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www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/n... Depraved behavior green lighted by MAGA

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 107 comments

My #Yale colleague Harlan Krumholz explains why the cuts to indirect costs are a disaster for biomedical research in the United States. Want to do something about it? I'll list those who have to hear from us below. Share, recruit friends and family to help. 1/ www.statnews.com/2025/02/08/n....

submitted 14 days ago • 24 comments

This is crucial reporting from @katherinejwu.com. Among the data being scrubbed is “the agency’s AtlasPlus tool, which contains nearly 20 years of CDC surveillance data on HIV, hepatitis, sexually transmitted infections, and tuberculosis…” www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

submitted 23 days ago • 268 comments

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

submitted 23 days ago • 134 comments

This is a hostile takeover of the federal government by a private citizen of unlimited means with no restrictions and no transparency. Welcome to the Deep State www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 1827 comments

We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.

submitted 25 days ago • 330 comments

Trump wants to distract you from the fact that he gutted the Aviation Safety Committee and ousted the FAA administrator last week. Don’t let him.

submitted 24 days ago • 623 comments

very excited to see what happens when you make a deeply compromised addict the leader of the department of defense and subordinate to a madman

submitted 30 days ago • 1981 comments

Mr. Smith murdered his wife today, a powerful way to stop her from leaving him that legal experts assailed as murder

submitted 36 days ago • 61 comments

Perhaps I've misunderstood all along and WaPo ownership views "Democracy dies in darkness" as aspirational.🤔

submitted 70 days ago • 702 comments

...and to this I say, "Fucking duh." The solutions? We demand universal healthcare (that INCLUDES vision, dental, and mental health... because how they're not a part of healthcare is beyond me) and the only war we should be involved in is class war. 🤷‍♂️

submitted 73 days ago • 8 comments

Are you kidding me with this shit, @washingtonpost.com? Top of the website headline, multiple stories, an editorial board piece and SIX goddamn columnists all had to weigh in about this?

submitted 83 days ago • 413 comments

Kash Patel: “We will go out and find the conspirators not just in government, but also in media.” This is a genuinely blood chilling choice. He may be repugnant enough to not get confirmed, but what if Trump were to make him deputy director? A giant step toward authoritarianism in and of itself.

submitted 85 days ago • 58 comments