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"DOGE" employees may face criminal exposure for violating laws about financial conflicts of interest. @raskin.house.gov @frost.house.gov @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social @repdangoldman.bsky.social @repescobar.bsky.social & I are investigating enforcement of those laws: beyer.house.gov/news/documen...

submitted 15 hours ago • 71 comments

Would be nice to see laws enforced.

submitted 14 hours ago • 103 comments

Actually, when one party controls everything -- the White House, the Senate and the House -- and the government shuts down on that party's watch, it EXTREMELY POSSIBLE not to blame the party out of power at all. Seriously, you CAN assign blame to the people in charge. No one's stopping you!

submitted 12 hours ago • 45 comments

christ

submitted 10 hours ago • 262 comments

Suozzi on DOGE: "They're cutting and doing some things that I think are very irresponsible. And I don't think it's smart for us to further empower that effort ... they're gonna keep on cutting more people. That's what their plan is. And they're gonna end up paying a price for it."

submitted 17 hours ago • 98 comments

Flashback:

submitted 1 day ago • 1078 comments

sorry for sharing this antisemitic sex creep's tweet, but someone should report out who, exactly, is paying far-right influencers. I don't think Shaffer is lying. Forget about the money they earn from YouTube ads or Substack subscriptions. The real gravy train is what amounts to affiliate deals

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by: -The FBI -The EPA administrator -The EPA IG -Treasury www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 16 hours ago • 116 comments

This is the same money that EPA administrator has framed as literally being "gold bars" that were hidden by the Biden administration and a Fox News anchor thought had been found in a parked car outside of a bank. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

Ask yourself why your not joining this man and this movement Ask yourself why the democrats are not following his leadership youtu.be/39naUJnnRoY

submitted 16 hours ago • 86 comments

Here’s a great chart from @nytimes.com explaining why the cuts to the Energy & Commerce committee in the GOP budget bill would really mean cuts to Medicaid or Medicare.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In 2023, Don McDonnell and his team at Duke U developed a drug approved by the FDA used to treat advanced breast cancer It's the first and only treatment approved to fight breast cancers with mutations in estrogen receptor ESR1 This research was funded by NIH, whose budget was just slashed by DOGE

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Indeed Men of America - we need tone doing MUCH better

submitted 2 days ago • 297 comments

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

submitted 2 days ago • 226 comments

some helpful reminders: -not all jews support israel -criticizing israel is not the same as being antisemitic -being pro-palestine does not equal being pro-hamas -arresting someone for being pro-palestine is a violation of the first amendment -violating someone’s first amendment rights is bad

submitted 2 days ago • 225 comments

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

submitted 2 days ago • 262 comments

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

submitted 2 days ago • 31 comments

“A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.” — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1791

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 2 days ago • 469 comments

Hello gentlemen, you are beautiful. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

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After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say www.icij.org/inside-icij/...

submitted 4 days ago • 126 comments

Russian forces attacked critical infrastructure in Zaporizhzhia, the regional administration reported, adding that gas and heating supplies may be restricted.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Back in 2023, Elon Musk infamously posted and reposted a meme falsely claiming Republicans hadn't changed their views in the last decade, while Democrats had moved left. An FT study confirms that was a lie: Democrats are typical for Western democracies, and MAGA and Musk are _nearly off the chart_.

submitted 5 days ago • 94 comments

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

submitted 5 days ago • 818 comments

With friends like these.

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

Fascinating: A massive void, spanning approximately 250 light-years, lies at the heart of Nebula N44—its origins still shrouded in mystery.. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Sahai; Processing: Gladys Kober)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Henry the resident Great Egret, preening and looking fabulous at sunset. 🪶

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

This is absolutely disgusting. Beyond the stupid of deleting pictures of the ‘Enola Gay’ they are literally erasing actual war heroes because they are black or women. — War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge apnews.com/article/dei-...

submitted 5 days ago • 150 comments

We all know that taxpayer dollars financed this travesty… Just wait until they privatize the air traffic control system and he’s awarded the contract.

submitted 5 days ago • 159 comments

Overnight and into the early morning, Ukraine faced a massive russian drone and missile attack. An Iskander missile struck a critical infrastructure facility in Kharkiv, also damaging nearby homes. At least eight civilians were injured

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

This stunning image of the Horsehead Nebula, in the constellation Orion, was captured by a telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. This dense dust cloud formation is approximately 1,375 light-years from Earth.

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Trump shut down entire refugee resettlement system; halted scheduled flights for already-vetted Afghan allies; told Ukrainians we offered temporary sanctuary to that they are now subject to deportation. But, (presumably white) South African farmers are getting some new "rapid pathway to citizenship"

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

Now streaming: Monterey Bay’s sublime symphony of whale vocalizations! 🎵🐋 Spanning more octaves than a piano, humpback whales sing powerfully into the vast ocean. These songs are beautifully complex, weaving phrases and themes into masterful compositions.

submitted 5 days ago • 66 comments

Remember this!

submitted 5 days ago • 445 comments

AOC: It's really because Republicans— they’re very thin skinned and they're very sensitive, and their feelings are very easily hurt. And so they have to vote on censure resolutions.

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I'm so glad that 10 Democrats had the guts to stand up to the guy who had the guts to stand up to the guy they should be standing up to.

submitted 5 days ago • 48 comments

MON at 9AM: @weatherwest.bsky.social and terminated NOAA scientists Heather Welch and Kayla Ann Besong join to talk about the layoffs at NOAA and how the cuts are impacting essential work the organization does in CA and nationwide. 🌧️ Are you affected by the @noaa.gov layoffs? buff.ly/qc7eyoN

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Why on Earth would Vladimir Putin ever take this threat seriously? What has Donald Trump ever done in his entire political career that would lend weight or any sort of seriousness to this claim of a supposed willingness to sanction Russia? And why is major media so credulous about this empty wind?

submitted 5 days ago • 237 comments

Ways POTUS is aiding Russia: Planning to end sanctions Cutting off aid to Ukraine Undercutting NATO Suspended cyber operations against Russia, making us vulnerable to cyberattacks from Moscow Talking for 90 minutes to Putin, an ICC war criminal Saying Zelensky started the war

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments