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We are so pleased to welcome Sally Hubbard back to Open Markets as a fellow, made possible through a generous grant from the @knightfoundation.org Federal Alumni Fellowship Fund at The Miami Foundation. www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

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NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

submitted 21 hours ago • 3186 comments

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Thursday to retract directives that prompted the firing of thousands of federal workers, saying that those directives were “illegal.”

submitted 9 hours ago • 31 comments

DOGE implied it had slashed $100,000,000 in diversity trainings at the Agriculture Department. The actual savings was $121,000. @janetimm.bsky.social has the receipts: www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 1 day ago • 99 comments

THIS is the pilot you want in this environment.

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When I called Susan Collins and argued about voting to confirm RFK I said quite simply "People will die" and they will of the flu, of Covid, of measles, and possibly more. And why? What for? So people can preserve their ignorance and selfishness. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

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I have had attorneys make this argument to me with their full face before: "Person A is solely responsible for hiring and firing; just because Person B tells Person A whom to hire and fire, and Person A cannot make these decisions without Person B's say-so, does not mean Person B has this authority"

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

You let an anti-vaccine zealot take charge of our nation’s leading health agency.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Reuters: Elon Musk, the billionaire behind President Donald Trump's efforts to shrink the U.S. government, threw his support behind a bill that would consolidate antitrust enforcement at the U.S. Department of Justice, stripping that authority from the Federal Trade Commission.

submitted 10 hours ago • 15 comments

Im excited to take place in the economic blackout boycott tomorrow. I hope you'll join me and millions of others.

submitted 18 hours ago • 1151 comments

Stop giving your attention and money to the mainstream media and start supporting alternatives like: Democracy Docket The Contrarian Meidas Touch Please put other alternatives you like in the comments. Let’s build a great list of resources we can trust.

submitted 1 day ago • 331 comments

Quite the message from the guy running our government

submitted 18 hours ago • 3782 comments

Russia: Air traffic at Sheremetyevo Airport closed an hour ago in anticipation of Ukrainian drone strikes in the region. It is the main airport in Moscow.

submitted 11 hours ago • 37 comments

They just fired hundreds of FAA employees.

submitted 18 hours ago • 4378 comments

The economic black out is tomorrow. I'm participating.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1563 comments

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

submitted 10 hours ago • 279 comments

Former Defense Secretaries: “We, like many Americans- including many troops-are therefore left to conclude that [top military] leaders are being fired for purely partisan reasons.. we’re not asking members of Congress to do us a favor; we’re asking them to do their jobs.” apnews.com/article/pent...

submitted 10 hours ago • 12 comments

Tomorrow, people across the country are participating in an Economic Blackout—a coordinated effort to withhold spending for 24 hours to send a powerful message about economic justice, corporate greed, and political accountability.

submitted 10 hours ago • 70 comments

🚨BREAKING: A federal judge ordered Trump officials with knowledge of the workings of billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to testify under oath in a lawsuit challenging the faux agency’s access to sensitive governmental databases. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 13 hours ago • 400 comments

We’re encouraging people to shop at small businesses. Just use cash so the banks and credit card companies don’t benefit from your purchase.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsR5...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Cherry Hill, New Jersey:

submitted 3 days ago • 224 comments

So Vance is urging Trump to use his powers to make hospital to a transplant on an unvaccinated for Covid. Not sure if you know the rules for Transplant but you HAVE to be vaccinated to ensure that other recipients on the floor does NOT get sick. share.newsbreak.com/brzvk8bv?s=i16

submitted 11 hours ago • 30 comments

Trump’s MAGA influencers laughing it up as they hold up pedo evidence

submitted 10 hours ago • 65 comments

I know there’s a phrase that perfectly describes what’s going on here but gosh darn it I’m blanking on it Maybe we can crowdsource this. The best I can come up with is I think it may rhyme with or sound something like “anti-magnetic lyco-bath.” Can anyone help?

submitted 13 hours ago • 623 comments

Not at all a rogue ranger. There is a whole movement of park service employees surreptitiously keeping everyone up on what's going on behind the scenes. Alt National ParkService. "I truly believe this information should be seen by the general public." Link in comments:

submitted 11 hours ago • 24 comments

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1704 comments

Trump and Musk are importing rapists and human traffickers and deporting Native Americans and other US citizens.

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

Wonder how insurance companies will feel about the Musk/Trump admin gutting firefighting, disaster response, and weather forecasting services.

submitted 10 hours ago • 18 comments

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

submitted 13 hours ago • 1238 comments

welp www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

submitted 12 hours ago • 67 comments

Not shocked the dweeb who ran a kidnapping-based canvassing program for Trump can't conceive of actual grassroots energy.

submitted 17 hours ago • 38 comments

Veterans….sound off. How do you feel about this?

submitted 1 day ago • 39 comments

WaPo's brilliant Tik-Tok explainer dude Dave Jorgenson here, just Washington Post-ing a fave video totally at random from last year

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

NEW: Indiana already has stringent voter ID rules... & the GOP is advancing a bill right now to strip university IDs from the list of options you can use. This would make it much harder for students to vote. At polling site at IU Bloomington, 2/3rds of voters in November used their student IDs.

submitted 1 day ago • 56 comments

Donald Trump just helped free Andrew Tate from his rape and human trafficking charges. Tate has bragged about grabbing women by their necks, breaking their jaws, and said “I am absolutely a misogynist.”

submitted 20 hours ago • 916 comments

Where are all the MAGA supporters who claim to care about human trafficking?

submitted 20 hours ago • 618 comments

Air traffic controllers are required by law to retire at 56. It is a high-stress, high-intensity job that requires intense focus. The retirement rules are there to keep us all safe. This fucking guy has no clue what's he's doing.

submitted 20 hours ago • 447 comments

Andrew Tate is an icon of Trumpism and all it stands for. apnews.com/article/roma...

submitted 19 hours ago • 175 comments

During a meeting with constituents, Republican Congressman Mark Alford of Missouri had a simple response for federal workers who lost their jobs due to Elon Musk: “God has a plan and purpose for your life.” It didn’t go over well. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/gop-congre...

submitted 23 hours ago • 57 comments

New from me: Candace Owens has made 6 (six) hours of anti-trans content targeting French First Lady Brigitte Macron and the true crime girlies on TikTok are eating it up www.mediamatters.org/tiktok/canda...

submitted 21 hours ago • 11 comments

Wow. From an email sent around by appalled USAID officials: "The termination to contracts, grants, and assistance agreements over the last two weeks and the huge bulk last night were not done according to federal laws, regulations and procedures..." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-midnight...

submitted 22 hours ago • 48 comments

We are having the worst flu season in 15+ yrs & staring down an avian flu threat that has already spread unchecked in other mammals and taken American life Our government response is to cancel planning for the next flu shot, cancel funding for bird flu vaccines & treatments, & cut Medicaid coverage

submitted 22 hours ago • 62 comments

It's interesting to note that Pam Bondi was Florida's attorney general 2011-2109 -- a period of time when the Jeffrey Epstein's plane records became public, lawsuits were filed and a lot of new evidence against Epstein surfaced.

submitted 21 hours ago • 20 comments

Doing this again. Headed back to Cleveland State University Law School.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

BREAKING HEALTH ALERT: A case of measles has now been confirmed in the state of Kentucky. The Kentucky Department of Public Health said the person had traveled internationally to an area with an ongoing measles transmission. CRITICAL REMINDERS: Measles is highly, highly contagious — one of the…

submitted 1 day ago • 533 comments

Notice the difference in these two photos? F47 is a dangerous embarrassment. Let’s win back the House and impeach this motherf*cker. Support @gayforcongress.bsky.social & @joshweil.bsky.social in any way you can! #DCFL

submitted 22 hours ago • 64 comments