*Publicly funded drug research—like the system proposed in Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s bill—could replace patent monopolies, reducing prices and corruption while still supporting innovation*
Mar 6, 2026
By @deanbaker13.bsky.social
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That comes to $60k per household, but hey who wouldn't pay that so Donnie can feel tough?
Drugs are cheap without patent monopolies. Representative Tlaib has bill to make drugs cheap cepr.net/publications...
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
In Donald Trump's America, anything is possible!
Thanks for answering I think it is a good plan.
It's not just Trump. I'm guessing that any politician of either party who has regular visits from fossil fuel industry lobbyists is similarly motivated to keep these cars out of the US. And they all need to be primaried by people who give a damn about the future of our planet.
Another technology that China ran away with - the american century is over...
I have a PHEV and love it. I occasionally have to drive a couple hundred miles in a day for work in rural areas with very limited charging options. Even decent sized cities in my area are sparse on chargers. But most of the time I can do all my driving in a day in EV mode.
Holy crap. Whoa, if true.
Drugs would be cheap if the government didn't give drug companies patent monopolies. Rep. Tlaib's bill offers an alternative deanbaker22.substack.com/p/drugs-are-...
Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"
While we're spending American capital trying to figure out how best to make middle class job skills obsolete, the Chinese are making widely beneficial technological innovation the norm. Charging 200+ miles of range in ~5 minutes is wild
5 minutes from 20% to 80%, maybe you should recharge before you get to 10%
deanbaker22.substack.com/p/canada-has...
company. I think what BYD is showing is real. Again, when in production and on the road, we shall see. I think the main point is that China is moving forward into the future while America is going backwards.
SEND US THE GODDAMN CHINESE CARRRRRRRRRS
then why do we need 100% tariffs to keep them out?
PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?
COLBY: Defer to you
R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'
C: Defer to you
R: That was actually you
To put this charging rate in perspective, 2 km per second = 4,500 mph.
@meteorblades.bsky.social
This is an old argument that dates at least to Vietnam days. Because we have troops there, we have to keep the war going. It wasn't a good argument 60 years ago and it has not improved with age.
Mohamad Dargalayi ® @MohamadDargalay X.com • Translated from Arabic by Grok Violent shelling on the capital #Tehran. #Iran #Tehran Rate this translation:
ISRAEL WAR ROOM Israel War Room @IsraelWarRoom X.com ©* The IDF has launched a new wave of strikes against the Iranian terror regime's infrastructure in Tehran. 7:55 PM • 3/5/26 • 487 Views
Massive wave of Israeli airstrikes underway in Iran:
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
These BYD 🚗 are going to be all over Canada and Mexico. Just a matter of time before they get to the USA.This should have been done by Tesla, but Elon is too distracted.
In the meantime, the DJT administration will do its best to make sure US companies and infrastructure fall farther behind.
If only Kamala Harris had been elected president, engineers in Columbus, Ohio would be building leading edge semiconductors and union workers in Lordstown Ohio would be making batteries for American made EVs.
What a difference right-wing propaganda makes.
"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...
“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
