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This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

You’re not lazy, you’re overwhelmed. You’re not antisocial, you’re drained. You’re not broken, you’re trying to survive in a system built to burn you out.

submitted 19 days ago • 12 comments

A federal judge on Thursday blocked key parts of a sweeping anti-voting executive order issued by President Trump last month. Voting rights advocates had described the order as “an astonishing and unprecedented voter suppression” effort. @ariberman.bsky.social reports:

submitted 48 days ago • 10 comments

love this for us

submitted 51 days ago • 121 comments

National Weather Forecast offices are literally being forced to cripple their own ability to properly forecast weather and communicate it to the public thanks to the senseless budget cuts to NOAA. This will almost certainly result in an increase in weather-related injuries and deaths.

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring all removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.

submitted 59 days ago • 1320 comments

In less than one week, many Americans will no longer be able to apply for Social Security benefits over the phone, setting the stage for disruptions and upheaval. Nearly 6 million seniors live more than 46.6 miles, roundtrip, from a field office, per a new analysis. trib.al/5XSPqyL

submitted 65 days ago • 145 comments

can someone good at math tell me if this is bad

submitted 69 days ago • 62 comments

I agree.

submitted 70 days ago • 36 comments

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

submitted 70 days ago • 109 comments

Somebody stop this nitwit.

submitted 71 days ago • 120 comments

I honestly tried to watch Trump explain his tariffs. I did. It was like asking a senile person what happened and then giving up and asking the nurses what really happened. I’ll wait for our PM, an economist, to explain it. #cdnpoi #tariffs #elbowsup

submitted 71 days ago • 89 comments

checking in and it looks like elon lost in wisconsin?

submitted 72 days ago • 219 comments

How it started // how it's going

submitted 72 days ago • 1058 comments

SCHUMER: Would the senator yield for a question? BOOKER: Chuck Schumer, it's the only time in my life I can tell you no SCHUMER: I just want to tell you, do you know you have just broken the record? Do you know how proud America is of you?

submitted 72 days ago • 393 comments

MAD Magazine, published in 1969

submitted 73 days ago • 17 comments

I’m heading to the Senate floor because Donald Trump and Elon Musk have shown a complete disregard for the rule of law, the Constitution, and the needs of the American people. You can tune in on CSPAN, YouTube, X, and Facebook.

submitted 73 days ago • 1215 comments

Lee Zeldin, E.P.A. Head, Shuts National Environmental Museum

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

Every time I see a cybertruck in the wild it's like sorry I don't believe a real person bought one of these with their own money. These are paid actors

submitted 74 days ago • 225 comments

👀

submitted 80 days ago • 43 comments

Fired! Acting NIH Dir. Matthew Memoli has just fired me from my membership in the Board of Scientific Counselors of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' Division of Translational Toxicology. 1/2 @altnih4science.bsky.social

submitted 79 days ago • 21 comments

The most obvious lesson to draw from the leaked Signal chat is that these people really are morons. It's not a public act, it's not a schtick, there's not some secret back room where they drop the facade. They are genuinely stupid, incompetent people.

submitted 79 days ago • 1142 comments

#GovernmentEfficiency

submitted 80 days ago • 20 comments

This administration is incompetent and endangering our troops. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared war plans in an encrypted chat—including a journalist—two hours before strikes on the Houthis in Yemen, the White House confirmed.

submitted 80 days ago • 562 comments

If you aren't already moving to impeach you aren't paying attention @housedemocrats.bsky.social

submitted 80 days ago • 10 comments

Any security professional - military, government or otherwise - would be fired on the spot for this type of conduct and criminally prosecuted for being so reckless with this kind of information.

submitted 80 days ago • 615 comments

Yah no absolutely not. Don’t let that plane land.

submitted 80 days ago • 6 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 80 days ago • 804 comments

ICYMI: DOGE signed an agreement with Louis DeJoy to slash 10,000 jobs from the already-understaffed USPS. The USPS is the nation’s lifeline, ensuring delivery to every corner of the country. We cannot allow it to be dismantled, sold off, and handed over to billionaires for profit.

submitted 81 days ago • 284 comments

submitted 81 days ago • 153 comments

My maternal grandmother died in the 1918 flu pandemic. RFK Jr can go fuck himself.

submitted 82 days ago • 2666 comments

Tonight an unbelievable 34,000 people gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).

submitted 83 days ago • 3456 comments

I am very sorry to report that libbing out is now a moral responsibility

submitted 83 days ago • 50 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 84 days ago • 1653 comments

The touchstone of most authoritarian regimes is not the kind of total control that most people feel in their day-to-day lives. It is that the regime is only selectively bound by law, producing constant low-grade anxiety as to whether, how, or against whom power will be exercised.

submitted 86 days ago • 46 comments

town hall in an R+9 district 👀

submitted 86 days ago • 31 comments

The heat will kill you first.

submitted 86 days ago • 10 comments

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

submitted 87 days ago • 313 comments

So it appears DOGE has decreed that Social Security administration will no longer provide phone support. At all. This is in addition to shutting down a ton of local SSA offices. www.axios.com/2025/03/17/s...

submitted 87 days ago • 1284 comments

It’s begun. We aren’t surprised that DOGE doesn’t know how to clean data since they also are perplexed by databases. DOGE’s traitor tots are incompetent. #wecodebetterthandoge

submitted 89 days ago • 34 comments

Wait. Schumer is starting a BOOK TOUR THIS WEEK?!? Is that why he rolled over so fast?!? I’m done.

submitted 90 days ago • 1714 comments

New list of (34) NOAA lease terminations and dates. While these would all be enormous losses, please note the inclusion of: Mauna Loa Observatory in Hilo with PTD of 8/31/2025 🧪 [Rep. Jill Tokuda (HI-02)]

submitted 90 days ago • 6 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 90 days ago • 5886 comments

Illinoisans know all too well what happens when Republicans are reckless and play politics with people's livelihoods. Make no mistake: people will suffer the consequences of their negligence.

submitted 90 days ago • 95 comments

Cowards, you own what DOGE does to SSA now, so don't you fucking DARE fundraise off protecting it. I'll make sure you're mentioned with each cut. @durbin.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @johnfetterman.com @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social @schatz.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov

submitted 90 days ago • 14 comments