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The MAGAs are really, really blatantly firing a ton of women in the federal government and military for the crime of being women, and it is embarrassing when people ignore or downplay this.

submitted 15 hours ago • 15 comments

Im starting to think the tech community doesnt have my best interests at heart

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Local news has picked this up, noting, “Kootenai County Sheriff Bob Norris also appeared to be in attendance at the event, although he has yet to offer a public statement after multiple attempts to contact his office.“ You can see him downthread. www.khq.com/news/attende...

submitted 11 hours ago • 31 comments

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

submitted 12 hours ago • 42 comments

👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt

submitted 15 hours ago • 82 comments

💥The Netherlands' largest pension fund, has sold its shares in Tesla, Meta, and Alphabet (Google). The fund with US $569 billion equivolent in assets is "directing more money to companies and projects that help to improve society and the environment." #Divest www.reuters.com/markets/euro...

submitted 22 hours ago • 265 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 14 hours ago • 866 comments

The way other female conservative influencers are turning on Ashley St. Clair, leaking her texts, and smearing her should be a sign to any conservative woman that a movement built on misogyny will not protect you. That your female peers will weaponize misogyny against you, too.

submitted 15 hours ago • 28 comments

One person did benefit from the biotech company AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio: the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

submitted 16 hours ago • 34 comments

In case you missed it, the Trump administration is making an end run around the court order that unfroze NIH spending: by not allowing NIH to place notices in the Federal Register, it has stopped them from holding any grant evaluation meetings. Basically, there’s no way to evaluate grants right now.

submitted 20 hours ago • 6 comments

This is the most wretched campaign of deliberate, explicit persecution the United States has perpetrated against a minority group in decades. Many of the most important people in politics and journalism are busying themselves trying to figure out how little to say or do about it.

submitted 21 hours ago • 197 comments

I was set to launch my book at the Carter Library next month. This week, we were told all events now need approval from the National Archives. The next day, my event was forced to relocate. A book about the working homeless. A book about civil rights. Apparently these topics are now off limits.

submitted 21 hours ago • 38 comments

PBS Newshour gave a twelve minute interview to Daily Wire host Michael Knowles, who has called for the “eradication” of trans people from society

submitted 21 hours ago • 97 comments

(AP) — Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars. #OligarchEra 🇺🇸 apnews.com/article/musk...

submitted 20 hours ago • 245 comments

Staffing at the HUD office that pays for housing and support services across the country is slated to be cut by 84%. Advocates warn such heavy cuts could make record-high homelessness even worse.

submitted 22 hours ago • 145 comments

On Wednesday I was the first to report Leland Dudek was on the verge of losing his job at the Social Security Administration when he was suddenly promoted to acting commissioner by Elon Musk. Thursday I published a story with more details. I’ll let you guess if I got any credit in this Post story:

submitted 1 day ago • 74 comments

"rescind acceptances" the kind of thing that absolutely destroys trust and reputation for a supposedly world class institution

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

Trump's DOJ is preparing to put all incarcerated transgender women into men's facilities as early as next week, and according to NPR "the bureau is well aware of concerns about potential risks of assault, sexual violence and suicides"

submitted 23 hours ago • 90 comments

My mother's life was prolonged by an organ donor. It's such an important process that touches so many people. Yet the current government is firing people who aim to make it more efficient so it can save more lives. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

submitted 23 hours ago • 3 comments

“Leaders of the Social Security Administration had just opened an investigation into a career employee they believed was improperly sharing information with Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team when [Pres. Trump] elevated the employee this week to acting commissioner” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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"During the meeting, Ukraine was told it faced imminent shutoff of the Starlink service if it did not reach a deal on critical minerals, said the source, who requested anonymity to discuss closed negotiations." Astonishing betrayal of an ally. www.reuters.com/business/us-...

submitted 1 day ago • 150 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

BREAKING — States attorneys general lead by @newyorkstateag.bsky.social were just granted a preliminary injunction in their case against DOGE. The team cannot access Treasury Department payment systems or data while the lawsuit proceeds. Major.

submitted 1 day ago • 157 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 2 days ago • 756 comments

The crash is beginning in academia.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Pentagon to fire 5,400 civilian employees in ‘initial’ purge www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

submitted 1 day ago • 49 comments

NEW: The Trump administration has locked Minnesota out of $200 million in federal food and climate grants awarded last summer. Projects breaking ground this year were depending on that money. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/21/t...

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Exactly what scholars said would happen when the immigration policies were announced. Drops in international students, leading some universities to take more domestic students, leading other universities to budget deficits because they can't hit enrollment targets. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

this is fucking wild to watch in real time.

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Oh happy day! 😀 ProPublica Opens Application for Five New Local Partners for Its 50 State Initiative

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

South Carolina is set to execute Brad Sigmon by firing squad, reviving a death penalty method that hasn't been used in 15 years in the US. The 67-yr-old chose firing squad due to concerns about lethal injection. The last 3 killings took 20+ mins, appearing to cause pain akin to suffocation/drowning

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

One of President Trump's anti-congestion pricing mouthpieces has a notable conflict of interest: Her husband owns more than a dozen parking garages in the very part of Manhattan where driving has been reduced by the toll.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

If you're trying to figure out what to do right now, my advice is to just pick a thing that you think might be useful in some way, however small, and do it. Doing a thing leads you to doing another, bigger thing, and prepares you for that next thing.

submitted 2 days ago • 72 comments

Justice Department deletes database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed by Trump in 2020 in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The owners of a South Texas bakery were arrested and charged with harboring undocumented workers, a relatively rare incidence of federal agents pursuing business owners for allegedly employing undocumented immigrants. via @beregarcia.bsky.social www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

WSJ: “Trump has taken the highly unusual step of revoking an extension of temporary protected status from roughly 520,000 Haitians — will effectively flip more than half a million immigrants from legal to illegal in August.” www.rawstory.com/haitian-tps/

submitted 2 days ago • 62 comments

A. Book. Tour.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I feel so sick. Enough with the lies, enough with the games. They know exactly what they're doing. This is a neo-Nazi movement. Proudly so. The only reason they've kept it coded up until now was to take advantage of those who didn't want to believe it. No more looking away. Face up to what it is.

submitted 2 days ago • 229 comments

"I think there's real risk of a generation or more of data being lost." - Dr. Michael Greicius, neurology professor at Stanford University, on the damage Trump's cuts to NIH research will do to progress on a treatment for Alzheimer's disease, adding as much as 20 years to the timeline.

submitted 2 days ago • 48 comments

"Prisons all over the United States are withholding books from prisoners, but not because they contain contraband. Books are becoming harder to receive based on their content."

submitted 2 days ago • 20 comments

New: The $2 billion media conglomerate that owns sites like IGN and CNET is quietly taking DEI information off its website: www.404media.co/ziff-davis-d...

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following a 2024 voter referendum, abortion clinics in Missouri have officially resumed services as of this week Missouri was the first state to ban abortion after Roe's overturn

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

They arrived at the United States border from around the world, hoping to seek asylum. Instead, they were detained, shackled and flown by the U.S. military to a faraway country, Panama. Our exclusive look at a new front in Pres. Trump’s immigration crackdown:

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments