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"It is no exaggeration to say this will kill people—mainly people who are elderly, disabled and/or poor. Society’s most vulnerable sit in the crosshairs of our nation’s wealthiest people who have absolutely everything, but somehow always want more."

submitted 15 hours ago • 92 comments

I know she saw this claim on TikTok but its worth noting that if you read only mainstream news you probably would've also come away with the impression that Project 2025 was fake and that Trump would make IVF free.

submitted 3 hours ago • 13 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 3 hours ago • 267 comments

🧵RFKJr said the measles outbreak that led to the death of a child is “not that unusual” (links below). That’s a lie. It IS unusual because we have the ability to have NO measles outbreaks. But with falling vaccine rates, we are seeing yearly outbreaks of increasing size (links below).

submitted 3 hours ago • 17 comments

Boston’s largest police union will endorse Mayor Wu for reelection over Josh Kraft

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve been saying for over two decades there is no better bargain in the area of national defense than a proactive response to the threat of H5N1. Finally, someone was willing to do it…and now, of course, the GOP wants to kill it.

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

The MTA vowed to keep collecting the tolls unless a federal judge instructs it otherwise. “We’re not turning them off,” Janno Lieber, the chief executive and chair of the MTA, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “In the meantime, everything is steady as she goes.”

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

NEWS The FDA, which operates under the authority of Robert Kennedy Jr., canceled the meeting to discuss next year’s flu vaccines. This could interfere with or delay production of flu vaccines. 86 children and 19,000 adults have died from flu this season. About 430,000 people were hospitalized.

submitted 19 hours ago • 386 comments

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Enabling home schooling in the US just means abandoning some children to physical abuse & superstition -- children with the bad luck to be born into an evangelical family. I don't think we should abandon those kids that way.

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

so funny that the Republicans seem to be getting everything they wanted but JD Vance can't even successfully endorse a Nazi party in Germany

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I need everyone to be crystal clear that this is a continuation of RFK and the wellness community’s obsession with the elimination of the disabled and the chronically ill. They are disgusted by us, they view illness and disability as weakness, and they believe in using eugenics to disappear us.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

This weekend we learned that in 2024, Josh Kraft’s dad-boss, whose net worth is reportedly $12b, claimed he couldn’t fund improvements to Gillette stadium. He not only has been pursuing public funds from the City of Boston, he’s been making threats. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/14/b...

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 12 days ago • 411 comments

Senate votes 52 to 48 to confirm vaccine denier, misinformation spreader RFK Jr for HHS Secretary. McConnell was the only Republican no vote.

submitted 14 days ago • 8 comments

several million very fit young German boys are still rotting away in the Russian steppes because someone forgot to requisition enough coats and antifreeze

submitted 15 days ago • 100 comments

You can ignore climate change. The political system can ignore climate change. But the insurance industry cannot ignore climate change.

submitted 17 days ago • 103 comments

submitted 17 days ago • 8 comments

Cost of saving the lives of 12 million children suffering from malaria: $20 million. #TeamUSAID #saveforeignaid

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FYI —

submitted 19 days ago • 38 comments

🚨BREAKING: In a trio of rulings, North Carolina state court REJECTS Republican effort to overturn the results of the 2024 state Supreme Court election by throwing out 60,000 lawful ballots. A big victory for voting rights and democracy! www.democracydocket.com/cases/north-...

submitted 19 days ago • 669 comments

submitted 20 days ago • 359 comments

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

submitted 21 days ago • 156 comments

Josh Kraft outlined his policy proposals, and they include (1) increasing the number of deaths in the city and (2) cutting taxes for large property owners.

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

SCHATZ: “.. I will oppose unanimous consent. I will vote no. I will do maximal delays until this is resolved.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 24 days ago • 569 comments

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

submitted 24 days ago • 1977 comments

For all our American neighbours who may be struggling to find accurate health information - thr Public Health Agency of Canada has a website you are more than welcome to use: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

submitted 25 days ago • 132 comments

Leopard: I will eat your face Bank analysts: Our baseline assumes no face-eating Leopard: Chomp chomp chomp

submitted 26 days ago • 209 comments

hey question, is this bad?

submitted 26 days ago • 2951 comments

they want more planes to crash. arsonists

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Boston is the 1st city in the country to embed net zero carbon emissions standards into our zoning code. 👏 to climate advocates & forward-looking developers supporting our greenest, healthiest future.

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Quelle horreur: State board orders leafy #Weston to allow a 180-unit apartment building on a 9 1/2-acre parcel www.universalhub.com/2025/quelle-... #housing

submitted 27 days ago • 6 comments

CDC’s clinical guidelines for PrEP — which all but eliminates HIV risk — have been removed from CDC’s website. This is what you get when you search. Expanding PrEP access is essential to end HIV infections. They want people to get HIV as some sort of punishment for being immoral.

submitted 27 days ago • 14 comments

Congestion pricing works.

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

submitted 28 days ago • 2922 comments

The face of DEI

submitted 27 days ago • 103 comments

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

submitted 28 days ago • 1412 comments

A preliminary breath test showed Hernandez had a blood-alcohol content of .20% after the crash, authorities said. The legal limit to drive a vehicle in Missouri is .08%.

submitted 29 days ago • 37 comments

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered a halt to Donald Trump's sweeping aid freeze, issuing a "brief administrative stay" to preserve the status quo for at least a few days while further litigation plays out.

submitted 29 days ago • 111 comments

Some intel: I've talked to journalists and folks on the Hill about this. Last night after OMB's action, some Senate Dems tried to unify the caucus to vote against Duffy. Schumer, among others, opposed it, and it flopped. The current Dem leadership strategy is to use strong language but not do shit.

submitted 29 days ago • 344 comments

It is generally unusual in federal court to get notice for argument with only 32 minutes to spare, but this TRO has to be massively expedited because the Trump administration set the federal aid freeze, which was issued yesterday, to go into effect at 5pm today.

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

Dear Internet: #SCOTUS holding that the President can't be prosecuted for official acts does not mean, under any non-frivolous reading, that the federal government, including all of its officers, is immune from civil suits for its official acts. There's just no equivalency between the two.

submitted 30 days ago • 59 comments

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

submitted 30 days ago • 97 comments

Look, Trump is trying to oversaturate us with nonstop chaos so we can’t react meaningfully to any one thing. But Friday's global stop work order on almost all U.S. aid is dumb and murderous. You need to know about it. 1/ A short🧵on this evil.

submitted 30 days ago • 184 comments

There is simply no plausible argument that the president has the constitutional authority to refuse to spend appropriated funds because he doesn’t like how the money is being spent. The legality of policy impoundments is just not a close question.

submitted 30 days ago • 276 comments