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"I think the cuts that are now proposed by NIH are gonna hurt" -- RFK Jr admits that NIH cuts will hurt people

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BREAKING: The scene at the Rayburn Building is pure rebellion. Protesters are swarming in during live hearings on Medicaid cuts. Security’s losing control. Because when the government wages war on the poor, the poor fight back.

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Wow! Just look at this photo of the Milky Way taken by astronaut Don Pettit on the ISS. Taken with a homemade tracker to counteract the orbital motion. It kind of looks like an aurora, but that's actually just clouds just before dawn. The purple colour comes from nitrogen scattering sunlight. 🧪🔭

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I still don't understand why January 6th was not a disqualifying event!

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What does the Milky Way look like from the side? Thanks to data from ESA’s Gaia mission, we now have a detailed map showing its thin, warped disk — home to our Sun and billions of stars. A stunning view of our galaxy’s true shape. Credit: ESA, Gaia, DPAC, Stefan Payne-Wardenaar

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Happy 73rd birthday to the great DAVID BYRNE. I’ve probably clocked more hours listening to the Talking Heads than any other band 🎧

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Image of library book display labeled: “It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.” Books on display: • On Tyranny • Twenty Lessons From The 21st Century • 1984 • A Handmaids Tale • Diary of Anne Frank • Parable of The Sower • Fahrenheit 451 • Animal Farm • Brave New World ~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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RFK Jr: The president is not trying to do tax cuts for billionaires. He's trying to have no tax on tips and no tax on overtime SANDERS: $235 billion through the estate tax RFK Jr: How many billionaires do you know that are making overtime?

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Eric Swalwell @ericswalwell.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 3 comments

They are literally the elites they pretend to hate.

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RFK Jr. Misleads About Measles Vaccine in Hannity Interview www.factcheck.org/2025/03/rfk-... #RFKJr #Measles #TexasMeaslesOutbreak #factcheck

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Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

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Brad Schimel backs the cruel 1849 abortion ban. Judge Susan Crawford believes doctors should save lives—not second-guess the law while women lie bleeding. This election is life or death. Vote for Judge Crawford.

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Keep the pressure on our politicians. We are making progress slowly but surely. Raising our voices in unison will make all of the difference. Fighting back in large numbers too big to ignore. This is how we win. #wtpBLUE #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue

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"That's a lie ... they were plans for the attack. They were texted before the attack" -- Jeffrey Goldberg on Hegseth's denial of texting war plans

submitted 53 days ago • 354 comments

In fairness to Pete Hegseth, the texts may have been sent four drinks into Happy Hour, so it's not like he meant to share highly classified information about war plans in a text chain. We've all been there.

submitted 53 days ago • 126 comments

It does make sense that the same people who delete the history of the Navajo code talkers would leak national security secrets in a group chat.

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Goldberg said the level of detail in the targeting package that he received via Signal was down to the names of individuals to be killed. That’s the good stuff that includes all kinds of sources and methods and never should have been outside a SCIF. I’d be in prison if I fucked up that bad.

submitted 52 days ago • 757 comments

“The carnage induced by our last 5 presidents, our largely GOP legislature, and the whitewashing performed by the American and Western European legacy media is directly responsible for 100% of the 100,000 kids” believed to be killed in the genocide, one of the American doctors said.

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NEW: A federal judge rejected a request from the Trump administration to lift a court order preventing it from using an 18th century wartime law to deport people to a Salvadoran hard labor prison without due process. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Soooooo we thinking old Pete was drunk or the job or what? It would be funny, if it wasn’t scary! Maybe we need some DEI (definitely earned it) hires to get this shit together because the incompetence is OVERWHELMINGLY problematic.

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imagine being given a front row seat to the inner workings of an authoritarian regime led by the worst people alive and then hurriedly removing yourself because it’s not “appropriate”

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As an American I stand with Greenland!

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🚨NEW: Donald Trump links targeting of law firms to election denialism. When asked about corporate clients pressuring law firms to capitulate to his demands, he responded: “Law firms have to behave themselves… having to do with the elections and other things, they behaved very badly, very wrongly.”

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I’ve seen video of IDF bombing Nasser Hospital, where a friend of mine is on a humanitarian mission to treat patients. My friend survived the bombing but a teen patient he treated and who was set to go home today was murdered. Are you warmongers not tired and sick of this yet? This horror

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“If the government goes ahead with these cuts, new care homes will to have to be available.” I spoke to carers about the catastrophic impact of upcoming PIP cuts: when a disabled person loses their benefit, their loved one will lose Carer’s Allowance too. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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It doesn’t entirely shock me, but I can’t really get over the top US officials celebrating the deaths of dozens of people with American flag emojis in a Signal chat. I’m not sure they see other people as human

submitted 53 days ago • 121 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.

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If an Army private accidentally texted the details of a classified military operation to a reporter, let alone transmitted any classified information to anyone who was unauthorized over an unsecured device, they’d be charged and likely spend time in Leavenworth. But it’s Hegseth, so probably not.

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Our food pantries are still suffering from the administration’s funding freeze. I've written to Secretary Kristi Noem urging her to immediately unfreeze this money. This freeze is forcing pantries in Queens to reduce hours and provide less food. We can’t allow families in our borough to go hungry.

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Hey. Focus. The Oscar-winning co-director of NO OTHER LAND was just "lynched" by settlers and abducted by IDF soldiers in the West Bank. This was witnessed first-hand by his co-director.

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Elias and some other Democratic-aligned firms have pledged not to bend to Trump. “President Trump’s goal is clear,” Elias said in a statement. “He wants lawyers and law firms to capitulate and cower until there is no one left to oppose his administration in court.” www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

submitted 53 days ago • 74 comments

@housedemocrats.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com What the hell are you waiting for?

submitted 53 days ago • 219 comments

HHS's Office of Long COVID Research and Practice has been DOGEd. Closing this week.

submitted 53 days ago • 386 comments

I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to provide you with the latest voting rights and democracy news, litigation updates and analysis. Support its work by becoming a premium member today. www.democracydocket.com/member-me/

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"It’s an all-timer OPSEC failure, so inexplicably irresponsible and careless and dangerous, that for those of us who have been in these environments, it’s difficult to articulate the stratospheric degree of fuckup this happens to be." charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/a-dipshits...

submitted 52 days ago • 232 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 52 days ago • 3120 comments

Between the unsecured bombing chats and eliminating FEMA and trafficking legal residents to foreign labor prisons and supermaxxing measles and halting cancer research, it’s so hard these days to guess how you’re gonna die

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man can you imagine being like a regular reporter at the Atlantic and getting to work today thinking ohhh boy, managed to get a nice little scoop this week, fun story that'll make some waves, can't wait to tell my editor, then your boss's boss turns up with.........this

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The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

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