I thought about posting that correction after further consideration, but you have done it for me!

Air pollution raises cancer risk beyond the lungs, report warns Breathing polluted air significantly increases the risk of developing and dying from multiple cancers - including liver and breast cancer - according to a new report calling for stricter air quality standards.

Trump’s EPA is rolling back limits on air pollution radically.

Breathing polluted air significantly increases the risk of developing & dying from multiple cancers—including liver & breast cancer—according to a new report calling for stricter air quality standards. www.euronews.com/health/2026/...

I agree with @sam-workman.bsky.social, but I would add that the roots of that orientation probably go as far back as the Morrill Act creating land grant universities, and many decades later the original GI Bill. Public investment expected a return of productive not just educated people.

Now that he’s made this claim, my personal choice of hell for him is to have to sit at table negotiating with a hologram of Le Duc Tho for all eternity.

I’m beyond speechless…

He’s the techno-Manchurian candidate…

Trump approval falls to 35% as rating on handling prices hits a record -46 Our new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll finds the president's overall job approval at a new low, Democrats leading by 7 on the generic ballot, and a majority says the Iran war is not worth the cost

I love record unpopularity for Trump, it's everything he deserves. But too many people, especially political & media elites, treat it as mission accomplished. Trump & co are still in command of the American state, using it to violate human rights, wage needless war, & destroy public health & science

There is no anti-Trump, anti-authoritarian elected official anywhere in the United States who would have the guts to say this and then act on it.

Wasn’t Bomber Harris an aristocratic ghoul who would have happily laid waste to working class areas anywhere in the world?

you want to talk about an unfair aspect of modern american politics? let's talk about the 147 republicans in congress who joined the effort to steal the 2020 election but were allowed to keep their seats instead of being disqualified & removed from office as the 14th Amendment demands

In NC and OH, this struggle to develop a bench is the product of being gerrymandered into oblivion for 1.5 decades and we’re seeing the full ripple effect now. A national gerrymandering ban should be a priority for the next Democratic congress for this reason and many others.

Useless posturing

We intend to keep making money by standing on the backs of the oppressed just like any good American company.

That’s what an RIA does so even without a hearing on the merits the information on alternative costs, and benefits! was publicly available.

You are doing great work, so this is a serious ‘scrutiny’ question. Given likely information asymmetries, how is a voter supposed to determine “If the chance of outright falsification of results is high & participation would mainly bolster the regime's legitmacy claim”?

Really important 🧵

Even if you have stopped buying from Amazon, as I have, you are still experiencing the effects of its market power. Still the right move, but the fight must be taken up in multiple ways.

couldn't be clear that the most powerful elected dems believe their job is to discipline their voters, not to try to appeal to them in order to win their votes

I bet a car could do this no problem, who cares. They’re the same to me

The Sunday talk shows bring back the same lying liars every week. Until they stop rewarding lying we're stuck in this media hellhole

‘Politics speak’ is just straw men all the way down…

counter-mobilization, and, lo and behold, it can be monetized and wealth increasingly concentrated, which further weakens civil society and its institutions.

that the public could use to force public officials not to succumb to the pressure of business, or if you prefer, moneyed interests. The construction of a garrison and surveillance state has been part of that. Make the public fearful, clamp down on institutional and civic pathways for

I see it differently, based on the research I did for a book on the development of the American political economy over 2+ centuries. Yes, there was an ideological element to the effort to undermine American political institutions. But the main project has been the effort to weaken the institutions

The institutions presumed most accountable through elections have been the most corrupted and broken. This is not an accident.

Since at least 1990, almost every American civic institution has been slowly corrupted and broken, more rapidly since 2016. In the federal government, the only elements not completely destroyed are some district courts and administrative agencies.

Can’t recall where I read it, but one explanation is that the market has priced in the chaos. It’s now baseline. When there are signs of chaos reduction or stability, however fleeting, they are seen as opportunities to exploit.

It’s not perfect, but there already is one. The Federal Vacancies Reform Act of 1998. The statutory limit is 210 days.
www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

In New England, the familiar quip about the weather is slightly modified: “Don’t like the weather? Wait a minute. It’ll get worse.”

What a perfect epithet.

On April 15, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Three male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear

Despite the administration’s rhetoric and bogus legal theories, the supposed armed conflict with “narco-terrorists” appears to be entirely make believe.

Murder is the general term for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.