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"This is something that does not belong to the president or the White House. It belongs to the American people.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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NEW: Whitman Walker, a LGBTQ health center in Washington DC, has scrubbed its site of descriptions of gender affirming care services. This is pure cowardice and stabbing the trans community in the back. While services are not affected, it will limit access to resources if patients can't find them.

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Correct. City planning in general needs a fundamental reboot.

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I will continue to call out BS and disinformation. This is who I am sometimes to my own detriment. I am sickened by the leadership who have zero moral compass...no empathy towards the cruel treatment of others. Could our system be better? Absolutely. But a chainsaw approach won't get us there.

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You can’t erase who people are.

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Simple ad campaign suggestion: "Why is Ken Paxton obsessed with your daughters' genitals? Why does Ken Paxton want to look down your daughters' pants? Would you like coaches to have state-mandated access to your daughters' private parts?"

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All of the CDC’s public heath fellows, who are deployed to state, territorial, and tribal governments, were told they’re being laid off. But some never received termination letters, so they can’t even apply for unemployment. “The whole process has been dominated by chaos and confusion.”

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Pass it on.

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Judge Amir Ali of the U.S. District Court for DC, without holding the Trump administration in contempt for continuing to freeze aid, wrote that theTRO doesn’t “permit it to continue suspending duly appropriated foreign aid “ with new, post-hoc rationalizations.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

First nuclear weapons management, now this. No one - Democrat or Republican - voted for this kind of incompetence.

submitted 3 days ago • 784 comments

Another way the dictatorship might kill you. This is from a friend who is a retired air traffic controller.

submitted 6 days ago • 272 comments

I need abled people to understand that breaking someone's wheelchair is like breaking your legs. Both of them. They want to get away with breaking people's legs.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Law Dork obtained the email Lee Dudek sent to Social Security Administration employees after being named acting commissioner, which happened after Michelle King left the agency over a dispute with Musk’s DOGE. Notably, King sent no email about her departure and Dudek didn’t even mention her.

submitted 3 days ago • 9 comments

Truly horrifying argument from the Department of Justice here.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

This will be the transcript moment of the day.

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BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

submitted 11 days ago • 91 comments

We know who the villains are in this coup. But so many heroes are showing up to oppose them, and many of them are federal employees, including judges. I give you supreme boss-hero champion Judge Ana Reyes, telling Team Trump they don't know shit and schooling them in the facts about gender and sex.

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Last night, Trump promised he wouldn't touch Medicaid. This morning, Trump endorsed the House Republican plan to slash Medicaid. It's smoke and mirrors: Trump and Republicans are plotting to take away health care from millions of people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…” This was never about efficiency. Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGLXa9r...

submitted 5 days ago • 340 comments

When cowardly, ambitious politicians go along with corrupt, abusive leaders, they probably tell themselves that there may come a time when they stop going along and stand up for what's right. But that time never comes. They're in too deep. They're co-conspirators. This explains the Republican Party.

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NEW: A letter from an anonymous federal worker. Please read and share: www.muellershewrote.com/p/letter-fro...

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Is the updated NY mask ban any better? Not really, but it pretends to be. With useless carveouts & a focus on “intent,” it invites bias & puts mask-wearers at risk. Our post explains why the Masked Harassment Bill fails to protect anyone. #NoNYMaskBan www.jewsformaskrights.com/resources/wh...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

She speaks truth.

submitted 13 days ago • 1236 comments

Pizzagate conspiracy theory peddler and far-right chaos agent Jack Posobiec invited to accompany Trump’s Defense Secretary during trip to Europe Earlier today, Posobiec posted that he was accompanying Treasury Secretary Bessent on his trip to Kiev to meet with Zelensky. Gift link: wapo.st/4gInd4e

submitted 9 days ago • 73 comments

🙏🏼 Spend just six minutes of your time with this one, good people, while the 82-year-old Paul McCartney deals in art and genius ... 🙏🏼 Be brave enough to listen to it through the prism of these difficult times. 🙏🏼 It'll break your heart, bring much-needed tears, and fill the well of undying hope ...

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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When the Nazis took power and gutted the Weimar era civil service in government, they also claimed the need to increase efficiency and to ensure loyalty to the nazi party. They did it through the law for the restoration of the professional civil service. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_for...

submitted 6 days ago • 26 comments

My latest for @damemagazine.bsky.social www.damemagazine.com/2025/02/12/i...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

One of the questions after my talk today was about scientists refusing to buck the administration because they fear losing their jobs. I said that a lot of self-styled apolitical scientists lost their jobs this week, so silence will not save them. Respond and keep your values and dignity.

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The rate of confirmed #influenza hospitalisations in the United States is the highest in at least 15 seasons (as far as Report data extends). Latest data from US CDC to end of Week 6 (08-FEB-2025). That's a week ago of course.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments