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Cuts to the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief have resulted in an estimated 40,000 deaths overseas, analysis shows.

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Canadian MP Charlie Angus: Well, Donald, in just three months, you’ve turned your nation into a spectacle of disgrace. You think Canada is the nastiest country you’ve ever dealt with, yet you kiss up to Vladimir Putin, a war criminal...

submitted 56 days ago • 159 comments

Joshua Clemans is a partner of New Founding—backed by DOGE advisor Marc Andreessen. “Martial” means warlike. 1/

submitted 56 days ago • 106 comments

Chris Murphy is fabulously kind. 😍 "Everybody here has to decide how much energy they're going to put in to trying to fight for that world. & bc you were so bold & courageous, I bet that everybody in this room is going to work a little bit harder to make the world you're asking us to believe in."

submitted 55 days ago • 18 comments

FACT: Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625%, which is far lower than private sector retirement programs.

submitted 57 days ago • 84 comments

Musk has been given more power over the federal government than any other private individual since the founding. This is the world that the Supreme Court’s campaign-finance deregulation efforts have created.

submitted 56 days ago • 23 comments

“The Bureau employs some 2,000 people in the city of 29,000.” The Red Rural Recession. www.thedailybeast.com/maga-junkie-...

submitted 56 days ago • 5097 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Scripps Research Institute have developed a groundbreaking UNIVERSAL coronavirus vaccine that triggers STONG immune responses AND shows promise in neutralizing MULTIPLE coronaviruses, including those responsible for causing COVID-19, MERS, AND even the “common cold.” 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 58 days ago • 290 comments

You see they're bringing MERIT back to government. www.defensenews.com/pentagon/202...

submitted 56 days ago • 1290 comments

Seriously -- he's broadcasting plans to violate state and federal election laws, in support of his quest to sway a state Supreme Court election. Arrest him. Yes, even though he's really rich. Arrest him.

submitted 57 days ago • 228 comments

SCOOP: DOGE wants to rebuild SSA's codebase in months, risking benefits and system collapse, sources tell me. The plan is to migrate all systems off COBOL quickly which would likely require the use of generative AI. www.wired.com/story/doge-r...

submitted 57 days ago • 643 comments

Easy. The banks did. And the GOP did their bidding.

submitted 57 days ago • 241 comments

American military pilots no longer trust that their safety is a priority of the Pentagon. That’s absolutely unacceptable. Hegseth must go.

submitted 58 days ago • 67 comments

This is going to get worse, not better. Never underestimate the American public’s thirst for performative cruelty towards The Other: defendants, foreigners, anyone they’ve been conditioned to see as less than human. We’re the country that made lynchings into picnics.

submitted 58 days ago • 376 comments

A come-to-Jesus moment for American lawyers, and for America's most important law firms. This is it. This is the moment you always imagined, where you told yourself you would do the right thing -- where you told yourself that your profession would stand up. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 60 days ago • 400 comments

I never imagined that the most dangerous moment in America's democracy would also be its stupidest.

submitted 58 days ago • 2398 comments

Carney: "The old relationship we had with the United States based on deepening integration of our economies and tight security and military cooperation is over."

submitted 58 days ago • 2376 comments

New York Governor Hochul is trying to sneak a mask ban into the budget, despite the opposition of many disabled & high risk people who NEED masks to safely access public spaces. Criminalizing masks during an airborne pandemic, while measles is on the rise, is dangerous, ableist & eugenicist.

submitted 64 days ago • 29 comments

Fox has been a disgrace for a long time, but last night was probably the most disgusting cocktail of lies from talentless hacks I have seen in two decades watching it. The only other period to rival it was the weeks after the 2020 election - which they paid $787 million for.

submitted 60 days ago • 352 comments

Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/25/s...

submitted 60 days ago • 91 comments

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 61 days ago • 805 comments

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I'm running for Congress.

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And here we go -- Fox News is now saying we should get rid of "due process" because it's too cumbersome. Brian Kilmeade: "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people." www.mediamatters.org/brian-kilmea...

submitted 61 days ago • 1399 comments

Elbows up, Canada.

submitted 63 days ago • 1533 comments

I mean.

submitted 68 days ago • 2357 comments

“.. Canadian tourists make up about 30-40% of the revenue for many businesses in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. .. The owner of the Point of View Inn tells CNN .. he’s had so many cancellations that his business may not survive.” 🇨🇦 @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/03/20/t...

submitted 64 days ago • 141 comments

Fact: They didn’t fear what breaking the Dept of Education would do to their kids. Their kids are in fancy private schools. They are dismantling the Dept of Ed so our kids have no choice but to be undereducated and work for their kids.

submitted 64 days ago • 961 comments

This isn’t legal, Elon. Musk steps up calls to impeach judges, offering $100 to voters who join in. America PAC is paying registered Wisconsin voters to sign its petition against “activist judges.” Talk about paid protesters. Now, judges are receiving violent threats online.

submitted 64 days ago • 484 comments

A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.

submitted 65 days ago • 1657 comments

Utah Reps. Celeste Maloy and Mike Kennedy were met with boos, jeers and profanity-laden signs during a town hall at the University of Utah on Thursday evening. via @utahnewsdispatch.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/reps...

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AOC: Fox News and the right-wing would have you believe that these American values are something out of The Communist Manifesto. But let me tell you Fox News, I don’t believe in healthcare, labor, and human rights because I’m a Marxist.. I believe it because I was a waitress.

submitted 65 days ago • 721 comments

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

submitted 65 days ago • 833 comments

Harriet Hageman got booed to oblivion last night in her own town hall for pumping up Doge so hard that even her loyal suckers woke up and smelled the bullshit—about five months too late!

submitted 65 days ago • 2926 comments

The secretary of transportation went on Fox & Friends this morning and trashed air travel, portraying the current air traffic control system as a disaster, and then claimed taking public transit is "dangerous." I miss the DEI days when it was safe to travel.

submitted 66 days ago • 1322 comments

THREAD: DOGE's "Wall of Receipts" is one month old this week. But the largest item on that list has always been wrong. Here's how:

submitted 67 days ago • 30 comments

SCOOP: More than 300 FTC blogs published under FTC Chair Lina Khan disappeared this morning. They included posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and generative AI. www.wired.com/story/federa...

submitted 67 days ago • 41 comments

BREAKING: The Canadian Anthem is now blasting on speakers outside the White House.

submitted 67 days ago • 618 comments

Looks like we are deporting innocent men to the Salvadoran gulag for having tattoos in Spanish that say things like "strong like my mom" www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

submitted 67 days ago • 80 comments

A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

submitted 68 days ago • 1333 comments

Please Like Me

submitted 68 days ago • 1079 comments

The people Attorney General Bondi is calling “terrorists” have had no trial and no chance to defend themselves. We do not know who they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril.

submitted 68 days ago • 712 comments