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The Japanese government has launched "Decokatsu," a campaign to help citizens decarbonize & live more eco aligned lifestyles. It consists of 4 actions & one of them is... Wait for it: REMOTE WORK 👏🏼

Repubs now saying the quiet part out loud. They're perfectly OK with the poor, disabled and old dying, as long as they get to keep their sweet congressional healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

Put incompetent people in charge of important things and bad outcomes will happen The vaccine is 97% effective 97% Nothing is this effective in medicine Nothing This is not a serious person

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

Meanwhile, in Canada…

The so-called “moderate” GOP position on Medicaid cuts is no cuts above $500 billion. Hello? That would mean 18 million children and 2 million adults with disabilities lose health care coverage, according to the latest estimates. What’s “moderate” about that?

Former heroin addict turned HGH guy with worms in his brain who plays around with roadkill and only drinks raw milk: Everyone else is stupid and, frankly, their teeth work too good.

I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?

1. IT'S OFFICIAL Working full time for the federal minimum wage is not enough to keep someone over the poverty line — even if that person is single w/no dependents The right talks about the "dignity of work" but what kind of dignity is provided by a full-time job that is not enough to live on?

Great news, folks! After months of denying that they were going to cut Medicaid by $880 billion Republicans have now quelled that rumor By announcing they’re “only” going to cut $600 billion in benefits So that way, you know, only 25,500 people will die instead of 34,000 Hands Off Our Medicaid

NBC has confirmed what we have been saying for weeks. Hegseth clearly copied classified strike schedules from a secure device to his personal phones. This alone would get a line service member thrown in prison. But when it’s SecDef we are supposed to ignore it.

Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"

Always reblog. Happy Easter!

The FBI director flew this government plane (or one just like it), possibly from Las Vegas, where he still lives, to see a hockey game in Long Island. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/20/u...

Public service without duty is self interest.

It turns out a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and financial fraudster does not make for a good President.

Senator Van Hollen’s commitment to the Abrego Garcia case isn’t performative. Wearing an overnight maxi pad on your ear after an “assassination attempt” is performative.

(1,5) To the uninformed, the mentally lazy, & those who are not bright let me make it easy. Every country in the world has mental health issues, only the United States has a gun violence problem. It was not always this way. It is actually a problem that mostly exists over the past few decades.

Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.

Lil Marco is learning that diplomacy is difficult, despite the fact that his boss promised to end this war in 24 hours with one phone call & said it “wouldn’t even be that hard to do.” What he won’t say is this isn’t getting done because Putin WANTS war.

I don't really care what the "political consequences" are of fighting for the proposition that *everyone* is entitled to due process before they are removed from the United States and sent to a Salvadoran prison. It's not really a principle if you only adhere to it when it's politically expedient.

This "WHO'S NEVER COMING BACK" document published by the White House should be "EXHIBIT A" in any forthcoming hearing where a judge/justice has asked the White House to prove how it is "facilitating" the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

Not sure who needs to hear this, but any govt official who violates someone's constitutional rights -- and is acting outside the scope of their lawful authority -- can be PERSONALLY liable in a civil suit. ICE officers. Cabinet members. White House staffers. Even the president.

To justify Kilmar Abrego Garcia being illegally sent to a concentration camp in El Salvador, MAGA lunatics are lying about Jan 6 terrorists not having due process. Jan 6ers seditiously stormed the US Capitol and still had trials, lawyers, appeals and a criminal pardoned them.

NEW reporting from the NYT: “A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.” In a deeply disturbing social media post, President Bukele then…

I’m so happy I had parents who got me and my siblings vaccinated.

EXACTLY HOW YOU MEET THIS MOMENT!!!!!!!

#FreeGarcia 👇🤔☮️💙🌊🐕‍🦺

This is brave This is good Thank you

I just landed in San Salvador a little while ago, and I look forward to meeting with the team at the U.S. embassy to discuss the release of Mr. Abrego Garcia. I also hope to meet with Salvadoran officials and with Kilmar himself. He was illegally abducted and needs to come home.

Someone with a Russian IP address used a DOGE account to attempt to login to the NLRB computer system.

In the last week, the president has: -Ordered the DOJ to investigate a former staffer for refusing to lie to the public -Refused to obey an order from the Supreme Court -Called for sending AMERICAN CITIZENS to foreign gulags. His authoritarian actions are a threat to all Americans’ rights.

Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

EXCLUSIVE: A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...