Nick Tomasino

Since Trump just mentioned Baltimore and how much worse it's getting, here are Baltimore's actual homicide statistics:

He needs to keep my city's name out of his fascist, racist mouth.

The Old Line state has been proud to stand against would-be kings since 1776, and we're not about to quit.

That "land of the free and home of the brave" line was written right here for a reason.

Is he wrong, though? He'd set the rates way too low, but making a corporation's tax rate inversely proportional to its median wages sounds pretty good to me.

Especially if the rate for <$25/h is 100%, for example.

You can be capitalist and anti-corporate.

Because corporate news media is not in the business of informing the public.

It's just a way to sell ads.

Any anti-MAGA content potentially jeapordizes their bottom line.

FDR won the election of 1932 with a 472-59 margin. He promised (and later delivered) social welfare, and anti-corporatism.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself."

Imagine:

Companies aiding Trump’s immigration crackdown see ‘extraordinary’ revenues Palantir, Geo Group and CoreCivic, cogs in president’s enormous detention and deportation machinery, report ‘unprecedented growth’

The prison-industrial corporations had a great Q1, and future revenues are looking up in the age of Trump.

There's no reason civilization must allow LLCs; they're an intersubjective reality.

You can be capitalist AND anti-corporate.

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Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed.

Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.

Obviously.

He be impeached strictly on grounds of poor taste.

Suarez > Valdez, if we're just dreaming here.

Happy b’day, “American Idiot” — released as a single 21 years ago today, and written in the wake of the Iraq War.

“The country had gone into a war based on lies,” said Billie Joe Armstrong, “and no one seemed to care. .. It was a song that came from a very honest, pissed-off place.”

I like it. AFP.

Hulk reading a paper and saying “everybody dumb”

Because they're cartoon-ass clowns supported by morons that have difficulty with 3-syllable words.

Let's go, MD! We might only have 1, but Andy Harris is the WORST.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

They sure they want to educate the population about the Revolutionary War?
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/a...

If only MAGA learned HS biology, we wouldn't need to re-learn the value of things like pasteurization and vaccination.

Hyde got a raw deal. Sadly, part of a manager's job is to be first in line when somebody needs to get canned, though. Mansolino is definitely an interim. No juice.

I could stomach watching a team with no bullpen if it also included some interesting prospects getting their call ups. Or even playing their right positions. What we have here is just gross and unwatchable. I was on team Elias a long time, but no more.

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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the… From the author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking sto…

Things like a free press, fair elections, and other democratic institutions are what make democracies error-correcting information networks, as opposed to centralized autocratic ones. Great read:
www.goodreads.com/book/show/20...

Win.

If I were him, I'd be quite pissed.

University sidelines scientist who exposed toxic metals in Lake Maurepas The SELU scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in Lake Maurepas was abruptly removed from her research position without explanation.

A university scientist who discovered alarming levels of toxic chemicals in a lake in southeastern Louisiana was abruptly removed from her research position this week without explanation

Truthiness!

every day i think about wynn bruce, the climate activist who self immolated on earth day in front of the supreme court.

wynn’s death was barely even covered by the media and few know his name.