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This should be an enormous scandal

submitted 32 minutes ago • 1 comment

Cuts have consequences, illustrated. As seen on TV 📺

submitted 1 day ago • 781 comments

Remember what I said about the conservative movement being dedicated to installing fifth columnists around the country to sabotage institutions they hate?

submitted 23 hours ago • 4 comments

I really, really need people to understand that as a function of supremacy, normal everyday people lie constantly about their intentions—to everyone, but perhaps to themselves most of all—and most often in service of protecting their ignorance and complacency, rather than any coherent ideology.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Huge opportunity for a political party that believes government can do good things. Public opinion is finally shifting after 50 years of right wing anti-government propaganda. This isn't the time for cowering and throat clearing www.cnn.com/2025/06/01/p...

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

“As many as 2.7 million households would lose food benefits, with the average blow to the family grocery budget totaling $254 a month… “By design, the Trumpy Medicaid changes will remove 10.3 million people from their health insurance, according to the CBO…” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 283 comments

Remember when “death panels” was a Republican talking point against expanding health insurance coverage with Obamacare? Now, cutting coverage and actually sending people to their death is a policy position of the Republican Party.

submitted 3 days ago • 73 comments

American fascism is more brutal than most people even want to imagine and they are just starting to get comfortable with exerting the power to enact their grotesque use of terror to silence America and muzzle our ability to make sense of the unfolding violence and unreason.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

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 3 days ago • 74 comments

I'm shocked. Shocked!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

“American science is ruined”

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

The Trump administration is straight up gutting science and technology research. This is gonna have decades long catastrophic effects. They’re destroying our future.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Future generations will look back at this era with contempt and disgust. We’re literally just a few years away from eradicating HIV. We already had treatments that effectively killed the virus. Trump and his evil regime are dooming countless people to death.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 4 days ago • 50 comments

The Republicans are radicalized to the point where they are going to kill millions worldwide while claiming “it’s just nature and those who die are weak” These are the declarations of mass murderers and fascists who want to see anyone they believe lesser than them dead.

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Breaking News: The CDC kept Covid shots on an updated vaccination schedule for children, days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they would be taken off.

submitted 4 days ago • 345 comments

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 4 days ago • 1308 comments

People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year. Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.

submitted 4 days ago • 246 comments

Couldn't agree more with this. It's jaw-dropping to see the patty cake people are playing with him after what was a full constitutional assault that, oh by the way, is almost certainly going to lead to tens of thousands of people in the global south dying needlessly.

submitted 5 days ago • 159 comments

Trans youth deserve our care and support. 📸 Jordana Bermúdez

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

"These things have a real and tangible impact. They corrode minds. They turn otherwise ordinary people into monsters, into remorseless murderers. All of this has a source, and that source is social media, where hatred and racism spread like a disease."

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

No, we’re not doing this. We’re not throwing trans people under the bus. When a conservative screams about trans people we respond with “they just people like you and me. Stop being obsessive weirdos and leave trans people alone”.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

WAPO: “.. Trump initially said it was Qatar that reached out and offered him the luxury jet free of charge. In fact, it was the Trump administration that first approached Qatar this winter about acquiring the plane ..” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

A colleague w/ expertise in immigration law suggested that international students not travel this summer, or if they did, to get back ASAP. I thought she was overreacting; I was naive. Cancelling all F-1/J-1/M-1 visas is the logical endpoint of Trump's war against universities and foreigners.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

i think it’s interesting that random podcasters are “the left” but none of these people seem to care that JD Vance actively pals around with internet nazis

submitted 11 days ago • 268 comments

This is how it works in an authoritarian state: you’re guilty until the state decides you’re innocent.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."

submitted 12 days ago • 28 comments

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

submitted 12 days ago • 315 comments

He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.

submitted 12 days ago • 101 comments

This is absolutely terrible news. With the shifting regulatory climate (i.e., antivax ratfuckery), Moderna has withdrawn their application for their eagerly anticipated COVID-flu combo vaccine. This vaccine offered better protection than getting each shot separately. h/t @merz.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 402 comments

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 15 days ago • 116 comments

It is, of course, no accident the Trump administration keeps targeting Black officials.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

The way they resolve this unpopularity is control of the information enviornment. Conservative propaganda outlets will just not report on it, mainstream outlets will drown out their reporting of it with manufactured stories like "was Biden old" or trans-panic on A1 while Medicaid cuts run on A14

submitted 15 days ago • 31 comments

We can NOT trust FBI to investigate this under Kash Patel. Period.

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments