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Voters: we want lower grocery prices. Trump: No. How about deadly bacteria in your groceries instead. www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...

submitted 10 hours ago • 4 comments

Gotta say it straight up. Capitalism, as it degenerates toward extremely wasteful overproduction and overconsumption, drives the climate crisis, and drives biodiversity loss and mass extinction, including, potentially, our own. insideclimatenews.org/news/1004202...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

This picture may haunt me to the end of my days. It is an ICE agent taking an axe to the car window of an immigrant in New Bedford, MA. Not far from where I sit now. An immigrant with no criminal record was abducted by this smiling man. An axe taken to a car window and to our democracy. 1/ #MomSky

submitted 2 days ago • 702 comments

It seems Tesla is detecting vehicles that may have problems, and artificially running their odometers faster so the warranty expires before they have to do any service Just incredible grift

submitted 2 days ago • 569 comments

This is the second video of ICE agents shattering a window in the last week rather than have some patience. And in this case, they're allegedly detaining someone who already has asylum through his wife, with no reason given at all! www.borderreport.com/news/video-s...

submitted 2 days ago • 146 comments

Free link to crazy WSJ story about Musk and his “harem drama.” Can’t do it justice with the four-screenshot limit! www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 2 days ago • 177 comments

"Donald Trump just sent the Supreme Court an unambiguous message: You made your ruling. Now enforce it, because I’m not going to. That constitutional crisis we’ve expected, yet feared? It’s here." From: @sykescharlie.bsky.social www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Mohsen Mahdawi should be a U.S. citizen. 🇺🇸

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

BREAKING: 36k people showed up in LA for Bernie and AOC’s rally. In the off year. Americans are pissed — and anyone ignoring that is making a big mistake.

submitted 5 days ago • 1403 comments

NEWS Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard signed a sworn declaration stating that she was a resident of the State of Texas. But then she voted in Hawaii.

submitted 8 days ago • 737 comments

For your enjoyment: here is Secretary of Education Linda McMahon talking about implementing AI in schools, but pronouncing it "A1," as in "A1 Steak Sauce" www.youtube.com/live/lxrg28z...

submitted 8 days ago • 524 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

"The Justice Department’s official position here is that, as a matter of constitutional law, if the executive branch ships you off to a gulag, even by mistake, federal courts have no power to compel the executive branch to retrieve you."

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Rotterdam researchers followed 299 COVID-19 survivors for 3 years and found that only 24% fully recovered. Fatigue and memory issues worsened in year three. Post-exertional malaise affected 36%, marking a more severe long COVID subtype. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

“This highly unusual step of directing armed law enforcement officers to the home of a former DoJ employee who has engaged in no misconduct, let alone criminal conduct, simply to deliver a letter, is both unprecedented and completely inappropriate.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 217 comments

Trump freezes over $1bn in funds for US universities over Israel protests - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/trump-freezes-over-1bn-funds-us-universities-over-israel-protests

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

SHAME ON TRUMP AND CONGRESS! ISRAEL HAS KILLED MORE THAN 13,000 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT GAZA! SENDING WEAPONS TO ISRAEL VIOLATES THESE U.S. LAWS: The Foreign Assistance Act The Arms Export Control Act The U.S. War Crimes Act The Leahy Law The Genocide Convention Implementation Act STOP KILLING CHILDREN!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

submitted 9 days ago • 194 comments

This is Scott – a CDC researcher working to help screen coal miners for black lung. His entire department was eliminated last week, leaving miners across the country at greater risk of sickness and death. I’m fighting back.

submitted 9 days ago • 53 comments

"The Attorney General shall prioritize the identification of any such State laws purporting to address “climate change”... [and] expeditiously take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement of State laws" So much for federalism... www.whitehouse.gov/p...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

At US Senate panel just now, fired US Pardon Attorney Liz Oyer alleges she was terminated after declining instruction to help Mel Gibson get his gun rights restored

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"The problems come as the Trump administration’s cost-cutting team, led by Elon Musk, has imposed a downsizing that’s led to 7,000 job cuts and is preparing to push out thousands more employees at an agency that serves 73 million Americans."

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Yikes www.caymancompass.com/2025/04/06/b...

submitted 11 days ago • 21 comments

Trump’s pending USPS executive order could potentially allow his administration to make mail voting more difficult.

submitted 11 days ago • 42 comments

Yet another American child shot and killed by Israel. The US president will meet with the Israeli prime minister in DC today. Not a word will be said about this killing. America First!

submitted 11 days ago • 64 comments

The stock market is something we watch and feel and measure, so its collapse is well-tracked. But when you see the charts of a straight downward trajectory, they also summarize what’s happening with cancer research, academic freedom, basic rights, America’s standing in the world, and so much more.

submitted 11 days ago • 60 comments

"Structural collapse" is the plan.

submitted 11 days ago • 5 comments

I find it outrageous as well.

submitted 14 days ago • 1135 comments

It’s happening: Empty office buildings in Manhattan are starting to be converted to housing—including affordable units. We need much much more of this.

submitted 16 days ago • 26 comments

In the first major statewide election since Trump’s return, oligarchy lost and democracy won. Progressive candidate Susan Crawford handily defeated Musk-backed candidate Brad Schimel to preserve the liberal majority on the Wisconsin high court through at least 2028.

submitted 15 days ago • 51 comments

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

submitted 15 days ago • 68 comments

NEW: The CDC has been gutted this morning. Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die. from me, @makenakelly.bsky.social, @knibbs.bsky.social:

submitted 16 days ago • 53 comments

At least 10 principal researchers at NIH have been fired, including Richard Youle, winner of the Breakthrough Prize for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease. Is this making America great? www.wired.com/story/doctor...

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments