The American Prospect's Ryan Cooper has found himself utterly flabbergasted by the way that President Donald Trump and X owner Elon Musk are leading what he describes as "the dumbest imperial collapse in history." read more
Two people are dead after two planes collided mid-air Wednesday morning at an airport in southern Arizona. read more
I'm gonna take my time to say what MAGA has stood for these past three weeks," said Kluwe. "MAGA stands for trying to erase trans people from existence. MAGA stands for resegregation and racism. MAGA stands for censorship and book bans. MAGA stands for firing air traffic controllers while planes are crashing. MAGA stands for firing the people overseeing our nuclear arsenal." MAGA stands for firing military veterans and those serving them at the VA, including canceling research on veteran suicide," the former punter added. "MAGA stands for cutting funds for education, including for disabled children. MAGA is profoundly corrupt, unmistakenly anti-democracy, and most importantly, MAGA is explicitly a Nazi movement." Kluwe then slightly elevated his voice to say, "You may have replaced a swastika with a red hat, but that is what it is.
Brazil's prosecutor-general on Tuesday formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat ... read more
THREE DAYS AFTER the National Institutes of Health abruptly announced it would place a strict, low cap on the money it sends to universities and research institutions for the administrative costs of scientific research, the University of Iowa made an abrupt announcement of its own. The school's Office of the Vice President for Research declared that going forward, it would pause "the hiring of new Graduate Research Assistants unless they are already budgeted as a direct cost on a funded project." The announcement sent shockwaves through parts of academia, providing an alarming demonstration of the impact the NIH cap would have on aspiring scientists. "We were pretty stunned," the chair of the biochemistry and molecular biology department at a top university told The Bulwark.
Runt is getting dragged bigly tonight.