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If another country hobbled US science this way, causing generational damage, it would be an act of war.

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Since May: Federal district courts have ruled against Trump admin 94% of the time. Supreme Court has sided with the Trump admin 94% of the time. A judiciary at war with itself.

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Mike Johnson in public: we're not cutting Medicaid :) Mike Johnson in private: the Medicaid cuts we're doing are going to cost us the House :(

submitted 1 hour ago • 22 comments

Democrats are in a primarying mood, and these 128 House members should be real concerned right now.

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Journalists keep asking me, baffled, “What’s the Trump administration really trying to do to the science agencies?” So I say “They are trying to destroy them. Cut off their funding, ruin their facilities, harass their staff into leaving.” It’s not reform, and it never was. It’s destruction.

submitted 16 hours ago • 25 comments

"I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists." Chris Hedges It is always the right time to do the right thing.

submitted 22 hours ago • 1 comment

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they knew was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

submitted 23 hours ago • 278 comments

JFC The US was literally the envy of the world, scientifically. Read the thread to see what's being done.

submitted 16 hours ago • 15 comments

Closing or restricting access to archives is an essential step for those who want to erase history.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Hereinafter to be named the Department of "Justice" or DOJ* (asterisk mandatory)

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

I encourage reading this in its entirety, all 27 pages. The details are utterly damning and show an administration [sic] that knew what they were doing was absolutely unlawful, and schemed to conceal material facts from the Court and agency counsel. It makes the Roberts Court’s credulity risible.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Starting to think everything he does w/r/t Iran right now is motivated by his delusions of winning a Nobel Peace Prize. www.npr.org/2025/06/24/n...

submitted 21 hours ago • 25 comments

Yep. They're just brazenly violating the law now. And why not. I don't know who would hold them accountable for it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 5 comments

One of the ways in which generative AI will kill people is that yesterday, when the wet bulb temperature was nearing 119F, the conversational agent built into the weather app said it was "not a bad day for a bike ride as long as there's some shade". No. No it's not.

submitted 21 hours ago • 12 comments

Incredible evidence for the Great Idiot theory of history though: leaders are just guys and more often than you'd think they're awful vain impulsive guys craving immediate feedback and with a weak understanding of reality, compounded by how their actions warp reality.

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CARTER: How could you possibly justify the decision to terminate HIV vaccines studies? RFK JR: We've been promising an HIV vaccine since 1984 and every year Congress pours money into it CARTER: Because they haven't come up with one, you then cut the forward motion by getting rid of NIH dollars?

submitted 21 hours ago • 217 comments

RFK Jr. is killing Americans with his reckless health policies. We need to state that plainly because it's important and it's true.

submitted 22 hours ago • 15 comments

Remember, this new normal -- in which gangs of masked armed gunmen are causing chaos in the streets, pulling weapons and assaulting innocent people, and no one can say if they're crooks or cops -- was all sold to Americans as a way to make us feel safer.

submitted 1 day ago • 216 comments

Personalist regime - literally taking direct control as an individual over business decisions by a major company

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

This is the use of the military for domestic law enforcement; I don’t see any other way to describe it.

submitted 22 hours ago • 57 comments

One of the dumbest things about the Trump presidency is how often they go "this problem is so easy, everyone's stupid but us, oh wait this is hard, uhhh.... whadda we do?" On Russia-Ukraine, govt efficiency, now Middle East. Some malfeasance, yes, but a painful dose of overconfident ignorance too.

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“There is no legality in these strikes, even if France supports the objective of preventing Iran from getting the nuclear bomb,” he said during a press conference “ www.politico.eu/article/emma...

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"Vladimir Please Stop!!" Pathetic spectacle

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

It's being reported in local Norwegian news that this guy got his USA vacation ruined after border agents at the airport interrogated him and searched through his phone and sent him back home after finding that picture. Deeply unserious country

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

My occasional reminder that we could be living in a more normal world. And Congress could stop this.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

TFW it’s not clear whether the man with absolute power to launch thousands of nukes is even more easily played than we thought possible, or he is so addled by dementia and/or tertiary siphyllis* that he imagined the whole thing. *allegedly

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I encourage everyone to actually read the dissent. The description of what this government is doing should shock anyone with a conscience. It is unfathomably cruel, indeed sadistic. And yes, this is being enabled by the highest court in the nation.

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

No one should be under any illusions at this point that the Roberts Court didn’t foresee the consequences of their Dred Scott, the anti-Constitutional immunity ruling. They clearly wanted all of this.

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The Roberts Supremacist Court hard at work.

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Today’s unsigned, unexplained #SCOTUS ruling clearing the way for removals of migrants to third countries without any additional process is a disaster—not just on the merits, but because of the government misbehavior that it not only refuses to punish, but effectively rewards. Me, via “One First”:

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Furthermore, 2008 was the last time Democrats actually ran on Hope and an unapologetic, overton-window expanding progressive vision—and they WON A SUPERMAJORITY with it. Then they squandered it, and ever since they’ve only run on Better Things Aren't Possible, enforced by condescension and shame.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

The military is creating decoy missions because they know that the President can't be trusted with national security information

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Thread. We shouldn’t really overthink this. Trump just did what he felt like doing, other justifications never entered his mind. But for those still interested in the rule of law, this sets out quite clearly how this bombing raid failed even his own team’s legal standards.

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“We’re on it”? What do you mean “we’re on it”? DRILLING FOR OIL ISN’T SOMETHING THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DOES. EVER. WHAT ARE WE DOING. throws things

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Good morning. We knew the answers to questions like these when the JCPOA was in effect. Again, in a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from that agreement would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation.

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Higher Ed has served as an engine of upward mobility for decades and is staffed by people whose job it is to know actual things about the really existing world & who seek to cultivate in students critical thinking skills, so of course the GOP is trying to destroy it. newrepublic.com/article/1970...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

A federal officer cannot be “doxxed.” The public has a right to know who is operating in our government, especially if they have the power to imprison someone.

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When the President is the greatest OPSEC liability...

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At some point, Republicans are going to learn what the Department of Energy does, right? Like... they have to learn at some point that it runs nuclear reactors and doesn't operate oil fields or whatever.

submitted 2 days ago • 222 comments

Sometimes I wonder if Trump utter buffoonery reflects poorly on us as a nation. And other times I think he may be a more accurate reflection that some of us would like to admit.

submitted 2 days ago • 36 comments

Happy to see Rubio humiliated, but also, note his casus belli: -Iran supported a thing 20 years ago -Iran supported a thing 42 years ago youtu.be/8ehOgu5cnTA?...

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