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Cutting $20 billion to NIH over 25 years may save $500 billion on paper, but it’d end up costing $8.2 trillion in lost human health. But NIH isn't the only thing being cut. The budget also slashes all NSF-funded science by 73 percent. NASA faces “the biggest single-year cut to NASA in history."

submitted 6 hours ago • 55 comments

“The company’s security practices are only as good as the people using them, they said. They characterized some DOGE employees as sloppy on security, such as not following protocols in how personal devices were used.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 51 comments

The entire point.

submitted 10 hours ago • 676 comments

VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid) ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Do you complain that the Democratic Party ignores rural Americans and think it costs them politically? Have I got the paper for you- Clinton Wilbanks & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

COVID vaccines are still recommended for healthy children if their doctors approve, according to updated immunization schedules from the CDC — contradicting an announcement from RFK Jr. earlier this week.

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RFK Jr. says the CDC will no longer recommend COVID vaccines for healthy pregnant women. Yet doctors have found that stillbirths can result from COVID directly infiltrating the placenta — even for people whose COVID symptoms were mild or nonexistent. @deldeib.bsky.social‬'s story from 2022:

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

If you’re a liberal and you’re focused on criticizing Bernie Sanders and AOC right now instead of failed Democratic Party Leadership taking the same old middling failing approach, I can’t take you seriously.

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BREAKING: We're going to court to defend pregnant people's right nationwide to get lifesaving abortion care when they're facing a medical emergency.

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"Allowing prosecution of Judge Dugan for the alleged actions would create a chilling effect on judges that would stifle independent decision-making and cast doubt on the universal recognition that judges are in charge of maintaining order and decorum..." #JudgeDugan www.cbsnews.com/news/retired...

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CDC still recommends childhood COVID vaccines, despite RFK announcement Looks like it wasn't removed. Ha. Wonder if he knows...😐

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Civics 101: presidents are not kings…

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Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 1 day ago • 1099 comments

Next time someone in Congress glibly dismisses your need for healthcare, remember that they have some of the best healthcare in the country. And it was paid for by YOU.

submitted 1 day ago • 1149 comments

Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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BREAKING: Over 130 former federal & state judges have filed an amicus brief urging the court to drop charges against Judge Dugan in Wisconsin The charges seek to criminalize judicial discretion & set a dangerous precedent for executive overreach We MUST defend judicial independence👇

submitted 1 day ago • 177 comments

Doesn't matter how many vulnerable people die as long as they get their tax cuts. More money for them, yay!

submitted 1 day ago • 544 comments

Folks Trump has no authority to fire the National Portrait Gallery director and no one need report it as if he does

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Yes, Joni, we’re all going to die. The point is not everyone should die faster and poorer because you gutted their healthcare.

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JONI ERNST: When you are arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, they are not eligible CROWD: People will die! ERNST: Well, we all are going to die

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🤦🏻‍♂️

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On behalf of the DNC, DSCC and DCCC we have filed to intervene to protect the campaign finance laws from attack by the GOP. The Trump administration won't defend a 50 year old law, but we will.

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The Wisconsin Judge indicted by DOJ has filed a motion to dismiss her indictment. "The indictment is an ugly innovation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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GOP Sen. Joni Ernst responds to voters saying that cutting Medicaid will kill them: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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The bigger the lie, the louder she gets...

submitted 2 days ago • 443 comments

Roughly a quarter of the total international student population in the USA is from China, a cohort larger than any except Indian students, according to a report published past year by the State Department and the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit group www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

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Of course it did. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

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🗞️ Our special issue on "Connective Democracy and Political Divisiveness" is out in Social Media + Society Edited by Dr. Gina Masullo (@ginammasullo.bsky.social) and myself, a project of the Center for Media Engagement (@engagingnews.bsky.social) TOC: journals.sagepub.com/topic/collec... Thread 🔽

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The New York Times has found at least two more fake citations in the MAHA report. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 2 days ago • 354 comments

Call To Action: National Protest to call for the removal of Donald Trump. Washington dc and every state capitol, city hall, and town hall. Organize yourselves, post your events below, stronger together. The country is in your hands. #3E #NoKings #RemoveTrump

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🎯 🎯 🎯

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Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.

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No words www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/h...

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If we can afford to give another $664 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% and spend over $1 trillion on the Pentagon, we can afford health care for the working people of this country.

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Another lawsuit against the NSF, this time from 16 state AGs, over the agency's abandonment of its broadening participation for underrepresented minorities in STEM, as well as its 15% cap on indirect costs. www.doj.state.or.us/wp-content/u...

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www.oregonlive.com/business/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

Turns out, judges agree.

submitted 2 days ago • 239 comments

America is waking up! Rep. Ashley Hinson got heckled at her own town hall in Decorah after praising Donald Trump and the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” that just passed the House. Iowa, y’all!

submitted 3 days ago • 317 comments

I’m addicted to living.

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China’s ministry of foreign affairs told reporters on Thursday that it had formally objected to Washington over Wednesday’s announcement by Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The USA is barely recognizable after 4 months; if you think you can sit on the sidelines and it will be handed back to you in four years you are out of your mind.

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BREAKING: Texas passed a bill requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom. We will be suing.

submitted 2 days ago • 1242 comments