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2025-03-18 23:48:00

When you privatize services like health care, the only thing you achieve is making the rich wealthier, paying workers less, and providing a worse service. The government may not be the most efficient or speediest, but removing executive salaries and profit from the equation goes a long way to providing fair pay and effective service.

2025-03-18 23:45:00

📫 March 17, 2025 /// Letters from an American

The erasure of Indigenous, Black, Hispanic, and female veterans from our military history is an attempt to elevate white men as the sole actors in our history.

If for some odd reason you needed proof that preserving confederate statues was about racism and not preserving history” this should do it.

2025-03-17 12:29:00

🚗 Elon Musk is running Tesla into the ground /// Disconnect

But Musk’s reputation isn’t Tesla’s only problem; his management is driving the company down too.

This obviously won’t be news to anyone reading here, but it’s nice to see everything laid out in such a clear manner with numbers.

2025-03-17 12:28:00

🥼 NASA, Yale, and Stanford Scientists Consider Scientific Exile,’ French University Says /// 404

Today, the university announced that it is already seeing great interest from scientists at NASA, Yale, Stanford, and other American schools and government agencies, and that it wants to expand the program to other schools and European countries to absorb all the researchers who want to leave the United States.

America: the country that seeks to eliminate diversity and intelligence. The country that’s supposed to be the best is preventing our smartest from doing what they do best. It’s idiotic.

2025-03-17 12:23:00

🦮 A Memorandum from the Newly Established Department of Grammar Efficiency /// McSweeney’s

Do Not worry about Which words to Captitalize or put in ALL CAPS. Just go with a vibe. Emphasize WHATEVER NEEDS IT.

It’d be funny if only we weren’t dealing with idiocy like this on a daily basis.

2025-03-17 03:10:00

🧐 This Is How You Interview a Government Official /// The Present Age

Martin pressed Edgar at least ten times to provide a specific example of what Khalil did that constituted supporting terrorism, and Edgar couldn’t offer a single concrete example. Not one.

The idea a permanent resident can’t participate in protest is unconscionable to me and should be to everyone no matter their political views. I know you can’t post your way out of fascism, but I do think it’s incredibly important journalists continue to push and probe and that we continue to highlight it by whatever means we have—even if it’s just posting.