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I totally called it, but, then, so did almost everyone else.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Same as it ever was going back decades. Everything old is new again.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

In any other era, the Secretary of Defense threatening to invade an ally and one of our largest trade partners would be front page news for days. It’s not even the stupidest, most reckless thing this administration has done this afternoon. apple.news/AG-YEzrFtQlG...

submitted 1 day ago • 58 comments

This is also why I’m not a fan of the FAFO line of post-election shitposting. How many people actually thought they were voting to, like, ban trees in cities and to pull the US out of the World Health Organization? Maybe they were naive. They were also lied to by a lot of powerful people.

submitted 17 hours ago • 221 comments

All around the world, the far right is ascendant. But what is the far right, what does it want, and how does it seek to achieve its goals? We have prepared a comprehensive resource guide to answer such questions. @janetbufton.ca and @tomgpalmer.bsky.social

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Since taking office, Donald Trump has fired 17 inspectors general from a cross-section of federal agencies. But that’s only half the story. The other half is that he has empowered redpillionaire douchebro Elon Musk as a shadow inspector general. @paulmatzko.bsky.social

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump wasted no time frontally challenging the Constitution: On his first day, he issued an EO declaring that a subset of U.S.-born children would no longer be American citizens, despite the 14th Amendment’s plain language establishing birthright citizenship. @bernybelvedere.bsky.social

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Executive Watch will track Trump’s abuses of the presidency’s powers—whether those actions are outright illegal or unconstitutional or a severe departure from the standing norms that have long governed the proper exercise of presidential power.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

Cutting the meteorologists and climatologists we depend on for the weather reports, right as we enter hurricane season, is as short-sighted as it is dangerous. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

submitted 23 hours ago • 17 comments

The NIH cuts are part of an all-out war on higher education:

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

New, from me: Musk is not just destroying core government functions, he is also destroying the tech capacity of government. The people with serious tech skills who care about fixing govt have been fired. Both 18F and the US Digital Service are gone. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/skilled-te...

submitted 21 hours ago • 65 comments

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: How Trump & congressional Republicans’ plan to kill off EVs could now destroy new factories & jobs in GOP locales. The Lever reports from Kentucky, where a GOP lawmaker is leading the crusade that could crush his own community. www.levernews.com/the-red-stat...

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

“‘This is the stuff of nightmares,’” virologist Dr. Angela Rasmussen told me earlier this week, as she discussed the rising chance of bird flu mutating” I had a long talk with @sashaabramsky.bsky.social @thenation.com about H5N1 in the context of US capability. Grim af, but I hope it’s helpful.

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This is going to be another rough week for our colleagues in government & for all of us. Vast cuts of govt scientists hurts everyone’s health. Let’s talk about what this will do to vaccines. This is the process. Here’s how they’re going to undermine it: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 433 comments

Even before Zelensky’s visit, Sec. Rubio had terminated vital USAID support to sustain Ukraine’s energy grid. “The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta...

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

Horrific apnews.com/article/wyom...

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I wrote about Hunter Schafer’s passport and the Trump administration’s anti-trans agenda as an assault on reality. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

submitted 1 day ago • 66 comments

My kind of breaking news: Robert Caro on next installment of his LBJ biography: “Well, I’ll tell you what pages I’m up to—951.” www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifl...

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

A useful visualization of Authoritarian Power that might be helpful for people in your communities. open.substack.com/pub/antiauth...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

It's be really nice if boilerplate repeating Elon Musk's thus far unsubstantiated claim to be cutting costs included reference to the value of contracts he receives and mention of the tax cuts he stands to receive. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 40 comments

New, from @pamherd.bsky.social & I: Trump said "Social Security would not be touched." Now the Trump admin proposes a 50% cut in Social Security employees. This will absolutely gut SSA's ability to serve everyone who depends on the program - which is everyone. 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

submitted 2 days ago • 44 comments

There's a human centipede of MAGA sycophants eager to criminalize opposition to Dear Leader but don't panic--yet. I wrote about Kash Patel and Andy Ngo here: michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/save-us-fr...

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

ARE. ARE, YOU DUMBASS.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

Breaking: Hours after Elon Musk reassured Cabinet that efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in Uganda had only been “accidentally canceled very briefly,” the Trump administration terminated at least four of the five contracts for Ebola-related work in that country. nyti.ms/4ikHi1Q

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

This is something to watch. The "endangerment finding" is simply EPA's acknowledgment of the plain fact that greenhouse gases are dangerous pollutants. The "normal" Republican response is to slow-walk some weak rule (what they tried under Trump I). The new MAGA response? Deny the plain fact.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

How much do you know about where your trash goes? Are those "compostable" bags really compostable? How much responsibility do individual consumers bear under capitalism? The ever insightful @sesmith.bsky.social will make you think about all this and more theflytrap.beehiiv.com/p/fellas-is-...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The Trump admin is using a reality show aesthetic to desensitize people to the consequences of its “mass deportation” program by treating the suffering of deportees as entertainment www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 4 days ago • 63 comments

It is NOT normal to have measles deaths in a country with vaccine access and healthcare. RFK Jr is a liar. If you want to know what the measles outbreak means for you & your family & what action items you can take, I cover that in today’s article. ⬇️ news.immunologic.org/p/the-first-...

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w/ story link: Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members. Drug cos need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. w/ story link: insights.citeline.com/pink-sheet/v... #healthpolicy

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments

hearing more about how this process went down. worse than you can imagine.

submitted 3 days ago • 18 comments

New in the NYT: Trump administration slash and burn at the Department of Education is directed by Christopher Rufo, by tweet: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

Musk lied to the president and the Cabinet, and, honestly, they're just fine with being lied to.

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

"Some American commentators, especially conservatives, have asserted that Canada lacks a national vision or identity." www.liberalcurrents.com/o-canada/

submitted 5 days ago • 11 comments

Alternatives To Detention (ATD) are Turning Cities Into Prisons Last month, ICE agents used ankle shackles to track and deport a migrant community member attending church. We will continue to advocate for our communities to live dignified lives free of surveillance. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...

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The people who feed America are going hungry. Climate change is escalating a national crisis, leaving farmworkers with empty plates and mounting costs. grist.org/food-and-agr... #Food #Farms #Farmworkers #agriculture

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This is their plan: Step 1: exploit legitimate pain suffered by young people and families caused by online harm Step 2: implement government-mandated online ID checks to "keep kids away from harmful content" Step 3: define all LGBTQ content as "harmful to kids" Age verification is a trojan horse

submitted 4 days ago • 20 comments

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NEW on CNN: The Trump White House’s new Homeland Security point man hosted a podcast that tweeted for “secession” and “martial law” after Trump lost in 2020. The official, Paul Ingrassia, also shared an article calling for a “martial law option” to keep in office.. www.cnn.com/2025/02/26/p...

submitted 4 days ago • 43 comments

We've finally defeated cancel culture. Now people only get fired for criticizing the government

submitted 38 days ago • 89 comments

"Engineers for Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, are working on new software that could assist mass firings of federal workers across government, sources tell WIRED."

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

Hi all - this article mentions that public outcry has led some orgs to reverse these shitty decisions, so please cry out!!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

The crisis of anti-trans violence needs meaningful, sustained coverage addressing the systemic issues that allow this violence to persist

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THEY'RE GOING TO ISSUE PERMANENT VISA BANS TO TRANS VISITORS TO THE US. This isn't just for athletes. The directive as stated applies to all visa applications made by trans folks and declare it material fraud to use a different gender marker on applications. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 5 days ago • 248 comments

The US voted with Russia against the UN resolution condemning the invasion of Ukraine and demanding a withdrawal. Utter betrayal of country, allies, and principles.

submitted 6 days ago • 40 comments

"If these corporations would rather capitulate to the Trump administration’s resegregation efforts than fight for their right to build a diverse workforce, that undermines the justification for corporate free speech rights in the first place."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments