Mastodawn

The hacks working furiously to rationalize Trump’s desire to end birthright citizenship serve very much the same function in law that the Discovery Institute does in biology: To create the illusion of a scholarly debate that in fact does not exist.

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David Ho 16h ago

It's important that when journalists report high consumer prices, they link them back to the actions of the Trump regime.

https://fortune.com/2026/03/27/dow-ceo-iran-war-high-petrochemical-prices-through-2026/

Dow CEO warns petrochemical shortage from Iran war could fuel inflation for rest of the year

Dow chair and CEO Jim Fitterling estimates unwinding the shortages could take up to 275 days.

Fortune

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Freedom of the Press 15h ago

Pro tip: You know a government agency’s media policy is a sham when it tells journalists to just file a Freedom of Information Act request.

https://www.ms.now/opinion/pete-hegseth-pentagon-press-policy-problem

Hegseth’s revised Pentagon press policy offers a sham nod at transparency

Lauren Harper: Given how much information the Pentagon redacts on well-known topics, why should any reporter believe Hegseth’s claim that FOIA is a viable substitute for actual media access?

MS NOW

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The Tennessee Holler 15h ago

UPDATE: As House Republicans rejects the Senate DHS deal and keep airport lines long, keep in mind this is all because Trump wants his voter suppression bill passed.

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The Tennessee Holler 14h ago

FLEISCHER: “Republicans in the house now own the blame for delays at the airports”

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Jeff Atwood 1d ago

Please do check my work on this, and cite what you have.. but from what I am seeing in the data, if we simply collected a fair tax from billionaires we could literally eliminate all poverty in this entire country at the 100% FPL level.

slafetra 1d ago

George Takei

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This is how someone acts when the GOP in Congress and the radicals on SCOTUS have utterly enabled him.

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George Monbiot 1d ago

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

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CelloMom On Cars 1d ago

"The US has caused an eye-watering $10tn in global damages to the world over the past three decades through its vast planet-heating emissions, with a quarter of this economic pain inflicted upon itself, new research has found.

China, now the world’s largest emitter, is responsible for $9tn in GDP damage since 1990, according to the findings of the paper."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/25/us-climate-damage-research

US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

US, top carbon emitter in history, has ‘a lot of responsibility’ for causing ‘substantial’ harm globally, scientist says

The Guardian

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Robert Reich 1d ago

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