Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
2008: 0.3%
2024: 19%
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Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:
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Flashback, June 2025: “Conservatives on SCOTUS give DOGE the go-ahead.” www.lawdork.com/p/conservati...
Thanks to Trump's attacks on federal research funding, the National Cancer Institute hasn't made a single grant this fiscal year.
Just last month, Trump issued an EO to increase production of glyphosate, a chemical linked to cancer.
"Make America Healthy Again."
24% was the floor when people got their news from Walter Cronkite.
Two of the possible outcomes of the Iran War:
• An Iranian regime with greater popular support than before and a single-minded focus on obtaining nuclear weapons for the purpose of deterrence
or
• A failed state, which would be a humanitarian disaster and a destabilizing force for decades
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
The huge economic costs of Trump’s mass deportation atrocities should be talked about more.
Really, did we “lose” jobs, as in “misplace” them, like car keys or reading glasses? And for whom was this unexpected? Let’s get real. The jobs were not “lost,” and it is not as much of a shocker as legacy outlets made it out to be.
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A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.
11 hours later:
No public statements from any House Republican leaders on Ogles' post.
No denunciation from any House Republicans.
No responses to any of my requests for comment from House Republican leaders, U.S. senators from Tennessee, the Tennessee Republican Party or Ogles' office.
If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.
GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.
John Oliver (on right) gestures with his hands as he speaks. On left, a ProPublica headline from December 15, 2025 reads: “Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera.” An article excerpt below says: "... turning rows red, yellow or green every few seconds, never asking a single question.”
1/ On yesterday’s @lastweektonight.com about USAID, John Oliver cited several of our investigations.
First up was our reporting about how DOGE operatives had arbitrarily cut aid programs, in some cases by literally clicking through a spreadsheet: propub.li/4cCsSKP
Has any American president ever pleaded ignorance so convincingly?
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States
FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States https://theonion.com/fbi-uncovers-al-qaeda-plot-to-just-sit-back-and-enjoy-c-1819576375/
A dude in Texas who makes bomb shelters for nuclear war has seen his business skyrocket this week.
Recent clients include 2 Trump admin members, and the rest were almost all “Christian, conservative CEOs,” which included “several of the wealthiest men on the planet."
www.rawstory.com/iran-war/
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
Meanwhile affirmative action "meritocracy" manosphere tech bros wasting our taxes:
"OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."
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Much like the aftermath of the Iraq war, there will be huge political benefits for everyone who was clearly against this Iran war from the outset. It is disappointing that so few Democrats can understand this.
Look Mr @michaelemann.bsky.social
A hockey stick graph.
I bet the powers that be take this one more seriously.
This was all set in motion when we let George Bush lie us into an illegal war with no consequences. Elite impunity and corruption is going to be our undoing.
I hope some Republicans are having second thoughts about mindlessly following a dementia addled narcissistic sociopath over a cliff.
We can’t afford health insurance, cancer research, food assistance, weather forecasts, meals on wheels, or USAID, by we can afford endless billions for an illegal war of choice.
that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world
Trump views this as another opportunity to advertise his hat sales.
That is my point, we had widespread reporting that DOJ covered up credible allegations that Trump raped a 13 year-old and Democrats let it disappear in one news cycle.
And USAID saved 90 million lives in the last 25 years, which should count for something.
I am sure it is in the area around Tehran and east, west, south and north somewhat.
There was a month long media feeding frenzy because Obama went to Jeremiah Wright’s church. This is at least an order of magnitude worse and crickets from the media.
