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Last night, 16 Senate Democrats voted with Republicans to advance a crypto-friendly bill that will enable Trump’s corruption. Instead of standing up to Trump, these 16 Democrats decided they’d rather do a big favor for the crypto industry and legitimize an avenue for Trump to collect bribes.

submitted 20 hours ago • 179 comments

"All kinds of people have gotten arrested in order to bring attention to climate change... If you take a clear-eyed look at what climate change means for life on this planet, Ram and Oltman ask, what’s the sane thing to do?" @goodluckmedia.bsky.social #sabotage

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

NPR published a story 5 days ago about three high ranking Trump officials with clear ties to Hitler-admiring antisemites and it barely made a ripple. These are the kind of stories that used to end political careers. Now the subjects of the stories just hold up a middle finger and keep plowing ahead.

submitted 1 day ago • 111 comments

Just read this sentence. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/o...

submitted 3 days ago • 164 comments

Multnomah County is gutting social services that keep people housed. every program that aids the poor and marginalized. mental health services and county adult special services, all axed. DA Nathan Vasquez is asking for a budget increase next year Oregon will give back roughly $1.5 billion in taxes

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

We have a govt that’s engaged in human trafficking, that’s openly allowing a gulf petrostate to bribe its leadership, that’s reshaping the refugee program in overtly racist terms, that’s almost ended American foreign aid entirely, that’s doing its level best to crash the economy from the rose garden

submitted 6 days ago • 69 comments

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

submitted 5 days ago • 129 comments

Trump’s funding cuts are currently killing almost two additional people every minute, and nearly one million people every year. It will get worse.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

In a major setback to clean air and climate progress, Oregon leaders announced a two-year delay to the state’s Advanced Clean Trucks rule—bowing to pressure from fossil fuel interests and truck manufacturers seeking to derail the transition to cleaner electric vehicles. www.climatesolutions...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Extreme Weather Report, May 15, 2025: This is your weather on fossil fuels, during an increasing perilous situation in the US.

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

this is not an exaggeration

submitted 8 days ago • 64 comments

~45% of US corn production is now used to make ethanol, mostly for mixing into gasoline. That's ~13% of all US crop land already used for energy production. Using some of the same land for solar panels would capture 50-100 times more energy per acre.

submitted 11 days ago • 67 comments

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

submitted 12 days ago • 58 comments

This is creating a list of people to persecute and murder. If you are involved in this project in any way you are facilitating that.

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Another victory for Team Cancer in the War on Cancer

submitted 13 days ago • 40 comments

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

THE ECONOMIC COST OF BIG OIL COMPANIES' POLLUTION IS 20 TIMES MORE THAN THE ACTUAL MARKET VALUE OF THOSE COMPANIES. www.chicagobooth.edu/review/price...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

No food, aid, or fuel have entered Gaza since March 2. Community kitchens have closed. Children are sick, thirsty, and starving. Now Netanyahu’s government wants to occupy Gaza and shut down the existing aid distribution system run by the UN and its humanitarian partners. Arms embargo now.

submitted 15 days ago • 32 comments

Because no one spends as much on science as the US does, destroying NIH, NSF, NOAA, NASA, EPA, USDA, USGS, etc. is leading to a brain drain, but it's not to other countries but rather from science. This senseless destruction of US science will hurt the US and the world for a very long time.

submitted 17 days ago • 62 comments

We don't have to speculate what ending fluoridation of #water does. We've done the experiment, the results are clear. More childhood cavities and illnesses, higher medical costs, more pain for kids. The arguments to end it are based on bad or misleading science. www.sciencenews.org/article/fluo...

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

Stand up to him, get rewarded. Try to placate, he'll just demand more. The way is clear

submitted 18 days ago • 45 comments

In 100 days in office, US President Donald Trump has destabilized eight decades of government support for science. This has included terminating more than 1,000 grants in areas such as climate change, cancer, and HIV prevention. Will US science survive Trump 2.0? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 21 days ago • 8 comments

"The world’s biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates" by @borenbears.bsky.social for @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/clim...

submitted 21 days ago • 16 comments

The richest 0.1% of Americans control $22 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% control $3.8 trillion in wealth. Read that back. Folks, this is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 22 days ago • 606 comments

all right, let’s go through this nonsense. first of all, this is just a police state. that’s what he’s describing. I don’t have anything clever to say. he wants cops to control your life, and aggressively and with “high impact”.

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing children with cancer i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

submitted 23 days ago • 38 comments

"Look around, take stock of where you are, and know this: Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America."

submitted 25 days ago • 5 comments

The FBI just arrested a Wisconsin circuit court judge for failing to assist ICE to its satisfaction in their kidnapping of a human being out of court custody and into a death camp. Any attempt to soften the reality of that statement is fascist propaganda.

submitted 25 days ago • 25 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 25 days ago • 614 comments

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

submitted 25 days ago • 316 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 24 days ago • 27 comments

theonion.com/happy-monday...

submitted 26 days ago • 5 comments

“Ultimately, in the name of saving 0.006 percent of the federal budget, we’re surrendering America’s technological leadership.” @andrewdessler.com open.substack.com/pub/theclima...

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

As a person who has studied history, an autism registry is a five alarm fire.

submitted 29 days ago • 1244 comments

In the 19th century, thousands of babies died from uncontrollable diarrhea because milk cows were fed mash from distilleries. They added chalk to the milk to make it white and marketed it as "Pure Country Milk." www.newsweek.com/fda-suspend-...

submitted 28 days ago • 2 comments

He's killing your children: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...

submitted 28 days ago • 6 comments

Trump and his enablers are mass murderers.

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph

submitted 35 days ago • 61 comments

NBC News EXCLUSIVE: A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 33 days ago • 144 comments

I want to teach an honors course called “Every Regulation is Written in Blood” and just teach the young everything that had to be put in place to make the safe, clean American life they take for granted

submitted 33 days ago • 74 comments

These stories landed today, within 11 hours of each other. This presidential administration is a clear and present danger to the American people.

submitted 33 days ago • 297 comments

I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

submitted 35 days ago • 813 comments

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

submitted 36 days ago • 691 comments

Hedonistic motivated skepticism is the best description I've heard for what infuriates me about everyone not wearing masks or not getting vaccines or driving massive child-crushing trucks or buying from sweat shops, etc. www.youtube.com/shorts/NGu3M...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments