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BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

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Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...

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Oh there goes his ratings

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Thou shalt not call yourself “the law and order party” when your leader is a convicted felon who constantly pardons criminals in exchange for millions of dollars in bribes.

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Narrator: they were not considering the offer

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The right wing does not think they’re the Empire. They think they’re the Rebels. Probably because they’re media illiterate morons who are always saying things like, “when did Star Trek go woke”

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HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. threatened to bar government scientists from publishing in major medical journals, saying on a podcast that three top journals were “corrupt” and influenced by pharmaceutical companies.

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In one dramatic example, Gambian officials said the State Department issued a veiled threat of cutting funds to their fragile democracy if they didn’t approve a license for Musk’s Starlink.

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“We take vaccines so for granted in the United States” ...“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine because they have seen death.” Melinda Gates

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Seems Trump's mafia-style diplomacy is not working out for him. www.newsweek.com/greenland-tr...

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Not AI. This is a real tweet from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. This is our life now.

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“What the heck’s the commissioner of Social Security?" That's a real question from Frank Bisignano...the commissioner of Social Security. Millions of Americans depend on Social Security. They should be able to trust that the head of the agency even knows what the job is.

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When you say something 100% true that people don’t want to hear, because it makes them feel ashamed for the evil things they have done and will continue to do, instead of changing their mind they just get really, really angry at you for saying the truth. This is why everything is so fucked up.

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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding. Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.

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So we should admit and accept, up front, that the Colorado never was and never will be a mighty river system, and that it is climate-challenged and prone to drought. We never should have asked it for so much. We invaded it like cancer, turning water into property. I wish it wasn’t so. (From 2023)

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SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

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The keys that unlock communications are just inches out of reach. We can say Hello, now if we can just learn how to ask a few questions. news.mongabay.com/2025/05/our-...

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The Golden Dome: Another piece of crap brought to you by that carnival barker, Donald J. Trump.

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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com Three Yale professors who have written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving the U.S. “We’re like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore said. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Two senior intel officials concluded that the Venezuelan gov’t isn’t invading us. Tulsi Gabbard fired them: www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/p...

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I really needed some good news. 😉

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www.the-downballot.com/p/democrats-...

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NEW: Car mechanic Luke Seaborn was the de facto face of Georgia Pathways to Coverage, the governor’s health insurance program for impoverished residents. Then technical glitches and red tape caused him to lose his coverage — twice. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

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www.npr.org/2025/05/13/n...

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Happy Mother's Day to all the amazing moms and mother-figures! Michelle, the girls and I are so lucky to have you in our lives. We love you.

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The foreign emoluments clause was written to prevent exactly this. Blatantly unconstitutional

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Putin and the rest of the world continuing to laugh at these bumbling fools.

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The only people in the world who the Trump admin has determined are per se oppressed so they automatically meet the criteria for asylum is white people from South Africa.

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Chicago is on to something.

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NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

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lmao

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When asked if the United States should have a military parade to show off its might, President Eisenhower responded: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

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Trump administration erases school shooting victims at ATF headquarters

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Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education, sent Harvard a letter. They graded it. Bwahahaha.

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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NEW: Tulsi Gabbard, now the US director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts including a personal Gmail account and Dropbox over a period of years, leaked records reviewed by WIRED reveal.

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Trump has two crypto-focused dinners on the calendar this month — one aimed at deep-pocketed political donors, the other at meme coin millionaires. Both are poised to help him rake in millions. This is the most blatant corruption I've ever seen in the White House. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/05/t...

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