Absolutely.
"These people are stealing your tax money, robbing you of services you paid for to enrich themselves. I will stop that."
That's a pretty simple and effective message.
German here.
Thank you.
Buttercups close up in field. Clouds in blue sky. Looks nice.
Let’s make a thread. Post the antithesis of mutually assured destruction. Sending love and peace to all. We are better than this man, this war.
i keep thinking about an iranian girl who was featured in the new york times a few months ago. she said she didn’t know how she would be able to evacuate because she couldn’t carry her cats.
New pre-print! I cover a range of open capture-recapture models (single survey/robust design, multistate/multievent, in (Cormack-)Jolly-Seber variants) in Stan, and provide efficient log likelihood functions. I also introduce a method to account for unequal survey intervals in the entry process.
Brian Donovan had persuaded high school teachers and education researchers that prejudice might be ended by changing how genetics is taught. www.statnews.com/2026/04/07/b...
If Trump is allowed to operate with impunity, it's because people with privilege aren't willing to do anything that might upset the tacit agreements that allow them also to get away with breaking the rules.
some folks are demanding “don’t judge all of us!” but since when has our nation done the same for others in that regard? no, we’re all going to own this whether we like it or not, just like gaza
I have never grumbled about my taxes. But this year. Wow. I am literally paying to destroy the NIH and to have ICE murder people.
I feel a lot of moral injury with paying my taxes this year.
I feel privileged to pay taxes. I want accessible healthcare, good schools, and good roads. I am not happy with my money going to the orange turd and his cronies. I feel as if I am paying to destroy everything.
Worthless bigoted trash leading worthless bigoted trash.
This is not the US. It's Australia. In
2026.
#NickHanna
“Once more, let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown shirt or a green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy in order to retain its power of exploitation and special privilege.” ~ Tommy Douglas A black and white photo of Douglas, wearing glasses and standing in front of a microphone, raising his right arm and fist into the air.
“Let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown or green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing people may use political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy to retain its power of exploitation & special privilege.”
~ Tommy Douglas
Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down.
The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains:
Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.
New ABS data released today shows people in the most disadvantaged 20 per cent of Australia bought 26 per cent more sugar-sweetened drinks than the national average. Soft drink consumption was 54 per cent higher than the national average for people in remote areas.
We know excess sugar is a key contributor to the burden of chronic disease, and we can see the disparity in its consumption. We urgently need to address this, including the banning of junk food advertising to children, and for govt to implement a health-based levy on manufacturers of such drinks.
When I was growing up, I remember my parents scraping together $5 for fuel to make it to work. We couldn't go to friend's houses because we couldn't spare the fuel, and every trip needed to be accounted and planned for. If the petrol price went up, we stayed home. (No public transport) (cont)
"I feel such deep rage that the wealthiest country in the world would inflict this totally needless misery on its poor, tiny neighbor. A billionaire president is taking these destitute people’s last means of eking out a living—and for what?"
Never in the history of this country has there been a president so uniquely unqualified for the position. Ironically it’s his second term.
NOT a coincidence or happenstance:
He started a war, didn’t know how to win it, was immediately over his head, became quickly overpowered by an enemy he vastly underestimated, and now is trying to sue for peace and then convince you that this was a victory. Dying empires produce leaders like this
Remember that time trump was being successfully being prosecuted for serious crimes and everyone in charge dragged their feet because they didn't want white supremacists to be mad at them?
Stable genius.
Most honest reporting in the past few weeks.
Taking care of business. We need to do this and move on.
“The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.”
— President John F. Kennedy, Address at Vanderbilt University, May 18, 1963
“Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
— President Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address, January 17, 1961
“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
— President Jimmy Carter, Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, December 10, 2002
