BALDWIN: Do you think NIH should fund less cancer research?
RFK Jr: No, they should fund more, & one of the few agencies that got a raise in the budget was NCI
B: That increase is less than $1m for an institute with a $7b budget. That's a .01% increase. It wouldn't even cover one additional grant
I can’t remember: did Texas even hold a vote to amend their constitution to add their five Republican seats?
They think you're stupid.
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
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This is........weird
The airstrikes to date have all been the sort of thing where the initial strike is gonna majorly fuck up that size of boat
Conversely the USCG interdictions have all (afaik) been conducted normally (commands to heave to and if ignored limited fire to disable before boarding)
"Few approve of how Donald Trump is handling the cost of living" – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 "The nationwide poll was conducted April 16-20, 2026 using the AmeriSpeak® Panel, the probability-based panel of NORC at the University of Chicago. Online and telephone interviews using landlines and cell phones were conducted with 2,596 adults. The overall margin of sampling error is +/- 3.4 percentage points."
There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump.
– Overall: 33-67
– Immigration: 40-59
– Iran: 32-67
– Economy: 30-70
– Cost of living: 23(!)-76
37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living.
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lol, it means he’s taking a cut of the ballroom and his library. Always a confession
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.”
TBF this is for the same technological reasons that even the goddamn US Navy can't open the Strait of Hormuz anytime soon without a colossal Army operation.
This is something I've been hoping Dems do for some time. Hold the Senate GOP accountable for every incompetent the confirmed, and the destruction of American lives that resulted, but also for the oversight not exercised, especially over Iran.
🚨🚨🚨 This lying POS started a war with Iran, murdered 165 elementary school students, wasted $3B on missiles, lied about it, got caught AND went GOLFING!!!
AND NOW WE LEARN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL WAS THE TARGET!!!
And TACO TRUMP lost over 10 brave lives, and TWO $100M F-15 jets 🚨🚨🚨
Trump started an illegal war where 13 service members and many Iranian schoolgirls died
Gas and grocery prices are through the roof
We can’t afford to pay rent or buy health insurance
And ICE is killing people in the streets
Changes at the federal level are long overdue
Vote YES, Virginia
Just a matter of time until we get a poll with Trump below freezing at 32 approval
This is glaringly obvious to everyone except for the faces of corporate media, who desperately want to walk a red carpet
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More generally: Trump’s economic policy makes more sense once you recognize it’s just an elaborate bribe-solicitation mechanism.
A hundred years ago, the U.S. had a nationwide network of short-line railroads that connected most urban and rural communities. By the 1940s, most of it had been dismantled ... by the barons of the auto and oil industries. 😑
Screenshot reads: "I don't really understand why, because she followed the rules of immigration by the T since day one?" Serrano, 51, told CBS News of her detention.
You don’t say
Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Khanna to Maria Bartiromo: "Barack Obama was a great statesman who left America much safer. I wouldn't put Donald Trump in the same paragraph. Obama actually did his homework ... all Donald Trump did is listen to Netanyahu. That's his entire foreign policy."
What he had was a gun.
I can't reconcile Justice Thomas' speech today about how important any job worth doing is worth doing well, and that it's critical not to skip any steps, and that a judge owes follow the proper procedures to the American people, with his acceptance of gifts and participation in the shadow docket.
CALIFORNIA: Those scare ads for legislation limiting medical settlements that quote the LA Times are paid for by Uber because they want to limit how much they can be sued for when they hit you with their cars. calmatters.org/economy/2026...
And so the FUCKHEAD RFK decided to pull all government funding for mRNA research.
It’s the self-sabotaging STUPIDITY of this admin that exhausts me the most.
NPR has received one of the largest charitable gifts in its history.
"I support NPR because an informed public is the bedrock of our society" philanthropist Connie Ballmer said.
She and her husband Steve, former Microsoft CEO, have given away more than $3 billion.
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And the voices in the industry that are teasing us with an ai-driven eutopia of prosperity keep saying we'll need laws to create a strong social safety net and share the wealth while actively lobbying for neither of those things and simply getting richer themselves.
The Palentir statement on its desired “Technological Republic” is one of the scariest things I have seen in a while. It is a call for a world dominated by an authoritarian U.S., generated by AI (both the statement and the world), run by tech-surveillance companies. Technofascism pure!
