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Supreme Court, with the three liberals dissenting, formalizes an earlier decision allowing Trump to fire members of independent agencies & seeks to distinguish this case from a hypothetical case in which Trump fires members of the Federal Reserve. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

submitted 12 hours ago • 13 comments

HOLY SHIT. The ban on any federal funding gender-affirming care includes stripping ACA plans of covering it as the essential care it is. I have an ACA plan. I live in a blue state, but I am about to lose access to treatments I need. We told you this was coming www.advocate.com/politics/ant...

submitted 17 hours ago • 56 comments

The FTC is investigating Media Matters, questioning whether it colluded with advertisers for a boycott against X www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/t...

submitted 13 hours ago • 67 comments

Trump and RFK Jr. say today's kids are "the sickest generation in American history." Is that just a feeling? Here are some facts: About 46% of children born in the U.S. in 1800 did not live to see their 5th birthday. In 1900, the figure was 24%. Now it's under 1%.

submitted 14 hours ago • 91 comments

Just utter lawlessness from the Trump Administration, with no goal other than to punish institutions for refusing to bend the knee. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...

submitted 15 hours ago • 67 comments

“The physician looked at her and said: “Idaho is not a safe place to be pregnant right now.” Then, as the devastating truth sank in, he added: “If you were my daughter, I’d have told you not to get pregnant in this state.””

submitted 21 hours ago • 9 comments

When I got this last week, I was floored. What child should have to ‘borrow’ money to be fed? One of the most grotesque things that I have ever seen 🤬

submitted 1 day ago • 167 comments

I get that rich people want to get richer and don't give a fuck about anyone else. Ok, I mean, at least I can sort of understand. But if you're a rich as fuck person, do you really want to risk dying from contaminated lettuce? Or are rich people thinking they'll magically have safer food.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Who could have seen this coming? (Everyone).

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Honestly, the news today is really, really grim.

submitted 19 hours ago • 139 comments

A very real thing we're going to need to grapple with is that if we want to criminalize leaving children under a certain age home, and we don't want to fix the cost of housing, we're going to have to see that school is also providing childcare while two parents can work.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

A lot of pro-AI people will be like, “This technology constantly makes mistakes and adds unneeded steps to work, but you’ll have no choice but to use it for every facet of your life whether you like it or not” and then furiously wonder why some folks aren’t instantly on board with the pitch.

submitted 1 day ago • 50 comments

You should predict your own tornado is one helluva take.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 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 1 day ago • 384 comments

To recap: House Republicans passed a budget in the dead of night by a single vote that will strip health care from millions of Americans, deliver a massive wealth transfer to the richest Americans, and exploded the deficit.

submitted 20 hours ago • 23 comments

Great news! I'm told a few moments ago US Institute of Peace Board Chair Amb. George Moose went to the USIP building where he and legal counsel were able to retake possession after the recent court decision. They were accompanied by a small team securing the building and assessing maintenance needs.

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

UPDATE: UnitedHealth deliberately changed patients to "do not resuscitate' so that they would be left to die in any medical emergency as they considered especially critically ill patients to be 'a waste of money' regardless of patient's desire to live.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

SCOOP: Less than two weeks before the start of hurricane season, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) rescinded the agency’s strategic plan, which includes a document that guides agency priorities when responding to disasters, WIRED has learned.

submitted 1 day ago • 198 comments

🚨Reports around the country today that some people who showed up for their immigration court hearings were told that ICE prosecutors had dismissed their cases — and then were arrested moments later by ICE officers and taken to detention centers for unknown reasons. Happening in multiple cities.

submitted 1 day ago • 215 comments

I just hope at some point, men will understand when women are hesitant to meet them at bars for "professional" reasons. Especially "progressive" men. Or why women will clarify that they are in fact, meeting up for professional reasons and then bristle at the men saying they're "making it weird."

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Some of y’all noticed I’ve been uncharacteristically offline. This is why, and I remain on leave for a few weeks to handle a PTSD relapse. CJR was dogged in its pursuit of my story. Because of what I do and who I am, I felt that I had to answer their questions honestly. www.cjr.org/feature-2/we...

submitted 1 day ago • 149 comments

Reuters: JUSTICE DEPT CLOSES ALL INVESTIGATIONS AND RETRACTS FINDINGS OF WRONGDOING AGAINST SIX OTHER POLICE DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE UNITED STATES

submitted 1 day ago • 159 comments

I’ve got breaking news from sources in the Pentagon. Hegseth has invited what appears to be the entire Pentagon workforce to a Christian prayer and worship service in the official Pentagon auditorium during duty hours in violation of the First Amendment and military regulations. I have the story.

submitted 1 day ago • 182 comments

Among heterosexual couples over age 50, research finds that divorce rates increase significantly when the wife develops a serious illness but the husband does not; however, no such increase is seen when husbands fall ill but wives do not. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/soci...

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

this is what happens when you fire and lock out every comms staffer without any notice!

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

New CBO analysis: The Republican party-line reconciliation bill would decrease household resources by 4% for the bottom 10 percent, while increasing them by 2% for the top 10 percent. As of 2033.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

I don't want this to get lost: after RFK Jr. finished with his tantrum, he ADMITTED he is blocking BILLIONS in federal child care funding. That needs to change IMMEDIATELY.

submitted 2 days ago • 262 comments