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BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

submitted 18 hours ago • 518 comments

Alexis is leading the charge to defend the city against trump and is outspoken on needing more housing and better transportation options. Just sent in my $10 - it took two minutes

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The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 14 hours ago • 99 comments

UPDATE: Meta is continuing to censor anti-Musk ads. It has removed a Facebook ad calling for a boycott of Tesla, saying that it violates the company's policy on "unacceptable business practices" muskwatch.com/subscribe

submitted 14 hours ago • 210 comments

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

submitted 1 day ago • 473 comments

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

submitted 14 hours ago • 924 comments

"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

submitted 1 day ago • 245 comments

Bad messaging: We need to educate our constituents so they know we don't have any power. Good messaging: We will do everything possible to protect our constituents and democracy, we hear their concerns, and we're going to tell them daily how they can help us oppose autocracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS sweeping nationwide injunction against Trump DEI executive orders finding that they violate First and Fifth Amendments to the Constitution. A huge victory for @democracyforward.org and its clients. A stinging loss for Trump. Visit www.democracydocket.com for details.

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Yes, it is entirely correct to point out that ICE officers do not have any legal authority to break into somebody’s home unless they get a judicial warrant; which they generally cannot do, because judges only issue warrants for probable cause of crimes, not immigration law violations.

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300 people showed up outside of Murkowski & Sullivan's offices. On a Thursday. In February. In Anchorage, Alaska! Alaskans are taking a stand and demand our elected officials to do the same. We don't expect you to save us but we do expect you to STAND WITH US! In-person town hall anyone??

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Just a reminder that fascists, authoritarians, dictators of all stripes destroy archives— books, museums, databases, &c— because those things provide windows onto a plurality of other ways we might organize the world. And so preserving, defending, and spreading that knowledge harms those regimes.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

ICYMI, last week we published an interactive map of more than $300 billion worth of Inflation Reduction Act and bipartisan infrastructure law funding. Enter your ZIP code or city and a search radius and find projects in your area: grist.org/accountabili...

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🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico. Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow. “This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better” My latest kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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The Constitution gives Congress power to establish the U.S. Postal Service. It did, by law, during the Washington administration. Its status as an independent agency was established by Congress in law. USPS is wildly popular with the American people and its service is essential and irreplaceable.

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

More of this. The fuck are you doing promoting a book when the country is falling apart?

submitted 2 days ago • 416 comments

I designed a little T-shirt to raise money for the amazing and courageous @yellowfund.bsky.social -- all sales profits go directly to their work supporting reproductive freedom in the Deep South! If it sells 6 t-shirts, they'll be printed. www.customink.com/fundraising/...

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

Again I am begging people in the media to note the legality of these actions in their headlines or blurbs. A post office is literally written into the constitution.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

Republican Sen. Rand Paul asks a question on the Senate floor: If Elon Musk and DOGE are finding all this waste/fraud and want to reduce the deficit, why are Senate Republicans passing budget today that increases spending by $340 billion?

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"Key congressional Republicans have powers they’re choosing not to use... "Senator Susan Collins, for example, believes the White House and DOGE may be breaking the law. She doesn’t, however, seem eager to use her considerable influence..." www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 2 days ago • 981 comments

Trump was impeached for merely threatening to do what he is currently doing.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

I've been taking in hours of suicidality professional development, trying to prepare myself for a spike in child suicide. Preventable child suicide.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

in his statement "cancelling" congestion pricing, sean duffy calls people who ride the subway "an elite few" and i just feel as a communication professional that they gotta decide if they're going with that or crime-ridden drug den homeless shelter

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

If Magnolia residents want the rest of the city to pay for a new bridge, then they need to welcome the new housing that our city urgently needs. If they reject that housing, then they can pay for a new bridge by themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

A bully & his Republican Party are trying to destroy the US government and with it, one could argue, the US as a functioning country. Countries don't function without government employees. Democratic politicians should pledge to reverse every single Trump action as soon as they are back in power 1/2

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

As the US sits around the table with Lavrov (sanctioned by the Biden) the Russian attacks on civilians in Kyiv haven’t stopped. The Trump administration didn’t even get a cessation in drone attacks in exchange for the PR coup of talks and bringing the regime in from the cold.

submitted 4 days ago • 72 comments

Not sure we’ve ever had a president who hates Americans as much as this asshole does

submitted 4 days ago • 130 comments

A recent report revealed the Army spent nearly 70% of the money it collected from enlisted troops' food allowances on expenses other than meals, even as it struggles to provide soldiers with a nutritious diet. (from @choiboy.bsky.social)

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

This is HUGE. The administration is trying to dismantle the board so that government employees have nowhere to file termination grievances.

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments

DOGE Nazis have illegally fired 600 workers from Bonneville Power Authority, a hugely important federal utility in the Northwest www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

so the US is a dictatorship, then.

submitted 4 days ago • 7 comments

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

submitted 5 days ago • 767 comments

Many people are asking why RFK Jr. talked about the sperm count of young boys in his opening address to HHS and I do not have a good answer for that.

submitted 4 days ago • 255 comments

Right now our country is facing serious outbreaks of bird flu, tuberculosis, and measles, and a surge in flu cases—and how do Trump & Musk respond? By firing hundreds of CDC employees—the very people researching the spread of these diseases & how to keep people safe.

submitted 4 days ago • 69 comments

Trump last week: “Nobody’s going to work from a home. They’re going to be going out. They’re going to play tennis. They’re going to play golf.” Trump today: on day 4 of 5 working from home, day 4 straight of golfing for part of the day. www.cnn.com/2025/02/18/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 23 comments

hmm, should we believe theoretical claims of "voter drop-off" from the conservative local paper—or the actual results of last year's even-year local election, when Alexis Mercedes Rinck won with 216,000 votes, dwarfing the combined vote of all the 2023 victors? www.seattletimes.com/opinion/edit...

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An hourly reminder that DOGE is not about Elon Musk cutting government money waste, it is about wasting more government money on Elon Musk. Here is Elon cutting NASA, a government agency that his private company competes with for federal funding. They aren't even bothering to hide the corruption.

submitted 6 days ago • 211 comments

Last week, Elon Musk appeared alongside Trump in the Oval to defend the work of DOGE. Looking directly at Musk, Trump asked; “Could you mention some of the things your team has found?” Tonight, the government claimed that Musk isn’t in charge of DOGE & isn’t a DOGE employee.

submitted 5 days ago • 175 comments

Here is my Federal Employment Termination story:

submitted 6 days ago • 540 comments