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So. It has officially happened. I have been officially let go from my position at CDC. I wasn’t a probationary employee. I had stellar performance reviews every year. I’ll be ok. But please understand that many worked HARD to get into these positions and were doing great public health work.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1712 comments

Jan 6 must be fully & conclusively adjudicated in a court of law if this country is to ever move forward. They can't just wish it away unless we let them.

submitted 20 days ago • 930 comments

MIKE LUCKOVICH APPRECIATION POST @mluckovich.bsky.social is one of the greatest political cartoonists of all time. Thank you for 3 decades of scathing satire, remarkable insight and helping us all laugh to avoid weeping openly. 🙏 Your longtime fan, Mar🐫

submitted 15 days ago • 551 comments

It would be far less time-consuming to just document when he tells the truth. shorturl.at/tohgb

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German Foreign Minister Baerbock threatens the U.S. with a severing of ties over Trump’s remarks on Zelensky and Ukraine. "We will increase pressure on the Americans to make them realize they have a lot to lose if they stop supporting Europe's liberal democracies," Baerbock stated.

submitted 18 hours ago • 13 comments

Great speech by AOC. What the issues are.

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Any take over of Canada by the USA is a grave threat to the Canadian way of life. 》 “You can’t take our country—and you can’t take our game.”《 🎁

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🚨🧵New RUSI Report, 'Tactical Developments During the Third Year of the Russo–Ukrainian War' by Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds is out now!

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

'Despite the talk of peace, Russia will continue to view Ukraine as a target for its expansionist policies and will rebuild its military forces following any agreement' writes Dr Neil Melvin in the latest RUSI Commentary.

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When even the New York Post has to publish this, you know you fucked up.

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Donald Trump will attend the 9th May Putin’s Victory Parade in Moscow - French media Le Point, citing its own sources.

submitted 22 hours ago • 77 comments

REMEMBER: Next Friday, February 28. NOT 1 PENNY SPENT. We can do this. I'm IN, are you? 👋💙

submitted 20 hours ago • 309 comments

This x10000000000 “In other words: We, the opposition, are the majority. Take heart.” www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/they-are-a...

submitted 21 hours ago • 1163 comments

There have never been kings in America. The monarchy doesn't start now.

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

submitted 15 hours ago • 1781 comments

⚠️ Resources on Trump possibly recruited as a Russian ahent. themoscowproject.org trumpfile.org www.muskwatch.com bylinetimes.com/2025/02/21/d...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

⚠️ Flipping GOP House seats. Is this in your State, District. Inform your fellow voters. Get working on it. Findout who these people are. Every bit helps. #Democracy

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Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

submitted 17 hours ago • 41 comments

⚠️ Staggering possibilities for blackmail by Musk/Trump.

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Gift link. A small unelected, secretive crew now has free access to sensitive private data of everyone. And Musk is already publicly targeting family members of judges who rule against the administration. If this isn’t ringing alarm bells, I don’t know what would. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

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Totally flailing www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

submitted 18 hours ago • 47 comments

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

submitted 1 day ago • 145 comments

Ummm…👇 The more you know…💫

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Ukraine Fact Sheet - February 21, 2025: isw.pub/UkraineFacts...

submitted 21 hours ago • 29 comments

Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation. "The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]." This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities. nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

submitted 1 day ago • 119 comments

This.

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Happening now: protesters are outside the Fine Arts Building on Michigan Avenue in downtown Chicago this evening. People are in line to see House of Reps Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries for an event tonight promoting his recently released book. Crowd chanting at them, "we don't need a book tour!"

submitted 1 day ago • 828 comments

This is like opposing a joint resolution declaring that the Sun sets in the West America doesn’t just look like an idiot here, we look like goddamn Flat Earthers

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Carville: USAID spent $41 billion the federal budget is 6 trillion. Actually comes to something like .014%. So take that and put it against the 6 trillion and see what you have done when your president is responsible for more federal debt than any president in the history of the United States.

submitted 1 day ago • 655 comments

The cruelty of this Ketamine fueled ass.

submitted 20 hours ago • 7 comments

I have identified at least two dozen pardoned Capitol Rioters that are currently attending CPAC in Washington, D.C. —including members of far right extremists groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers. Updates on Pardon Tracker's interactive visualization: embed.kumu.io/39b5108ec4a0...

submitted 22 hours ago • 180 comments

Masterfully done, Judge Ho: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Elon Musk is cratering in polls: WaPo: Only 34% approve of Musk's role, 63% worry about his data access CNN: 54% say it's bad Musk was given a big role Majorities disapprove of Trump in CNN, WaPo, Gallup. On the pod, @juliaazari.bsky.social is great on all this: newrepublic.com/article/1917...

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