Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.
This is incredible.
Also. Fuck RFK Jr.
the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
JFC do you have any idea how much $41 million dollars is in the world of state legislative elections?
I don't have the figures at hand but I'll bet that in 2024, every candidate for every state seat in the legislatures of all 3 states combined didn't collectively raise half that much.
(1) By gutting IRS really rich people are going to cheat US today, costing US hundreds of $billions
(2) By gutting free-filing, tens of millions of working Americans are going to pay TurboTax and H&RBlock for what the government could easily go do free
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.
This is so horrifying on so many levels. Again, please call your members of congress and beyond - The states should fight this hard too. The impact is ... difficult to comprehend.
Unprecedented corruption
I should draw the line clearly if you are unaware.
Woodside, a petroleum company with almost no consumer facing business, is spending multiple millions of dollars to put their logo on every LSU sport jersey in 26-27 for the sole purpose of lobbying to get state gov support for this plant.
Trump on his military advisers: "I was told this is a very dangerous mission. They didn't say it's a foolish mission, they said 'We're gonna be sacrificing hundreds of people to do this.' I just felt it was worth it."
"I think we should invest in our own people," says the toady from the administration that has slashed billions of dollars in federal funding for colleges and universities.
“The last night I was a pediatric resident, a child came in with Hib and promptly died by the next day. I didn’t work for 50 years to have everything destroyed by one man.”
-Dr. Kathryn Edwards, Vanderbilt University
This is what RFK Jr. and the anti-vaxxers have wrought.
I know it’s competing with an illegal war and 10,000 other major scandals but I feel like people should be making a bigger deal out of the DefSec systematically trying to resegregate the military
And yet more major media normalization of an erratic and internally incoherent speech full of lies.
Trumps kids are being pulled into all sorts of schemes on the assumption that the government will provide favorable treatment, which could be loans or regulatory treatment. Jr is also an advisor for both Kalshi and Polymarket which are barely being regulated open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
This is nuts. The only reason to do this is the cruelty and the racism. It will actively harm the U.S. economy. We're not talking about undocumented migrant workers here. These are legal PERMANENT residents.
The call is coming from inside the house.
Before 2025, US federal funding provided 45% of the global cancer research budget. So yet another blow to everyone affected by cancer in the coming decades
They started a war of choice for absolutely no reason, with no real strategy and no real preparation, and the end result will be a global situation that is, in every single way, worse than what it was when they started.
Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.
BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market.
$1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold.
These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else.
They made huge gains.
Unusual.
He's consistently great, even in a role without much screen time, and the actor being a nurse in real life made the ICE scene even more compelling IMO
BREAKING: The White House is out with a new National Policy framework for AI.
The proposal says: "States should not be permitted to regulate AI development."
It also says that states shouldn't be able to penalize AI companies when people break the law with their models.
Absolutely insane. We were literally the leading economy in the world after the pandemic and Trump and this stupid Republican Congress torched it.
Genuinely just bonkers to watch the USA do this to one of the most successful and innovative hubs of scientific research the world has ever seen. All those years of Free Speech On Campus debates and it turns out they actually wanted less cancer research. Absurd.
This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit.
www.cato.org/white-paper/...
