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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

submitted 22 hours ago • 676 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

submitted 16 hours ago • 953 comments

Walz: I think they hate public education because it’s easier to run an authoritarian government if you don’t have a population that knows.

submitted 1 day ago • 925 comments

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

submitted 1 day ago • 470 comments

Walz: There’s nothing conservative about an unelected South African nepo baby firing people at the VA.

submitted 1 day ago • 204 comments

Cool so what happens if GOP attach a national abortion ban to a CR? You'll vote for that too? 🚮

submitted 1 day ago • 5289 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 1 day ago • 4137 comments

NEW: Family of Mahmoud Khalil just released footage of his arrest “Stop resisting” “He’s not resisting” Agents seen continuing to ignore Mahmoud’s wife as she asks basic questions

submitted 1 day ago • 719 comments

When asked if the Administration will comply with court orders on fired federal workers, WH Press Secretary Leavitt says the orders are unconstitutional: You cannot have a low level district court judge filing an injunction to usurp the executive authority of the President…

submitted 1 day ago • 1426 comments

This is exactly what I have been saying for a while now. At this point, it’s not left vs right that matters, but fighters vs non-fighters. The Dems, and the American people, need fighters.

submitted 2 days ago • 615 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

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"we should help them beat us up" is just the most clownfuckingly stupid strategy ever

submitted 2 days ago • 80 comments

The idea that greenlighting a bill that Trump, Musk, and every single Republican in Congress support is not giving Trump what he wants is an insult to everyone’s intelligence

submitted 2 days ago • 42 comments

A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.

submitted 2 days ago • 2377 comments

PUT THE WOKE BACK NOW!!!!

submitted 2 days ago • 168 comments

This is also known as invading Panama.

submitted 3 days ago • 689 comments

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk. It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

submitted 2 days ago • 639 comments

AOC on senate Dems caving and backing the CR: “A wide sense of betrayal.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1302 comments

If you won’t negotiate with Democrats or talk to them about the CR, you can’t complain when they won’t vote for it. It’s really that simple.

submitted 3 days ago • 195 comments

Gutting the Department of Education will impact everything from internet access to school buses. Let’s not make it harder to learn.

submitted 4 days ago • 1428 comments

A top Democratic congressman goes off during a DOGE hearing and calls out Elon for trying to cut Social Security. More of this please.

submitted 3 days ago • 1100 comments

Nice work in Tottenham

submitted 3 days ago • 415 comments

Leavitt: Tariffs are a tax hike on foreign countries and a tax cut for the American people Reporter: Have you ever paid a tariff? I have. They don’t get charged on foreign countries Leavitt: I think it’s insulting that you are trying test my knowledge on economics

submitted 4 days ago • 2357 comments

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

submitted 4 days ago • 1107 comments

Musk and Trump could not possibly be sending a clearer signal that the Tesla protests are working than this pathetic stunt today.

submitted 4 days ago • 1107 comments

"Tariffs are a tax cut for the American people" -- Karoline Leavitt turns reality upside down, then gets mad at an AP reporter after he pushes back

submitted 4 days ago • 3697 comments

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

submitted 10 days ago • 1578 comments

If you were really looking for fraud at SSA, you wouldn’t need write access. You WOULD need write access if you wanted to CREATE fraud where none existed as a pretext to shut down Social Security.

submitted 6 days ago • 321 comments

True facts.

submitted 5 days ago • 1347 comments

“Put on your mandate pants.” HAHA

submitted 5 days ago • 230 comments

Musk says millions of dead people get Social Security. That's a lie. Here's the truth: 30,000 people die a year waiting for an understaffed Social Security to approve disability benefits. Musk's plan to cut Social Security's staff by 50% will make this tragic reality even worse.

submitted 9 days ago • 250 comments

Millionaires stop paying into Social Security today. That’s because they've now made $176,100, and hit the contributions cap. Billionaires made that much about an hour into the year. Elon Musk did in just 15 minutes. Tax the rich. Scrap the cap.

submitted 9 days ago • 32 comments

I see tomorrow is Friday. Is Friday going a tariff day, or a some-tariffs day, or a no-tariffs day? Or will it be some other kind of day, like an annex-Greenland day, or a Hannibal-Lecter-wants-to-have-you-for-dinner day, or an Arnold-Palmer-size day, or something else? I just can’t keep track.