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FYI to media outlets, you're misleading your readers if you repeat this at face value. There's no lawful way for him to redirect these grants elsewhere. It's a lie to distract from how the GOP budget guts educational funding, including Pell Grants at trade schools.

So…about AI’s energy use… “…to create a five-second video, a newer AI model uses ‘about 3.4 million joules, more than 700 times the energy required to generate a high-quality image’. That's the equivalent of running a microwave for over an hour.”

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

🗣️📣Let the administration know how you feel about them restricting COVID-19 vaccine access under the false pretense that the vaccine may not be safe. Comment period ends in 3 days. www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...

Please comment if you can!

By popular demand, I've removed the paywall from this piece to make it free for everyone since it got so much attention yesterday 👇 Sorry, Tapper and Thompson — voters want Dems to stand up to Trump, not self-flagellate

This! Call it for what it is, DOGE cuts are killing Americans.

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

There's a post going round claiming that Canada have opened their national suicide hotline free of charge to US callers; it's actually an attempt to flood the lines of a trans support hotline in California. Don't spread that post around if you see it.

You know the rules!

“We don’t care about their markets” whaaaat?!? I bet the farmers and manufacturers are gonna LOVE that one.

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

Amen.

FLEXPORT: “.. In the 3 weeks since the tariffs took effect, ocean container bookings from China to the United States are down over 60% industry wide.” #SummerOfScarcity 🇺🇸

This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...

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It can be true that both tariffs are bad and denying due process is also bad

Pete Hegseth is a walking national security disaster. We all saw it coming from miles away, Thom Tillis included. The fact that Tillis didn’t have the backbone to do what’s right and stop Hegseth’s nomination is a stab in the back to the military families of our state. #ncpol

I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea. www.wired.com/story/everyt...

Can I just take a moment here to thank Ireland for colcannon? It is so darn delicious! I won’t say happy St. Pat’s because he was a jerk, but I’ll take any opportunity to eat colcannon.

It’s been 4 months since the people of North Carolina elected Justice Allison Riggs to the Supreme Court. Two recounts showed she won. We all know she won. And still, Jefferson Griffin refuses to concede and is trying to throw out over 65,000 legally cast votes.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

I tend to avoid discussing politics on social media, preferring real life discussions for such things. I'm making an exception today. As a U.S. citizen and voter, I stand with Ukraine and I stand with Europe. The Kremlin-led cartel occupying the White House does not speak for all Americans.

Under the GOP tax plan, the wealthiest get huge breaks while everyday families face higher taxes. This is what they're fighting for.

The bill they passed did not include no tax on tips or no tax on overtime. It did include a multi-trillion windfall for billionaires. They’re just straight up lying to you and hoping you don’t notice.

Consider me (not) shocked.

State AGs are looking for federal workers who have just been illegally fired to stand as litigants in a new lawsuit trying to freeze further action by DOGE. DM me if that’s you and you’re interested and you’re live in one of the following states: NM, AZ, CA, CT, MD, MI, MN, NV, OR, WA, RI, or VT.

Judd is right. It was nice while we had it but if the government can ignore court orders with no consequences then democracy is done. I knew it was coming but I never thought it would happen so quickly.