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It’s true-the damage has been done. Lives ruined, agencies scuttled. If you axe 🪓 1,000 people with 20 yrs of service, you lose 20,000 yrs of experience. No agency can sustain that hit. Multiply that by the dozens of agencies gutted. Breaking things and moving fast is no way to govern. #resist

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The Trump administration released a report last week that it billed as a “clear, evidence-based foundation” for action on a range of children’s health issues. But the report, from the Make America Healthy Again Commission, cited studies that did not exist. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/w...

submitted 22 hours ago • 239 comments

For those not familiar, here's the opening paragraph in the Wikipedia entry for the term "remigration," a term which popped up in Europe over a decade ago and until very recently has not been part of the U.S. political discourse. It is NOT a neutral term. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigra...

submitted 23 hours ago • 60 comments

As Marco Rubio plans to open an "Office of Remigration," here's the context behind the term "remigration" and where it comes from.

submitted 22 hours ago • 32 comments

Everything is getting dumber by the minute.

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therapist: “bluesky can not hurt u darth it is not real” bluesky:

submitted 1 day ago • 60 comments

THREAD 🧵 Internal State Department records show that months of warnings have become a reality: The Trump administration’s sudden withdrawal of foreign humanitarian aid has brought about death, violence and unrest. 1/

submitted 1 day ago • 92 comments

"Criminalizing theft would be bad for thieves."

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

real “this car keeps running out of gas, let’s just remove the gas tank” energy here

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

The admin. continues to escalate its attacks on Harvard, announcing it aims to cancel all federal contracts with the university. This is about more than Harvard—it's about scaring institutions into inaction. We’re suing for records to expose this abuse of power. americanoversight.org/american-ove...

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, renowned journalist Scott Pelley just highlighted how Donald Trump is working to stifle free speech in America, and how he plans on fighting back. This is huge.

submitted 4 days ago • 212 comments

Please watch this episode. Specifically, listen to what our federal judges are enduring. These threats on their lives and their families' lives are terrifying and horrific.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Edward J. “Joe” Shoen is chairman and president of AMERCO, parent company of U-Haul, Email him at [email protected]. Joe is a Trump fan since his first term.

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

In February, the Trump administration deported 299 migrants from all over the world to Panama. Many of them are still there, Gisela Salim-Peyer writes. Panama says they are in transit. Many of the migrants say they have nowhere to go:

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5 years ago: “An incalculable loss” Today: Banning masks and restricting vaccine access

submitted 5 days ago • 264 comments

As Musk was supposedly peacing out from politics, he was on Capitol Hill. On the day that Elon was saying he’d “done enough,” Musk was sitting there as Trump was racistly lecturing the president of South Africa about imaginary "white genocide." As Trump himself said, “This is what Elon wanted.”

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Former president of Argentina reveals that Trump suggested to him in 2018 that Argentina conquer Chile to gain access to the Pacific. Haven't seen this in any U.S. media yet, but it's obviously relevant to his crazed rants calling for seizing Canada & Greenland. elpais.com/argentina/20...

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

If you know anyone who still supports this rambling loon, play this audio for them and then ask them to guess the event he’s speaking at.

submitted 5 days ago • 188 comments

In my worst nightmares the teenagers at DOGE take over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, yup, here we are.

submitted 6 days ago • 200 comments

Of course not, you keep the actual gangs and drug rings here to breed fear and instability while going after the other immigrants who you could point to as being positive and productive.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

En banc Fifth Circuit overrules decades of precedent and holds that there is no First Amendment right to receive information in a public library.

submitted 7 days ago • 160 comments

Today is my 40th birthday, & I know none of you got me anything so: The comment period ends tonight at 11:59pm EST. Tell the administration to maintain access to covid boosters. Then call your reps to yell at them about denying unanimous consent, returning the abductees, & protecting trans rights.

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments

New Trump executive order attempts to define science itself as only valid if it agrees with the regime's rapacious eugenicist beliefs. Specifically designed to spread disease, ravage the world, and formally institute misogyny and race science across the country. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

submitted 9 days ago • 167 comments

This was just posted by @tbretc.bsky.social on another platform. The Chicago Sun-Times obviously gets ChatGPT to write a ‘summer reads’ feature almost entirely made up of real authors but completely fake books. What are we coming to?

submitted 10 days ago • 797 comments

The Israeli blockade on Gaza, nearing its third month, is a calculated act of cruelty, starving civilians under the guise of political pressure. Children malnourished, hospitals collapsing, and the world watches. The proposed aid system, tainted by armed contractors, mocks neutrality. #3E

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

The extra-extreme members of the House Budget Committee voted "present" tonight so that the Medicaid-cuts-to-fund-tax-giveaways-for-the-rich bill could pass out of committee 17-16. Tomorrow, flood Capitol Hill switchboards to voice your opposition to this monstrosity. 202-224-3121.

submitted 11 days ago • 215 comments

NEW: As Hurricane Helene barreled toward Yancey County in North Carolina, communities along the Cane River in the Black Mountains were particularly vulnerable. But there were no evacuation orders, and few grasped what was coming. By @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social and @cgaribay.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 197 comments

Pipeline inspections are down 95%. “Experts on presidential power said the wide-ranging enforcement slowdown in Trump’s second term has no modern precedent.” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

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We succeeded in getting redactions lifted from the controversial ICE-IRS data-sharing agreement. See what was under the government’s improperly justified redactions — and why it should not have been hidden from the public. americanoversight.org/heres-what-t...

submitted 15 days ago • 10 comments

"What is it about building a new health clinic and upgrading wastewater infrastructure for my constituents in Thomasville, Georgia that is inconsistent with administration policy?" Thank you @ossoff.senate.gov for grilling Lee Zeldin on canceling EPA environmental justice funding!

submitted 16 days ago • 39 comments

250 years ago, Americans rejected a mad king. On June 14, we’re taking to the streets again for a nationwide day of defiance to say NO KINGS. Over 600 events are planned in all 50 states to reject authoritarianism and show the world what democracy really looks like: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

submitted 15 days ago • 195 comments

I tested the water where RFJ Jr went swimming. To see the results, visit MesoscaleNews.com tonight

submitted 16 days ago • 49 comments

Last week @emilyslist.bsky.social had a great event ft @mcbride.house.gov where she was AMAZING! This is her short speech if you’re looking for inspiration and a funny story… www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5o...

submitted 16 days ago • 8 comments

NEW: Russell Vought, acting head of CFPB and director of OMB, just killed a rule to protect US residents' personal information from predatory data brokers. @dell.bsky.social and @dmehro.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cfbp-q...

submitted 16 days ago • 32 comments

Kennedy dodges questions about vaccines: ‘I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me’ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 16 days ago • 18 comments

Murphy: "There's no guarantee that we are gonna have a free and fair election in 2026. He's trying to rig our democracy, to destroy dissent, to cripple the opposition, so that even if his approval ratings are in the 30s next year, there isn't the ability for his opposition to muster a real campaign"

submitted 16 days ago • 782 comments

Boom! Almost at 1,000 letters sent! Tell Congress to block Trump's acceptance of the luxury jumbo jet. Send yours here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

i like how roberts even looks a bit like tim robinson in the hot dog sketch www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 16 days ago • 436 comments

"A massive aviation industry clearinghouse that processes data for 12 billion passenger flights per year is selling that information to the Trump administration amid the White House’s new immigration crackdown." Why would anyone fly right now if they didn't absolutely have to?

submitted 17 days ago • 10 comments

Another example of reality outdoing satire. JFC

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STEWART: “Trump’s gonna take a $400 MILLION jet from people he would expel from Columbia University.” #SwampForceOne ✈️

submitted 17 days ago • 56 comments

“The distinction between public & private has no meaning to the House of Saud. Their country is literally named after them. At least in theory, US ethics laws put Washington on the other end of the spectrum. In reality, federal ethics rules are now decorative.” My column. www.ft.com/content/f1cf...

submitted 17 days ago • 40 comments

🔥 Betsy Phillips of the @NashvilleScene On @GovBillLee and “THE INVASION OF THE ABUELA-SNATCHERS” “Bill, do you know what kind of people kidnap grandmas? Bad people. It doesn’t matter if they have badges or if they work for the federal government.”

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

submitted 19 days ago • 306 comments

Inspiring images out of Worcester Massachusetts tonight as hundreds gathered in the pouring rain to demand their police stop cooperating with ICE. What happened yesterday will never happen again. We will not allow it www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bkp... cc @maddow.msnbc.com

submitted 20 days ago • 25 comments