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This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

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.

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:

love this for us

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.

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.

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

can someone good at math tell me if this is bad

I agree.

Ohh "America First" was a hit list

Somebody stop this nitwit.

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

checking in and it looks like elon lost in wisconsin?

How it started // how it's going

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?

MAD Magazine, published in 1969

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.

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

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

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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

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.

#GovernmentEfficiency

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.

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

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.

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

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...

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.

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

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).

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

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.

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.

town hall in an R+9 district 👀

The heat will kill you first.

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

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...

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

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

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)]

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.

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.

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