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Senator Grim Reaper (R-Death) wants seniors to know that they’ll all die. She believes in using sarcasm dripping with contempt

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Spending from foreign visitors to the U.S. is poised to fall by $8.5 billion this year, according to Oxford Economics.

submitted 33 days ago • 29 comments

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

submitted 40 days ago • 957 comments

Trump's 40 Wall Street is worth about $85 million—$30 million less than the $115 million balance on his loan. That loan comes due in 46 days. Will he get the cash from someone eager to display loyalty—or from the many who already have? @danalexander21.bsky.social for @forbes.com

submitted 40 days ago • 8 comments

When mask mandates were enacted to try and save lives, the right screamed about freedom. When mask bans were passed? They celebrated. Because it’s not about freedom. With vaccine mandates, they screamed about autonomy. When vaccines get restricted, they cheer. Because it’s not about autonomy.

submitted 40 days ago • 15 comments

It's not really deportation if people are sent to countries where they never lived. It's a human trafficking ring. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 40 days ago • 186 comments

RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA

submitted 47 days ago • 608 comments

Dangerously high levels of arsenic and cadmium found in store-bought rice, report finds: cnn.it/43laaRo

submitted 44 days ago • 21 comments

Trump fired over 1,000 National Park staff in February, and most still haven’t been reinstated. The $45 million he’s wasting on a military parade for his birthday could have paid their salaries for over a year.

submitted 45 days ago • 87 comments

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

submitted 47 days ago • 404 comments

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

submitted 48 days ago • 485 comments

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Elizabeth Warren just exposed a crypto scam where Trump and his family stand to make more than $60,000,000 from a $2 billion Saudi-Binance deal, where the purchase will use Trump’s coin. This MUST be exposed.

submitted 55 days ago • 140 comments

DOGE guy at the CFPB owned verboten stocks. He was explicitly warned by ethics lawyers that he wasn’t permitted to take any action that could benefit those companies — and him. He then helped fire workers anyway. Including the ethics lawyers who warned him. www.propublica.org/article/cfpb...

submitted 54 days ago • 78 comments

BREAKING: 20 federal immigration agents raided the wrong home, forcing them outside in their underwear, ransacking the house, and taking the family’s belongings as “evidence.”

submitted 62 days ago • 72 comments

1. Clay Jackson, a Texas lawyer, provided basic legal advice to an immigrant family fearing deportation Then, two officers visited him at his home, accusing him of "obstructing an ongoing immigration investigation" Then, after speaking publicly, he was fired from his job at a Fortune 500 company

submitted 62 days ago • 1229 comments

BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

submitted 65 days ago • 299 comments

Trump’s underlings are arresting local judges as part of what Tammy Baldwin calls the “deeply concerning pattern of this president’s lawless behavior and undermining courts and Congress’s checks on his power.” Baldwin isn’t alone. The arrest of Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan has drawn a loud outcry.

submitted 65 days ago • 14 comments

Let’s dream up to ways to shit on women. Oh hey, let’s cancel the largest clinical trial ever for women www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 68 days ago • 48 comments

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths (Mark Olalde/ProPublica) Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Of course advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.

submitted 71 days ago • 1347 comments

"If Donald Trump were trying to lose his trade war with China, it’s hard to see what he would be doing differently" from Rogé Karma @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch...

submitted 71 days ago • 72 comments

Re-upping: Fed’s Powell says Trump can’t fire him; `Not permitted under the law’ www.politico.com/live-updates...

submitted 71 days ago • 23 comments

WTAF?!?!?!!

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The Trump Admin is trying to disappear almost 200 more people to El Salvador. This is a violation of due process. If we let Trump get away with disappearing immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, there is nothing stopping him from disappearing U.S. citizens next. (1/2)

submitted 73 days ago • 120 comments

Per multiple sources, NIH staff just got an email warning re an uptick in "vandalism and destruction of federal property." I assure you the typo in this bit is not mine: "Examples include, defacement of portraits, sticking bummer stickers on walls, and purposefully destroying government property."

submitted 74 days ago • 25 comments

A reminder, at least two of the DOGE kids were known to be hackers and at least one was publicly known to be fired from a previous job for leaking data. They're huge security risks and shouldn't have ever been anywhere near ANY government data! www.thedailybeast.com/doge-goons-r...

submitted 75 days ago • 5 comments

Once again sharing this info. Please share with your friends and loved ones in the National Guard or active duty military.

submitted 77 days ago • 63 comments

The constitutional crisis is here. The President is disobeying lawful court orders. His advisors and allies are cheering him on. And Kilmar Abrego Garcia remains trapped in a jail in El Salvador. youtu.be/HGTIELDTHOo?...

submitted 76 days ago • 1640 comments

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 76 days ago • 1184 comments

This is common practice for trips to openly adversarial or hostile nations. Speaks volumes about how Europeans perceive this administration.

submitted 77 days ago • 6 comments

A large study in Sweden found levels of autism symptoms were constant over time, even as autism diagnoses increased (implying broadening diagnostic criteria rather than real underlying increase) www.bmj.com/content/350/...

submitted 80 days ago • 15 comments

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. is a danger to the public’s health and should resign or be fired, says APHA. In just a few short weeks, his actions on vacccines, fluoride and other public health science have shown how wrong he is for the job. Read & share our statement: apha.org/news-and-med...

submitted 82 days ago • 23 comments

I am absolutely not a fan of this man, that said, he’s completely correct and the messaging here is 💯

submitted 81 days ago • 534 comments

Fabletics is posting a “Tariff Surcharge” on their receipts. I hope other companies follow suit.

submitted 83 days ago • 68 comments

MONDAY 7 April 6-8 PM EST Phone Banking 65,000 voters are being disenfranchised. There are less than 15 days to reach them, get them to connect w/ election authorities & ensure their votes count. Get the training needed to fight this . www.mobilize.us/ncdems/event...

submitted 86 days ago • 4 comments

“By age 3, Mr. Trump was earning $200k a year in today’s dollars from his father’s empire. He was a millionaire by age 8. Soon after Mr. Trump graduated from college, he was receiving the equivalent of $1 mil a year” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 85 days ago • 2 comments

Hearing from all corners of HHS this morning about a total bloodletting — firings of scientists, analysts and many more as delayed RIFs take effect. Many folks didn’t see early AM email and showed up, only to be turned away when badges didn’t work. Was sent this photo of long lines at one HHS site.

submitted 90 days ago • 206 comments

Here's how it works: 1. DOGE fires everybody at USIP. 2. A DOGE guy from GSA gets installed USIP's acting president. 3. That guy agrees to transfer USIP's $500 million headquarters back to GSA—for free. www.wired.com/story/doge-t...

submitted 91 days ago • 103 comments

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

submitted 91 days ago • 11093 comments

A few years ago I visited the National Museum of African American History & Culture with my grandparents. When we stepped out of the building my grandmother kept repeating the words “I lived it. I lived it. I lived it.” She’s still here. That history is still in her bones. You can never erase that.

submitted 94 days ago • 219 comments

Choking, strangulation victims 750% more likely to be killed by abuser Took Andrew Tate two weeks back in the US to commit a violent crime against a woman www.nydailynews.com/2025/03/26/a...

submitted 96 days ago • 430 comments

Melania Trump Lied Under Oath in 2013 About Her Past — Which is a Crime, Did She Lie on Her Immigration Forms as Well? #DeportTheTrumps www.politicalflare.com/2025/03/mela...

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