this is one of the best memes of all time

And just to be abundantly clear:

NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT.

Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

I really want a senator, rather than explaining the math, to just say "We all know what's going on here, Mr. Secretary. Trump said a moronic thing and now everyone in the administration, including you, has to pretend it's real. You know it isn't real. But you can't say that because you're a coward."

At its peak in 1966 this figure was 4.41 percent. “Whitey on the Moon” was never the reason we weren’t spending on social programs.

It was the Vietnam War, which at its height was consuming HALF of Federal Government spending.

there are going to be people who say, take a wait and see approach to how the Court will treat the next Dem president

and those people are wrong, we know exactly how they will treat that person and it is the polar opposite of how they treat Trump

strike at them immediately, first order of business

didn't you put your phone in the pool because it was too hot or something?

Your Guide to NASA's Budget How big is NASA's budget right now? What was it like in the past? How does it compare to the rest of government spending? These answers, as well as…

While we're talking percentages, let's talk about the proposed cuts to NASA's science budget.

NASA is currently 0.36% of US federal spending. www.planetary.org/space-policy...

The proposed budget cuts NASA science by 47%.

NASA science is already on a shoestring, and that string is about to break

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.

museum heists are literally stealing from the public to benefit the evil rich, which is obvious if you think about it for like 2.5 seconds

Gonna be brutally honest that maybe we should have left IR as an applied humanities focus rather than leaning immensely into theorycraft

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

The Supreme Court of Virginia should declare a *checks notes* state constitutional amendment unconstitutional.

I don't see the problem

i've seen "it would really stick it to the devs if we left bsky" posts & no it wouldn't. they want this web site to be boring crypto idiots who cool their phones off in pools chatting with AI reply bots. instead they have to put up with us and that's deeply funny

Or no trials

a wizard (why’s pfp), a skeleton minion (Claude) approached “i’ve read through your notifications, they wish to harm you m’lord” close up on the wizard “oh dear… block them all.” the skeleton minion crawls away “yes m’lord, Claude shall block the non-believers, yes…”

republicans will yowl and piss and moan and that to my mind is all the reason to do it

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

*nodding* autistic mummy

I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game

1. Explore the Psyche of Man
2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here
3. Lesbian Bartender

once we stack scotus we gotta mandate the jab across the armed forces as a soft purge

You can’t do that to rural voters! What are they, black people? bsky.app/profile/coll...

Opinion | Trump Corrupts, and Absolute Trump Corrupts Absolutely

“To say that President Trump is corrupt is to somehow understate the size, scope and magnitude of his corruption.

It is as if you were to describe a modern thermonuclear device as a ‘bomb.’ That is true enough, but it is not quite the truth. It does not capture the nature of the thing in full.”

It's impolite to call these people "Nazis" but that is Nazi talk and the President and his party stand behind this guy, they love him, they agree.

every social media platform is like this

I feel like hating AI is a many layered thing that keeps pummeling you like Homer against the Krusty burglar.
It starts with the artist theft and taking all the resources and ends with the "stop forcing it into fucking everything oh my god leave me alone"