they allowed protests of or criticisms of Israel, a clear violation of the First Amendment.

Trump: I’m going to kill your loved ones.
Democrats: [wave placard]
Trump: Especially the black ones. And the gay ones
Democrats: [strenuously wave placards]

Seeing Al Green being escorted from the House reminded me of the time Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert weren’t.

President Trump honors a child with cancer at the same time that, according to St. Jude, his NIH cuts will “likely mean fewer new treatments will be developed for children and, therefore, fewer children will be saved.”

old Soviet joke for our times:

Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to.

Guy says: “looking for an obituary.”

Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.”

Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Mike Myers at SNL closing tonight with “Canada is not for sale” t-shirt.

Mike Myers, Canadian legend, on SNL tonight.

Mike Myers showed up on SNL in a brilliant sketch as Elon Musk.

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

“Elon, we love your outfit. Very official and respectful.”

“Donald, what are you doing in my office?”
youtu.be/CUpOMSJ1MdU?...

If Trump can make millions of people believe he won in 2020, making them believe Ukraine started the war will be easy.

Re Zelensky at the WH, yet again, feminists and trauma/abuse- informed thinkers are years ahead of political analysts.

There is no acceptable affect, no way to charm an abuser, and no “deal” other than playing very very dead that would change how Trump and his flying monkey Vance behaved.

👇🏽

What I feel is ashamed.

People laughed a few days ago when @jamellebouie.net said we might not have flu shots next year, but:

saramohrhair: Where do I find a pediatrician that doesn't push vaccines? matt.keller.33: Look at your states medical boards. Find the pediatrician associated with the most childhood deaths. That's your doctor.

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Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.

Great piece by Peter Baker describing Trump's pattern of telling ridiculous lies and then doubling down when he's caught www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

IDK but maybe its bad that the guy with carte blanche to implement sweeping and chaotic austerity and drive the economy off a cliff is also a dissociative soaked psychopath who has never faced any consequences for anything and does not believe that other human beings are actually real