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This is exactly the same rationale as the war on remote work. “I wouldn’t do anything unless someone were watching over my shoulder, so the same must be true of these people.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 26 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social This is a five-alarm fire.

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 20 hours ago • 124 comments

Elon’s evil munchkins sent this ridiculous email out to all 2 million or so Federal employees demanding they reply by midnight Monday. If you want to let them know what you did last week I’m bet they’d love to hear from you at [email protected]! I can’t wait to tell them about my norovirus symptoms!

submitted 22 hours ago • 477 comments

Don’t post front facing pictures of yourself maskless at protests. Don’t post front facing pictures of other people maskless at protests. Especially ppl of color. Seeing that all over with the Tesla stuff. You eagerly wanting to be seen doing something endangers both yourself and others.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

Trump has spent a third of his term so far on the golf course and it’s only February. He might break his old record but like everything with him that Depends.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

250 years ago this week, Salem residents said “no” to being ruled by a King in one of the first armed standoffs of the American Revolution. British Colonel Leslie and his troops were forced to retreat back to Marblehead after a tense standoff with Salem citizens. 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Several good things are happening according r/fednews so I am going to drop them here. If federal workers are fighting back, how much more us? A thread/

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Did you know there’s a whole spectrum of stuff in between “spend all weekend cleaning your house” and “don’t do anything at all because it’s so overwhelming”? Wipe down one counter. Put away half a load of laundry. Vacuum one room. You can do a little bit, and it helps! And then you can stop!

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

Memo to Democrats: If EVERY ONE of you would do what Janet Mills did yesterday EVERY TIME, Trump would unravel entirely. He relies on you being bullied. Refuse to be.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I also assure you: you'll be shocked at how little you miss it.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

250 years ago, Salem did some early resistance, and goddam, I love my city: historicipswich.net/2023/02/22/l...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

A group of wolves is called a pack and a group of Nazis is called a CPAC.

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

seeing a lot of this type of thing — and then if there are court cases and such that render those edicts toothless, they never get the same coverage. it's teaching me not to freak out too much when news first drops.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

General Charles Q. Brown is Excellence. Fox News Host Pete Hegseth is Mediocrity.

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

submitted 1 day ago • 206 comments

THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say results of a Phase I trial of an mRNA vaccine aimed at preventing pancreatic cancer show promise. The vaccine PREVENTED the cancer from coming back in patients who had already received treatment for MORE THAN three years. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 2 days ago • 345 comments

Very basic question: DOGE is made up a few dozen people most of whom aren't drawing salaries. What could $40 million be going toward? Could it be data storage outside government servers? talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doge-co...

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Important to stop phrasing & headlining things as "Trump does XXX" (e.g. "Trump fires all USPS heads and integrates it under Commerce"); we can simply say he is purporting to do XXX, or claiming the power to do XXX. Mere fact of a president saying he did something doesn't will it into existence.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting specific, clear examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Think about this and please make sure to "repost" it so that everybody understands what's really going on. Don't just "like" it -- "repost" it -- this is important!

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I don't know who needs to hear this, but we need to stop trying to scotch-tape the pieces of our broken political system back together and start building a better system that won't be so easily manipulated by these nazi pieces of shit.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

the whole 2020-2024 era of “dems shouldnt aggressively use the levers of power bc then republicans will do the same thing when theyre elected” sure looks dumb as dog shit right now huh

submitted 3 days ago • 180 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 3 days ago • 248 comments

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

submitted 3 days ago • 247 comments

They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

submitted 3 days ago • 12 comments

Everything about the Ukraine situation is grim. But yes, this! It was only five years ago. In the fall of 2019 "the perfect phone call" and all that came with it felt like possibly the biggest presidential scandal in history. In the big picture now, it's a blip.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I suspect we’re going to be hearing more stories about failing farmers having their land bought for cheep—it’s not a coincidence. Is this why USAID was cut—to make way for billionaires?! Watch til the end and keep an eye on national parklands too. 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 507 comments

Congress could appropriate more money to the Capitol Police, which is under the control of congress and does not report to POTUS, to significantly upgrade the force's ability to deal with threats and protect members. They are too cowardly to even protect themselves.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

Dude is golfing on a f*cking Wednesday. I still can’t believe even a single person voted for him.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“put it on his fucking gravestone”

submitted 3 days ago • 109 comments

Congress writes the laws. Courts interpret the laws. Executive enforces/enacts the laws. Shout it from the rooftops. This is how OUR government works. Executive Orders ARE NOT LAWS.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I look forward to the day when a Democratic president posts “Half of this country is too stupid to breathe, and business owners can eat my ass” and the Times covers it with this kind of equanimity

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

I don’t think you really care about protecting women if you voted for a rapist.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

The right has spent decades defunding and censoring education, eviscerating local news, and dumping billions into targeted propaganda campaigns in new media. People need to understand that reality just isn't even ACCESSIBLE to large swaths of Americans. Not an exaggeration.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 4 days ago • 503 comments

I had two grant proposals up for review in the NIH Bacterial Virulence (BV) study section. It was canceled without notice this morning. Without those grants, my lab must close within a year. And so the purge of scientific research in the US continues 🤬 #MicroSky 🦠🧫🧪🧬🔬

submitted 4 days ago • 56 comments

Biological sex is not binary. Sex is difficult to assign for close to 2% of the US population. There are exceptions to whatever rule we might apply to define sex: sex chromosomes, the size of reproductive cells, hormone levels, internal organs or genitals. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

States should immediately adjust taxes to take back every cent in tax cuts to the wealthy to re-create devastated Federal services.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I am so over this fucking wind.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I didn’t think the Democrats were going to save us, per se, but I did not expect them to lie down on the floor and mildly complain about the smart heels of the fascists trodding upon them.

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

Girls just want to have a world free of nazis.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

helluva thread from the hellsite about the comically bad “savings” doge claims to have found (sorry for the weirdly sized screenshots, I had to squeeze everything into only 4 of them)

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

How convenient for President Musk.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments