In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
American higher education is still the envy of the world, but we have given the Chinese government a big opening for them to keep or bring back more of their top talent. This would take decades (barring major unrest in China) to reverse. Gift link.
I'm not sure if this is controversial, but I declare electric vehicles as the most inevitable clean technology - more so even than techs with higher current adoption, such as wind or solar.
As my mentor used to say: "it's all over but the shouting", though most people don't realize it.
I seriously think academia would benefit more from picking up the phone and talking to someone rather than trying to say the same thing in an email.
My own experience is that things move much faster with less misunderstanding over the phone than an email.
In a few years, we will come to see these gambling corporations akin to Purdue Pharma when they pretended not to know about the lethal consequences of their drugs.
And Congress will be responsible for every instance of financial ruin or suicides that result from their inaction or worse, complicity.
Increasing wealth inequality creates a worse quality of life for most Americans.
Companies start to cater only to the small number of wealthy customers - auto manufacturers, airlines, hotels - while the experiences gets much worse for everyone else.
This isn't sustainable.
Today, Israeli forces fired teargas at Palestinian schoolchildren who staged a sit-in in the occupied West Bank after settlers blocked access to their school.
It’s the first day of class since the start of the Iran war.
This is life for Palestinian children. The world does nothing.
This is a really important piece. Detroit has been coddled for decades through bipartisan protectionism. The US should let China sell affordable EVs, get them to invest by building EV manufacturing here, and let Detroit complete. And if Detroit can't complete, they don't deserve to be in business.
Probably so, and it's not like we've made progress on "you're being cheated out of the benefits of your labor" in the past 50 years.
From 1979Q4 to 2025Q4, productivity is up 92.4% but hourly pay is only up 33.6%, a gap that just keeps growing.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaking to reporters. (Photo by Daniel Pier/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Spain PM Pedro Sánchez: “What we’ve witnessed in Gaza is a human catastrophe that has already been etched into the conscience of our history—
We cannot allow that same pattern of massive destruction, of innocent civilian victims, & of disregard for international law to be repeated on Lebanese soil”
Children in Juárez, Mexico, watched a live broadcast of the launch of NASA's Artemis II mission. JOSE LUIS GONZALEZ/REUTERS
call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
What Israel is doing in Lebanon is obscene. What they’re doing on every front is obscene. A country that will fall apart if they stop being in perpetual war.
A WHOLE CIVILIZATION WILL DIE TONIGHT My son needs lunch, and I have to put his backpack together, but a whole civilization will die tonight, so I'm wondering if they've closed their schools. Like, a snow day, maybe, except instead of snow it's "keep your children home so if you die, you die together" — instead of "well open back up once the plows have cleared" it's "we don't know if we'll be here tomorrow, hold your babies tight." It's just "talk" I'm told, which I've been told before. "It's how the president makes his deals." But I've never heard anyone talk about other human beings this way, and I'm not certain I can look my son in the eyes if we all agree to stomach it one more time. A civilization will die tonight, but as I zip up his backpack and kiss him off to school I think: if this is what we call leadership then I'm not entirely sure ours isn't already dead. @michaelfdubois Mukad A QuBoy @michacifdubois
Brutal.
some people you can recruit, other people you have to simply defeat. politics makes more sense when you accept this
Corruption & elite capture was always going to be the US' undoing; this admin simply supercharged it.
Trump is only a symptom; dangers of propaganda as media, accelerating wealth inequality, unchecked techno-fascism pose far bigger challenges.
And political opposition seem completely unprepared.
Any Dem 28 nominee that does not pledge to fully prosecute every single admin member for war crimes and corruption should not deserve a single vote in the Primary.
And incompetent seat warmers - including Jeffries and Schumer - must be forced to resign or retire.
everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability
there wasn't a lot left to ruin but my brain is currently fully broken that people with power let a man hold the entire world hostage for like 9 hours with an existential threat. insane country. broken.
I've now seen several posts from Democratic US Senators and House Reps calling for Congress to return to DC, and my only reaction to seeing these is: Do it. Just get on a plane and go back to DC. The House is in Recess, not adjourned. There was a pro forma session today. Go. Lead by example.
Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:
After Trump's latest genocidal utterances, I'm posting this again from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944:
“America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.
While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.
americans have absolutely no idea how badly the war is going for the united states, all thanks to the gutless, witless journalists who refuse to cover the facts of the situation
Axios: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pledge of "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies" violates a bright‑line ban in the laws of war, legal experts say. March 15, 2026
Now that at least one U.S. air crew member is alive on the ground in Iran, it's worth revisiting Pete Hegseth's commitment to "no quarter, no mercy for our enemies."
This is the scenario he was warned about.
A single data point for y'all:
Before the war, we were toying with the idea of a hybrid to replace our 15-year oldToyota.
Now, we've reconsidered the decision to only focus on EVs.
No solution other than a full break from consuming oil will insulate us from the wars of mad men.
🚨🚨Breaking news: #EUenergy commissioner Dan Jorgensen has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the #Gulf. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/euro...