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Yes, Canadians who are boycotting all things US, this seems like the only logical thing to do.

submitted 6 hours ago • 11 comments

Come enjoy our sidewalks as you are ushered out of your car. They are very stable and safe to walk on in dress shoes.

submitted 8 hours ago • 8 comments

If you live in Wisconsin, you need to get involved with Susan Crawford's campaign now. Far-right activists have been talking about this race since November. If you live out of state, consider phone banking for crawford or throwing dough to her campaign or grassroots groups organizing for her.

submitted 24 days ago • 18 comments

We are crowd sourcing reductions in graduate admissions and hiring freezes across biomedical research and higher ed in response to pauses in NIH funding and EO’s. If you have information if you could add to this spreadsheet, it would be greatly appreciated!: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Powerful & heartbreaking from @lukeharding1968.bsky.social on Trump’s attempts at extortion of Ukraine’s wealth. Essential reading. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

submitted 11 hours ago • 13 comments

WATCH: “So far DOGE has saved enough to buy each of us 3 cups of coffee.” Economist Justin Wolfers on the DOGE DIVIDEND It’s all a trick. Their goal is tax cuts for the rich. And they never cared about the debt.

submitted 10 hours ago • 57 comments

Yuuup! Dr. Carol Anderson’s book White Rage addresses this amazingly well. Black advancement always leads to white backlash. Every. Time.

submitted 11 hours ago • 2 comments

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

submitted 12 hours ago • 228 comments

actual civic service

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

submitted 4 days ago • 28 comments

For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

OREGON: “The house & senate are totally abdicating their responsibilities.” @RepBentz (R) is the latest Republican to get confronted by constituents at a town hall. (Tennessee folks— town halls are these things where senators/reps show up and you can talk to them in person)

submitted 1 day ago • 142 comments

The Trump Administration has cost our country over 22,406 American jobs. trumpcostsamerica.com

submitted 23 hours ago • 120 comments

The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

submitted 23 hours ago • 40 comments

They're doing an end run around the courts.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

submitted 3 days ago • 1465 comments

This is going to go on at many universities - the uncertainty will lead to fewer graduate programs. It will hobble scientific research which appears to be the goal.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Things hurting the US economy: -mass layoffs of federal workers -funding cuts to every federal dept -corporate layoffs -measles and tuberculosis outbreaks -high flu rates -$8/dozen eggs -new tariffs raising the cost of everything -Canada boycotts US travel and goods -concerns about airplane safety

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

From California to Cleveland, from Montana to Iowa, from Alaska to Atlanta, America’s unions were out in force this week to fight back against unaccountable billionaires. ✊

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

I am looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher to work with me in a project on social cleavages and political party competition in Europe: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Happy to answer any questions, and thanks in advance for circulating the call!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

National Endowment for the Humanities bans all subjects smacking of humanity.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Anecdotal European stuff: I have spoken to a few Italians about the US “situation” lately and all are pretty much asking themselves the same question: where are the American opposition leaders? Where are Obama, Harris, Biden? Their absence is as horrifying as the acts of the current administration.

submitted 1 day ago • 28 comments

the stock market is now below where it was when Joe Biden left office

submitted 1 day ago • 252 comments

Whether in the courts or by way of pressure on the Trump Administration, DEMAND evidence of these claims of fraud and waste. You’d think Trump would be running to Congress & to court to show what they’ve found, and yet…crickets 🦗

submitted 1 day ago • 232 comments

Medicaid is not for sale. NASA is not for sale. The Post Office is not for sale. America is not for sale. We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

submitted 1 day ago • 2389 comments

Oh fuck, what a grift. J6 terrorists sue a DOJ controlled by Trump; Trump orders DOJ lawyers to settle for an undisclosed amount, both sides agree to an NDA. This can happen dozens, hundreds of times. Just an ingenious way to funnel tax dollars to far-right terrorist groups.

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

US business activity stalling, consumers' inflation expectations surge "Long-term inflation expectations highest since 1995" www.reuters.com/markets/us/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Daydreamed about an action along the lines of "A Day Without Science." I have no illusions about how this would be received by the far far right folks so feel free not to explain that to me.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

CSPAN Caller from West Virginia: I’m a diabetic and I’m on Medicare. When Biden was in there, my insulin was $6 for a 28 day supply. I just went to CVS, it went back up to $80…

submitted 1 day ago • 924 comments

BREAKING via WSJ “The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Caleb Vitello, was removed from his post, administration officials and other people familiar with the matter said, amid frustration in the Trump administration that deportations haven’t accelerated faster.”

submitted 1 day ago • 38 comments

It occurs to me that one helpful talking point that needs repetition until we're sick of it: Mass firing of federal employees will raise unemployment — and mean more qualified people are competing with you for good jobs.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

It is both breaking my heart and making me incandescently angry that one of the few silver linings of covid is the rapid progression of mRNA vaccine treatments for cancers - right as the GOP has declared all out War both on science as a whole and on mRNA vaccines specifically.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

NEW: “The first nationwide database tracking misconduct by federal police officers has been shut down by President Donald Trump, the Justice Department confirmed.” Because who cares about accountability in law enforcement, amirite? www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 120 comments

The white mystery is “why make something unidentifiable yet rancid?”

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

submitted 3 days ago • 34 comments

Reports of IRS mass layoffs coming today. Roughly 10% of those expected to be affected are veterans, per former IRS commissioner Charles Rettig. More are current members of reserves or family members of active-duty military personnel. www.linkedin.com/posts/charle...

submitted 2 days ago • 71 comments

Every day is now January 6.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Five major airlines are suing to overturn a rule from then-Transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg that actually holds airlines accountable for damaging disabled people's wheelchairs. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 3 days ago • 99 comments

New: Clearview AI's CEO Hoan Ton-That has resigned. After he led the company through controversy and lawsuits, the company struggled to secure big federal contracts. Now, Clearview is focused on selling to the Trump border effort and the Pentagon. www.forbes.com/sites/davidj...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

NYT: in a bold gesture of solidarity, President Trump hands over the nuclear football to Vladimir Putin.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I was just an Education Department guy under Reagan and the most junior WH senior staffer under G.H.W. Bush, so what do I know? But if I were an ex-president, and the current president were executing the most disastrous turn in American foreign policy in 80 years, I think I might say something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1521 comments

AOC speaking to a thousand NYC federal workers and allies about the urgency of resisting Musk 🔥🔥🔥

submitted 3 days ago • 123 comments

Looking for all those Republicans with pocket Constitutions who love to tweet about 1776

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

Someone posted that plane crashes would become as normalized as school shootings in this era. It doesn’t have to happen but it might.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment