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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics. At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 9 hours ago • 22 comments

Alito and his clerks—and the other three dissenting Justices and their clerks—were in too much of a hurry to find any authority beyond a hornbook and a 6th Circuit voter ID case for the proposition that a TRO can’t order the govt to pay appropriated funds for work already completed and invoiced.

submitted 20 hours ago • 20 comments

I want to highlight that this is a straightforward lie. The Court imposed no penalty on taxpayers. This is money that was appropriated by Congress, and in a heavily earmarked way. And furthermore much of this total was already obligated/spent by the Executive Branch before Trump took office.

submitted 21 hours ago • 27 comments

I support and am happy the party came together to stop this. However, this is what they should be doing on EVERYTHING. I’ve said it before and I’ll keep saying it - we are in an existential crisis as a country. We’re either going to emerge as Americans, or as something else.

submitted 2 days ago • 58 comments

Just the worst people in this administration

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I'm still seeing comments saying, "I don't need the NWS! My weather app is better!" Folks don't understand that that cool app is just a parasite that feeds almost entirely off NWS data. The ignorance is stunning.

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

In addition to chilling speech in a legal sense, this is just plain chilling.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

And trans people deserve life and dignity and that everyone must abandon ANY political party that dehumanizes them and scapegoats them. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

submitted 4 days ago • 98 comments

LA Times: Mass firings across NOAA and National Weather Service ignite fury among scientists worldwide "As federal job eliminations struck the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service on Thursday, scientists and environmental advocates denounced the cuts […]

submitted 6 days ago • 12 comments

“People will die, but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...

submitted 5 days ago • 34 comments

An absolutely disgraceful moment from Trump and Vance. Angrily attacking Zelenskyy, a US ally and wartime leader defending his country, as if he’s the aggressor while publicly siding with Russia, who was unilaterally responsible for this deadly invasion.

submitted 5 days ago • 25 comments

The bar is so low they had to dig a hole in hell to find it, and yet JD Vance has figured out a way to limbo under it.

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

YOUR FAVORITE WEATHER APP IS JUST A PRETTY DISPLAY OF NOAA DATA Ppl seem to think that "NOAA weather forecasts" means climate-, boat-, or "in addition to my app"-weather. But the weather forecasts we all use are made from the NOAA data we all paid for Make that part clear when you ⬇️

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

Bottom line: The intentional loss of exceptional scientists and other terrific public servants at NOAA leaves our country less safe and more vulnerable.

submitted 6 days ago • 39 comments

Grow a spine. A president who gets his way through outright threats and coercion is not fit to be president. Congress has an avenue to make that a reality, but first they all need to find their bravery.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I want it to be very clear that Covid is still very much a problem and we have had record flu outbreak this year.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

WASHINGTON (AP) - The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits last week jumps to 242,000, a three-month high.

submitted 6 days ago • 280 comments

Every news outlet reporting Elon Musk's comment about accidentally canceling Ebola prevention efforts and quickly restoring them should also say they haven't been restored, they're still canceled, the outbreak-fighting teams are dismantled, the money is gone www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

submitted 6 days ago • 197 comments

Absolutely vile.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

So that we're clear about this, the Trump administration is not only doing nothing to deport human traffickers, it has literally gone of out its way to IMPORT human traffickers.

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

I know it can be tedious to see all these political posts, but holy cripes people this is hair-on-fire all-hands-on-deck-time. Call your reps. Make your voice heard, make it personal, and make sure they hear how it affects them via hurting their constituents.

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

There is no meeting in the middle with a party that wants to make your existence illegal or to kill you. The moderate at this point asking for a "meet in the middle" is asking for marginalized people to have fewer rights than their able bodied, white, cishet peers. That is not a defensible position.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

i think "an effective altruist is personally denying twenty million people their HIV medications despite a court order telling him to send the money" is a pretty good summary of effective altruism as a real world philosophy

submitted 8 days ago • 74 comments

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

submitted 9 days ago • 211 comments

Van Hollen: "There's no Article 4 in the Constitution that gives Elon Musk that authority, and the way he's been 'delegated' this authority is illegal, and the actions he's taking are illegal, and we need to shut down this illegal operation."

submitted 10 days ago • 701 comments

Thank you to Washington’s AG Nick Brown for suing Trump on federal spending, Musk, gender-affirming care, and birthright citizenship. www.axios.com/local/seattl...

submitted 14 days ago • 6 comments

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

“Oregon will not stand by while the federal government attempts to erase the rights and dignity of transgender individuals.” kobi5.com/news/oregon-...

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking — The Social Security Administration is dissolving its Office of Analytics Review and Oversight effective 2pm today, an agency source tells me. In a meeting leadership claimed it was part of government-wide mission to “align missions better” & said it was the first of many changes to come.

submitted 12 days ago • 50 comments

I wrote about the recent DOT changes that move to prioritize funding to places with high birth and marriage rates. Which is bananas because those things are not correlated. But also this isn’t, nor was it ever , about the American family. lyz.substack.com/p/make-ameri...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes. You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment. My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc. www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...

submitted 14 days ago • 136 comments

Attorney General Pam Bondi disbanded an FBI task force investigating foreign influence operations, including those targeting U.S. elections. Additionally, she restricted enforcement actions against individuals who fail to disclose lobbying on behalf of foreign governments.

submitted 15 days ago • 630 comments

I am mortified that my country even offered such an insult.

submitted 17 days ago • 19 comments

"The richest man in the world and his orange billionaire puppet won’t spend $12.50 to keep a human being from freezing to death." - from @chrislhayes.bsky.social For the record (and hoping is somehow matters soon) what Edolph and his Twitler Youth did is illegal. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

One enduring problem with the American electorate is how millions of people convinced themselves the government plays no role in their economic situation except to tax and to hinder them while giving money to undeserving people.

submitted 18 days ago • 106 comments

It's #P4A the Project for Awesome! The 19th year this has been going, run by Hank & John Green. It's the yearly fundraiser for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck! www.projectforawesome.com

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

submitted 19 days ago • 836 comments

Let me be very clear: The last person I want to hear talking about the risks of SSRIs is a sociopathic conman who spent much of his life self-medicating his own mental health issues -- including treating his ADHD with heroin! -- and who now wants the rest of us to validate those choices.

submitted 18 days ago • 48 comments

Unreal. The US government is dumping Asian and African families and children in random countries that they have no connection to. Dumping, not "deporting." Deportation implies the return of a person to their home country. This is treating people like toxic waste. www.cbsnews.com/news/us-depo...

submitted 19 days ago • 676 comments

"Five people physically and psychologically tortured a 24-year-old transgender man over the past two months before killing him and dumping his body in a field"; two of his murderers are child predators. Trans people are in grave danger in this wretched country. www.syracuse.com/crime/2025/0...

submitted 19 days ago • 21 comments