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In a few years I want an army of liberal columnists saying the same "we have to kill you because you didn't vote for harris" shit that republicans were saying about Romney.

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Once again from the fun yesteryear of 1930...

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See Hans Hommsen here. You may not like how utterly relevant this passage is to understanding contemporary Trumpism:

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Amidst everything, I still can't believe they didn't exempt Canadian oil. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it. They acknowledged it was a bad idea to put tariffs on it but decided to do 10% instead of 0. They literally built a "higher gas prices" button and pushed it!

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I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”

submitted 3 days ago • 40 comments

I went to the tesla protest for a thing I'm working on and I talked to several onlookers - not protesters - and asked them what they knew about Elon and Doge and I'm telling you people don't know

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this degenerate clown's micro-bros have spent the last month sending emails to the PRESENT air traffic controllers begging, pestering, and trying to threaten them into resigning their jobs. and now this ...

submitted 7 days ago • 282 comments

BREAKING: The mass firing of upwards of 1,800 workers at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, including top climate scientists and weather forecasters, has begun. The firings reportedly include workers at the National Weather Service.

submitted 7 days ago • 229 comments

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

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The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach. www.tsunami.gov

submitted 7 days ago • 277 comments

Everything they do is based on culture war lies and we have proof here that business is booming because of congestion pricing

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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Regular reminder that the GOP’s plan to gut Medicaid is a pro-crime move papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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US govt statistical agencies (BLS, BEA, Census Bureau) have always been the best in the world, but they are already declining due to underfunding, and Trump's cutting could destroy them. Folks, THE PRIVATE SECTOR CANNOT PICK UP THIS SLACK. www.amstat.org/docs/default...

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we need benghazi style hearings into this in 2026

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

the way this incident was covered was ultimate vindication for "they want trump to win" theory. totally buried in the final weeks of the campaign despite indicating serious, serious health and mental problems for trump

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Don’t make me tap the sign (cc RFK Jr)

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fantasizing about a world where an opposition congress responds to trump’s attempts to usurp legislative power by defunding the entire white house staff

submitted 15 days ago • 249 comments

The imagination library is one of the single best things anyone does for children in this country

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

this will end up leading to disaster and it will cost significantly more in taxpayer dollars for the trouble, and republican members of congress should be asked about it every single day, particularly if they serve on related committees

submitted 17 days ago • 27 comments

elon is the greatest threat to republic since the civil war

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More than 130 CISA employees have been laid off as part of a larger government purge, DHS spokesperson tells me.

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The State Department's "procurement forecast for 2025, which details purchases the agency expects to make, includes $400 million for armored Tesla vehicles."

submitted 21 days ago • 110 comments

They left the dog. This civil servant, who deployed with wife & 3 kids to frigging KINSHASA (to support development of Congolese capacity to sell cobalt to not-China, which is a policy goal that sells itself) was told by US Marines to load into a raft with 1 backpack per person. They left their dog.

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The impulse to say "the economy can't be good if some people aren't doing well" and "no policy can be implemented if someone is inconvenienced by it" come from the same place of insisting that there aren't trade offs in the world and are both pretty toxic to understanding and fixing problems.

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Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social

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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off. Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

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So, conservatives pressured Obama into becoming the 1st POTUS to release visitor logs. Bush didn’t do it before him. Trump didn’t do it after him. But Biden did. Trump is back again & not releasing them again. A reminder of how asymmetric our politics are

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no. no!!!!!

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"Many of us remember how many 'experts' suppressed legitimate alarm during Trump’s first time by encouraging us to 'just wait for Robert Mueller’s report'.”

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This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen. Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !” globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

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Imagining a ketchup company that writes WE'RE GOING TO TAKE YOUR MONEY AND SPEND IT ON OUR KIDS in small letters at the top of the label on the back

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