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A thing I think is kind of messed up is that we’ve stopped considering ‘being evil’ to be a moral failing in a person

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NEW: I talked to Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) + fired federal scientists about RFK's bizarre insistence yesterday that he hasn't fired "any working scientists" -- after he's fired hundreds if not thousands of them. Alsobrooks flat-out said he lied. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-fi...

submitted 15 hours ago • 53 comments

NEWS: Thanks to courageous West Virginia coal miner Harry Wiley and his brilliant attorney, Sam Petsonk, over 100 NIOSH workers in Morgantown, WV just got their jobs back and the crucial Coal Workers Surveillance Program will be restored. They took on RFK and the Trump admin—and won. Story soon.

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The man tapped to run DOJ's new "Weaponization Working Group," Edward Martin, disclosed this week that he is himself being investigated by the bar, apparently over allegations that he misused his role as U.S. Attorney to intimidate his political foes. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.

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NEW: Two California weather service offices will no longer operate 24/7, curtailing the output of an agency that issues warnings for more than 7 million people in the Central Valley. #CAwx A spokesperson for NOAA confirmed to @sfchronicle.com that the offices were not operating around-the-clock.

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A principled student said in a grad speech that the “only appropriate thing to say in this moment” is to acknowledge the “atrocities” currently being committed in Palestine. In response, NYU is withholding their diploma + apologizing to the community for the trauma the audience was “subjected to.”

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SCOOP: Since SSA installed new anti-fraud checks on claims made over the phone, only 2 claims out of over 110,000 were found to likely be fraudulent, according to internal documents I obtained. The policy has slowed down payments, though. Retirement claim processing is down 25%

submitted 18 hours ago • 46 comments

“.. the reality is that the Qatari jet can’t ever be upgraded to meet the mandated requirement for Air Force One that it should be able to repel a missile or drone attack. So forget it being anything other than a gift for the president’s retirement.” @nymag.com nymag.com/intelligence...

submitted 16 hours ago • 261 comments

The reality of our government is that it's a sprawling and occasionally inefficient system because you can't deliver services to 330 million people without having to deal with edge cases, and to someone who doesn't know the edge cases, that looks like waste or fraud www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...

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submitted 19 hours ago • 134 comments

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

submitted 21 hours ago • 225 comments

Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."

submitted 19 hours ago • 2174 comments

This is just not true. The majority view among researchers at this point is that work requirements do not work. There is a reason they do not cite a single study here.

submitted 18 hours ago • 59 comments

June 14 is Trump’s birthday and his military parade in DC — but the biggest story of that day will be the actions we take everywhere else. Join our nationwide day of defiance to show that organized people power is stronger than Trump’s authoritarian aspirations: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 12 days ago • 200 comments

If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.

submitted 22 hours ago • 11 comments

Imagine how MAGA Media would react if Biden's press shop responded to legitimate press inquires like this. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 19 comments

The global economic "system is so unstable and unbalanced that it will continue to generate both economic and political crises if it is not transformed." @annpettifor.bsky.social for @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

Forbes: The Qataris have been trying to get rid of that ostentatious luxury jet for five years, but no one would buy it. It costs too much to fly, costs more to maintain, and needs too big a landing strip. They had another one they unloaded on Turkey. Delicious. www.forbes.com/sites/jeremy...

submitted 22 hours ago • 75 comments

“well, my neighbor got thrown in a gulag, my kid has measles and the ps6 costs as much as a ford bronco, but i just can’t get past dems refusing to say joe biden was old in 2025” - a voter who definitely exists

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hot take: when you publicly play footsie with pseudo-science intended to rebut the idea of human equality - ideas like “men are more likely to be brilliant than women” or “Black people are more likely to be criminals than Asian people” - you have irrevocably forfeited any & all moral authority

submitted 22 hours ago • 2 comments

The most important article in this moment: @timothynoah.bsky.social on how to fight #DonaldTrump and #ElonMusk, with specific actions, organizations and sources of information that will give anyone a opportunity to save our democracy,etc. newrepublic.com/article/1931... @normornstein.bsky.social

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@jdcmedlock.bsky.social was cooking here 🔮

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Also he was leaving the country 💀

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

please enjoy John Oliver taking on ADF, including a pretty faithful re-enactment of a phone call I made in the course of my reporting on them

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

"The family of a 30-year-old metro Atlanta mother and nurse said she was declared brain dead more than 90 days ago — but is still being kept alive because she’s pregnant...Her medical team is legally required [by Georgia's abortion ban] to maintain life support until the fetus reaches viability."

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

A handful of US scientists will continue their research in foreign countries. Most of them will simply stop doing research altogether.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

what a weird and unexpected place to find nazi documents

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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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“It’s clearly a signal to tell analysts throughout the intelligence community: ‘you tell the truth, you provide objective analysis, as you’re supposed to be doing, you are running the risk of getting fired.'" www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

i wrote about rfk jr's dubious supplement advice, hypervitaminosis A in the antarctic, and contend that no one deserves to be lied to, and no child deserves to be made ill on the strength of those lies: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

It’s almost as if effective advocacy and leadership, whether for good or evil, can shape public opinion, and it’s possible to work to frame issues instead of passively responding to the way the opposition frames them and accepting their characterization of what is “moderate.”

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Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) welcomes RFK Jr. to today's House Approps Committee hearing by ripping 1) his "disastrous" HHS budget request (it cuts $33B from HHS) and 2) his "misinformation and lies" about vaccines. "Mr. Secretary, you are gutting the life-saving work of the Dept of HHS."

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Auchincloss: "I'm for return on investment. And when DOGE fires the guy at the FDA who makes sure that eyedrops don't blind you, that's not an ROI. That's foolish decision-making that creates uncertainty for business and makes Americans less safe."

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BIG development in shield laws yesterday: Vermont's governor signed the FIRST reciprocity provision of an abortion and gender affirming care shield bill. What's that mean and why's that important? Because the original shield bills only protect people who provided care in that state. /1

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“At the time of the attack, families whose sick children are to be evacuated from Gaza were gathering in the hospital. There were also families waiting to meet children returning from treatment abroad.”

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Shout out to the disabled community for always showing up, always being on the right side of history and justice, always willing to put their bodies on the line, all for the cause of making sure everyone has the basic dignity of health care.

submitted 2 days ago • 52 comments

The Trump Administration wants people who will cost more money to society over the rest of their lifespan than they will generate in economic output during that time to die. It's really not more complicated than that.

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Realizing it's been 8 years since I posted this and crumbling into dust

submitted 2 days ago • 116 comments

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 65 comments

Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.

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Earlier today, I was leaked a copy of the Executive Secretariat Style Guide for the US State Department. The new guide included a new section requiring that all trans State employees must be misgendered in all official communications. www.patreon.com/posts/new-st...

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The notion that Republicans oppose "waste, fraud and abuse" in government spending is disproved so neatly by bullshit like this. It probably gets overturned in court. But only after Republicans spend millions in taxpayer funds to defend it. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/new...

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