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Debunked, half-true, and deeply ableist. RFK Jr. knows shockingly little about autism.

submitted 23 days ago • 700 comments

A Lancet preprint estimates that if US funding is cut and not replaced, from 2025-2040 there will be 15.2 mil add'l AIDS deaths, 2.2 mil add'l TB deaths, 7.9 mil add'l child deaths from other causes, and 40-55 mil add'l unplanned pregnancies. @altusaid.altgov.info papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

submitted 23 days ago • 33 comments

www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

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submitted 34 days ago • 69 comments

Grocery store egg prices keep rising while wholesale costs drop. That’s not a supply chain issue – it's a deliberate choice by giant corporations to squeeze working people.

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

They are obviously slow learners

submitted 33 days ago • 3651 comments

I’m voting HELL NO on the Republican CR. It hands Musk and Trump a blank check, turning your tax dollars into a wanna-be dictator’s slush fund. No accountability. Just corruption on autopilot.

submitted 62 days ago • 487 comments

I'm honestly running out of words I can use on the air to describe what's happening in and to this economy

submitted 62 days ago • 672 comments

Merkley: "The best time to take on a tyrant is as early as possible. And this is the moment."

submitted 62 days ago • 553 comments

This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA. Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

submitted 63 days ago • 487 comments

Yeet the ute scheduled for a week from today

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Out of his fucking mind.

submitted 64 days ago • 105 comments

Folks: Take a few seconds to submit comments to these proposed regulation changes

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submitted 69 days ago • 109 comments

AP jaw-dropper: “In some cases, photos seemed to be flagged for removal simply because their file included the word ”gay,” including service members with that last name and an image of the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan” apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 69 days ago • 242 comments

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

submitted 71 days ago • 1070 comments

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

submitted 73 days ago • 290 comments

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

submitted 73 days ago • 1308 comments

There’s a major shift in U.S. cybersecurity policy. A recent CISA memo removed Russia from its list of priorities, focusing instead on China and local systems. Analysts were told not to track Russian cyber threats.

submitted 72 days ago • 1154 comments

1. Reports this week revealed that DHS has rescinded guidance banning surveillance based on someone's gender identity or sexual orientation. We have confirmed those reports. The latest from S. Baum, who goes over steps you can take to protect yourself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 73 days ago • 57 comments

Every accusation is an intention.

submitted 73 days ago • 487 comments

Anyone know if there is any reporting on how the economic blackout went?

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump-Vance-Musk regime is not only undermining democracy in the US. It is laying the foundation for undermining democracies around the world. The emerging battle will be global democracy vs. a global oligarchy. The US is emerging on the side of global oligarchy.

submitted 74 days ago • 293 comments

If only…

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A guy who used to be a comedian & is good at improv and dealing with hecklers and who has also spent the last 3 years in a war zone turns out to be a guy you can’t out-alpha, imagine that

submitted 75 days ago • 176 comments

WOW Just watched the clips of the Orange Buffoon embarrassing our nation in front of one of the bravest men alive; President Zelenskyy. Words don't get it, but surely this is one of this nations most shameful days. Unbelievable Please accept our most humble apologies

submitted 75 days ago • 105 comments

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

submitted 75 days ago • 1306 comments

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

submitted 75 days ago • 752 comments

Marco Rubio today.

submitted 75 days ago • 1250 comments

Slava Ukraini! 🇺🇦 ✊

submitted 75 days ago • 455 comments

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

submitted 75 days ago • 1092 comments

Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine

submitted 75 days ago • 1190 comments

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

submitted 76 days ago • 356 comments

TOMORROW- Friday, February 28th is BLACKOUT FRIDAY! If you believe we are in danger of losing our Democracy forever, FIGHT BACK! Let's make our voices heard in numbers too big to ignore. JOIN US if you've had it with Comrade Krasnov. 🤬 🇷🇺 #24HourEconomicBlackout

submitted 76 days ago • 2279 comments

So are we gonna not even have flu vaccines available next year?

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submitted 78 days ago • 1385 comments

USAID informed employees via email that it is terminating 2,000 workers and placing thousands of foreign service officers and other direct hires worldwide on paid leave, effective tonight.

submitted 80 days ago • 398 comments

He is admitting that he doesn’t want lawyers to stop him from breaking the law. No one would stop him from issuing lawful orders, so this has to be about unlawful ones.

submitted 80 days ago • 967 comments

Welcome to the Bluesky account for Stand Up for Science 2025! Keep an eye on this space for updates, event information, and ways to get involved. We can't wait to see everyone #standupforscience2025 on March 7th, both in DC and locations nationwide! #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence

submitted 91 days ago • 295 comments

In future generations, when your children and grandchildren look back on this moment, they are not going to ask about the price of eggs. They are going to ask you what you did. Not what you felt. Not what you paid. But what you did. And I want to be able to say I did everything I possibly could.

submitted 83 days ago • 1227 comments

Relevant

submitted 83 days ago • 469 comments

Fun fact: while Phony Stark and the DOGEbags are taking money from our veterans, the world’s poorest people and kids with cancer, Assistant President Poopy Pants has already spent nearly $11 million of our money… playing golf.

submitted 83 days ago • 477 comments

Happy Black History Month

submitted 83 days ago • 525 comments

Tell Congress: Pass the "Stop the Steal" bill to prevent anyone from meddling with our payment systems and data actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 83 days ago • 34 comments

Something to remind you It's a world worth saving

submitted 83 days ago • 40 comments

The good news is i saved you 60 billion dollars. The bad news is that is a typo i saved you 600 dollars and also your plane is falling out of the sky

submitted 84 days ago • 204 comments

Roald Dahl was a popular children’s author and wrote books like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach. His daughter died at 7 in 1962. He wrote this open letter to hesitant parents about how to prevent this from happening to their kids. www.immunize.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments