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Today marks one of the saddest day in my professional career. I am reading about several hundert employees fired from NOAA. NOAA provides critical services for the US but also globally. (1/2)

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My seven year old daughter is currently watching John Lewis speeches from the 60s. She read about him in school and is now enamored.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Heartbroken... Sigh. Shits bad out there folks. If you're struggling for any reason - don't try to tough it out alone: reach out to people. We need each other.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

I don’t think that enough people realize that the shitshow we saw today was a full and complete capitulation by the United States. The west lost the Cold War in front of our eyes.

submitted 4 hours ago • 129 comments

I see a lot of public opinion research - this isn't nuts, this is a thing that must happen.

submitted 6 hours ago • 6 comments

This was the plan all along

submitted 4 hours ago • 96 comments

For the past 3 years I’m just watching everything I believed in collapse right in front of me, there’s not a single thing I’m certain about

submitted 14 hours ago • 65 comments

Every fucking veteran that has fought, bled & died for this country was shit on today. Their sacrifice made mockery. I always knew this was their position. I now know this was the plan. We literally set 200 years as the leader of the free world on fire today, & fuck every magat that voted for this!

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Once in a while I think back to my high school history teacher who told us: Rights are not given to you You take them

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’m so sick, angry and sad.

submitted 9 hours ago • 6 comments

This is how we prevail as an opposition movement. We can do this. We can do this. We can do this. bigthink.com/the-present/...

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The hurt in my dad's eyes yesterday when he told me he knows his Social Security will be cut because he draws a pension, made me cry. He knows his Medicaid is next. 😢 May Trump and Musk rot in hell! #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice #TheTurdReich Social Security Cuts

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

The U.S. needs a real pro-democracy news network, not the kind that would fire Joy Reid while keeping Katy Tur.

submitted 12 hours ago • 10 comments

I loathe conspiracy theories. I literally give no weight to any of them. But if Trump is not a Russian asset or the victim of Putin kompromat, what other explanation is there? Can he really just want Putin to like him or think he's tough? No way that's it.

submitted 4 hours ago • 16 comments

This one is WILD. newrepublic.com/post/192150/...

submitted 4 hours ago • 3 comments

For a "pro-life" party to propose massive cuts to Medicaid is hypocritical. In Speaker Johnson's home state of Louisiana, 60% of births are financed by Medicaid. Ht @justfairtruth.bsky.social

submitted 17 hours ago • 74 comments

It's more than a little bizarre that the press was more vocal and judgmental about Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal than the current unscheduled rapid disassembly of our entire democracy and civil service.

submitted 1 day ago • 67 comments

I hope you don't need me telling you this, but as someone outside of the US, it's probably worth reassuring you that this is not normal. This doesn't need to be acceptable. You do not "just have to get used to it". Don't let it sink in. Don't let it fade into the background. This is not normal.

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

It should've been over after Helsinki. But Republican lawmakers had their careers to worry about.

submitted 10 hours ago • 14 comments

Tired: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall Wired: Mr. Putin, can we help you now in the axis of evil because the people we are extorting have the audacity to call us on our BS to our face?

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I am watching these ghouls steal my children’s and everyone else’s future and this simply cannot go on

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Those of us in the US who do not support Trump need to realize that we are living in a captured state. Russian operatives now control the levers of power, we saw that clearly today. The "elected" leadership of the US government doing Putin's bidding in the Oval Office. It's not a game folks.

submitted 5 hours ago • 17 comments

I've had to bite my tongue and shut up so much lately, step away, and take a break. I don't think we are in a place we will be able to vote our way out of. The checks and balances are absent.

submitted 10 hours ago • 6 comments

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: A new Tea Party movement is rising—but this time, not from the right. Americans are waking up, demanding lawmakers respect the rule of law, separation of powers, and the Constitution. This movement is within the Democratic Party—and I'm here for it.

submitted 19 hours ago • 38 comments

"Among the deepest of NOAA's cuts was to the Office of Space Commerce. It licenses commercial satellites and issues warnings to satellites to prevent them from getting too close to one another in orbit... Boy, I wonder why there were so many cuts at an office that regulates commercial satellites?

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

RFK Jr. has been spreading anti-vaccine lies since 1999. Before Jenny McCarthy. Before Jim Carrey. Before Robert DeNiro. Before Joe Rogan. This slow burn was built on years of his anti-science activism, fomenting fear of “chemicals,” & lucrative lawsuits since the 1980s. 1/

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

France is pushing for backdoors in encrypted messaging services, jeopardizing the confidentiality of communications. This is a direct attack on privacy under the guise of security. Weakening encryption exposes everyone to cyber threats.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

It is important that people understand and accept as fact that our government is compromised. I don't mean compromised in some cloak-and-dagger sense, I simply mean that this government no longer accepts core democratic principles and is angling toward an autocracy that's part of a New Axis of Evil.

submitted 5 hours ago • 111 comments

Where was I when the Berlin wall fell? I was at Hamilton girls high, being forced to learn German, because reo Māori class was full. Where was I when Russia won the cold war? I was typing this message into bluesky.

submitted 3 hours ago • 3 comments

Instead of making this into a headline, the NY Times had this as like the 20th paragraph in the article about "a busy day in DC". Gimme a break 😒 "They're ripping away people's life support and they don't give a crap" should be the headline. #BlueCrew #ProudBlue

submitted 16 hours ago • 8 comments

👇👇

submitted 21 hours ago • 17 comments

Are you listening? Please read this. From a witness to a dictatorship. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #Opposition

submitted 14 hours ago • 16 comments

Mafia bosses everywhere are proud.

submitted 15 hours ago • 134 comments

Happy WW3 eve for all those that celebrate.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I received a notice yesterday from a VIP basically insinuating that we need to download any research, resources, tools we might need, ASAP.🚨

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

When the whole thing comes to a grinding halt, privatization will be the answer.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Ladies and gentlemen, the editor of the National Review -- and thus, a successor to William F Buckley

submitted 13 hours ago • 10 comments

The '3.5% rule': How a small minority can change the world www.bbc.com/future/artic...

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As far as IQ goes, I know doctors, lawyers, engineers, chemists etc. who voted for Trump, so saying “All Trump voters are low IQ” doesn’t hold. However, it’s not IQ that gets you through life. It’s judgement. If someone voted for Donald Trump in November, their judgement is in their ass.

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The dept of ed has a new form where you can report DEI initiatives in schools it would be too bad if it got inundated with false reports I’m not telling you to do that definitely don’t do that!! enddei.ed.gov

submitted 20 hours ago • 21 comments

Someday, there should be an investigation into the two murders at Butler, PA during the Trump rally.

submitted 4 hours ago • 55 comments

Guy: breaks a thing Public: hey that's broken! Same guy: my company can fix it. That'll be eleventy bajillion dollars. Great work if you can get it.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

#maddow

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I don't think we talk enough about this: The Trump Administration is a friend to Russia who is a friend to Iran who is a friend to Hamas.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

PAY ATTENTION. LEARN SOMETHING.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

THIS THIS THIS

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Today in Washington DC something very good ended. Something that made the world safer. Something that took a long time to build. Something many good people gave their lives for. I pray that something like it might one day come again. But I cannot know.

submitted 6 hours ago • 4 comments

Just got back home... I got suspended for 5 days from my Federal job because I wouldn't bend to the bullshit. I am standing strong. The Union is on top of it, let's see how this goes ?

submitted 1 day ago • 87 comments

Trump administration to slash funding for enforcement of fair housing laws www.news-gazette.com/news/nation-...

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