The shut down of USAID and its activities that reach hundreds of millions is already harming humanity and America. foxnews.com/video/63682071…

The plunge in the stock market based on Trump’s announcement of 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada was suddenly reversed when he paused for a month. The market then surged back. This is the first of many vast insider trading opportunities for the Trumpsters who get advance notice

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The single most important article yet published on Trump's second term, by two scholars who since 2016 have been consistently correct in anticipating Trump's effect on our political system. Everyone should read it.

"Few people want to be saints nowadays, but everybody is trying to lose weight." ~ René Girard

Astonished and appalled, Part 2: Antiscientific Vandalism quillette.com/2025/03/03/ant…

There are going to be Stand Up for Science events this Friday in DC and around the country. Gotta do what we can to be heard.

Well my old friend Jay Bhattacharya is having his Senate confirmation hearing today so time for a quick refresher on who this guy is. A mass infection proponent who never met a contrarian position he wouldn’t take for personal gain.

I hope JD Vance watches this video. Yesterday, JD Vance complained that his 3-year-old daughter was scared by a group of protesters shouting “Slava Ukraini.” He even went so far as to call some of them “sh*t.” The hypocrisy in his statement is staggering. His and Trump’s

RFK Jr has been stating that the "anti-measles protection" of natural infection is better than vaccination First - if he thinks measles is not bad for you, then why care how good or long lasting the immunity against it is?? Second - Measles is NOT good for you. Do not get it to

The New York Times estimate of how many people would die from USAID cuts *this year* is just staggering. Nearly two million from AIDS relief cuts, half a million from vaccine cuts and from food aid cuts each, 600,000 from of malaria and tuberculosis cuts. Genuinely monstrous

We are so exhausted by Trump that it is tempting to just switch off. But that lets him win. We have to keep focusing and noticing. Today he abolishes the DOD’s key analysis functions on Russia threat and security.

When you are happy that you have cancelled the incredible Sir Salman Rushdie from giving a talk at your college, you really have lost the plot. thedailybeast.com/salman-rushdie…

Ok, now apologize for the deaths of over 200,000 children.

Two weeks ago, Marco Rubio said USAID “has little to show since the end of the Cold War.” Days earlier, a Lancet study estimated that USAID global health programs have saved 90 million lives—not since 1991, but since just 2001.

Firing the head of a key government agency because you don’t like the numbers they report, which come from surveys using long established procedures, is what happens in authoritarian countries not democratic ones. This is surely not the most serious threat to our democracy that

Trump is sending federal agents to walk circles in the safest parts of DC and I’m supposed to believe this is a real anti crime strategy.

In the last few years we've seen: - The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer - The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC - The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi - Multiple assassination attempts against Trump - The assassination

FIRE’s Bob Corn-Revere for Washington Post Opinions: FCC Chair Brendan Carr nakedly abused government power to pressure ABC into removing Jimmy Kimmel from the air for his speech. In America, the government doesn’t get to play network executive and determine who and what you watch.

It would be really funny were it not so depressing when nativists use Bell Labs, Manhattan Project, and Moon landing as example of what can be achieved *without* immigrant scientists and researchers. Bell Labs was *literally* founded by an immigrant (Alexander Graham Bell), a