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Maybe he didn’t have better options? Or maybe he sought to appoint people who would be loyal because they know that without him, they’d be fired immediately.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

Everyone should read this description of how the Roberts Court abused the Supreme Courts own rules and traditions to turn the previously rarely used "shadow docket" into a tool for legislating a right wing agenda from the bench.

These "interim rulings" aren't interim; they are policy. Gift article.

I am again asking people to pay attention to what has happened to our National Science Foundation and by extension thousands of researchers across the country.

The devastation is ongoing and worthy of continued outcry to officials and journalists. 🧪

Happy bicycle day.

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

“The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled.”

I’d be curious to know exactly what a yellow card looks like. Can you say a little more?

🚨It turns out that semaglutide, known to reduce food intake and obesity, causes rats to increase their food choices compared to cocaine!

This effect is particularly evident when the effort required to obtain cocaine is intermediate

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#NIH will have the 1/3 discussion rate for at least two more funding cycles.

The American president counts Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-Un as his friends while denouncing the Pope.

The fate of the elections in Hungary and the peace talks with Iran are giving us a glimpse into the amazing outcomes that are possible with JD Vance in charge.

I’m a Nobel Prize-winning immigrant. I can no longer recognize this country. Attacks on science and immigrants are destroying America.

Jack Szostak "All of these things frighten me, and they should frighten you as well. I made the decision to create a life for myself here, because I viewed this as a place that rewarded determination, hard work, and integrity. It still has a chance to be that place again."

USPS - the second “S” is for service, as in, not a business, but a service, like the Forest Service or the Secret Service. There is no reason it should be self-supporting. Moreover, congress requires it to behave irrationally, for example having staffed post offices in every zip code.

Elections have consequences

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., attends a news conference in the U.S. Capitol. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

AOC: “This is a threat of genocide & merits removal from office. The President’s mental faculties are collapsing & cannot be trusted.

To every individual in the President’s chain of command: You have a duty to refuse illegal orders. That includes carrying out this threat”

Tucker Carlson: "It's vile. It begins w/ a promise to use the US military to commit a war crime. Those people who are in direct contact w/ the president need to say 'No. I'll resign. I'll do whatever I can do legally to stop this, bc this is insane. And if given the order, I'm not carrying it out'"

Ca Gov Gavin Newsom: “The Vice President is abroad campaigning for a dictator.

“The President is threatening to wipe out an entire civilization.

“Congress is on recess.

“This is a total collapse of American moral leadership — at a historic scale.”

The silence of Republicans as their president threatens to commit genocide is deafening.

They're all complicit.

Seung Min Kim @seungminkim WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump promises strikes on Iran’s power plants and bridges on Tuesday if the Strait of Hormuz isn't reopened.

textbook sanewashing

This is real

It’s being done in our name

Congressional Republicans are okay with this

History's Most Evil Attorney General Fired For Not Being Evil Enough - Unsourced News Sources confirmed Thursday that the most evil and corrupt attorney general in American history was fired for failing to be evil enough.

History’s Most Evil Attorney General Fired For Not Being Evil Enough

Great speech, dude.

Almost no atmosphere. Atmosphere is almost all CO2. Night temps -100 C, cosmic radiation because no atmosphere or magnetosphere. Global dust storms can block sunlight for months at a time. Maybe take care of this planet?

Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF Blocking humanitarian organizations from accessing a medical breakthrough puts vulnerable people across the world in danger.

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir.

The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell.

Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

San Diego airport; terminal one, security line is insane (luckily I have precheck)

Looking at all the blue dots scattered all across the country for tomorrow’s No Kings protests makes me so happy.

😁