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“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” — H. L. Mencken “Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.” — FDR Anti-DEI= Re-segregation GOP=Confederacy
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Absolutely bonkers — Joni Ernst doubles down on her “we are all gonna die” defense of Medicaid cuts while walking through a cemetery

submitted 4 hours ago • 2968 comments

An ICE agent sporting a valknut tattoo (commonly associated with white supremacist "Odinist" groups in the US) was spotted during an immigration raid in Massachusetts last week.

submitted 4 hours ago • 21 comments

Joni Ernst fucked up, if we exploit the opportunity: "This is the sort of thing that breaks through to people who don't follow politics. Share the town hall video, share the cemetery video with people in your networks and ask them to call both of their Senators"

submitted 1 hour ago • 5 comments

if it takes years, has to be consequences for all these people, and even more for those who gave the orders.

submitted 3 hours ago • 347 comments

NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

submitted 3 hours ago • 802 comments

These are the people who look (and act) like foreign invaders.

submitted 13 hours ago • 16 comments

NIH stops development of HIV vaccine, terminates grants to consortia, including at Duke University. www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

To be clear, this shields any research coming out of the NIH from independent peer review, which gives him total control to spread propaganda and makes any NIH study completely untrustworthy.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

It is not just foreign and American scientists, or even participants in the trials, who are so adversely affected by this shortsighted and immorally abrupt shutdown. Every American is at risk of getting HIV or drug-resistant TB and this research protects us all. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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BREAKING: ICE RAID reported at Buona Forchetta tonight about a mile up the road in San Diego. Smoke bombs were used to disperse the crowd. FUCK ICE. WTF?!

submitted 23 hours ago • 1086 comments

Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

submitted 23 hours ago • 234 comments

Video shows two unknown men, without uniforms or identifying insignias, attacking and kidnapping a man from a Nashua, NH courthouse back in February. During the kidnapping, the assailants, presumed to be ICE agents, knocked an elderly bystander who walks with a cane to the ground.

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

President Donald Trump today fleshed out his vision for a previously proposed 56% cut in the $9 billion budget of the National Science Foundation, and it’s not a pretty sight. scim.ag/3HhGa1D

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

The goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Fam don’t do nasal irrigation or Neti pots and such unless you are using distilled or boiled water. www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.

submitted 1 day ago • 342 comments

BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

The Presidents Budget Request for NASA is out. It’s a bloodbath Canceled are DAVINCI, VERITAS, Juno, OSIRIS-APEX, US participation in ExoMars and EnVision… Huge cut to R&A. No funding to begin development of the Uranus Orbiter. If you’ve ever cared about NASA, time to contact congress.

submitted 1 day ago • 143 comments

My favorite thing to do is to teach economics, which is why I love this new segment I'm doing with @anacabrera.bsky.social: "The Professor Is In." Our goal: To teach you the frameworks you need to make sense of the news. Class is in, and today's topic is: Who ultimately pays for tariffs?

submitted 1 day ago • 20 comments

Witness the *proposed* devastation of NASA science. If this concerns you, consider exploring the tools provided to make your opinions known: www.planetary.org/save-nasa-sc...

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

SCOOP: The State Department's new reorganization plan includes the opening of an "Office for Remigration," a term popularized by far right extremists and neo-Nazis in Europe. The office will coordinate directly with DHS "to advance the President’s immigration agenda." My report:

submitted 2 days ago • 428 comments

The lawsuits are great to fight the illegal impoundment, but the second there's an actual federal budget passed through Congress that looks like this, it's all over for American higher education.

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Gotta meet him with some resistance. 😉 Despite RFK Jr.’s claims, the CDC did not remove COVID vaccines from the childhood immunization schedule.

submitted 1 day ago • 94 comments

Donald Trump is dismantling higher education under the pretext of fighting antisemitism while continuing to stock his administration with antisemites. The hypocrisy is boundless. And it only makes Jews less safe.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

"Roughly 1,500 babies have been born HIV-positive every day since January 21, because Musk cut off their mothers’ medication." prospect.org/power/2025-0...

submitted 1 day ago • 170 comments

My favorite part of the lab leak freaks is the concept that "COVID-19 is a fierce bio-weapon unleashed on Americans by our worst enemies and your baby should definitely get it."

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

Marco Rubio is canceling student visas over social media posts. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Where are all the One World Government prophecy freaks and why aren’t they freaking out about Palantir compiling a master list of our data?

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

Trump's SEC has dropped a major lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange. This comes just weeks after the Trump family's crypto venture (World Liberty Financial) helped broker a $2B deal between Binance and a UAE state-backed firm. It's all out in the open.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments