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We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

submitted 3 days ago • 687 comments

This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.

submitted 3 days ago • 3510 comments

Major update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend: 🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨 www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 5 days ago • 119 comments

Dozens more pregnant and postpartum women have died in Texas hospitals since the state banned abortion, ProPublica’s analysis shows. As the maternal mortality rate dropped nationally, it rose in Texas by 33%.

submitted 12 days ago • 552 comments

Today’s cover of the Murdoch-owned New York Post

submitted 12 days ago • 1703 comments

If you're not a white, working class voter in the heartland who feels economically adrift, the media does not care about you. Senior citizen who needs insulin? Too bad.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

McConnell saying adieu. Close call betw Mitch/R Murdoch for overall damage in our times. McConnell: -Was crucial in blocking gun-safety laws after Sandy Hook massacre. -Was crucial in sparing Trump in 2nd impeach (which would have blocked 2nd term). -Made filibusters routine. -SCOTUS.

submitted 13 days ago • 56 comments

Third Act Maine members were well represented in the crowd today on a chilly windy day in Augusta! This protestor arrived just in time to hear Tom Mikulka, one of our co-leaders speak. #proud #50501movement #FiftyFiftyOne #50501 #BuildTheResistance #NoKingsDay #Resist #Indivisible #MEpolitics

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

As @petebuttigieg.bsky.social wrote on another platform: “The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?”

submitted 16 days ago • 244 comments

Happy Washington's Birthday!!! (the name of the official federal holiday). A flawed man who had some good attributes. Among them: 1) he was very good at retreating and avoiding the destruction or capture of his army, 2) he had no desire to be king and consistently supported republican government.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

We just want to say that we are in awe of all of you. You are the ones history will remember—a resistance rising against tyranny. From the moment Trump took office, laws have been broken left and right. We shouted from the rooftops, and it took relentless effort just to have our voices heard.

submitted 16 days ago • 218 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 16 days ago • 2291 comments

Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

submitted 17 days ago • 1209 comments

www.nps.gov/ston/index.htm Transgender and queer people led the Stonewall Uprising and now the National Park Service writes them out of the history of that moment. The National Park website has changed LGBTQ to LGB. Be present for the transgender and queer people in your community!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

I’m having great difficulty right now seeing how our political system doesn’t devolve into violence.

submitted 18 days ago • 6483 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 19 days ago • 6079 comments

Heroic & brilliant writing. The art of the principled resignation letter.

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

BREAKING: Ranking Member Raskin demands Attorney General Bondi halt illegal intimidation campaign targeting the DOJ’s Public Integrity Office.

submitted 19 days ago • 862 comments

This is ballgame on the First Amendment unless there is immediate action by news media, Congress, the courts & the public to condemn & prohibt this www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/m...

submitted 19 days ago • 216 comments

“No Kings Day” National action 12 noon Feb 17 Augusta, Bangor, Bucksport, Ellsworth.

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I'm working on a couple of upcoming talks and can't get over how simply describing what is happening right now with attacks on the NSF, NIH, Diversity, etc. makes me sound like a raving lunatic. They've launched an all-out assault on empirical reality.

submitted 19 days ago • 52 comments

Disgraceful.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Trump-Musk are firing roughly 5,200 federal employees who work on health care this afternoon: www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...

submitted 19 days ago • 24 comments

Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.

submitted 19 days ago • 1086 comments

We are calling for a nationwide and international boycott of all Elon Musk-related products and services. Sell your Tesla shares, avoid buying Tesla vehicles, cancel Starlink, and delete your X accounts.

submitted 20 days ago • 782 comments

"Leavitt might as well have turned the microphone over to Big Brother to let him say, 'We have always been at war with Eurasia.'"

submitted 19 days ago • 99 comments

Monday Feb 17 12 Noon Augusta, Bangor, Bucksport, Ellsworth

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Best thing I have seen youtu.be/SPK_iBfFQNo?...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

The developing trade war will result in higher inflation and interest rates, as well as diminished economic growth. And it is unclear to what end. My analysis on the potential economic fallout: www.economy.com/getfile?q=BF...

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

TIME to ACT, Congress! Three co-equal branches, remember?

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Putting a sociopath in charge of Health and Human Services seems like a bad idea.

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submitted 21 days ago • 648 comments

If two doughy, deeply insecure sex pests who couldn't change a tire to save their lives are the epitome of "masculine maximalism," then masculinity really is over.

submitted 20 days ago • 21 comments

Dear Valentines, My heart BEETS for You!

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Planning campaign signs: PUTIN 2025 Make America a Colony Again!

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If this is a direct quote, it's one of the most irresponsible and reckless things a SECDEF has ever said

submitted 21 days ago • 557 comments

Indeed. What the russians heard loud and clear: I’m here today to directly and unambiguously express that you are free to invade anywhere in Europe at your own convenience and timetable.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

The "will remain confidential" part kind of diminishes the "disclosure" part. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

This guy must have done something egregious like stand up for the Constitution and laws of the United States.

submitted 22 days ago • 185 comments

How to U-Turn against autocracy.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

"There's no reason to build this in Guantánamo unless you want to do things you don't think you could get away with on the U.S. mainland. It's easy to put tents in Florida. But they're putting them in Cuba. Ask yourself why." www.commondreams.org/news/gitmo-c...

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BREAKING: A third federal judge in New Hampshire blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order, aiming to strip citizenship of some children born in the United States to non-Americans. Order: www.democracydocket.com/wp-content/u...

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments