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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu
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Matthew Federman
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TV/Screenwriter. Co-Creator/EP of Blood and Treasure. Wrote on Limitless, Warehouse 13, Jericho, other stuff. Post about writing, the industry, neurodiversity (PDA Autism) and other stuff at my website: www.matthewfederman.com
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It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
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They’ve added trillions in new spending. None of that has gone to Social Security or Medicaid. They will now say both are broke and must be cut. America needs new leadership.👇🏼
PBS NewsAmericans’ Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That’s months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://to.pbs.org/4f39DL0
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Shouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.
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if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”
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Fixation and paranoia are the two most persistent symptoms of dementia, in my experience. He'll never let this go, and it will be glorious to watch.
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Listen, Wakanda has long been a stalwart friend and ally to us here in Freedonia, and we expect them to stand with us in our ongoing trade war with Sylvania. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
US government lists fictional nation Wakanda as trade partnerOfficials say it was an error to add the fictional nation from Black Panther to the list.www.bbc.com
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Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
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On the one hand, this really bums me out, because s1 was so good, and Yahya even got an Emmy nom for it. On the other hand, it feels sadly on-brand for Wonder Man — a guy whose whole deal in the comics is that he keeps dying and coming back — to get an improbable renewal, then have it taken away.
‘Wonder Man’ Not Returning for Season 2 at Disney+ (EXCLUSIVE)"Wonder Man" has been canceled at Disney+, Variety has learned.variety.com
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A physician I know would spend their entire day in 2020 tending to people dying from COVID, then go home and have their parents tell them to their face that it was a hoax. When the doctor would try to share what they were seeing, they were dismissed and told they're just confused.
Shematologist, MDBack in 2020, as a pediatric hematologist married to a physician, we signed up to volunteer in a field hospital for patients with COVID. We wrote our wills and worried about getting our kids sick. I posted about terrifying outcomes in kids and received death threats. Fauci is a goddamn hero.
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forest service plans $10m worth of work to create fire breaks in superior national forest in minnesota. trump allows his top donor -- a self-proclaimed expert on everything -- to ixnay that funding because... reasons! superior national forest now on fire. www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2026...
‘We were shovel-ready’: A Minnesota forest hit by DOGE cuts is now ablazeOfficials said losing out on the ability to do vital prevention work at a perilous time for the region hindered them from being as prepared as they could have been.www.washingtonpost.com
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This story is indeed insane. They literally *discounted his correct answers* (on questions about the Constitution) so that a Trump supporting girl who wants to go to Hillsdale College could win $25K and be televised meeting Trump. So. Gross.
Charlotte ClymerThis story is crazy. It would appear Trump admin officials rigged their nationally televised high school civics contest to keep a young man from a Sikh family out of the finalists. www.notus.org/national/ame...
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Mark Zuckerberg's assistant at Meta, Josh Felker, who was responsible for Meta's "digital experiences for kids," was arrested after admitting he tried to sext a 13-year-old during an undercover sting. nypost.com/2026/07/20/u...
Exclusive | Meta worker who developed ‘digital experiences for kids’ admits to trying to sext child in undercover NYC stingHe admitted he had been grooming and sexting someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl during a sting by vigilante group Predator Poachers Long Island.nypost.com
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A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Canadian plane dropping water on the Los Angeles forest fire. Neighbors helping neighbors. Thank you so much Canada, we are sorry our current leader is an idiot.
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Fascinating thread from the writer whose 2017 translation of The Odyssey you are now going to see many people reading!
EMILY WILSONOn the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
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That song bops! There’s also this “fantastic” movie shown to kids (junior high and high school I believe). m.youtube.com/watch?v=V0Cg...
Duck and Cover (1951) | The Cold War Film That Taught American Kids to Survive #Nuclear #WarYouTube video by Music & Movie Moments – Christiaan Janssensm.youtube.com
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NENA | 99 Luftballons [1983] [Offizielles HD Musikvideo]YouTube video by NENAyoutu.beMatthew FedermanTrying to explain to my kid how paranoid we were about nuclear war when I was growing up and my best example was we had a song about somebody releasing 99 red balloons into the air and accidentally setting off World War III and it was a hit in two languages.
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this is why we need to legally mandate the disclosure of this information. that we don't is a truly bipartisan congressional failure going back many years, fueled by industry cash.
paris martineauThe way this recall has been handled so far is absolutely bizarre. Instead of listing brand names, Taylor Farm used internal abbreviations for all the products impacted I was able to get Walmart and Sysco to confirm their products were impacted, but the lack of details is a nightmare for consumers
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Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*