Jay Bhattacharya pulls a study because he doesn’t like the conclusions. I cannot explain how bad this is and how it reeks of the stench of ideological zealotry and has no basis in science. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
Lysenko 2: covid boogaloo
Doctor to patient: "Try to reduce your stress level, and if you somehow succeed please let me know how in God's name you did it."
I thought this felt relatable
Trump wants US taxpayers to bail out UAE, a middle-eastern petro-autocracy, because he & his family have a lot of private deals going on in UAE & they need to make their money back.
There’s a huge difference between boilerplate and using a program that makes shit up. And if they aren’t criminal lawyers it’s a horrible practice.
Posting this in the hopes it can be manifested:
Palantir's greatest source of profit comes from underpaying its so-called "forward-deployed engineers." They are paid well, but only a fraction of their value to the company. They should be encouraged to unionize.
Turns out the phrase “America First” is preceded by the words “Sell Out.”
Meta just paid the lowest effective federal tax rate in its history.
Thanks to tax breaks and loopholes, it avoided $13.7B in 2025 federal income taxes.
But now it's planning to lay off 10% of its global workforce (8,000 people) by May 20 — with more job cuts later this year.
Trickle down hoax.
well... THAT's pretty eye opening, actually, Mike, to just say it out loud like that.
Did that sound different in your head?
SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”
Wow. That’s amazing. Good for them.
In a nutshell. 😊
Sounds like good reporting to me
It’s a PR move and nothing more
This Is Just To Say
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Higher than his.
Discovery should be interesting, but we probably never get there. What's hilarious is the idea that he could possibly suffer $10 of reputational damage, much less $250M.
I'm sure the author is just delighting in today's "do what you wants as long as pay the Trump family" world. I wonder if she noticed that immediately preceding the New Deal was a period of unfettered business rapaciousness followed by a catastrophic Depression. She might have learned something.
I have seriously lost track of how many times we've completely obliterated Iran's military and how many times Trump has reopened the Strait of Hormuz.
Amazon, which saved $4B in taxes under Trump's Big Ugly Bill, has cut 30,000 jobs since last October.
Verizon, which saved $2B, plans to cut 15,000 jobs this year.
Meta, which saved $3B, plans to lay off 20% or more of its workforce.
Trickle-down economics is a cruel joke.
personally I agree that we should indeed reject the hollow pluralism of pretending that we shouldn't judge Klan, Nazi, and sparkling eugenicist subcultures according to what they have historically produced, and would enthusiastically endorse rejecting inclusion of them in public life
Virtual unreality.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
Disgusting bias.
Regulated capitalism can be consistent. Unfettered capitalism tends toward monopoly - ultimate power concentrated in the hands of a few. Unfortunately the legislature and Supreme Court have been purchased and they’ve been cutting the legs out from under government, unions, any real counterweights
Jay Bhattacharya: Why the NIH is pivoting away from mRNA vaccines
"As a vaccine for broad public use, mRNA technology has failed to earn the public’s trust."
Only the New York Times, run by a fourth-generation nepo baby for an imagined audience of other elites with Roman numerals after their names, could treat such a small-bore common-sense tax proposal as the peak sign of a class war.
If this is the peak of the "anti-rich current," they'll be lucky.
They mocked the field of gender studies as meaningless, but I think they really just knew it was onto them.
They're the softest bunch of insecure little manchildren play-acting what they have been told is manly and macho.
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Aaron Astor: My general tendency is to reject conspiracy theories. And yet, this keeps happening - massive trades just minutes before Trump announces something. And that something (Iran handing over uranium and opening Hormuz) often turns out not to be true at all.
Trump: "When you see soldiers walking around with no legs, that was Iran that did that"
