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Brilliant protest. Yosemite National Park workers hung an upside-down American flag — traditionally a symbol of distress or a national threat — thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan.

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

“I spent hours with him and walked with him thru Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, & shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it’s worse—he doesn’t care whatsoever…He was unmoved by the experience.”

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

A great illustration of the failure of the liberal media to fulfill its democratic responsibilities: in this case, presenting the claims of known bad-faith actors in good faith and at face value. No rational observer could believe Musk and his cadres have the remotest interest in "public savings".

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.

submitted 5 days ago • 73 comments

@raskin.house.gov: "The whole anti-corruption crusade is an absolute fraud. They started by decimating the ranks of the inspectors general. These are the people whose job is actually, day in and day out, 365 days a year, to ferret out waste, fraud and abuse in the departments and the agencies."

submitted 6 days ago • 578 comments

He’s not making up: news.bloomberglaw.com/banking-law/... Is this really what y’all voted for? 🫤 💰

submitted 5 days ago • 1262 comments

Look at Spain: progressive on immigration and clean energy —and reaping the benefits. #NomadCentury #ChangeTheNarrative

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Imagine you have over $400 billion and you spend your time working to deny hungry children around the world meals to avoid starvation.

submitted 6 days ago • 494 comments

At least 20 FDA staffers reviewing Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain implant company, were fired in an ongoing DOGE purge of federal workers.

submitted 6 days ago • 281 comments

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

submitted 6 days ago • 8255 comments

Tom Homan is afraid of AOC, and he should be. Bullies always crumble when people forcefully stand up to them. More of this, please

submitted 6 days ago • 221 comments

Trump & Musk have somehow managed to frame recent events as a binary: Either you want to burn it all down, or you support the status quo It’s a false choice, obviously. But Dems/Trump critics have done a poor job articulating that failure in logic and existence of option #3: actually fix things

submitted 6 days ago • 114 comments

The program, which focuses on mentoring and therapy, relies on the idea that most violent crimes are emotional, not rational.

submitted 6 days ago • 30 comments

U.S. startup unveils ‘world’s largest’ transparent organic PV window www.pv-magazine.com/2025/02/17/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

This is what oligarchy looks like.

submitted 7 days ago • 1059 comments

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general. If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

submitted 7 days ago • 2289 comments

"The TVE heat pump has been tested to work in temperatures believed to be unmatched by competitors, from -57°F to +131°F." 😳

submitted 7 days ago • 16 comments

I like that he posted a picture of a print-out of the email.

submitted 7 days ago • 912 comments

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

submitted 8 days ago • 2240 comments

A Mount St. Helens ranger. A plant scientist on the rolling hills of The Palouse. An entire staff of backup crews meant to support front line firefighters during a raging wildfire. Across the PNW, the Trump administration gutted most of them. Here is their story: www.spokesman.com/stories/2025...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Celebrating Black History Month, more appropriately called American History.

submitted 8 days ago • 43 comments

Emergency management kept working on climate the last time he was president, and we will keep doing it this time.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The community note 🤌😘

submitted 8 days ago • 2976 comments

Unpopular opinion (among some urbanists): The author is right. High-speed, battery-powered bikes are a menace in bike lanes. They're dangerous for those biking slower, and they deter some people from biking at all. Who wants to ride with their 5-year old while someone zooms by at 28 mph?

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

I mean, this is just dumb. Yes, the GOP is opposed to tax enforcement, but this is gonna blow a huge hole in their already huge unfunded budget plan.

submitted 9 days ago • 52 comments

The opportunity costs of carbon capture "This holds true even if 0-emis energy powers the tech deployed to extract CO2. 'It’s always an opportunity cost to use clean, renewable energy for direct air capture instead of replacing a fossil-fuel CO2 source'" www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

NEW: House Judiciary's Jamie Raskin calls on Trump AG Pam Bondi "to put an immediate halt to this illegal and unconscionable intimidation campaign" over the Eric Adams case. "It's time to do your job and stop this outrageous sabotage of justice in the interests of naked political corruption."

submitted 9 days ago • 71 comments

Car infotainment systems are completely unregulated in the United States. Automakers are free to make them as distracting as they like. This is the result.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

"If you spend $1 on CC instead of on wind, water & solar, you are increasing CO2, air pollution, energy requirements, energy costs, pipelines, and total social costs" sustainability.stanford.edu/news/opportu...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's going to be a long four years, especially if we make ourselves insane misreading budget documents. This is a story where multiple things are true at the same time and it's a warning about how we consume information going forward gizmodo.com/the-400-mill...

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 11 days ago • 788 comments

Tesla, whose chief executive, Elon Musk, has been advising President Trump on how to cut government spending, is likely to receive a lucrative contract to supply armored versions of its Cybertruck pickup to the State Department, according to public documents.

submitted 11 days ago • 729 comments

The air of insanity about all of this is starting to get to me.

submitted 11 days ago • 411 comments

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Evgeny Popov says that Trump is doing Moscow's job by ripping apart the Western world — whipsawing right through it, the way Russia always wanted to. Popov says that it's truly amazing. youtu.be/JG29upm5HPE

submitted 11 days ago • 122 comments

Staffers at the nation’s cybersecurity agency whose job is to ensure the security of U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave, jeopardizing critical support provided to state and local election offices across the country. abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

submitted 13 days ago • 165 comments

A White House official told April Ryan that if African American History is taught at HBCUs that receive federal funds, those monies will be extracted from the school.

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams. They have cut off funding to the agency.

submitted 14 days ago • 506 comments

Murphy: "I continue to get reports from Connecticut that agencies there, like Head Start programs and community health centers, are actually not receiving the funding they are due. So I think there's a big question as to whether the administration actually is implementing the court order."

submitted 14 days ago • 1054 comments

Folks are getting worked up about my recent claim that U.S. National Weather Service costs $3-4 per person/year. Well, some math: NWS budget of ~$1.3 billion, ~160 million tax returns, & ~345 million Americans means ~$8/taxpayer, or (indeed) ~$3.75/person. That's...quite a deal.

submitted 15 days ago • 13 comments

This framing is their framing, and NYT took the bait. The correct and accurate framing is: “Deep cuts to medical research threatens progress on cancer and heart disease research, costs the economy $80B, and threatens 300,000 jobs across red and blue states”

submitted 15 days ago • 24 comments