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submitted 17 hours ago • 534 comments

Job growth over the first five months of last year: 898,000 jobs Job growth over the first five months of this year: 619,000 jobs In fact, on jobs, 2025 is off to the worst start since the Great Recession (excluding the pandemic). When Trump says the economy is "booming," he's wrong.

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

A source tells Rolling Stone AG Pam Bondi intentionally inflated the number of lives saved by fentanyl seizures in a cabinet meeting not just to flatter Trump, but to troll the media. White House officials were howling with laughter about it. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 20 hours ago • 48 comments

"Tim Garner couldn’t help but notice that Republicans want to use money now going to health care to help offset the cost of their big tax cuts for the wealthy. 'It just feels like we’re comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted,' he said."

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This article is rather strong evidence of what many of us have feared: They broke the agencies and need to rehire. (Some don't even have people to process payroll.) But a significant number of former employees have found new jobs or refuse to return. For those who return, morale is terrible.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

💯 this

submitted 1 day ago • 459 comments

“Among the canceled contracts was one to maintain a gene sequencing device used to develop better cancer treatments.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 3 comments

If only the New York Times had made this big of a deal in December 2022 when Trump called for “termination” of the Constitution. (That ran on Page 13. Yes, Page 13.)

submitted 20 hours ago • 59 comments

It's amazing how many people voted for a fictional Trump that only existed in their imaginations.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WATCH: “Jesus took care of the poor! You will not get to Heaven! Shame shame shame! Talk to your own employees!” Trump’s budget guy (Project 2025 author) Russ Vought ignores federal workers after a hearing where he was asked about his harmful budget cuts. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKfpYoH...

submitted 1 day ago • 32 comments

There's an entire continent of people that routinely wear masks, as do their children. It doesn't affect their schooling, it doesn't affect their development and their parents don't throw year-long tantrums over it. In fact their kids routinely score higher than ours in just about everything.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

This story is wild: Rather than just comply with court orders; the Trump admin has ICE offices and detainees living in a shipping container in Djibouti unde threat of rocket attacks wapo.st/4kPIACX

submitted 1 day ago • 61 comments

"The scientific research base of the United States of America *is* the research university. We made that decision 80 years ago. We don't have a Plan B." — Condoleezza Rice

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Seen on Twitter:

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

2-9-2018

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

So, what'd I miss? Oh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

submitted 1 day ago • 643 comments

Musk has gotten $38 billion in taxpayer subsidies. He's getting a $100,000 tax cut. What more does he want?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Meanwhile...Yesterday the White House asked Congress to cancel $9.4 billion in already-appropriated spending... including the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief... to combat HIV/AIDS in more than 50 countries and is currently credited with saving about 26 million lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Yes. In this piece, I show that polling finds support for: 1) deporting ALL "illegals" when it's asked as yes/no question but also 2) giving noncriminal undoc immigrants a path to legalization when that's a choice; and 3) majorities *oppose* removing longtime residents when *that's* a choice

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Good morning, it's a new day, and yet another day in which steel tariffs are going to save a handful of jobs in Pittsburgh, but cost thousands of jobs across the rest of the steel-reliant manufacturing sector.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

🔥MUST-WATCH: @profgalloway.com takes Elon apart “Somehow in 🇺🇸 we decided💰excuses depravity… his behavior his abhorrent. He’s not a role model. His legacy won’t be an EV or rockets— it’ll be unnecessary death, disease, disability of 🌎’s most vulnerable.” piers: “Wow.”

submitted 2 days ago • 85 comments

Huh.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

When you run on lies to win you either have to abandon them once in office or go all in. Trump is attempting the latter but reality keeps stubbornly resisting.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments