RFK Jr: "President Trump has a different way of calculating percentages. If you have a $600 drug and you reduce it to $10, that's a 600% reduction."

when I reported on threats to mRNA research for @damemagazine.bsky.social something that came up frequently was how scared scientists were of losing funding, precisely bc their mRNA projects were already achieving the previously unthinkable

“From Shakespeare to sexbots, centuries of culture and commerce have rehearsed the same fantasy: if women cannot be controlled as people, they can be remade as objects.” — new me at @damemagazine.bsky.social

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#feminism #tech #AI

Our long national nightmare of effective cancer treatment is coming to an end.

Melania choosing now to speak publicly about Jeffrey Epstein is interesting…

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

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We're so happy to always publish you!

FDR Playbook for Democrats on Affordability As economic anxiety rises, Democrats have a proven model in FDR. Why they’re failing to sell it—and what they must do to win on affordability

Trump is spending billions on a war with Iran, while telling Americans that affordability isn’t his problem.

In 1933, FDR took office in the middle of an economic collapse and then delivered relief that people could actually feel.
Dems could use that playbook now, writes @zeblarson.bsky.social

FDR Playbook for Democrats on Affordability As economic anxiety rises, Democrats have a proven model in FDR. Why they’re failing to sell it—and what they must do to win on affordability

Look at @damemagazine.bsky.social out here, providing thoughtful, history-based analysis of our modern moment: www.damemagazine.com/2026/04/07/f...

America’s Long War on Iran Didn’t Start This Weekend - Dame Magazine From the 1953 CIA-backed coup to Trump’s latest strikes, America’s attempts to reshape Iran have fueled instability, sanctions, and endless escalation.

Thank you for saying this. So appreciated

We tried to do the same with Iran www.damemagazine.com/2026/03/02/a...

FDR Playbook for Democrats on Affordability As economic anxiety rises, Democrats have a proven model in FDR. Why they’re failing to sell it—and what they must do to win on affordability

Democrats love to talk about affordability but they really don't seem to have a playbook beyond hoping that Trump tanks the economy and they get elected behind it. Their rhetoric is just...bloodless.

I wrote about what they could learn from FDR here for @damemagazine.bsky.social.

And the GOP majority in Congress on vacation and silent

Morally, legally, economically the war on Iran is disastrous and the disaster goes on for years no matter what happens now. But what cannot be overstated is that in pure national security terms it is also an unmitigated catastrophe.

This part especially

Yes, by design

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Another one of those what-if-it-happened-in-another-country moments:

The president is suing the government for $100 million dollars for searching his home for the classified documents he stole, and the attorney who represented him on those charges is currently leading the Justice Department.

🤬

Cool country where you’re left asking whether a joint chief of staff was forced out because he opposed a disastrous ground invasion of Iran or because he opposed a Blackhawk hovering over Kid Rock’s pool.

Hegseth ousts Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army.

Hegseth is being blamed for the Iran debacle by elements in the White House. Therefore, he is trying to save his own skin by blaming the Army. In any case, this is ominous.

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End/Put it all together and the picture is pretty clear:

This isn’t dysfunction. It’s a system where crisis is the point. This is polycrisis.

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Why ‘Flooding the Zone’ Works for Trump - Dame Magazine Trump’s allies openly described a strategy to overwhelm the press with simultaneous crises. The structure of modern journalism makes it work

5/ The media aspect also matters.

“Flood the zone” isn’t noise; it’s their tactic. Overwhelm people with so much information that nothing sticks, nothing lands, nothing changes - and propaganda takes hold too.

Read part four here:

How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

4/ And because EVERYTHING is political, polycrisis is also psychological

Living in nonstop crisis changes how we think, react, and cope. Burnout, anxiety, numbness, all the psychic injury, all the time.

Read part three here:

The Politics of Permanent Disaster - Dame Magazine By flooding the system with constant crisis, the Trump administration sidelines Congress, exhausts the public, and concentrates executive power.

3/ Then, of course, comes the strategy from this admin: create chaos, keep it going.

Trumpism doesn’t resolve crises; it sustains them. Constant instability makes power easier to hold and harder to challenge.

Read part two here:

America’s Polycrisis Has Arrived - Dame Magazine Whenever the daily outrage, crisis, or violation of basic norms emerges from the Trump administration, senior Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakee...

2/ What exactly is a polycrisis?

It’s not just “a lot of stuff is going wrong”. It’s an overlapping systems failure. Political, economic, and social breakdowns all feeding into each other.

Read part one here:

America’s Polycrisis Has Arrived - Dame Magazine Whenever the daily outrage, crisis, or violation of basic norms emerges from the Trump administration, senior Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Hakee...

Everything feels just so incredibly chaotic right now.

We’re living through what experts call a polycrisis

Last month, we broke it down in this series. It feels like a good time to resurface it 🧵 1/

Fixed terms of office can feel like a jail sentence for the entire nation when it is all but impossible to get rid of presidents for abuse of power, or even just being a compete fuckup

"So now we’re here, in a moment where the contradictions are impossible to ignore. Where the same people who once claimed moral high ground on issues of children and animals seem curiously quiet."