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McSweeney's: New York Times’ Style Guide Substitutions for "The President Violated the Constitution" www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/new...

submitted 8 hours ago • 63 comments

Here's NASA astrophysics, if I read the president's proposed budget correctly. 🔭

submitted 4 days ago • 24 comments

RFKJr. : “Don’t trust my Medical advice. Do your own research” CDC: “Ok!” #RemoveRFK

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

“The federal government announced Wednesday that it is cancelling a contract to develop a vaccine to protect people against flu viruses that could cause pandemics….citing concerns about the safety of the mRNA technology being used.” Courting mass death to own the libs.

submitted 6 days ago • 35 comments

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

open chart, keep scrolling down www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

submitted 12 days ago • 44 comments

They blame pollution but cut the EPA and clean air and water regulations. They blame poor nutrition but cut SNAP and programs to bring local produce to schools. They blame increased screen time while destroying public infrastructure that connects people. All while they take millions off healthcare.

submitted 12 days ago • 167 comments

I wrote about one of the most vindictive people I’ve ever met so, uh, if something happens to me… www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 13 days ago • 149 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 402 comments

Most Dems voted against this, including Kim & Warnock who bravely broke with Dem senators from their home states. But shame on the 16 Senate Dems who sided with Trump on this industry-friendly crypto bill. I am just exhausted at this Party's willful incompetence. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

submitted 14 days ago • 58 comments

"Precisely bc [Bhattacharya, Hoeg, Prasad, & Makary's] perspectives carry a sheen of legitimacy that most of the secretary’s usual allies lack, they could be more effective than Kennedy at undermining America’s protections against disease." via @katherinejwu.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

DOGE cuts ⤷ tornado forecast offices closed overnight ⤷ 27 Americans dead after overnight tornadoes

submitted 17 days ago • 45 comments

Always be reading @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social's newsletter Meditations in an Emergency. This is the best thing I've read on the appallingly dumb "remember how a guy who was once president, but now isn't, was super old?" news cycle of the past few days. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/im-the-probl...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Court backs Hamburger Mary's in drag show fight, says ban is likely unconstitutional www.orlandoweekly.com/news/court-b...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

submitted 21 days ago • 79 comments

This was a dumb thing to say! If you are in a room with law enforcement you ask “am I free to leave” until you you get a yes or no. If you get a “yes,” leave. If you get a “no” you say “I am exercising my constitutional right to silence and I insist on an attorney present”

submitted 22 days ago • 15 comments

Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread. tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)

submitted 23 days ago • 52 comments

Who's up for some petty kitchen-consumer snark?

submitted 24 days ago • 36 comments

One of the tough things about covering Trump’s 2nd term is that he is breaking so many laws & norms that when you cover them each on their own, you come off as an anti-Trump Dem pundit w “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” But when you list it all out things indeed look pretty alarming

submitted 24 days ago • 34 comments

New EO banning “dangerous gain-of-function” experiments dropped Monday. Allow me to break out my deranged anti-vax kakistocrat translator. Will this improve the safety & security of biological research? Hell yes, because biological research won’t exist anymore!

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

If this is true, it's a shameful case of Senate Dems again throwing out REAL leverage in exchange for fake concessions. "Actually, genuinely oppose the bill that would enable Trump to hoover up billions of dollars in crypto cash" is the lowest bar imaginable for Dems. Why can't they clear it?

submitted 27 days ago • 25 comments

literally who do we think we are

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

Important thread about Medicaid R proposals under consideration. We don’t have specifics yet but this list is certainly in the ballpark of what we’re hearing too.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

In just 2 months RFK Jr has: - started fake study to prove vaccines cause autism. - defunded mRNA vaxx research - Told parents to do own research - Wants unethical placebo controlled studies for vaccine updates. His goal is to eliminate vaccines by all means. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

"In an interview w/Dr. Phil, the health sec. offered false information abt vaccine oversight and revealed a lack of basic understanding of new drug approvals." What an opening sentence--so much doom packed into it. Story offers sci debunking, but my thread here is on his statements/messaging. 🧵🛟

submitted 35 days ago • 61 comments

It’s only getting much play in the trade/transport niche press. But pretty real product shortages beginning in mid-May or so are already locked in. They’re maybe a thousand miles out in the Pacific Ocean. Modern trade takes place in gargantuan container ships. There are very detailed records …

submitted 38 days ago • 185 comments

ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

submitted 38 days ago • 283 comments

The conservative movement has turned against reality on every scientific issue of our time, from gun violence to climate change to epidemiology. If campuses are ideologically homogenous, it's not because academia has ostracized conservatives. It's because conservatives have ostracized academia.

submitted 44 days ago • 137 comments

It’s really wild how there is no reason to deport anyone, let alone children and US citizens and LPRs and students and people undergoing cancer treatment etc. it’s all a fake solution to a made up problem enacted by violent racists who are stealing from you

submitted 39 days ago • 38 comments

No one said Elon Musk was very sharp#52,384 The DOGE cuts may cost the government $150 billion www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...

submitted 40 days ago • 7 comments

my endorsement for any democratic presidential candidate who promises to send the entire DOGE team to prison

submitted 41 days ago • 360 comments

So basically our core biomedical agenda has gone from cancer and heart disease research with major investments in alzheimers/dementia research to jacking up the sperm count of teenage males and a new wild goose for the 'hidden causes' of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

submitted 42 days ago • 302 comments

Expect more headlines like this. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 43 days ago • 32 comments

Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival. www.ourhealthroi.com

submitted 44 days ago • 26 comments

My friend's student asks me to share: The administration is trying to destroy the Endangered Species Act from within. Public commenting is basically the only way to thwart this rule before getting to court. If you have a few minutes to comment: www.regulations.gov/commenton/FW...

submitted 44 days ago • 14 comments

The America I loved is gone

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

submitted 47 days ago • 36 comments

If you want to win, you gotta fight‼️ georgiatoday.ge/former-us-co...

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Tonight is the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere’s midnight ride. May his memory remind us all to resist the tyranny forming in our government.

submitted 46 days ago • 335 comments

This is a very useful paragraph from ‪@jasonfurman.bsky.social‬, and one that might explain our current tariff debacle.

submitted 47 days ago • 32 comments