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NEW: Israel's government paid for Europe-wide ads to push its Eurovision entry, a new investigation has found Read more on this: www.thenational.scot/news/2517632...

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

“The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One…four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That’s contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a ‘gift’ to him.”

submitted 11 days ago • 82 comments

At least 27 are dead in Missouri in Kentucky after severe weather alerts were delayed overnight because of DOGE cuts. www.mesoscalenews.com/p/tornado-wa...

submitted 14 days ago • 290 comments

"Police have been issued guidance on how to search women’s homes for abortion drugs and check their phones for menstrual cycle tracking apps after unexpected pregnancy loss" "...police could bypass legal requirements for a court order to obtain medical records..." observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 13 days ago • 127 comments

It’s high time we restore our young people’s rights to live, work and travel freely across the EU and give young Londoners and other Brits—and their European counterparts—access to an abundance of opportunities through a UK-EU Youth Mobility scheme.

submitted 13 days ago • 60 comments

LATEST: Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip killed at least 75 people overnight and into Sunday, hospitals and medics in the battered enclave said 👇

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Critical to understand here is that GAO has a role in assessing if DOGE and Trump are engaging in illegal impoundments. In fact, GAO did exactly that right before Trump's first impeachment. DOGE might be pursuing this illegal power grab to send a shot across the bows of one of its overseers.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The anti-abortion movement is using a bogus study to push the Trump FDA for more restrictions on mifepristone. This week in epistemic collapse: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The GOP wanted to impeach Biden for a fake $5M bribe from Ukraine that was made up by a guy sitting in prison for lying about it, but they’re cool with a $400M plane from Qatar. Do I have that right?

submitted 20 days ago • 642 comments

It goes without saying that the value of the blatant corruption by Donald Trump far outstrips even the amounts of money that they lied about Joe Biden getting.

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

submitted 20 days ago • 2258 comments

Pirro is the 23rd former Fox employee Trump has named to his administration. She's wildly unqualified to be DC's top prosecutor and was been described by her former executive producer as a "reckless lunatic." Gonna thread some of her lowlights.

submitted 22 days ago • 217 comments

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree? TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution? TRUMP: I don't know

submitted 27 days ago • 1119 comments

Reuters: WHITE HOUSE BUDGET PROPOSAL: WOULD CUT FUNDS FOR USAID, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE, PRESCHOOL GRANTS, MINORITY BUSINESS AGENCY

submitted 29 days ago • 289 comments

SURPRISE>>>>Elon Musk SpaceX (and other commercial space companies, but particularly SpaceX) are the big winners in Trump's new federal budget plan. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 29 days ago • 51 comments

The fact that Musk is seeking new government spending on his companies while dismantling spending on core public services seems like a bit of a conflict.

submitted 29 days ago • 19 comments

Some folks are getting confused by this scenario but the upshot is that vaccines are already approved on the basis of placebo-controlled trials, what RFK is trying to do is eliminate vax updates, which don’t require placebo controlled studies. So basically trying to kill annual flu/COVID updates.

submitted 30 days ago • 54 comments

NEW: Judge Richard Leon says he's "inclined" to grant a restraining order blocking DOGE's efforts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services. (IMLS). The independent agency's entire 75-person staff was placed on leave last month. www.wusa9.com/article/news...

submitted 31 days ago • 7 comments

The politicization of masks has caused tremendous harm. Nowhere is this more true than healthcare settings. Healthcare workers used to routinely mask in high risk settings like the ER, NICU, oncology and transplant wards. Now? Vulnerable patients have to beg for basic protection:

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

New in PN: Trump's polling has already collapsed "Trump is increasingly unpopular. This presents a chance for Democrats to tie fascist politics — such as the targeting of immigrants and trans people — to a toxic presidency, and delegitimize those evil policies for years to come."

submitted 32 days ago • 164 comments

Remarkable conduct from the GMC. The Leng Review is currently investigating whether PAs are safe seeing patients. Yet here's the GMC steaming ahead will rolling out 1000s more PAs, in the face of fierce opposition from doctors with major safety concerns. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

submitted 31 days ago • 12 comments

The United Nations calls for “concerted” action to stop the “humanitarian catastrophe” in Gaza as Israel’s total blockade enters its 60th day. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/uz3nxr

submitted 31 days ago • 10 comments

Air filters in classrooms reduce sick days by more than 10% "Putting air filters in classrooms seems to boost student attendance, which may be due to them reducing levels of air pollution, pollen, pathogens or all three." Source: archive.md/fJMuT

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

Video shows the moment Israel’s military bombed more tents in Gaza, targeting shelters for displaced Palestinian civilians in Khan Younis and al-Mawasi.

submitted 31 days ago • 26 comments

Update on this. Apparently the bill just passed the House... 409-2. So, uh, yeah. A ton of Dems just gave the Trump FTC more power to censor the internet. Great job guys.

submitted 32 days ago • 64 comments

Ireland: 'Paediatricians, GPs, and schools don’t understand childhood long COVID' "Parents can find it difficult to get the right medical support, as it is not widely known that young people can develop the condition." Source: archive.md/bRFlI

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...

submitted 45 days ago • 240 comments

Israeli forces continue bombarding Gaza, as aid officials sound the alarm over “full-scale famine conditions” amid Israel’s blockade aje.io/18rnsl

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

NEW: Government officials insist that neither DOGE nor Musk have any real decision-making authority—they merely “advise” or “consult.” But internal DOJ emails provide the most compelling evidence yet that DOGE is not simply advising—it’s calling the shots. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/on-d...

submitted 34 days ago • 189 comments

I'm certainly not the only one. But I've been saying this. The White House is losing the war over public opinion on the Abrego Garcia case badly. 26% is an astonishingly low number. Trump is losing a significant chunk of his core base on this. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 35 days ago • 154 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge says the Trump admin deported a two-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as the child's father was frantically petitioning the courts to keep her in the country.

submitted 35 days ago • 56 comments

NEW: A coalition of students from more than 15 law schools across the country have signed a pledge not to work for any firm that “gives in to Trump administration demands…” Signatories include students from Harvard, Georgetown, University of Chicago, UT-Austin… docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 36 days ago • 96 comments

Just leaving this here.

submitted 36 days ago • 9 comments

How did I know the Trump regime would gut the FDA and the EPA and OSHA? It was written down in Project 2025.

submitted 38 days ago • 39 comments

And there it is. Trump comes out in favor of codifying Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and blames Zelenskyy for Putin’s aggression.

submitted 38 days ago • 903 comments

"The New York Times found three users on X who feuded with Mr. Musk in December only to see their reach on the social platform practically vanish overnight."

submitted 38 days ago • 46 comments

Elon Musk said he'd step down from being Twitter ceo too and all he did was ad a woman as a figurehead who could be occasionally blamed while he still ran the site. Musk will only have his hands off the government when he's in jail or dead.

submitted 38 days ago • 55 comments

This seems really important: The Australasian College of Infection Prevention and Control is advocating for the use of N95 respirators in healthcare settings. Canada? UK? US CDC? WHO? your turn. www.acipc.org.au/wp-content/u...

submitted 41 days ago • 9 comments

It’s bad enough we have healthcare workers refusing to mask, now one admits to practicing medicine while he has measles Does the HHS Secretary condemn this behaviour? No. He praises the doctor as an “extraordinary healer” Measles is airborne & wildly contagious. This doctor should lose his license

submitted 42 days ago • 25 comments

Trump just posted a photo of himself holding up a piece of paper claiming to show tattoos on Kilmar Abrego Garcia that are related to MS-13. The paper he’s holding up has been digitally altered to add the characters MS-13. The claim comes from neo-Nazis on X who say the tattoos cover up “MS-13.”

submitted 43 days ago • 289 comments

The White House has turned COVID.gov from a public health resource into a politically charged platform promoting the lab-leak theory and attacking specific scientists and the pandemic response in general. Let’s fact check its 5 headline claims… 🧵

submitted 42 days ago • 99 comments

BREAKING: The Gaza Ministry of Health says that in addition to the 92 Palestinians being killed by Israeli attacks in the last 48 hours, 219 wounded people have also arrived at hospitals in the Strip aje.io/ml918p

submitted 42 days ago • 13 comments

A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.

submitted 42 days ago • 28 comments

NEW reporting from the NYT: “A Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.” In a deeply disturbing social media post, President Bukele then…

submitted 43 days ago • 407 comments

There is a PR narrative quickly emerging about “entitlement” of elite universities, as if this $ is some sort of subsidy Harvard & others must counter this quickly The $ doesn’t flow into Harvard’s coffers - this is grant money, most of which goes to research the govt has agreed has social value

submitted 46 days ago • 69 comments

Elon Musk admitted to meeting frequently with Putin. Sanctioned Russian oligarchs held financial interests in SpaceX. Putin has publicly praised Musk. There are no coincidences in a coup.

submitted 43 days ago • 5 comments