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The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

submitted 17 days ago • 1018 comments

Could it be that @kpmgus.bsky.social, as the internal control auditors of the Treasury, is the most important firewall to protect the country now ? @aoc.bsky.social @schumer.senate.gov @ericswalwell.bsky.social @stephruhle.bsky.social Can someone interview them ?

submitted 17 days ago • 618 comments

to call this a clown show is unfair to clowns. pure madness. like playing russian roulette with a machine gun. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

submitted 17 days ago • 848 comments

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/o...

submitted 18 days ago • 547 comments

An election denier has been confirmed as Attorney General of the United States.

submitted 18 days ago • 343 comments

Van Hollen: "He just said that it will be US policy to forcibly displace 2 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. That is ethnic cleansing by another name. He said the US would then own the Gaza Strip and we would develop it and other countries would take these Palestinians."

submitted 18 days ago • 306 comments

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

submitted 22 days ago • 262 comments

But her emails… www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 22 days ago • 285 comments

I think it already is. But seriously. Don’t call them names. We want the door open for them when they realize the mistake they made. We are for a better America. Not a vindictive America

submitted 22 days ago • 6039 comments

“The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.”

submitted 23 days ago • 912 comments

Grotesque & shameful. BBC News - Roman Abramovich could owe UK £1bn in unpaid tax. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

Stop what you're doing & read this exceptional piece from @brennancenter.bsky.social's @mawaldman.bsky.social that explains how the pending SAVE Act will make it more difficult for Americans to vote, ending advances in online and mail in registration brennancenter.substack.com/p/restrictin...

submitted 25 days ago • 274 comments

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

submitted 25 days ago • 2741 comments

Hey Siri, what’s the definition of FAFO?

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

About 1 in 3 Arkansans are on some form of Medicaid. ARKids is one of the largest of these groups. Medicaid also provides care for kids with complex medical needs—ventilators, feeding tubes, and other daily supplies and medications. This “pause” is going to kill someone.

submitted 25 days ago • 19 comments

PROP - PR Over Policy. Don't confuse them. He is flooding the zone. He knows that media will cover everything he does. Getting people upset. Which helps give him more coverage of the upset people. All just talking about him. Dems need to be strategic.

submitted 25 days ago • 4401 comments

Well, Elon has his people at the fork in the road of Trump.02: www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 25 days ago • 20 comments

Image projected onto Tesla's factory in Berlin

submitted 30 days ago • 912 comments

Trump Presidency in trouble on day one. People are just tired of it already. Inauguration ratings down 27% from Biden's and 20% from Trump's 2017. Trump's approval rating clocks in underwater at 47%. No honeymoon.

submitted 32 days ago • 160 comments

He was pardoned….because he was a “Pioneer in Cryptocurrency.” He was serving a life sentence. My anger at the Biden administration is intense.1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

submitted 32 days ago • 29 comments

So far today, we have: - withdrawn from Paris Climate agreement - announced 25% tariffs on Mexico and Canada starting February 1 - withdrawn from World Health Organization This is the “stability” you voted for, MAGA?

submitted 33 days ago • 502 comments

This is a fascinating turn of events

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submitted 44 days ago • 20 comments

Fucked up, ain't it?

submitted 57 days ago • 11 comments

I’d recommend everyone regardless of medical risk bring a mask on your airplane journey, a disinfectant wipe to clean the seat you’re in and hand sanitizer. It’s going to be on you alone to protect your health. Warning signs are everywhere.

submitted 57 days ago • 974 comments

He’s just now figuring this out

submitted 56 days ago • 4582 comments

It's all fun and games until these people are in charge of running our country for the next four years

submitted 56 days ago • 1243 comments

submitted 57 days ago • 67 comments

Well would you look at that.

submitted 59 days ago • 1645 comments

🇺🇦🎄 Zelensky: For the second time, we celebrate Christmas on the same date as one big family, one country. For the second time in new history, Christmas unites all Ukrainians. Today we are shoulder to shoulder. We will not get lost.

submitted 60 days ago • 43 comments

Trump has been eyeing Greenland for years.

submitted 62 days ago • 413 comments

WHOA! THIS SHOULD BE CONSIDERED FRAUD. GOP Rep. Kay Granger (TX-12) has been missing for six months. She was just found by a reporter in a dementia care facility. Her staff and others have been keeping this a secret from her constituents. So who’s been making these posts?

submitted 63 days ago • 1790 comments

Translation: She was just told Desantis isn’t picking her.

submitted 63 days ago • 2495 comments

I would be surprised if the government didn't shut down. It's the only way to find out what services people didn't know they were missing. Those are the ones Elon will say " see, no one noticed you were closed. Goodbye "

submitted 65 days ago • 1556 comments

"Poland has made firearms lessons compulsory for primarly schoolchildren in preparation of a potential Russian attack." - DW www.dw.com/en/polands-s...

submitted 66 days ago • 69 comments

As the planet warms, insurance companies are dropping homeowners in communities they deem too dangerous because of wildfires, hurricanes and other threats. Now, for the first time, the scale of that pullback is becoming public. nyti.ms/41EOpNc

submitted 66 days ago • 112 comments

According to reporting by the WSJ, anonymous intelligence sources claim the Chinese captain of Yi Peng 3, the ship that cut the underwater cables in the Baltic Sea with its anchor, received instructions directly from Russian intelligence.

submitted 69 days ago • 194 comments

My entire uhaul of belongings was stolen early this morning just hours before I closed my new home. Arizona license plate AE66717 stolen from Emeryville between 6:30 and 6:50 am. Bay area peeps please look for it. It is everything to me. Art, photos, everything. 😭😭😭

submitted 71 days ago • 14 comments

Sen. Mitch McConnell, the former Republican leader and a polio survivor, issued a statement in support of the polio vaccine, hours after The New York Times reported that the lawyer for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned regulators to withdraw the vaccine from the market. nyti.ms/4iwSCbV

submitted 71 days ago • 397 comments

Before vaccines (1900) the average life expectancy was 47.3 yrs Leading causes of deaths: pneumonia, influenza, tuberculosis, diphtheria, smallpox, measles, typhoid fever Average life expectancy today is 78 yrs Vaccines work! Vaccines save lives!

submitted 72 days ago • 55 comments

Do you think they got the message?

submitted 71 days ago • 2960 comments

Two 14 year-old teenagers were shot at a Christmas celebration at Rothman ice rink next to City Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. One of the teens was shot in the face, and is now in critical condition. The other was shot in the calf. Another teenager around the same age is now in police custody

submitted 71 days ago • 17 comments