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believer in truth, justice and the (former) American way, pissed off Hoosier, reader, defender of libraries and librarians, zero tolerance for Trump supporters
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The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill. It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights. It’s Project 2025

submitted 9 hours ago • 168 comments

NEW: We obtained records showing how a DOGE staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wrong tool for this,” one expert said. By @bxroberts.org, @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

submitted 10 hours ago • 42 comments

Fifteen of the nineteen 9/11 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia, a country that still harbors terrorists. Are they on the list? Of course not. How about Qatar, a major financial supporter of Hamas? Nope. Guess why.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

"We made government the Newark Airport." 🎯

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Wait, I know! By lying?

submitted 2 days ago • 30 comments

👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 408 comments

Not kind of. It’s completely insane. And it’s a reminder that the global economy is hostage to the whims of a guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

19 companies that have pulled support of Pride parades, in whole or in part, this year: Lowe's Dyson Nivea Tiffany & Co. Toyota Capital One UPS Disney DoorDash Live Nation Anheuser-Busch Diageo PepsiCo Nissan PricewaterhouseCoopers Citi Mastercard Booz Allen Hamilton Deloitte

submitted 3 days ago • 198 comments

Trump’s budget request cuts all funding for a program that keeps poor people from freezing to death in their homes. Because DEI. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

“Without the threat of contempt, legal experts say the Trump administration could ignore court orders with impunity.” Project 2025 was once a secret. Now it’s being written into our country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

Everything about this man reeks of greed and corruption.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

A plurality of the country is regularly exposed to this drip feed & it is destroying the Republic

submitted 4 days ago • 34 comments

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” is a reverse-Robin Hood nightmare. It steals from the poor to give to the rich. Here’s a survey of seven terrible tricks up the sleeves of the bill: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

New grads from across the country reveal how DOGE cuts have led to rescinded job offers, confusion, and dashed hopes for careers in public service. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 5 days ago • 33 comments

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

submitted 6 days ago • 4946 comments

The Trump administration’s billion-dollar cuts to the National Institutes of Health include a $2.7 billion blow to the National Cancer Institute slashing more than a third of its funding. “For the past 50 years, every significant medical breakthrough, especially in the treatment of cancer,

submitted 6 days ago • 63 comments

So. Steel production is relatively small slice of the American economy. Steel itself? *Very widely used throughout the American economy. See the problem? (I mean, see the problem beyond the entire global economy being held hostage to the whims of one guy who doesn’t understand the economy?)

submitted 6 days ago • 79 comments

Welcome to the weekend!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments