April 14, 2025
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15.04.2025 04:51 — 👍 1231 🔁 378 💬 25 📌 12A real life Emperor’s New Clothes situation - people can see it doesn’t make sense, but are afraid to say so.
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03.04.2025 15:25 — 👍 6667 🔁 2345 💬 115 📌 133
I wrote a bunch of words trying to explain how economically incomprehensible the tariff stuff is. It explains how a 5th grader understands basic econ better than Trump and his economic advisors.
www.techdirt.com/2025/04/03/t...
The tariffs are catastrophic. But so too are the abuses of power, so is the corruption, so are the police state tactics, so is the destruction of our health care infrastructure, so are the ways our national security is being endangered, so are the attacks on our core freedoms.
03.04.2025 10:46 — 👍 16884 🔁 5021 💬 477 📌 250
I hear people all around me saying, “They are going to crash the economy. Surely they don’t mean to crash the economy.”
I beg to differ. This is curated failure. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
I am Jewish.
I have spent literally my entire life on university campuses.
I was the child of two Jewish professors.
Since kindergarten I have spent exactly one year as neither a student nor a professor.
I have, on occasion, experienced antisemitism. But never on a university campus.
The 1% evade $163B in taxes per year.
Tesla paid $0 in federal income taxes from 2018 - 2022 & 2024.
Billionaires can write off the cost of their private jets and yachts.
While undocumented immigrants paid $96B in taxes in 2022.
The more you look into it, the crazier it gets.
In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients.
By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.
Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.
"Their definition of 'the Left' includes all Americans, Republicans and Independents as well as Democrats, who believe the government has a role to play ... and who support the institutional structures Americans have built since World War II." heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/march-27-2...
28.03.2025 12:03 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0The privatization of NOAA’s core responsibilities—such as weather forecasting, climate research, and environmental monitoring—poses serious risks to the quality, accessibility, and impartiality of the information we all rely on.
27.03.2025 22:26 — 👍 1452 🔁 201 💬 6 📌 2
I wrote something about the secret police kidnapping and disappearing students over their op-eds, and wondering what happened to all those people screaming about the "free speech crisis on campus."
www.techdirt.com/2025/03/27/t...
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
24.03.2025 22:18 — 👍 27815 🔁 10573 💬 326 📌 573
Keker, Van Nest & Peters on @kekerllp.bsky.social: Our first post is a big one...Statement from Keker, Van Nest & Peters on Trump's Latest Executive Order "Preventing Abuses of the Legal System and the Federal Court." "Trump's new Executive Order underscores how far removed this President, Attorney General and Administration are from our nation's Constitution and bedrock values. Our liberties depend on lawyers' willingness to represent unpopular people and causes, including in matters adverse to the Federal Government. An attack on lawyers who perform this work is inexcusable and despicable. Our profession owes every client zealous legal representation without fear of retribution, regardless of their political affiliation or ability to pay. We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie's challenge to the Administration's executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration's erosion of the rule of law." - John Keker, Robert Van Nest, Elliot Peters, Laurie Carr Mims, and the Keker, Van Nest & Peters Partnership ALT
Keker, Van Nest, & Peters:
“We encourage law firm leaders to sign on to an amicus effort in support of Perkins Coie's challenge to the Administration's executive order targeting the firm, and to resist the Administration's erosion of the rule of law."
“Are you worried?” That is always the first question.
“Of course I am worried,” I respond. “The president of the United States considers me an enemy and has promised retribution. I would be an idiot not to be worried. But I am not going to give in. I will continue to fight.”
Every neighborhood has that one house where the drama runs deeper than the foundation—family issues don't stop at the front door.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, it will be up to Americans to get their own house in order. #anxiousneighbour
Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.
20.03.2025 17:59 — 👍 10030 🔁 2392 💬 365 📌 118
There are days in life that shake you.
I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
"'Segregated facilities' are no longer explicitly banned in federal contracts" www.npr.org/sections/sho...
18.03.2025 19:53 — 👍 78 🔁 48 💬 9 📌 7The research will continue, just not in the US.
America got the scientific brain drain from Germany under Hitler & the rest of the world will now get ours.
Other countries will quickly surpass our research and benefit both financially and in scientific recognition.
What @jimsciutto.bsky.social said 👇🏽 🎯
16.03.2025 02:08 — 👍 3510 🔁 1180 💬 168 📌 84
"This story is based on interviews with 16 current and former employees of the U.S. Agency for Global Media and the networks it funds. All but Turner spoke on condition they not be named due to fear of professional retribution."
www.npr.org/2025/03/15/n...
