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Please share this widely: send an email to [email protected] with 5 things your favorite federal agency does that the private sector can’t or won’t

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AOC: And he is running around because he thinks he got a bank account with a lot of zeros in it that it makes him some kind of super citizen. I don't think so.

submitted 2 days ago • 205 comments

Yes, please.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

We should hang our heads in shame.

submitted 5 days ago • 76 comments

I am really outdone. The Maryland National Guard cannot celebrate Frederick Douglass, the state’s native son and perhaps the greatest American this nation ever produced, because he’s Black and his chosen birthday happened to fall during Black History Month. (Ask me why he had to choose is b-day)

submitted 8 days ago • 77 comments

i helped develop/run policy workforce capacity-building programs for the CDC when i was there—training early career scientists on how to do policy (and to do it better) the damage done here to public health cannot be quickly or easily reversed. it will be felt for many years & it will cost lives.

submitted 9 days ago • 23 comments

Omg

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

It’s amazing that one person can run six companies, manage the entire federal bureaucracy, and be model parent to 13 children. Truly a triumph of time management.

submitted 9 days ago • 374 comments

Even worse incompetence: they accidentally fired, then apparently today un-fired, hundreds of the people who manage America's nuclear weapons.

submitted 9 days ago • 1614 comments

These are incredible, celebratory times for cancer AND measles

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

This is the story of so many blockbuster drugs. Funded by NIH. Privatized, prices hiked, fortunes made on the backs of taxpayers, scientists, and civil servants

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

The gene therapy Zolgensma helped children born with spinal muscular atrophy grow up to run and play. But the cost was stunning: $2M per dose. While taxpayers and small charities funded the drug’s early development, executives, venture-capital backers and a pharma giant have reaped the profits.

submitted 9 days ago • 10 comments

I bet a lot of Californians would pay money to the Danes to help defray the cost

submitted 11 days ago • 394 comments

HYPOTHETICAL: We get a handful of artists to create a set of posters, each focusing on a different aspect of the science-related shit going on rn. We make them inexpensive enough that you don't feel... precious about them. You might... put them up...ephemerally... How do you feel about that?

submitted 12 days ago • 52 comments

I’m not a mathematician or anything, but it seems like this adds up to Republicans dramatically increasing the deficit while the wealthy pay a lot less in taxes. No wonder Trump wanted to eliminate the debt ceiling during his presidency.

submitted 12 days ago • 246 comments

“The walkout was organized in part by an eighth-grade student who is not yet 14 years old, she and her mother said in a joint phone interview…The student said that she and other students decided to act after seeing how Trump’s executive orders would target diversity events.” Tiny badasses

submitted 12 days ago • 62 comments

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

submitted 12 days ago • 2312 comments

We cannot ignore how shockingly abnormal it is for a private citizen — who himself has contracts with the federal government — to dispatch a private army of executives, data experts and recent high schoolers to dictate policies to federal agencies. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/elon...

submitted 12 days ago • 576 comments

This is massive and will have a cascading effect.

submitted 16 days ago • 6 comments

Trump just nuked science in the United States. This will have devastating consequences and generational damage to scientific training. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What if the problem all along was the first word, not the second

submitted 18 days ago • 7 comments

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submitted 20 days ago • 134 comments

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

submitted 21 days ago • 485 comments

There are a lot of trans veterans who rely on VA services. This isn’t a child. This is a veteran faced with losing access to critical services and being erased from the eyes of their government. Previous administrations did everything in their power to reduce veteran suicides. That’s over.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Question: Is air traffic controller a “lower productivity job in the public sector”? How about doctors and nurses treating veterans? FBI agents? Health inspectors?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

He has zero authority to do this. One starts to wonder if the first march in the streets will just be focused on getting this rando out

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

If you wanted no leaks you should have gone into Settings -> Security -> Configure privacy & security -> Privacy options -> Other -> Configure -> Media interface and clicked “Disallow.” The Leak setting is on by default but we understand your privacy is important so we’ve made it easy to opt out

submitted 24 days ago • 876 comments

Surreal being a trans person on this website this week. Every single one of my trans friends is making emergency preparations in case Trump bans our health care while fighting off existential dread and depression, and 99% of the cis people i follow seemingly have nothing to say about the trans EOs.

submitted 25 days ago • 173 comments

Now he’s coming for the Americans with Disabilities Act www.ndrn.org/resource/dca...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

“NPR has identified dozens of defendants with prior convictions or pending charges for crimes including rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse material and drug trafficking.” www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...

submitted 24 days ago • 392 comments

This part of the government keeps us safe while we fly. This part of the government keeps us safe while we're on the ocean. This part of the government keeps us safe from infectious diseases. This part of the government keeps us safe when we pick up our prescriptions. This part of the... ...

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

just want to take a step back from the relentless churn of news to recognize how fucking terrifying things are for trans people right now. and i just want to say that i will always fight for you—in my capacity as a journalist and as a human being—and i’m here for whatever the trans community needs.

submitted 25 days ago • 80 comments

Yep.

submitted 25 days ago • 330 comments

Guys, I hate to even suggest the possibility, but I’m starting to wonder just a teensy-weensy little bit whether maybe, just maybe, FFOTUS wasn’t totally upfront and forthcoming about Project 2025 during the campaign

submitted 26 days ago • 1135 comments

We’re living through Deconstruction. I don’t know what else to call it — it’s an assault on the New Deal, Great Society, Reconstruction, and every other rights movement I can think of.

submitted 26 days ago • 77 comments

Now every federal agency is in the hands of elon musk. What could go wrong?

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

📌Just talked to a former colleague of mine who now works inside the government helping to keep people fed (re: Farm Bill), who is describing working conditions there as: "Horrid." 📌Where the fuck is the reporting on this? Because A LOT of people are getting hurt. And more WILL BE hurt.

submitted 27 days ago • 177 comments

Trump's federal hiring freeze threatens to understaff the Veterans Crisis Line, a critical resource for those who’ve served. Veterans deserve reliable support, ESPECIALLY in times of crisis! MORE: www.npr.org/2025/01/23/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 37 comments