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DOJ as we have known it, as a place where prosecutors from the AG on down do the right thing, for the right reason, in the right way, is over.

submitted 10 hours ago • 635 comments

Are we clear now a private businessman shouldn’t be in a position to control the space program—that this richest man in the world fueled by drugs, ego & hate shouldn’t be partnering with a malignant sociopath in the WH immunized by the SCOTUS & bent on pocketing billions & flouting the Constitution?

submitted 1 day ago • 346 comments

In 1829, British conservative politician Sir Robert Peel established the first modern police force, in London. His "policing principles" are worth considering today, especially in light of these ICE raids.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

good example of how AI hype can have damaging real-world consequences

submitted 18 hours ago • 7 comments

It keeps coming back to that James Madison quote about virtue, doesn't it @radiofreetom.bsky.social @jvl.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

People around the world are starving now because of Musk’s cuts. They are dying of disease because of Musk’s cuts. They are being born with diseases they will carry with them for the rest of their lives because of Musk’s cuts. https://trib.al/91rI7x6

submitted 4 days ago • 93 comments

1/ New in the Abrego Garcia case, the Judge has just granted his lawyers' request for permission to file sanctions against the government, which is very unusual.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - Budget office projects 10.9 million more people will be uninsured in 2034 due to health care changes from GOP tax bill.

submitted 2 days ago • 37 comments

🇬🇪 "Western partners can and must take steps to help Georgia back toward a more democratic path, which would also aid their geopolitical objectives." Read @iraklisirbiladze.bsky.social‬'s latest insight:

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Y'all WIRED's You're Not Ready package looks so freaking cool. I mean, it's also totally nerve-wracking. But cool. Definitely cool. www.wired.com/youre-not-re...

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🔴 A video has appeared online showing a russian drone circling and striking a window of a 14-story apartment building in 🇺🇦Nikopol in the Dnipro region. Source: x.com/United24medi...

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

The brain drain will be when scientists are forced into other careers/jobs so that they can keep paying the bills. They will never return. There aren't enough science jobs in other countries to absorb even a fraction of those laid off.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

“I struggle for adjectives to adequately describe the horror that this administration has visited on the world,” said a former State Department official. “It keeps me up at night.”

submitted 3 days ago • 39 comments

June 4. I came from a place that once lit candles. Now, even public remembrance is banned in Hong Kong. Those in power want to silence history. We cannot let them. If we still have the freedom to remember, then we must.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

He needed air. The price was $539. When OptumRx dropped coverage of his $66 inhaler, Cole couldn’t afford the new price. 5 days later, he died from a severe asthma attack—with no inhaler. He paid with his life. www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news... #MedSky #SciSky #PedsSky #PulmSky

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

so it WAS programmed by techbros

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Since the 1940s, the engine driving U.S. economic and military competitiveness has been federal support of research universities. Now Trump is sabotaging a research and development pipeline that is the envy of the world. wapo.st/3FDsQEg

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Dems shd be putting this all over social media, radio, tv, billboards in red/purple states.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Darren Beattie - the State Dept official who dismantled the US government's main center for fighting Russian and Chinese propaganda around the world - turns out to have personal ties to the Russian elite. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

submitted 3 days ago • 173 comments

your regular reminder that authoritarian populism will make your country corrupt and poor. look at Hungary

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

On June 1, 1996, the last nuclear missiles were brought from Ukraine into Russia. The next day, Ukraine has lost its status of a nuclear state after signing the Budapest Memorandum. The US, the UK and Russia gave their assurances that Ukrainian security and sovereignty would not be violated.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

As a child, Shamsa Sharawe was brutally cut. As an adult, she underwent hours of reconstruction surgery. As a mother, she vowed to protect her daughter from female genital cutting. And now as a social media influencer, she is persuading others to do the same. trib.al/z8NU9U3

submitted 4 days ago • 60 comments

Jony Ive now regularly talks about the “unintentional harms” of the iPhone and how he plans to address them with the new device he’s building at OpenAI. Apple has finally reached the “everything it does is wrong besides make money” part of every big tech’s arc.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

Why aren’t Dems on everything talking about the Joni Ernst “you can die” bill?

submitted 4 days ago • 1683 comments

my takeaway from this feature is that in a functioning political system there would be televised congressional hearings over the fact that one of the most influential people in the white house is a total maniac www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

submitted 4 days ago • 465 comments

“Master government database.” Three words that should scare the hell out of us. Especially when the data is being drawn from IRS, Social Security, immigration, and other highly sensitive information, and being centralized into a single, AI-driven system:

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

President Trump pledged to bring business back to the U.S. His own company has been doing more business overseas than ever before. See where.

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments